The Little White Horse

The University of London Press edition (London, 1946) is the true first and is the edition that won the 1946 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association. The first American edition is Coward-McCann (New York, 1947), also illustrated by C. Walter Hodges, in blue cloth but decorated in silver rather than gilt — collected in its own right but secondary to the UK issue. Both editions are named here because both are collected; the UK 1946 has precedence. Demand is inflated by J.K. Rowling having named it her favourite childhood book.