The TALE of PETER RABBIT: ALTEMUS WEE BOOK for WEE FOLKS
by BEATRIX POTTER
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/N/A
- Seller
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Amenia, New York, United States
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About This Item
Overall Very Good- / Very Good Condition, Covers a bit soiled but solid Paste-On Color, with some minor tip wear corner wear, solid spine title (reads up instead of down -- FIRST STATE), light spine tip fraying.
Tight binder, hinges perfect -- & it has all 31 Color Plates, in 127 pages, printed one side only (Later Green Cover Edition had 64 2-sided pages). Some minor edge soiling, and darkened staples.
Original Illustrated end papers are unusually in tact and nice. (No Ad Pages in Rear -- Also FIRST STATE Point)!!
SCARCE, FIRST AMERICAN PIRATED EDITION of the Original 1902 Beatrix Potter Tale, with All of HER ILLUSTRATIONS -- Relatively Clean, Bright & White, with NO NAMES, MARKS or DAMAGE!!
RARE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION / FIRST PRINTING!!
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
- RARE KIDS BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 526
- Title
- The TALE of PETER RABBIT
- Author
- BEATRIX POTTER
- Illustrator
- beatrix potter
- Format/Binding
- VERY GOOD
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- N/A
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- FIRST AMERICAN, FIRST PIRATED
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- HENRY ALTEMUS
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1904
- Pages
- 127
- Size
- 4" X 6"
- Weight
- 2.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ORIGINAL, DELUXE, FIRST AMERICAN, FIRST EDITION,FIRST STATE COVER
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RARE KIDS BOOKS
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- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.