Pookie's Big Day by Ivy L. Wallace - 1958

London: Collins Publishers for the Children, 1958. First, club ed.. Hardback small quarto, no jacket (missing as common), very good condition, colour pictorial boards & endpapers, colour drawings (some full-page), black & white drawings, fore-edge & corners little bumped, small faded patches red spine (ends little chipped & worn), some edgewear. 26 pp. First edition. In this well-loved classic children's story Pookie the rabbit with wings celebrates Belinda's birthday (the woodcutter's daughter he lives with). Pookie wishes for many things too (Christmas and Easter) and learns a lesson about asking for too much. The seventh title in the series of 10 Pookie books. (Very scarce club edition - printed statement first page of text: "To the members of the 4to A.W.A. Toddlers’ Pookie Club, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.")

London and Glascow: Collins, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. Ivy L. Wallace. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions (other than a gift inscription on page opposite title page) on pages. Pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. Interior pages clean and bright. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11")

London: Collins. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1958. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Black and white, colour illustrations by the author. Edgewear, corners worn. Tear at lower spine end. Prev owner's name in pencil opposite the title page. Pencil drawing on last (copyright) page. Small red stain to upper rear cover edge. Illustrated endpapers. Text is clean and unmarked, colour illustrations are bright. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall .