{"id":18342,"date":"2025-09-12T16:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/18342\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T16:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:47:06","slug":"early-versions-of-peter-rabbit-thomas-the-tank-engine-and-the-bfg-to-be-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/18342\/","title":{"rendered":"Early versions of Peter Rabbit, Thomas The Tank Engine and The BFG to be sold"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some of the earliest versions of Peter Rabbit<\/a> and Thomas The Tank Engine along with Quentin Blake<\/a> illustrations of the BFG are to be sold at auction.<\/p>\n

A first addition Beatrix Potter<\/a> titled The Story Of A Fierce Bad Rabbit, published in 1906, with concertina-style folding pages and colour illustrations, is among 60 lots of children\u2019s books going under the hammer this month.<\/p>\n

Bound in its original olive green cloth with a silver clasp, the book is expected to fetch between \u00a3150 and \u00a3180.<\/p>\n

A first edition of the book which preceded Thomas The Tank Engine called The Three Railway Engines, from 1946, is also among the collection.<\/p>\n

The hardback, yellow-covered picture book written by Rev Wilbert Awdry is valued from \u00a3300 to \u00a3500.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Catherine Southon Auctioneers & Valuers said: \u201cWe are delighted to be auctioning part of a local collection of children\u2019s books, many of which are signed by the author or illustrator, and have been lovingly cherished.\u201d<\/p>\n

They added that they are expecting \u201cparticular interest\u201d in the Arthur Rackham-illustrated books, which include a signed volume of Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens along with a letter from the author JM Barrie.<\/p>\n

Altogether, the lot is expected to be bought between \u00a31,500 and \u00a32,500.<\/p>\n

Early sketches by Quentin Blake of Roald Dahl\u2019s the Big Friendly Giant (BFG) and protagonist Sophie will also go under the hammer, estimated to fetch between \u00a350 and \u00a380.<\/p>\n

The items will go on sale at Kingsley House in Chislehurst<\/a> on September 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[489,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-18342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}