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Margery Williams Bianco. Poor Cecco. Chatto & Windus, 1925.
Price: US$65.83 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1925. No Edition Remarks. 175 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Colour illustrated plates. Light thumb marking, foxing and tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Binding is very slightly loose but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
BIANCO, Margery Williams; RACKHAM, Arthur. Poor Cecco. Chatto & Windus, 1925, 1925.
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Description: 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good orange cloth, lettered in red front and spine, spine a little faded, pages very clean bar a couple of small foxing spots. Margery Bianco's endearing story was her first book after the now-classic The Velveteen Rabbit, and was illustrated by Arthur Rackham with seven of his inimitable, tipped-in illustrations in full colour and black-and-white.
Seller: Shellhouse Books, Quinton, Northants, United Kingdom
Margery Williams Bianco. POOR CECCO. Chatto & Windus, London, 1925.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2nd printing (B). Cover mildly worn, else in very good condition. A very charming book. Subtitle: The wonderful story of a wonderful wooden dog who was the jolliest toy in the house until he went out to explore the world.
Seller: Montreal Books, Westmount, QC, Canada
Margery Williams Bianco. POOR CECCO. Chatto & Windus, London, 1925.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2nd printing (B). Cover mildly worn, else in very good condition. A very charming book. Subtitle: The wonderful story of a wonderful wooden dog who was the jolliest toy in the house until he went out to explore the world.
Seller: RPBooks, Champlain, NY, U.S.A.
Margery Williams Bianco / Arthur Rackham. Poor Cecco. Chatto & Windus, U.K., 1925.
Price: US$102.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: orange covers with red lettering, slightly rubbed at spine ends and board corners, slight fox spotting to fore edges, 7 coloured full page Rackham plates, previous owner details to front endpaper which like the rear endpaper, has tanned, other pages clean and bright, overall a clean, tight copy, pictures available
Seller: Leaf Ends, Stocksfield, United Kingdom
Bianco, Margery Williams. POOR CECCO. Chatto & Windus, London, 1925.
Price: US$258.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 7 beautiful full-page colour illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 175 pages, clean and clear. Clean white endpapers. Orange cloth cover with red titles. Corners lightly worn, light wear to the head and tail of the spine. VG+
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
RACKHAM, Arthur; BIANCO, Margery Williams. Poor Cecco. London: Chatto & Windus, 1925, 1925.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: By The Author of The Velveteen Rabbit First English Trade Edition [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. BIANCO, Margery Williams. Poor Cecco. The Wonderful Story of a Wonderful Wooden Dog Who was the Jolliest Toy in the House until He Went out to Explore the World. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. First English trade edition (no English limited edition was issued). Quarto (10 x 7 1/4 inches; 253 x 186 mm.). 175, [1] pp. Seven mounted color plates and twenty-four drawings in black and white. Original orange cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in red on front cover and lettered in red on spine. Blank endpapers. Small neat ink signature on front free endpaper. A very good copy. The text, with the same plates and drawings, first appeared in magazine form in Good Housekeeping, beginning in May 1925. "The Velveteen Rabbit (1922), [Margery Williams Bianco's ] first children's book, was illustrated by William Nicholson. It was followed by another book about a toy, The Little Wooden Doll (1925), for which the illustrator was her own daughter Pamela.Margery Williams Bianco's third children's book, the much admired Poor Cecco (1925), is the story of a wooden toy, a âloose-jointed thing like a dog', who gets out of the toy cupboard and has a lengthy series of adventures with his friend Bulka the rag puppy. The first edition was illustrated by Arthur Rackham" (The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature). Latimore and Haskell, p. 59. Riall, p. 155.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
BIANCO, Margery Williams. Poor Cecco. London Chatto & Windus, 1925.
Price: US$417.06 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. 4to., 19.1 x 25.2cm, xi 175pp plus 7 coloured plates by Arthur Rackham as called for. Orange cloth covered boards with red stamped illustration and titles to the front and spine. The book has its original unclipped jacket with a 7s 6d price. The boards are clean and bright with no fading and only a hint of rubbing to the corners and spine tips. Internally, the book has no name, inscription or bookplate and is very clean with only slight toning to the free endpapers and a very few light spots to the fore edge. The somewhat dust stained dust jacket has a large chip measuring 6.5 x 5 cm at the top of the rear panel and one of 3 x 2.5cm from the head of the spine and minor chipping from the foot of up to 0.5cm. There is also minimal loss at the corners. There are a number of small tears of less than 5mm to the edges and four larger closed tears of 2-4 cm. Despite the damage to the scarce dust jacket this is a very good looking copy of a hard to find Rackham illustrated volume with a story by the author of The Velveteen Rabbit. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
Seller: Rainford & Parris Books - PBFA, Bishop's Stortford, United Kingdom
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1925 at title page; "Copyright, 1925, by George H. Doran Company - Poor Cecco - B - ." Beautifully designed, rare tangible. Oversize 8" x 10 1/4" gift book design. From front wrapper panel: "The wonderful story of a wonderful wooden dog who was the jolliest toy in the house until he went out to explore the world - Illustrated in Colour and Line by Arthur Rackham." Orange full cloth boards, red cover and spine titles, moderate shelf wear. Cover features stylized titles with Cecco and fellow toys on the march. Thick, heavy stock pages good; deep toning at endpapers. Some fox to exterior text block. Bind good, square; hinges intact. Frontispiece tipped-in color plate w/caption uniquely behind side mounted plate; and, six additional full-page illustrations in color with captions to adjacent page, and twenty-four drawings in black and white. Rare original dust wrapper, moderate edge wear, chip, rub; unclipped 7s./6d. net, protected in new clear sleeve. Front panel illustration matches Rackham plate inside: "By tea-time Jessina had washed one hundred and thirteen bundles of laundry, which was certainly, she thought, some help to her hostess, Mrs. Woodchuck." Rare near very good first edition in near very good original jacket. "The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real was Margery Williams Bianco's first American work, and it remains her most famous. It became an instant classic. After becoming a renowned author, Bianco wrote numerous other children's books, with her son becoming the namesake of one of them, 1925's Poor Cecco - a distinguished book. This lively adventure story, virtually a novel for children, is a brilliant exception to the sentimentality of Bianco's more famous book. Each of the many characters who populate the nursery toy cupboard is a distinct and amusing personality. Their interactions with each other and with the human, animal, and toy members of the world beyond it, whom they encounter on their quest for adventure and search for a lost friend, are individuated with understated humor. The relationship between the wooden dog Cecco, a natural leader, and Jensina, a highly independent and spirited wooden doll, is both subtle and funny. Superb illustrations by Arthur Rackham are a perfect accentuation to the narrative. While the publisher probably found it more practical to promote the shorter Velveteen Rabbit, Cecco's celebrated illustrator assured its survival." Latimore and Haskell, p. 59; Riall, p. 155. Printed in the United States of America. 176 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
[Rackham, Arthur] Bianco, Margery Williams. Poor Cecco. Chatto & Windus, London, 1925.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First English trade edition (no English limited edition was issued). Quarto (10 x 7 1/4 inches; 253 x 186 mm.). Collating 175, [1]. Original orange cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in red on front cover and lettered in red on spine. Blank endpapers. Seven mounted color plates and twenty-four drawings in black and white. A Very Good copy in the scarce original color pictorial dust jacket (jacket complete but with some repairs). The text, with the same plates and drawings, first appeared in magazine form in Good Housekeeping, beginning in May 1925. "The Velveteen Rabbit (1922), [Margery Williams Bianco's ] first children's book, was illustrated by William Nicholson. It was followed by another book about a toy, The Little Wooden Doll (1925), for which the illustrator was her own daughter Pamela.Margery Williams Bianco's third children's book, the much admired Poor Cecco (1925), is the story of a wooden toy, a âloose-jointed thing like a dog', who gets out of the toy cupboard and has a lengthy series of adventures with his friend Bulka the rag puppy. The first edition was illustrated by Arthur Rackham" (The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature).
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.