

Binding strong & straight, pages creamy white with very mild tanning, NO foxing.

Condition is Near Fine: exceptionally clean & bright with very modest rubbing to extremities. Hardcover book has gray-tan cloth-covered boards with intricate green design & rabbit on front board.

A true FIRST EDITION, First printing (with appropriate dates, publisher, publishing statement & wartime paper notice) of this Newberry-award winner from 1944 with sepia-colored drawings by the author throughout the 128 pages of text. "The philosophy of live & let live in an irresistible package" describes this lovely children's tale about Rabbit Hill and the creatures-& mans-who live there.
