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(CHILDREN’S LITERATURE.) Potter, Beatrix.
The Tale of the Flopsy
Bunnies * The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes.
Together, 2 First Editions. Each with color
frontispieces and 26 color plates. 12mo, original green boards with mounted cover illustra-
tions, first title with spine browned and joints starting, owner’s stamped name on
pastedown; second title with bookplate on pastedown, owner’s contemporary inked
inscription on endpaper, and some yellowing to margins throughout.
FIRST EDITIONS
.
Quinby 16, 20; Linder 428, 429.
London & NewYork:Warne, 1909; 1911
[500/750]
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(CHILDREN’S LITERATURE.) Potter, Beatrix.
The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes.
27 color illustrations by Potter. 12mo, original brown boards stamped in white and with
color pictorial onlay on front cover, some wear to joints and spine ends; gentle creasing to
lower outer corners of some leaves, previous owner’s signature on front endpaper and
bookplate on pastedown; custom brown cloth clamshell box with red calf gilt spine label
and red patterned paper lining, also with booklabel.
FIRST EDITION
of the adventure of
Potter’s grey squirrel hero and his chipmunk cohorts. Quinby 20; Linder 429.
London and NewYork:Warne, 1911
[400/600]
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(CHILDREN’S LITERATURE.) Rand, Ann and Paul.
Little 1.
Color illustra-
tions by the Rands throughout. Thin 4to, decorated red boards, spine ends and tips a bit
rubbed; pictorial dust jacket with first issue $3.25 price, lower flap trimmed, a bit of
uneven toning and rubbing along spine panel.
FIRST EDITION
.
NewYork: Harcourt Brace, (1962)
[200/300]
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(CHILDREN’S LITERATURE.) Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan.
The Yearling.
14
color plates, pictorial endpapers, 2 tinted plates, and facsimile of Wyeth letter. Large 8vo,
publisher’s gilt-pictorial full turquoise cloth, faint soiling to rear cover; board chemise and
slipcase, unevenly toned and with wear; small bookplate on pastedown.
ONE OF
770
UNNUMBERED COPIES OF THE FIRST WYETH
-
ILLUSTRATED EDITION
,
SIGNED BY HIM AND
RAWLINGS
.
NewYork: Scribners, 1938
[600/900]
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(CHILDREN’S LITERATURE.)
Potter, Beatrix.
The Tale of Peter
Rabbit.
31 color illustrations by Potter.
Small 8vo, original charcoal grey boards
printed in white with color pictorial
cover onlay, expertly rebacked retaining
original backstrip; grey-blue leaf patterned
endpapers, very soft bend to upper outer
corners of contents, hinges repaired (likely
with endpapers supplied from another
copy); custom
1
/
4
gilt-lettered taupe
morocco over marbled board clamshell
box; owner’s bookplate on inside front
cover.
FIRST EDITION
,
FIRST ISSUE OF POT
-
TER
’
S MOST FAMOUS WORK
, with “wept”
for “shed” on page 51. Quinby 2; Linder
421.
London & NewYork:Warne, [1902]
[1,000/1,500]
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