Books

Worcester, MA: Cotton & Frank, 1940. Very good.. Rare toy version of PETER RABBIT, in which the front board opens to reveal 8 laminated pictorial cubes of scenes from the book. An abbreviated version of the story is printed inside the front cover with a color pictorial border. The facing insert for the blocks is also pictorially decorated and has a two-line caption corresponding to the picture on the block. Each block has two Peter Rabbit pictures, the other sides show large block letters of the alphabet. Amazingly complete. Rare. 9'' x 7'' x 1.75''. Original box with all 8 original pictorial cubes, each housed in its own space. Lamination on cubes cracking often. Box a bit soiled, with careful repairs around hinges and bumping to corners.

The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he is chased about the garden of Mr. McGregor. He escapes and returns home to his mother, who puts him to bed after dosing him with tea. The tale was written for five-year-old Noel Moore, son of Potter's former governess Annie Carter Moore, in 1893. It was revised and privately printed by Potter in 1901 after several publishers' rejections, but it was printed in a trade edition by Frederick Warne & Co. in 1902. The book was a success, and multiple reprints were issued in the years immediately following its debut. It has been reprinted multiple times since then and is regarded as one of the most iconic children's books.