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Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. Frederick Warne & Co., 1911.
Price: US$6.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No publication date stated.
Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., 1911.
Price: US$6.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. Frederick Warne & Co., 1911.
Price: US$6.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
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Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. Frederick Warne & Co., 1911.
Price: US$7.99 + shipping
Condition: Fair
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Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. Frederick Warne & Co., Inc., New York, 1911.
Price: US$9.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small hardcover (24mo) bound in dark green boards lettered in white, with color picture of squirrel on front cover, in publisher's partially price-clipped dust-jacket. 59 pages. Illustrated with color drawings throughout by author. No publishing date, post 1970 with isbn, presumably early 1970's. Volume 12 in the Beatrix Potter collection published by Warne, which ran to 23 volumes. No previous ownership marks. A clean, tight, unmarked book. White dust-jacket shows just a hint age toning and is price-clipped at upper front flap but retains US dollar price at bottom, else complete with no tears or chips. A very good+ copy in a near very good dust-jacket.
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix.:. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. Frederick Warne & Co, London, 1911.
Price: US$10.27 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No Jacket on early edition. A very good tight copy without inscriptions.
Seller: Surprise Books PBFA, Stroud Glos, United Kingdom
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.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. Frederick Warne and Co,, London, 1911.
Price: US$16.35 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Dark green boards. Not dated 1911 on title page. similar to first edition. Front hinge parting
Seller: Victoria Bookshop, BERE ALSTON, DEVON, United Kingdom
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
Potter, Beatrix.. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes.. Frederick Warne & Co, 1911.
Price: US$25.67 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No Jacket and undated but without inscriptions. A Very good tight copy
Seller: Surprise Books PBFA, Stroud Glos, United Kingdom
POTTER, Beatrix.. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes.. Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1911.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: 85 pp. Illustrated in color by Beatrix Potter. 12mo, publisher's boards lettered in light gray with applied color illustration on front panel. Later printing. Text block slightly over-opened at one point; slight rubbing to boards; spine a little sunned.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Beatrix Potter. THE TALE OF TIMMY TIPTOES. Frederick Warne, London, 1911.
Price: US$43.71 + shipping
Description: Very Good in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. Minor foxing to jacket. ; Potter 23 Tales; 5.50 X 4 X 0.30 inches; 64 pages.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Beatrix Potter. The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle. Frederick Warne and Co, 1911.
Price: US$61.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown boards with minimal signs of wear, lettered in white and illustration pasted to front. Internally neat gift inscription dated Nov 7. 1911. Clean contents.
Seller: Hugh Hardinge Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: CONDITION: Very Good; no names or other marks, tight, clean paper boards, extrems lightly bumped, lightly foxed top edge, a little rubbing to spine creases, opens freely, pages flat and clean, all in all very nice. Small hardback. The very satisfying tale of an impudent, naughty squirrel, true to life. Beautiful colour, deep and detailed without the harshness of the recoloured version. This book contains the G. A. Schwarz, 1006 Chestnut Street Philadelphia seal. (The toy store owned by a brother of F. A. O. Schwarz.) ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. /BP, illustrator.
Seller: Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks, Monmouth, OR, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix. Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. Frederick Warne and Company, London, 1911.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dark green boards, white lettering to the front and spine. A color plate inset to the front, center. There is a 3/8" chip to the upper spine and much lesser chipping to the lower spine end. There is some slight splitting along some areas of the spine edges. The corners are bumped. A former owner's inscription to a a front blank that is dated 1912. Very tight. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 81 pages
Seller: Scott Emerson Books, ABAA, El Cajon, CA, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. Frederick Warne and Co., London and New York, 1911.
Price: US$169.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1911. Copyright 1911, no date on title page. Early printing in good to very good condition. Purplish brown/gray hardcover with color illustration mounted on the front cover, white lettering, character illustrated endpapers, 5.5 inches tall, 85 pages. Lght cover wear with a minor chip to the lower left corner of the front cover illustration, front cover and spine slightly faded, front hinge internally cracked but secure, pages clean with no names or other markings. Publisher address on title page is 12 East 33d Street. Hard Cover. Good. 24mo - 5" - 5¾" Tall.
Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.
Beatrix Potter.. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. Frederick Warne, 1911.
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 16mo. 85pp. Bound in dark green almost grey cover with coloured picture onlay and all requirements of first edition as listed by Jane Quinby page 77. The dark green boards are heavily rubbed by the title which has erased the es on the Tiptoes ; the pictorial only is scratched; a small piece, 2.5 cm (1inch) of the spine is missing; the front hinge is cracked, contents shaken, . But fairly clean inside just the odd light mark. An Acceptable copy of a rare well-loved book. Quinby 20
Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom
Beatrix Potter. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. Frederick Warne and Co., 1911.
Price: US$208.54 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. A clean, tight copy. Beatrix Potter (illustrator). 1st Edition [1911]. Very Light wear to extremities. Boards bound with forrest green paper with a colour illustrated pastedown to the front cover. Title in white to the front cover and to the spine. Colour illustrated endpapers. Colour illustrated frontispiece and colour illustrations throughout. Some spotting to the page edges. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING
Seller: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, United Kingdom
Beatrix Potter. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. Frederick Warne and Co, 1911.
Price: US$213.98 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition hardback in Good overall condition. Pictorial boards bumped, edges a little scuffed particularly to the spine, which has a chip to its head, 85 pages, the lower corner from pages 57 onwards is missing but the text and plates are not affected, minor marks, binding tight and square but the frontispiece is torn to two thirds of its length along the spine and coming loose. Price includes standard postage worldwide.
Seller: Waimakariri Books and Prints Limited, Oxford, New Zealand
Beatrix Potter. The Tale Of Timmy Tiptoes. Frederick Warne & Co., New York, 1911.
Price: US$220.31 + shipping
Description: The front board looks nice but it does have a faint stain in the upper left hand corner at the spine. No cover to the spine. This is either the first or second printing with date on the title page. The first and second printings are believed to be identical. Front board is cracked inside at the spine. Missing a front piece. Still this is a very early first or second printing. The spine could be restored and the spine recovered and the front piece could be located elsewhere and reinserted which would make this book a very good copy.
Seller: Jans Collectibles: Vintage Books, Bethany, MO, U.S.A.
POTTER, Beatrix. The tale of Timmy Tiptoes. Frederick Warne, London, 1911.
Price: US$244.33 + shipping
Description: Brief gift inscription dated 1912 on half-title page; internally very clean, with no foxing; slight surface loss on front cover, affecting top curve of the final 'S' in title. Used - Good. Good hardback in dark grey paperboards
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$255.00 + shipping
Description: CONDITION: Very Good; no names or other marks, tight, clean paper boards, extrems and especially bottom corners bumped, foxed top edge, a little rubbing to spine creases, about five tiny foxing spots on plate, pages flat and clean with occasional foxing in gutter, all in all very nice. Small hardback. A very pleasant early American edition volume with magical colour in the water scenes and hazy shores. This book found with a 1914-1917 Pigling Bland also with the G. A. Schwarz, Philadelphia seal. (The toy store owned by a brother of F. A. O. Schwarz.) ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. /BP, illustrator.
Seller: Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks, Monmouth, OR, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix. THE TALE OF TIMMY TIPTOES. Frederick Warne & Co., 1911.
Price: US$309.91 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1911. Very good condition with no wrapper. Dark green boards. White titles. Pictorial onlay to front. Colour illustrations. Small format. 84 numbered pages. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; chipping to cover edges; mostly spine. Marks to covers. Nicks to top of spine. Front joint is partially cracked. Inscription in ink to half-title page. Foxing to outer page edges. A few grubby margin marks. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Potter, Beatrix. THE TALE OF TIMMY TIPTOES. Frederick Warne & Co., 1911.
Price: US$323.38 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st 1911. Good condition with no wrapper. Brown boards, white lettering. Pictorial onlay of Timmy Tiptoes the little grey squirrel. The year 1911 appears on the title-page. The first two printings are believed to be identical. Small format. 85 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Small booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Prelims are part detached. Front joint (between frontis and title-page is cracked and a couple of hinges are just starting to crack. Title-page is slightly finger-creased. Contents are generally clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$415.00 + shipping
Description: HBNODJ , 1911, 1st edition, latter 2nd Issue, with only 1 date on copyright page, Original Dark-Green or Grey Pictorial embossed Boards with raised Bands, Paste-On Label of Squirrel in red Jacket ( shaped Onlay ) & White Titles, Cover minor Rub & Wear & Scuff , 27 color plates, minor Soil & rub,Backstrip & front Cover lettered in White above & below Onlaid illustration with Publishers name in rectangle at Bottom, VG+/VG, AS-IS, NODJ, 85 pages, Interior Light Fox & Wear O/W tight & Clean
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Beatrix Potter. The Tale of Little Timmy Tiptoes. Frederick Warne, London, 1911.
Price: US$439.96 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A very good copy indeed of The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, this the first edition 1911 , bound in very dark green cloth hardback boards with a white oval top onlay on the front board of Timmy the little fat Squirrel, the top of the spine has been pulled, the decorated end papers of the paste down paper a plain piece of paper has been stuck over a previous owners name. Otherwise this is in superb condition . 85 very clean pages and plates.
Seller: VANESSA PARKER RARE BOOKS, Westport, MAYO, Ireland
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 London 1911, 1911.
Price: US$570.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition / 1st printing dark green paper boards Nice copy 16mo. 84pp., colour plates, Grey boards with arch shaped paste-down image to the upper board and white titles to the front and spine. Tiny ownership initial to half-title o/w a lovely bright, tight, square copy. Exceptional & scarce. PHOTO available
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Potter, Beatrix. THE TALE OF TIMMY TIPTOES. , 1911.
Price: US$675.00 + shipping
Description: London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1911. Original dark green paper boards with arched pictorial onlay. First Edition of these adventures of Timmy Tiptoes (and his wife Goody), grey squirrels trying to get nuts collected and stored up for the oncoming winter. Timmy is wrongly accused of stealing other squirrels' nuts and is thrown through a tree-hole into his and Goody's nut storehouse -- where he gets sidetracked and eats so many of the nuts that he becomes too fat to get out. The presence of chipmunks and a bear in this tale have led to speculation that the author had American children in mind when she wrote and illustrated this book. Customers could buy TIMMY TIPTOES in either light brown or dark green paper boards, priced at 1/-, or in decorated cloth, at 1/6. This copy is in dark green boards, and is in near-fine condition (very slight wear at some extremities). Linder pp 208-209 and p. 429; Quinby 20.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Beatrix Potter. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. Frederick Warne and Co, London UK, 1911.
Price: US$834.12 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes by Beatrix Potter. Frederick Warne, London 1911. A near fine condition copy of the Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. A dark green cover with all requirements of first edition as listed by Jane Quinby page 77. Dark green boards with minimal signs of wear and in near fine condition. Clean end papers with very small booksellers stamp on the lower edge of the paste down. The hinges are tight. Very clean contents. 85pp. 16mo.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
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. THE TALE OF TIMMY TIPTOES. , 1911.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1911. Original dark green paper boards with arched pictorial onlay. First Edition of these adventures of Timmy Tiptoes (and his wife Goody), grey squirrels trying to get nuts collected and stored up for the oncoming winter. Timmy is wrongly accused of stealing other squirrels' nuts and is thrown through a tree-hole into his and Goody's nut storehouse -- where he gets sidetracked and eats so many of the nuts that he becomes too fat to get out. The presence of chipmunks and a bear in this tale have led to speculation that the author had American children in mind when she wrote and illustrated this book. Customers could buy TIMMY TIPTOES in either light brown or dark green paper boards, priced at 1/-, or in decorated cloth, at 1/6. This copy is in dark green boards, and is near-fine (scarcely any external wear, minor cracking at one end of the front endpaper -- which bears an "Xmas /11" inscription). This is remarkable condition for fragile paper-covered boards intended for children's use. Linder pp 208-209 and p. 429; Quinby 20.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix.. THE TALE OF TIMMY TIPTOES.. Frederick Warne and Co: London, 1911.
Price: US$862.50 + shipping
Description: Color illustr by Beatrix Potter, 5.5 x 4.25, brown boards with color illustr paper cover label (arched top), 85 pp, covers rubbed with small stain at top of rear cover at spine, rare hinge torn, hinges loose, ink inscription (dated 1911) from former owner, pp waterstained at top at gutter. SWAF, but FIRST ED (with 1911 on title page)
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix. THE TALE OF TIMMY TIPTOES. Frederick Warne and Co, London, 1911.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition of Potter's story of a squirrel and chipmunk friendship, unusual in Potter's work for its North American setting. For this tale, Potter chose to tell the story of animals indigenous to North America, including grey squirrels, chipmunks, and the American black bear. She hoped to "appeal more to her growing American audience" (Kutzer) with the story, but the decision presented practical difficulties: she had to draw the animals from photos and illustrations, rather than from life. 5.75'' x 4.25''. Original dark green boards with pictorial paste-on. Illustrated with color frontispiece plus 26 color plates and pictorial endpapers (plate X, Quinby 20). 84, [2] pages. Slightest of finger soil, some light rubbing to boards.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
POTTER, Beatrix.. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes.. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1911, 1911.
Price: US$1219.10 + shipping
Description: First edition. There were two impressions of the first edition, both with the year 1911 on the title page. The first impression was published in October, with the second in November. As noted by Leslie Linder, these impressions "are believed to be indistinguishable". The impressions were issued in both dark green and brown boards, without priority. Linder, p. 429; Quinby 20. Sextodecimo. Original dark green boards, spine and front cover lettered in white, front cover with pictorial label, pictorial endpapers. Frontispiece and 26 illustrations printed in colour, vignette on title page in black and white, all by the author. Lengthy contemporary inscription dated July 1912 on the verso of the front free endpaper. Corners slightly bumped, minor foxing to edges: a near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
POTTER, Beatrix.. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes.. London Frederick Warne and Co, 1911.
Price: US$1512.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, first or second printing, with date to title, 16mo (160 x 110mm); colour frontispiece, plain title vignette and 26 colour plates, pictorial endpapers, publisher's green boards with mounted colour illustration, spine slightly faded, still near-fine overall; preserved in custom-made solander box with upper board of book replicated on lid. The story of Timmy and Goody Tiptoes is the only Beatrix Potter story apparently set in North America - although this is implicit rather than stated anywhere in the book. All the main animal characters are indigenous to North America: grey squirrels, chipmunks and a 'large bear' but the waters are muddied somewhat by the presence of Yellowhammers (or Emberiza citrinella, the birds that sing 'Little bita bread and-no-cheese!') whose range includes Europe and much of Asia but not America. Linder p.429; Quinby 20.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
POTTER, Beatrix.. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes.. London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1911, 1911.
Price: US$3208.16 + shipping
Description: First edition, rare with the glassine jacket. Intended to please her American readers, the main animal characters in the book are indigenous to North America: grey squirrels, chipmunks, and a "large bear". The inclusion of yellowhammers (Emberiza citrinella, the birds which sing "Little bita bread and-nocheese!") was a mistake, as their range includes Europe and much of Asia but not America. The first two impressions are indistinguishable. Linder p. 429; not in Quinby. Sextodecimo. Original brown boards, titles to spine and front board white, pictorial label to front cover, pictorial endpapers. With the printed glassine jacket. Housed in a custom brown quarter morocco and cloth solander box. Frontispiece and 26 colour illustrations by the author. Boards a little bowed, short closed tear to foot of p. 51; an excellent copy in the jacket with some shallow chips to extremities.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Beatrix Potter. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. Frederick Warne & Co, 1911.
Price: US$3208.16 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: HARDBACK - A near fine or better book with clean brown boards. Internally, the pages are very clean indeed, with a small contemporary name and date to the first page. The original glassine dust wrapper is in very good condition for its age with light chipping to the extremities, and with a larger chip to the spine tip and to the top centre of the rear panel. The dust wrapper is printed in black with the price of "1/- NET" at the foot of spine. Correct first issue dust wrapper, with Ginger & Pickles printed to the front flap, with The Story of Miss Moppet printed to the rear flap.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom
Potter, Beatrix. TALE OF TIMMY TIPTOES. Frederick Warne and Co, London, 1911.
Price: US$3250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Potter's story of a squirrel and chipmunk friendship, in a rare later-issue printed glassine. For this tale, Potter chose to tell the story of animals indigenous to North America, including grey squirrels, chipmunks, and the American black bear. She hoped to "appeal more to her growing American audience" (Kutzer) with the story, but the decision presented practical difficulties: she had to draw the animals from photos and illustrations, rather than from life. The glassine includes titles from later in the "series," and is thus a later issue: nevertheless, any of the early Potter books are rare in glassine. An exceptional copy. 5.5'' x 4''. Original dark green boards with pictorial paste-on. In early printed glassine. Glassine with "1/-NET" price; lists TIMMY TIPTOES last on the rear panel; lists ROLY POLY, PIE, AND GINGER on front flap; and FIERCE BAD RABBIT and MISS MOPPET on rear flap. Illustrated with color frontispiece plus 26 color plates and pictorial endpapers (plate X, Quinby 20). 84, [2] pages. Ink gift inscription after half title, else beautiful. Glassine edgeworn with a couple large chips but largely intact.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
POTTER, Beatrix. THE TALE OF TIMMY TIPTOES. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1911.
Price: US$3528.98 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Deluxe issue. Publisher's original olive green cloth with colour illustration laid down to the upper board surrounded by decoration and single rule border in gilt. Titles in gilt to the upper board and spine. All edges gilt. With a frontispiece and 26 colour illustrations by the author. An excellent, better than very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little rubbing and bumping at the spine tips and corners. The gilt remains bright. The contents with a faded contemporary gift inscription to the blank reverse of the frontispiece are otherwise clean and bright throughout. A lovely example in the scarce deluxe binding of the first printing of Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. The trade edition was issued in a brown or dark green paper covered boards priced at 1/-. This deluxe issue, in slightly larger format, was available in green or red decorated cloth was priced at 1/6. (Linder p.429). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
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.