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The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real
by Williams, Margery
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/fair
- ISBN 10
- 1528773152
- ISBN 13
- 9781528773157
- Seller
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Wichita, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday. Hardcover. Very Good/fair. William Nicholson. Dust jacket toned with several chips/tears to edges, illustrated boards are not faded but with noticeable shelf wear to edge. Else internally VG, with bright and sharp color illustrations. 9th printing, with a 9 on the copyright page. No date listed. William Nicholson (illustrator). The binding is tight and clean with rabbit endpapers, 44 pages with full page color illustrations. Price clipped DJ protected with mylar cover. 8vo, bookseller #4265.
Synopsis
The Velveteen Rabbit, or How Toys Become Real, is the story of a toy rabbit who wants to become real through the love of his owner. The stuffed rabbit is overlooked by the boy whom he is given, the boy preferring to play with more mechanical and sophisticated toys than the simple stuffed rabbit. The rabbit holds onto a story told to him by the oldest and wisest toy in the nursery, the skin horse, about how toys can become real through love. Eventually, the boy becomes attached to the soft doll, but after developing scarlet fever the doctor orders the boy sent away to recover and all his toys and belonging burnt. The rabbit is so sad over his separation from the boy he begins to cry and sheds a real tear - after which the nursery fairy appears to turn him into a real rabbit. It has been adapted many times into television, film and onto the stage. The National Education Association listed it among the top 100 books for teachers of children in 2007. Author Margery Williams’ first children’s book, The Velveteen Rabbit was published in 1922 by George H. Doran Company in London and has remained in print continuously since, owing to its popularity as a story of the power of enduring love. -
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On Mar 4 2022, a reader said:
wonderful children's book
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thleodore Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4265
- Title
- The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real
- Author
- Williams, Margery
- Illustrator
- William Nicholson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1528773152
- ISBN 13
- 9781528773157
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Keywords
- 1528773152
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- Shelf Wear
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Price Clipped
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