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[New York]: Harper & Brothers, 1946. First printing. Very good plus in very good box.. First edition of this experimental little book bound in actual rabbit fur. Brown published LITTLE FUR FAMILY at a time when her editor at Harper, the magnificent Ursula Nordstrom, was looking for innovative ideas and novelty formats for children's books in response to the quickly expanding market of the post-WWII Baby Boom. This book began as a handmade production by Brown herself, a quaint production containing a miniature book tucked into real rabbit fur: a small, warm and fuzzy item for a child's bedside table. As a 2022 NEW YORKER Anna Holmes profile of Brown explained: "[Her] most aesthetically provocative book was also one of her most adorable: in 1946, she published 'Little Fur Family,' in collaboration with Garth Williams, who later illustrated E. B. White's 'Charlotte's Web.' For the first edition [...] Brown insisted that the book's cover be wrapped entirely in the fur of New Zealand…

Little Fur Family is a gentle children's book about a day in the life of a small fur child in the forest.