Margery Williams Bianco / Arthur Rackham (ill) - Poor Cecco - 1925

"Poor Cecco, the wonderful story of wonderful wooden dog" by Margery Williams Bianco and illustrated by Arthur Rackham - Chatto & Windus, London - 1925 American Rackham edition - 20cmx15cm - condition: good copy, in orange publisher's binding, some rubbing to edges, brown smudges, all Rackham plates present. Rare Rackham title.

"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.