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Price: US$11.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Undated EDITION with slightly torn at spine dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. Frederick Warne and Co., 1911.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Undated reprint hardcover with white paper covered boards with red ink and a paste on illustration of a squirrel wearing clothes. 59pp text is clean, crisp and complete. Illustration of farm animals reading books on end papers. White out on front end paper to remove PON. Original unclipped dj in new mylar. Beatrix Potter loved the countryside and spent much of her childhood drawing and studying animals. The Tale of Peter Rabbit, was her first book, Beatrix Potter went on to publish more than 20 tales and collections of rhymes.
Seller: HORSE BOOKS PLUS LLC, Boston, VA, U.S.A.
BEATRIX POTTER (1866-1943). THE TALE OF TIMMY TIPTOES. FREDERICK WARNE and CO., LONDON, 1911.
Price: US$17.63 + shipping
Description: Vol. in -16 picc. (10,5 x 14,5 cm.), legatura editoriale cartonata col. beige con illustr. a colori e titoli in rosso sul piatto ant, testo in inglese, pag. 59, (1) con splendide illustr. a colori a p.pagina. In buono stato di conservazione. Collana: THE PETER RABBIT BOOKS by Beatrix Potter - ORIGINAL EDITION 1911 - Book in -16 pic. (10.5 x 14.5 cm.), editorial hardcover binding col. beige with illustr. in color and titles in red on the front plate, text in English, p. 59, (1) with splendid illust. in color full page. In good condition.
Seller: Stampe Antiche e Libri d'Arte BOTTIGELLA, VIGEVANO, PV, Italy
Beatrix Potter. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Frederick Warne & Co., London and New York, 1911.
Price: US$130.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: London and New York, Frederick Warne, [ca. ], 1911., Spine missing.Binding shaken. Interior text pages very clean. Publisher : New York, Frederick Warne & Co. no date (circa 1911 according to endpaper). printed by Edmund Evans. Has "Shed Big Tears" indicating later printing.Size : 6 " X 4,5 ". Pages : 84 pages. Binding : Very good dark green boards binding with white titles, picture onlay on front board, dot in the centre of 'of' on spine and front board (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed). Content : Very good content (bright and tight, some light staining on last page only - as shown). Illustrations : Profusely illustrated with 26 beautiful colour plates (printed on one side of paper).Helen Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 - 22 December 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Born into an upper-class household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets and spent holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developing a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Though Potter was typical of women of her generation in having limited opportunities for higher education, her study and watercolours of fungi led to her being widely respected in the field of mycology. In her thirties, Potter self-published the highly successful children's book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Following this, Potter began writing and illustrating children's books full-time. In all, Potter wrote thirty books; the best known being her twenty-three children's tales. With the proceeds from the books and a legacy from an aunt, in 1905 Potter bought Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey, a village in the Lake District, which at that time was in Lancashire. Over the following decades, she purchased additional farms to preserve the unique hill country landscape. In 1913, at the age of 47, she married William Heelis, a respected local solicitor from Hawkshead. Potter was also a prize-winning breeder of Herdwick sheep and a prosperous farmer keenly interested in land preservation. She continued to write and illustrate, and to design spin-off merchandise based on her children's books for British publisher Warne, until the duties of land management and her diminishing eyesight made it difficult to continue. She died of pneumonia and heart disease on 22 December 1943 at her home in Near Sawrey at the age of 77, leaving almost all her property to the National Trust. She is credited with preserving much of the land that now constitutes the Lake District National Park. Potter's books continue to sell throughout the world in many languages with her stories being retold in song, film, ballet, and animation, and her life depicted in a feature film and television film. (Wikipedia)
Seller: Riverside Books and Prints, Cold Spring, NY, U.S.A.
Beatrix Potter. Peter Rabbit's Painting Book. Frederick Warne & Co., New York, 1911.
Price: US$170.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Light flexible cardboard covers. Edge wear and chips to the front cover, 2 1/4" missing off the bottom of the spine, chip at the top of the spine. Pieces missing on the book title on the spine. Twelve pairs of identical images, one colored and one plain, 10 of the pain ones have been colored in (well done). 2 have not been colored in. 8 1/2" x 7." String binding still holding.
Seller: Jans Collectibles: Vintage Books, Bethany, MO, U.S.A.
POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Frederick Warne and Co., New York, 1911.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Good++. no date, circa1911. Light wear and soiling to boards, title text and front image remain bright. Inscription from 1912 on the FFEP from 'Aunt Edna." Some pages show light soiling, the illustrations are all present and remain bright. Illustrated paste downs. Slate green boards.
Seller: Westsider Rare & Used Books Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. Frederick Warne and Co, London, 1911.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: Original dark green boards ruled and lettered in white on front cover and lettered in white spine. Color pictorial label (67 x 57 mm) on front cover within a blind arch-shaped panel outlined in blind. Color pictorial endpapers (Quinby Plate X). Measured 137 x 105 mm and collates 84, [1], [1, blank]. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates (included in pagination). Black and white vignette on title-page. Minimal rubbing to lower corners and spine extremities. Neat ink inscription dated "Xmas 1912" on front free end-paper. An excellent copy. "Beatrix Potter, writer of some of the most beloved children's books of all time, was a woman of immense talent, indefatigable spirit, and a generous heart.Although she grew up in London, she was deeply influenced by long family holidays in the countryside, first in Scotland and later in the English lake district. As was the custom in families of her class, she was educated at home by governesses. An eager student of languages and literature, she grew up loving classic folk and fairy tales.Her talent for drawing and painting was discovered early and encouraged" (Beatrix Potter Society). Her career began with the release of the now-beloved Tale of Peter Rabbit; and her subsequent works expanded into a magical world of anthropomorphic animals such as Tom Kitten, Squirrel Nutkin, and Benjamin Bunny. Linder, p. 429. Quinby 20. V & A 1664.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. Frederick Warne & Co, New York, 1911.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: Original dark green boards ruled and lettered in white on front cover and lettered in white spine. Color pictorial label (measuring 2 5/8 x 2 1/4 inches; 67 x 57 mm.) on front cover within a blind arch-shaped panel outlined in blind. Color pictorial endpapers (Quinby Plate X). Minimal rubbing to lower corners and spine extremities. 84, [1], [1, blank]. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates (included in pagination). Black and white vignette on title-page. A near fine copy in the original (slightly chipped) glassine wrapper. "Beatrix Potter, writer of some of the most beloved children's books of all time, was a woman of immense talent, indefatigable spirit, and a generous heart.Although she grew up in London, she was deeply influenced by long family holidays in the countryside, first in Scotland and later in the English lake district. As was the custom in families of her class, she was educated at home by governesses. An eager student of languages and literature, she grew up loving classic folk and fairy tales.Her talent for drawing and painting was discovered early and encouraged" (Beatrix Potter Society). Her career began with the release of the now-beloved Tale of Peter Rabbit; and her subsequent works expanded into a magical world of anthropomorphic animals such as Tom Kitten, Squirrel Nutkin, and Benjamin Bunny. Quinby 20a. Linder, p. 429 (UK edition).
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
POTTER Beatrix. Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. , 1911.
Price: US$5200.00 + shipping
Description: POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. London and New York: Frederick Warne, 1911. 16mo, original brown boards, mounted cover illustration, pictorial endpapers, original glassine dust jacket. $5200.First edition of Potter's gift to her devoted American readers, with color frontispiece and 26 color plates, in extremely rare original printed glassine dust jacket.A decade after her most famous creation, Peter Rabbit, debuted on the stage of children's literature, Potter had gained "many American friends and admirers, some of whom were children's librarians. It is believed that The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes was written primarily for American children because they would be familiar with both chipmunks and bears. They would also be familiar with grey squirrels like Timmy Tiptoes and his wife Goody, who stored nuts for the winter months and met with various adventures while so doing" (Linder, 208). "The year 1911 appears on the front of the title page of the first two printings, which are believed to be identical" (Linder, 429). With extremely scarce original glassine. Quinby 20. Pencil "+" marks next to each title on rear panel of dust jacket.Book with just a few faint finger smudges to interior, faint stain to edge of half title, a couple tiny spots of soiling to boards, and small split at base of spine. Dust jacket with light wear and toning to extremities. A near-fine copy, most desirable with very rare glassine dust jacket.
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
POTTER, Beatrix. Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, The. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1911, 1911.
Price: US$5500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition of The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes in the Original Printed Glassine Dust Jacket POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1911. First edition. Twelvemo (5 7/16 x 4 1/8 inches; 139 x 105 mm.). 84, [1], [1, blank] pp. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates (included in pagination). Black and white vignette on title-page. Original dark green boards ruled and lettered in white on front cover and lettered in white spine. Cover pictorial label (measuring 2 5/8 x 2 1/4 inches; 67 x 57 mm.) on front cover within a blind arch-shaped panel outlined in blind. Color pictorial endpapers (Quinby Plate X). A near mint copy. In the original glazed paper glassine dust jacket printed in black with the price "1/- NET" at foot of spine, with vertical lines at the top and bottom of the spine indicating where the fold should come for the front panel, with an advertisement for "The Peter Rabbit Books" on the rear panel listing The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes under "New Book for 1911," an advertisement on the front flap: "Children Will Revel In The Story of The Roly=Poly Pudding.The Pie & The Patty=Pan.Ginger and Pickles," and an advertisement on the rear flap: "A Novel and Charming Pocket Series by Beatrix Potter.The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit.The Story of Miss Moppet." A remarkable and complete jacket, with only a tiny bit of chipping at the top and bottom of the spine and a closed tear at the bottom of the spine. Housed in a quarter dark blue morocco clamshell case with felt lining. Linder, p. 429. Quinby 20. V & A 1664.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix. Peter Rabbit's Painting Book.. Frederick Warne & Co, London & New York, 1911.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this charming paint-by-line children's book featuring Potter's most beloved animal characters. Quarto, original pictorial cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with 12 color plates, each with facing outlined illustration intended for coloring-in, two of which have been hand-painted. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the second free endpaper in the year of publication, "Love to Mary Kynaston from Miss Potter and Peter Rabbit: and love to Joan and Phyllis and their little brother from all the little animals. (It is going to be gray squirrels next time, but that is a secret!) Thank you for a very nice little letter last February. July 11. 11. from Beatrix Potter." The recipient, Mary Kynaston, was Headmistress at Queen's College in London, an independent school for girls aged 11â"18 which was the first institution in the world to award academic qualifications to women and the first girls' school to be granted a Royal Charter for the furtherance of women's education. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Beatrix Potter wrote and illustrated thirty books throughout the course of her lifetime, the best-known being her charming twenty-three children's tales featuring animals, including The Tale of Peter Rabbit which she self-published in her thirties after multiple publisher's rejections. The book was was so well-received upon publication in 1902, that within just a few weeks she requested a second impression. Now firmly established as a popular writer and illustrator, Potter began writing full time and went on to produce such endearing stories as The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, The Tale of Tom Kitten, and The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, among others. With the proceeds from the books and a legacy from an aunt, Potter bought Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey in 1905 and over the following decades, purchased additional farms to preserve the unique hill country landscape of the Lake District of Lancashire.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.