Poor Cecco by Margery Williams (23 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Nice tight book, bright front cover, spine mildly faded. Interior clean and unmarked. 7 beautiful tipped in color plates by Rackham.

First British edition. Small 4to. 175, (1) pp. Publisher's orange cloth with red lettering and illustration to the spine and upper board, early gift inscription to the front free endpaper. Frontispiece and 6 colour plates. Some rubbing to the cloth, else very good. Latimore & Haskell, p60. Riall, p155.

some wear to the covers, some writing on the endpaper, one page in the text is taped.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (illustrator). First Edition. Pictorial navy cloth binding with gilt lettering slightly rubbed at extremities; backstrip a bit browned; boards lightly soiled; several points in textblock cracked; pencilled owners' names & inked gift inscription on front endpaper & front paste-down; a few leaves bent at bottom corners; leaf edges, endpapers foxed/smudged, else a nice book, with bright, clear ils. ; Many delightful b&w ils., seven color plates (one a tipped-in frontis) by Arthur Rackham, all present. ; Large 8vo; 175 pages.

Hardcover. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). 1st edition US. 1st thus. 4to full blue cloth stamped in gilt, 7 color plates and decorations by Arthur Rackham. Contemporary bookplate and ink name and date (1929) on front endpapers, else fine, with newspaper clipping of a contemporary review laid in (within acetate wrapper so as as not to discolor the endpapers).

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. Arhur Rackham (illustrator). First Trade Edition. Large octavo, 9.8 in. x 7.8 in., pp. 175. Illustrated with seven tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham. Blue cloth boards with gilt title and framed character scene to front. Gilt title and dog's head to spine. Rubbing to extremities; a couple scuffs to front. Bottom corners just showing. Previous owner's inscription, dated 1926, to front free endpaper. Margery Williams Bianco (July 22, 1881 September 4, 1944) was a British-American author and translator, best known for children's books. Her most enduring work is The Velveteen Rabbit (1922). Poor Cecco folowed The Velveteen Rabbit three years later. She received the Newbery Honor for Winterbound. Margery William's interest in writing was fueled by the encouragement she received from her father. (from LIterary Ladies Guide).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). First Edition. 1925 copyright by George H. Doran Company - Poor Cecco - B - Printed in the United States of America. Beautifully designed, rare tangible. Oversize 7 1/2" x 10" gift book design. Deep blue full cloth boards w/ornate gilt cover design, spine titles, moderate shelf wear, some spine rub, label residue at spine, back board. Bright gilt cover titles, gilt panel in silhouette of the wooden dog setting out w/handkerchief on stick among animals, clowns, castles, etc. Thick deckled pages generally very good; couple stamps for Merced County Library. Inside back cover: Gracey Memorial Fund, Children's Books, Merced Library antiquarian pictorial bookplate of rising castles beyond boy; small antiquarian bookstore label adjacent, of character carrying leaning stack of books: "Levinson's, The Book Store, Sacramento"; also, clipped dj summary blurb of Poor Cecco adhered. Card pocket remains at front endpaper. Bind fine; hinges intact. Rackham illustrated endpapers. Frontispiece mounted color plate w/caption below; and, six full-page illustrations in color with captions to adjacent page, and twenty-four drawings in black and white. Printed in the United States of America. 175 pages. Insured post. "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: The Wonderful Story of a Wonderful Wooden Dog Who Was the Jolliest Toy in the House Until He Went Out to Explore the World - 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 adventureand search for a lost friend, are delineated 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 complement to the narrative. While the publisher probably found it more practical to promote the shorter Velveteen Rabbit, Cecco's celebrated illustrator may have assured its survival." Latimore and Haskell, p. 59; Riall, p. 155. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

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. Some light foxing, mainly to blank margins. Original orange cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in red on front cover and lettered in red on spine. Blank endpapers. Red lettering on spine worn. 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 PamelaMargery Williams Bianco's third children's book, the much admired Poor Cecco (1925), is the story of a wooden toy, a 'loose-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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). 7 colour plates including tipped-in frontispiece. Ghosting to endpapers and very light foxing/fingermarks to a few page margins. All else clean inside. Firm orange cloth covered boards with some light marks, slightly faded spine and minor edge wear.

Hardcover. First Edition, First issue. First issue Very good+ in light blue cloth covered boards with faded gilt text on the spine and bright gilt text and decorations on the front board. The end sheets are illustrated which makes it key to identifying it as a first state. A small quarto measuring 9 1/2 by 7 inches with rubbing and wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine area and to the fore corners of the boards. The preliminaries and the last two pages of text have light spots of foxing. 175 pages of text in 19 chapters. Illustrated with a tipped-in color frontispiece, line art within the text and with six, tipped-in color plates all by Arthur Rackham. Not published in the UK until 1973 making the first US edition uncommon.

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 PamelaMargery Williams Bianco's third children's book, the much admired Poor Cecco (1925), is the story of a wooden toy, a 'loose-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.

Hardcover. Condition: vg. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). First edition, first printing. 8vo. x. 176pp. Gilt decorated blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Corners rubbed. Illustrated endpapers. Tipped-in color frontispiece. Wonderful children's story illustrated with full-page color reproductions of paintings by Arthur Rackham. Overall very good condition.

First edition. 175pp, [1]. With a half-title, a chromolithograph frontispiece, six further chromolithograph plates, and numerous in-text illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe (stamp-signed to front pastedown) in contemporary gilt-ruled tan morocco, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces. Marbled endpapers, A.E.G. Internally clean and crisp, overall, a fine copy. A finely bound first edition of Poor Cecco, a masterful fable by children's author Margery Williams Bianco (1881-1944), creator of the Velveteen Rabbit; Bianco's son, Cecco, gives his name to the titular wooden dog. The colour plates within were illustrated by leading figure of the 'Golden Age' of British book illustration, English artist Arthur Rackham (1867-1939), whose trichomatically-printed pen-and-ink drawings defined the landscape of early twentieth century children's publishing from Grimm's fairy tales to the Wind in the Willows. Size: Quarto.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). First Edition. 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. Book.

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). "Margery Williams Bianco's third children's book, the much admired Poor Cecco (1925), is the story of a wooden toy, a 'loose-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). The text, with the same plates and drawings, first appeared in magazine form in Good Housekeeping, beginning in May 1925. This, the rarest of all the Rackham limited editions was actually never signed by Rackham. The 105 copies were numbered and signed by Margery Williams Bianco, this copy however apparently escaped the signing process. The text, with the same illustrations by Rackham, also appeared in Good Housekeeping beginning in May 1925. No limited English edition was issued. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrators of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth, Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper (1892). Over the next few years, he took on more and more commissions for children's books, hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classicfrom Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe.

Condition: Fine in very good jacket. The first US edition of this Rackham-illustrated tale of dolls and toys on a mission to rescue one of their own, by the author of THE VELVETEEN RABBIT, in the elusive original dust jacket. Poor Cecco the wooden dog is named after Bianco's son. 9.75'' x 7.5''. Original blue cloth with gilt titles and illustration to front cover and spine. Original unclipped (three dollars net) color pictorial dust jacket. Full-page tipped-in color frontispiece, with six full-page color plates and black and white in-text illustrations throughout. xiv, 15-175, [1] pages. Scarce jacket lightly soiled, with a few large chips, some tape repairs to verso. Book with a bit of spotting but largely clean and beautiful.

Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Deluxe large paper issue, one of 105 numbered copies (this one out-of-series and unsigned). A nearly Fine copy. Quarto (11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches; 292 x 216 mm.). 175 pp. Seven full-page illustrations in color, mounted on white paper, and twenty-four drawings in black and white. Original parchment-backed light blue paper boards, navy blue lettering label on spine. Pictorial endpapers in pale blue on white. Top edge gilt, others uncut, slight cracking to upper inner hinge. "Margery Williams Bianco's third children's book, the much admired Poor Cecco (1925), is the story of a wooden toy, a 'loose-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). The text, with the same plates and drawings, first appeared in magazine form in Good Housekeeping, beginning in May 1925. This, the rarest of all the Rackham limited editions was actually never signed by Rackham. The 105 copies were numbered and signed by Margery Williams Bianco, this copy however apparently escaped the signing process. The text, with the same illustrations by Rackham, also appeared in Good Housekeeping beginning in May 1925. No limited English edition was issued. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrator of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth, Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper (1892). Over the next few years, he took on more and more commissions for children's books, hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classicfrom Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe. Latimore and Haskell, p. 59; Riall, p. 155. Near Fine.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). First Edition. A very good + copy in 1/4 vellum like spine and blue boards (the front hinge is just starting) in original slipcase that shows edgewear. With seven (7) tipped in color plates with tissue guards. This copy was limited to 105 copies of which this is #52. An added bonus -- laid in is a 6" by 9" trimmed early photo of Ms. Margery Williams (Bianco). Margery is the author of the noted children's classic, "The Velveteen Rabbit". Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Author. Signed, Limited.

First edition. First edition, limited issue. Signed by Margery Williams Bianco, author of The Velveteen Rabbit. Copy #58 of 105 thus. [2], 175, [1] pp. With seven tipped-in color plates with captioned tissue guards and 24 black-and-white illustrations in the text. In quarter vellum-style paper and textured blue paper over boards, gilt-stamped spine label, top edge gilt, endpapers illustrated in blue; housed in original slipcase with correct limitation number marked in pencil at head of spine panel. Spine darkened and lightly soiled, edges faintly sunned; minor toning to text leaves, tiny spots of soiling to rear endpapers, hinges starting but binding remains tight; slipcase soiled and sunned, worn and chipped at edges. A Very Good+ copy in a Good, unrestored slipcase. One of the most uncommon Rackham books. Latimore & Haskell p. 59; Riall p. 155.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing with the publisher's colophon on the copyright page. Signed and inscribed to a former owner by Margery Williams Bianco on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good soiling and light staining to cloth with rubbing to cloth at extremities, several small stains to paged and textblock edge. In a Good dust jacket with chipping and edge wear, foxing, and a number of small tape repairs made to the verso. Books signed by the author, who is best-known for writing The Velveteen Rabbit, are scarce.

Deluxe edition, number 12 of 105 copies signed by the author. Unlike many of Rackham's deluxe editions, this one was not signed by him, nor was it issued in the UK in a deluxe version. This is the rarest of all Rackham limited editions. Latimore & Haskell, pp. 59-60; Riall, p. 155. Quarto. Colour frontispiece and 6 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Original vellum spine, gilt-lettered black morocco label, cornflower blue covers. Very slight toning to spine, extremities of covers slightly sunned, minor tear at head of front hinge, slight splitting to rear hinge; a near-fine copy.

Deluxe edition, number 78 of 105 copies signed by the author. Unlike many of Rackham's deluxe editions this one was not signed by him, nor was it issued in the UK in a deluxe version. This is the rarest of all Rackham limited editions. Latimore & Haskell, pp. 59-60; Riall, p. 155. Quarto. Colour frontispiece and 6 colour plates mounted and with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Original vellum spine, gilt-lettered black morocco label, cornflower blue sides. Housed in a fleece-lined, blue quarter morocco solander box. Sides very slightly faded along top edges, small neat ink blot at foot of front free endpaper. A lovely copy.

Deluxe edition, number 23 of 105 copies signed by the author. Unlike many of Rackham's deluxe editions, this one was not signed by him, nor was it issued in the UK in a deluxe version. This is the rarest of all Rackham limited editions. A contemporary review of the UK edition stated "the wonderful story of the wonderful wooden dog who was the jolliest toy in the house, until he went out to explore the world, is much above the ordinary. Miss Bianco. is fortunate to have her work illustrated by such a master-hand as that of Mr Rackham. His full-page plates in colour are a delight". Latimore & Haskell, pp. 59-60; Riall, p. 155. Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, 19 December 1925, p. 748. Quarto. Colour frontispiece and 6 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Original blue boards with vellum backstrip, gilt-lettered black morocco label. Original slipcase. Housed in a custom black morocco-backed folding box. Slight toning to spine, corners very slightly bumped, trace of sunning to extremities, slipcase professionally restored with new sections and adhesive tape marks: a near-fine copy in a good slipcase.