Ginger & Pickles.
by POTTER (Beatrix)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Overall a very good copy with small stains on outer covers
- Seller
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Kingston, New York, United States
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About This Item
POTTER (Beatrix)
Ginger & Pickles.
London: Frederick Warne, 1909.
Frontispiece and 9 color illustrations by the author, also text vignettes.
Square 8vo, 52pp; original buff boards, titles to front cover and spine in green, pictorial label with illustration to front cover, illustrated endpapers.
First edition.
The third of Potter's books to be printed in large format, Ginger & Pickles was worked up from an original manuscript given to Louie Warne, Harold Warne's daughter, as a Christmas gift in 1908. The story was based on a village shop in Sawrey owned by John Taylor when Potter bought Hill Top farm, so the book is dedicated to him.
From the personal library of MAURICE SENDAK with his Jennie bookplate pasted verso front free endpaper. Laid in is a Sendak notecard with a design from The Bat-Poet, inscribed "A very special book for very special Lynn -- on her Birthday! With all my love Maurice May (April) '90", the recipient being Lynn Caponera, who began working for the artist in 1972 as caretaker of his Connecticut house and eventually became his care-giver, chief beneficiary, and president of The Maurice Sendak Foundation. Indeed, a very special copy.
Ginger & Pickles.
London: Frederick Warne, 1909.
Frontispiece and 9 color illustrations by the author, also text vignettes.
Square 8vo, 52pp; original buff boards, titles to front cover and spine in green, pictorial label with illustration to front cover, illustrated endpapers.
First edition.
The third of Potter's books to be printed in large format, Ginger & Pickles was worked up from an original manuscript given to Louie Warne, Harold Warne's daughter, as a Christmas gift in 1908. The story was based on a village shop in Sawrey owned by John Taylor when Potter bought Hill Top farm, so the book is dedicated to him.
From the personal library of MAURICE SENDAK with his Jennie bookplate pasted verso front free endpaper. Laid in is a Sendak notecard with a design from The Bat-Poet, inscribed "A very special book for very special Lynn -- on her Birthday! With all my love Maurice May (April) '90", the recipient being Lynn Caponera, who began working for the artist in 1972 as caretaker of his Connecticut house and eventually became his care-giver, chief beneficiary, and president of The Maurice Sendak Foundation. Indeed, a very special copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BATTLEDORE LTD (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- VBF02
- Title
- Ginger & Pickles.
- Author
- POTTER (Beatrix)
- Illustrator
- Frontispiece and 9 color illustrations by the author, also text vignettes
- Format/Binding
- Original buff boards, titles to front cover and spine in green, pictorial label with illustration to front cover, illustrated en
- Book Condition
- Used - Overall a very good copy with small stains on outer covers
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1909
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- potter, beatrix potter, sendak
- Bookseller catalogs
- children's books;
- Size
- Square 8vo, 52pp
- Vbf_category
- 10115
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About the Seller
BATTLEDORE LTD
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Kingston, New York
About BATTLEDORE LTD
Founded in 1988, Battledore has been promoting children's books and related references/bibliographies through catalogues, by direct mail, online internet sales and special exhibitions, including the annual ABAA Antiquarian Rare Books Fair in New York City (Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street). Since 2002 we have maintained a "by appointment" store front gallery in Kingston NY that is fully operational. For scheduling a visit to discuss collection development, please email us at battledore@mail.com. The President of Battledore Ltd has represented Maurice Sendak as liaison for private collectors and institutions worldwide from 1970 thru 2003 and continues to maintain a fine inventory of his original artwork along with curated selections of original illustration art for children's books by other well-recognized artists and illustrators.
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