The Tale of Mr. Tod.
by POTTER, Beatrix
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London & New York: Frederick Warne and Co.,, 1912. A lovely copy with the scarce glassine jacket First edition, first or second impression, with the publication year on the title page; the first two impressions are identical. Sextodecimo. Original grey boards, spine and front cover lettered in green, front cover with pictorial label, pictorial endpapers. With the printed glassine jacket. Housed in a custom brown cloth folding box. Frontispiece and 14 colour illustrations by the author. Boards gently bowed, the occasional spot to contents; an excellent copy in the toned jacket with some shallow chips to extremities. Linder, p. 429; Quinby 21.
Synopsis
The Tale of Mr. Tod (The World of Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit) Beatrix Potter puts aside the cute anthropomorphic creatures she generally sets in her stories to tell the tale of two disagreeable characters, Tommy Brock and Mr. Tod.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 110330
- Title
- The Tale of Mr. Tod.
- Author
- POTTER, Beatrix
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London & New York: Frederick Warne and Co.,
- Date Published
- 1912
Terms of Sale
Peter Harrington
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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