Pookie and the Gypsies, by Ivy L. Wallace. First reprint (early) edition, 1948. The second book in a series of 10 Pookie books. Children's classic about a rabbit with wings.
London: Collins Publishers for the Children (1948). 26 pages. ISBN: Pre-ISBN. Our ID: 17570.
Hardback quarto, no jacket, good plus condition, pictorial board cover, full-page colour drawings, black & white drawings, narrow red cloth spine (neat repair), black & white pictorial endpapers, small toned spots some pages, rear cover creased (during manufacture), edgewear covers (boards exposed corners, rear cover little faded along spine), non-author written dedication reverse side front free flyleaf (faint, erased, slight thinning page).
Pookie, the white rabbit with wings, is stolen by the wicked Gypsy Circus Man and becomes the star of the circus. He escapes with his toy animal friends, but most of the friends return to their familiar life in the circus. (The second book of 10 in the Pookie series. Second printing 1948, originally published 1947). A scarce collectible early Pookie, being first reprint, 1948.)
Keywords: children's literature, nature, animals, rabbits, folklore, collectible, collectable.
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