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The Tale of Peter Rabbit
by POTTER, Beatrix
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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East Woodstock, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1904. Second American Edition, First Format with Green Cloth and Decorated Endpapers. Small Duodecimo. Tan paper dust jacket with black ink illustrations and lettering, green illustrated cloth over boards, white end papers with orange illustrations, thirty-one color illustrations. Altemus' Wee Books for Wee Folks. Good dust jacket, chipping to spine ends, top third of front panel torn away and now reattached with archival tape at verso, slight damp stain at top spine and over to top spine edge of front panel, very good overall, discoloration to cloth from dampstain at rear cover, very light foxing to edges, smudges to title page, pencil inscription from 1907 at verso of frontispiece.
Synopsis
The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. The story follows Peter Rabbit, a mischievous and disobedient young rabbit, as he ventures into the garden of farmer Mr. McGregor. The tale was written for five-year-old Noel Moore, son of Potter's former governess, in 1893. It was revised and privately printed by Potter in 1901 after several publishers' rejections but was printed in a trade edition by Frederick Warne & Co. in 1902.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40003
- Title
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit
- Author
- POTTER, Beatrix
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Henry Altemus Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1904
- Weight
- 0.00
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About Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA
For the past many years this firm has strived to provide a large, high quality, and diverse collection of mostly fiction published primarily before the Second World War and with their original dustjackets. Our specialties include Photoplay Editions, Mysteries, Fantasy Literature, Plays, Romances, Westerns, Hollywood Interest, and Business Fiction. We also have a large collection of Cocktail Recipe Books, Children's Literature and 19th Century Literature. We pride ourselves on providing accurately described, high grade, and difficult to locate titles in these fiction genres.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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