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Potter, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. Frederick Warne Publishers Ltd, 1903.
Price: US$1.38 + shipping
Description: Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover.
Seller: Reuseabook, Gloucester, GLOS, United Kingdom
Beatrix Potter. The Tailor of Gloucester. Frederick Warne Publishers Ltd, 1903.
Price: US$2.71 + shipping
Condition: Good
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Seller: Goldstone Books, Llandybie, United Kingdom
Beatrix Potter. The Tailor of Gloucester. Frederick Warne Publishers Ltd, 1903.
Price: US$4.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: Goldstone Books, Llandybie, United Kingdom
Potter, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. Frederick Warne and Company, 1903.
Price: US$6.22 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.2
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Frederick Warne & Company, Ltd., 1903. Later Edition. Fine/Fine. Very clean small book in original dust jacket, recent edition. Size is approx. 4-1/4" x 6". Clean and bright orange paper-covered boards with clean color illustration on cover, red lettering. No fading or wear. Binding is tight, pages and edges are all clean and bright. Clean decorated endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Color illustrations throughout. 59 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped (40pNET on front inside flap). Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
Seller: Old Scrolls Book Shop, Stanley, NY, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. Frederick Warne & Co. Inc., New York, 1903.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Small hardcover (24mo) bound in dark green boards lettered in white, with color picture of mouse 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 3 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 fine copy in a very good dust-jacket.
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester (Potter 23 Tales). Warne, 1903.
Price: US$24.84 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: 15 X 11 CM- " Beatrix Potter (illustrator). Reprint 1986. Beatrix Potter's famous taleThe Tailor of Gloucester was first published in 1903 and tells the story of a poor tailor trying to survive in his freezing workshop over a hard winter. He has a terribly important commission to complete for the Mayor of Gloucester's wedding on Christmas Day but is ill and tired, and before long is running out of food and thread, as well as time! How will he possibly complete the beautiful coat and embroidered waistcoat? Luckily, there lives in the dresser, some very kind and very resourceful mice who set about helping the poor tailor with his work. Not only are they exceedingly helpful, but they are also, luckily, far far too clever for the tailor's sly cat, Simpkin. Beatrix Potter's animal stories have been a joy to generations of young readers. Her warm, playful illustrations in soft colors invite children into the world of words and flights of fancy. Once there, she gently and humorously guides readers along the path of righteousness, leaving just enough room for children to wonder if that incorrigible Peter will be back in McGregor's garden tomorrow. Helen Beatrix Potter (1866 - 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals, her first and perhaps most famous being The Tale of Peter Rabbit. In all, Potter wrote thirty books; the best known being her twenty-three children's tales. Frederick Warne & Co was founded in 1865 by London bookseller and publisher, Frederick Warne. I Hardcover has white laminated covers with full color illustrations front & rear, black lettering on spine & front cover. No DJ.
Seller: Mad Hatter Bookstore, Westbank, BC, Canada
Beatrix Potter. The Tailor of Gloucester. Frederick Warne, New York, 1903.
Price: US$39.00 + shipping
Description: Green paper over boards, white lettering, triangular paste-on pictorial, edges a bit rubbed. Beautiful prints. FER; 7609
Seller: Sleepy Hollow Books, Huntington, VT, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix.. The Tailor of Gloucester.. Frederick Warne,, New York:, 1903.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 24mo, illustrated blue grey cloth, illustrated endpapers, covers, illustrated, 85 pp. Disbound copy, spine gone, covers detached, normal aging. This is an early American printing of the work, and despite the weak condition of the book, all pages and illustrations are present. Illustrations are rather charming.
Seller: Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books, ABAA, Florham Park, NJ, U.S.A.
Beatrix Potter. The Tailor of Gloucester. Frederick Warne, London, 1903.
Price: US$92.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very nice copy of this second edition published the same year as the first edition, all very clean and tight
Seller: VANESSA PARKER RARE BOOKS, Westport, MAYO, Ireland
Potter, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. Frederick Warne & CO, New York, 1903.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Detached spine, book is complete.
Seller: Halper's Books, Tel Aviv, Israel
POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. Frederick Warne & Co, 1903.
Price: US$105.68 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Frederick Warne & Co 1903. Hardcover very loose binding. Condition: Fair. Clean and bright text. 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
Price: US$137.44 + shipping
Description: Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Bottom front flap clipped. No date circa 1970s. Bump to spine heel. ; ; 5.4 X 4.0 X 0.4 inches; 64 pages.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. Frederick Warne & Co., 1903.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Brown boards, pictorial pastedown on front board. Bottom of spine pulled. Gift inscription on front endpaper. Binding shaken.
Seller: Bearly Read Books, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.
Potter Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. Frederick Warne & Co London, 1903.
Price: US$160.11 + shipping
Description: 12mo(14.4x10.4) HB 85pp illus.Blue/grey, illus paper covered boards with white lettering. A few small marks & edge wear but minimal bumping else good+++. Photos available on request. No dust jacket. Front endpapers shows the ghost of previous sellotape along the hinge, a small mark to top of page 51carefully protected with archival tape else internally v.good/near fine. (145g)
Seller: Bentfinger Book Services, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Potter, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. Frederick Warne and Co., New York, 1903.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 85pp. Brown publisher's cloth, pasteon illustration to cover, color frontispiece. Chipping along spine and 1/2 inch piece missing from head of spine, loss of one letter from spine,binding a bit tender, but holding, text is mildly age-toned, all color illustrations clean and sound. First American Edition, published in 1903.
Seller: Old Bookshelf, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
POTTER, Beatrix.. The Tailor of Gloucester. Frederick Warne and CO., London, 1903.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (130x110 mm). First edition, second printing with double page endpapers appearing twice and 1903 on title page. Pages clean and in good condition. Only damage is loss of spine ends. But the residual spine is firmly attached. Previously owner's name on the endpaper. Firm and attractive copy.
Seller: Michal Sawka Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
Potter, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1903.
Price: US$230.56 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: An attractive copy with clear tape strengthening the spine. 1/4" missing from head of spine. Date, 1903 at foot of title page, which also states 'author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit and The tale of Squirrel Nutkin.
Seller: Beach Hut Books, Lingfield, United Kingdom
Potter, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. Frederick Warne, London, 1903.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Circa late 1910's printing. Jacket lists to The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, published 1918 and advertises "The Latest Novelty" Peter Rabbit's Race Game (1917). This early jacket design is based on the original end paper design with advertising on both flaps. Full-page color illustrations throughout. Covers show wear, mostly at corners and spine ends. Single sheet, color-illustrated end pages. There is a gift inscription, dated 1922, on front pictorial end-page's verso. Otherwise, a fairly clean text showing a few scattered smudges. The jacket is 95% complete with small amounts of loss at the corners and a piece missing and the top center of the front cover. There is also wear at all jacket edges and folds. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 85 pages
Seller: Oddfellow's Fine Books and Collectables, Topeka, KS, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester.. Frederick Warne & Co.,, London, 1903.
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: First edition, Poss. second printing, 1903 on the title-page. with double-page 'mirrored' endpapers. (Quinby p.34) Burgundy boards with white titles and onlay of the Tailor mouse on front cover. 85 pages. Small format. Beautiful colour illustrations throughout. The second book in the series of Beatrix Potter tales and Beatrix's personal favourite. The boards are worn and faded, the spine has a small amount missing at the head and tail, and has a 2" split in the front gutter.The contents are a little grubby with some finger marks. No insc. Size: 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall
Seller: Florence books, Salisbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
Beatrix Potter. The Tailor of Gloucester. Frederick Warne & Co, London,, 1903.
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Tailor Of Gloucester ~ by Beatrix Potter, pub by Frederick Warne & Co, London, 1903, 4 1/8 x 5 ¾ with salmon coloured boards, 60pp with 27 plates incl frontis (checked and all intact); all pages are quite tight in the binding but between pp 22/23, 30/31 & 38/39 there is a small crack in the binding where some small hands (or mother s hands) no doubt have pressed the front boards back to help the book to stay open whilst reading it; a young person has written in pencil Rog which is underlined, at the top of a blank page just inside the book; covers have a few marks shown up by the light coloured boards, and there is a split on the papers covering the boards between the back board and the spine for 2/3rds of the spine. On the verso of the title page is printed Copyright 1903 by Frederick Warne & Co ; so this is a very early edition published in the same year as the 1st edition. NB The actual 1st Edition is dated 1903, which is noted on the title page; also it should have either maroon or dark green boards with 1/- (one shilling) on them. More photos available on request.
Seller: Vance Harvey, Leicester, LEICS, United Kingdom
Potter, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. Frederick Warne & CO. LTD., London and New York, 1903.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Foxing to top pages edges, slightly cocked, small stain on p.51, inscribed and signed by previous owner "XMAS 1928", 1903 EDITION.
Seller: Halper's Books, Tel Aviv, Israel
Potter, Beatrix:. The Tailor of Gloucester. London: Frederick Warne London, 1903.
Price: US$372.73 + shipping
Description: 85 S. Erstausgabe. Geringfügige Gebrauchsspuren, sonst sehr guter Erhaltungszustand. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550
Seller: Antiquariat Zeitenstrom, Chemnitz, Germany
Beatrix Potter. The Tailor of Gloucester. Frederick Warne and Co, London, 1903.
Price: US$377.85 + shipping
Description: A colourfully illustrated first edition, first issue, of Beatrix Potter's charming tale of a tailor and his helper mice. The first edition, first issue, with the date to the title page, and Quinby Plate 1 endpapers, repeated four times.'The Tailor of Gloucester' is a charming tale by Beatrix Potter, in which a tailor who's work on a waistcoat is finished by mice, who are grateful to the tailor for saving them from his cat.Beautifully illustrated in colour in Potter's typical style, with twenty-six colour plates.Collated, lacking the frontispiece. In the original publisher's paper covered boards. Externally, generally smart, with a little loss to the head and tail of the spine. Front joint is cracked. Light bumping to the extremities. A few minor marks to the boards, the front board onlay is lightly rubbed. Spine is lightly faded. Front hinge is weak and may fail, despite careful handling. Bookseller's label to the front paste down. Front endpaper is detached but present. Internally, binding is tender in places. Pages are bright and clean. Ink inscription to the half-title. A little wear to the margin of pages 78 to 86. Lacking the frontispiece. Good Only
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$409.88 + shipping
Description: A most charming set of Potter's tales featuring her iconic characters even Peter Rabbit This is overall a very good set, with any flaws being small inscriptions and discolouration no serious or structural damage. Please see descriptions below. Including The Tales of Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, the Tailor of Gloucester, Mrs. TiggyWinkle, the Flopsy Bunnies, Mr. Jeremy Fisher (x2), Timmy Tiptoes, Johnny TownMouse (x2), Little Pig Robinson, the Pie and the Patty Pan, and Samuel Whiskers.nbsp; As stated above, this set includes two copies of The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, and two copies of The Tale of Johnny TownMouse. Condition is as follows. The Tale of Johnny TownMouse (1): 1918. Bumps to extremities of spine. Spine tanned. Front board a little bowed. Ink inscription dated 1935 to ffep. Internally pristine. The Tale of Johnny TownMouse (2): 1918. Browning to edges of front and rear boards; spine quite dark. Internally pristine; no markings or inscriptions. The Tale of Jeremy Fisher (1): 1906. Spine quite dark. Internally pristine; no markings or inscriptions. The Tale of Jeremy Fisher (2): 1906. Head of spine bashed. Ink inscription dated 1935 to ffep. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes: 1911. Spine a little dark. Internally pristine. The Tale of Peter Rabbit: Spine darkened. Markings to rear board. Small ink inscription to copyright page dated 1912. Small blue ink smudge to ffep and p.9. Textblock cracked between p54p.55 but pages still all attached and sound. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin: 1903. Spine a little dark. Frontispiece a little discoloured; otherwise internally pristine. The Tailor of Gloucester: 1903. Spine ever so slightly darkened but boards in lovely condition. Frontispiece page starting. Otherwise pristine. The Tale of Mrs. TiggyWinkle: 1905. Browning to edges of front and rear boards; spine quite dark with bottom of the spine beginning to come away from the textblock though still presentable and flat to block. Otherwise clean and bright within. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies: 1909. Spine a little darkened pages not tightly bound but all are present and sound. The Tale of Little Pig Robinson: Spine darkened with patching; textblock cracked between p.3233 and p.8081. Otherwise lovely and bright. The Tale of the Pie and the Patty Pan: Spine darkened. Subtle crease to centre of ffep. Spine cracked between p.1213. Otherwise in lovely condition. The Tale of Samuel Whiskers: Exclusive endpapers featuring the titular character, with lavishly decorated title page. Slight discolouration to very inner edge between p.67 Tiny inscription to copyright page dated 1910.nbsp; PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO GET IN TOUCH IF YOU'D LIKE ANY FURTHER INFORMATION OR IMAGES OF ANY OF THE 13 BOOKS IN THIS SET.nbsp;
Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United Kingdom
Price: US$465.91 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original title-blocked, paper-covered boards with paper label to the front. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Double end-paper repeated twice. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 56 pages: color illustrations. Subjects: Picture Books: Character Books. Animal stories (Children's / Teenage). Tailors; Juvenile fiction. Children's literature, English. Potter, Beatrix (1866-1943). 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Beatrix Potter. The Tailor of Gloucester. Frederick Warne and Co, London, 1903.
Price: US$480.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A smart example of the first edition of Beatrix Potter's beloved story about a mouse tailor. The first edition, first issue of Potter's work, with 1903 to the title page and colophon, and Quinby plate I endpapers repeated four times, as called for.Potter's story is about a tailor whose work on a waistcoat is finished by the grateful mouse he rescues from his cat.Beautifully illustrated in colour in Potter's typical style, with twenty-seven plates. Collated, complete.With the inscription R.M.K. Stotts Hill to the front free endpaper.A charming children's work from Beatrix Potter. For years, Potter declared that of all her books this was her personal favourite. In the publisher's original paper covered boards. Boards bright. Light discolouration to back strip, with light shelf wear to back strip head and tail. Rear hinge strained and tenderly held. Inscription to front free endpaper. Handling marks to endpapers. Internally, somewhat tightly bound. Pages clean and bright. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$485.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The single endpaper design is repeated four times. 1903 date to title page matches 1903 copyright. Narrow pieces of paper have been removed (torn off) from top corner of FFE and from top corner of the frontispiece, not impacting any text or illustration. Red cloth spine over cranberry paper-covered boards, very neat, but the spine is blank -- no spine titling -- raising the possibility that this is a newer cloth spine covering. Inscribed to top of half-title page "Elsie from Baby / Nov. 24th 1903". Then, upside down to a blank verso near rear of book, early owner has penned "Miss M Sinclair / Russell House / Hampstead Heath." Reduced from $570.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$520.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original title-blocked, paper-covered boards with paper label to the front. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Double end-paper repeated twice. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 56 pages: color illustrations. Subjects: Picture Books: Character Books. Animal stories (Children's / Teenage). Tailors; Juvenile fiction. Children's literature, English. Potter, Beatrix (1866-1943). 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Beatrix Potter. The Tailor of Gloucester. London, Frederick Warne and Co, 1903.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A first trade edition of Beatrix Potters Tailor of Gloucester, a whimsical tail of tailor mice. This edition is recognized as such with single-page endpapers used four times in succession, which was later replaced by double-page endpapers. There are 27 color plates, with 11 repeated from the privately printed edition, and 16 new plates. This volume is bound in the original red boards, with the central panel image. There are two inscriptions to the front endpapers. One volume in 16mo, 85+(1), 27 colour plates, including the frontispiece On note of condition, this volume is in very good shape, with light rubbing and wear to the binding, with a very small hole bored into the rear board, and the rear board being slightly dented at the bottom. There is very light staining to several pages. The binding is slightly cocked.
Seller: That Guy With The Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
POTTER, BEATRIX. The Tailor of Gloucester.. Frederick Warne London, 1903.
Price: US$563.58 + shipping
Description: First trade edition ( With the single pictorial endpaper repeated 4 times as called for). Coloured frontispiece and 26 illustrations in colour. Small 8vo (5 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches), 85-pages. Original dark green boards with applied coloured illustration as issued. Crack at 5 inner gutters (but not loose). Slight crease to lower inner margin of frontispiece where 1-inch detached. Two tiny dents to headbands. Overall an exceptional copy, the boards and spine fresh and undamaged and internally very clean.
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
Beatrix Potter. The Tale of Gloucester. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd, London, 1903.
Price: US$576.39 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Tailor of Gloucester, by Beatrix Potter, First edition, Frederick Warne, London 1903, A lovely copy of this first edition, The Tailor of Gloucester. With all markings of first editions of Jane Quinby p33. In very good condition.Dark green boards with front cover stamped in truncated pyramid with mouse reading. The spine is split on the front edge and a piece of the green spine is missing on the bottom and top of the spine. Light panel of shading on the rear cover. The end pages are illustrated and in very good condition. The contents are clean and free from children's scribbles. 5 5/8 x 4 1/4" 85pp
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Potter, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. Warne, 1903.
Price: US$576.39 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903. First trade edition, first printing. 84[1]p. 27 full-page colour illustrations including frontispiece, vignette to upper board, and coloured endpapers with same design repeated four times as called for. Bound in publisher's maroon boards. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper; small bookseller's label at foot of front pastedown which has caused slight damage to free endpaper. Otherwise internally very good, with boards and spine in exceptionally good condition. Hinges are starting between signatures, but cords are not broken. A very good copy.
Seller: Leabeck Books, Steventon, OXON, United Kingdom
POTTER, Beatrix.. The Tailor of Gloucester.. London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1903, 1903.
Price: US$608.41 + shipping
Description: First trade edition, first impression, of the author's "own favourite amongst my little books" (quoted in Linder, p. 121), containing 17 new illustrations that did not appear in the privately printed edition of the previous year. The same illustrations occur on the front pastedown and the front free endpaper, indicating first impression. The trade issue binding was in red or dark green paper-covered boards, without priority. Linder, p. 423; Quinby 4. Sextodecimo (137 x 101 mm). Attractively bound in recent red half morocco, retaining original red paper covers with white lettering and colour pictorial label on front, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in gilt and blind, floral device in compartments gilt, original pictorial endpapers at front. Frontispiece and 26 colour plates by the author. Ownership signature to front pastedown, the occasional minor blemish, an excellent copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Potter, Beatrix. The Tailor Of Gloucester. Frederick Warne And Co, New York, 1903.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: 85 pages. 14 x 11 cm. illustrated with a color frontispiece (man and woman in period dress on a cobblestone street with Simpkin in the background), twenty-six color illustrations, bound in publisher's dark green boards with inset color illustration of a mouse seated on a thimble reading the paper. Decorated endpapers. Orig. green boards lettered in silver, cover illustration inset in triangular frame. Fine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Beatrix Potter. The Tailor Of Gluocester. Frederick Warne And Co., 1903.
Price: US$680.02 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The book is in good condition. Maroon boards in very good condition, no chips, stains, or tears. Inscription inside the first end paper. On page 26 a 1/4" edge tear. On page 35 a 1/2" edge tear, an inch edge tear page74, The last illustration has a corner tip triangular 3 1/2" tear top edge, could be glued or taped back, tear does not get into the illustration. A crack at page 66-67, toward the end of the book. String binding, presents very well. The crack isn't noticble unless you open it up on the back side of two illustrations 66-67 A lot of the first editions, first printings have tears, chips, corner bumps, and tears in the cloth, this book is really nice on the outside, no tears to the cloth. The book has the date on the title page 1903 indicating a first edition and has identical end papers front and back. A rare first edition/first printing.
Seller: Jans Collectibles: Vintage Books, Bethany, MO, U.S.A.
POTTER, Beatrix.. The Tailor of Gloucester.. Frederick Warne and Co, 1903.
Price: US$742.90 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 16mo. First edition, first impression First trade edition, first impression, with a single-page pictorial endpaper occurring four times, which was replaced with double-page endpapers in later impressions. Eleven of the illustrations are repeated from the privately printed edition and 16 are entirely new for this edition. This trade edition was published in October 1903. Original red boards, titles to front board and spine in white, pictorial label with illustration to front board, pictorial endpapers. Frontispiece and 26 colour illustrations by the author. Neat inscription in ink Gladys Nendel Murray from Mama Xmas 1903 Spine faded, paper fragile and torn 6cm (2.5 inches) along back hinge of spine, corners worn , paper on cover rubbed and scuffed affecting some of the print of the title on cover. Contents shaken ; Juvenile inscription on blank verso p.65 Dorothy Murray, Insdale gate, Lytham, Lancashire Wilfred , otherwise clean inside. A good/ very good copy of a well-loved book. Size 14 x 11cm (5.5 x 4 inches) Linder p.423; Quinby 4.
Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom
Potter, Beatrix. Tailor of Gloucester, The. Frederick Warne, New York, NY, 1903.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: True First Edition of this book. Green boards with the squirrel sitting on a thread spool inside a pyramid. Endpapers (front and rear) are identical facing endpapers. Size: 24mo - over 5" - 5 3/4" tall. 85 pp. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Front hinge is cracked, but this is visible inside only from the page before the title page with the "My Dear Freda" dedication. Outside, it is visible in a couple of spots along the spine. Minimal shelfwear to the cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 pound. Category: Children; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001691.
Seller: Lotzabooks, Oak Point, TX, U.S.A.
Beatrix Potter. The Tailor of Gloucester. F. Warne & Co., New York, 1903.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tape applied to top of spine, small tear tail edge of spine, Pages are clean. An exceptional copy of the first edition. A true first edition as stated in Beatrix Potter A Bibliographical Check List by Jane Quinby 1954 No. 4. The Tailor of Gloucester. London and New York, 1903. The Tailor Of | Gloucester | By | Beatrix Potter | Author of | "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," "The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin." | "I'll Be At Charges For A Looking Glass; | And Entertain A Score Or Two Of Tailors." | Richard III. | London { Frederick Warne And Co. And New York 1903 [A]l rights reserved] DARK GREEN BOARDS: 5 5/8 X 4 1/4 inches. FRONT COVER stamped m white: "The Tailor Of I Gloucester | By | Beatrix Potter | [within single rule box:] F. Warne & Co" Between the title and the word "By" is a blind panel in the shape of a truncated pyramid outlined in blind in which is pasted a pictorial white paper label measuring 2 9/16 x 2 1/2 inches across the bottom, 7/16 of an inch across the top, showing mouse reading The Tailor and Cutter sitting on a spool of red silk, scissors and thimble in background. SPINE stamped in white, reading down: "The Tailor Of Gloucester". END PAPERS: Plate I. LEAF: 5 3/8 x 4 1/8 inches. COLLATION: SF. Half title: "The Tailor | Of Gloucester.", with letter to "My Dear Freda" (dated Christmas, 1901) on versa; "Copyright 1903 j By | Frederick Warne & Co. | Entered At Stationers' Hall55, on versa of title page; Edmund Evans, | Engraver and Printer, Street, Borough, London, S.E. , p. [86]. The Racquet Court Press, Swan Street, Bourough, | London, S.E.", p. [86]. Pictorial label, frontispiece, and 26 illustrations in colour, appearing on pp. 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 23, 26, 29, 32. 35, 38, 41, 44, 47, 50, 53, 56, 59, 62, 65, 68, 71, 74, 77, 81,and 84. Eleven of these are repeated from No. 3 (see notes on illustrations under No. 3), and 17 (the italicized figures above) are entirely new for this edition, though the original drawing for the manuscript in its first form has a rough sketch of the picture appearing in No. 4 on p. 53. (See Appendix I.) All of the illustrations in No. 4 are repeated in the recent New York edition, with certain loss of detail : In No. 4, p. 56, there is a shadow on the snowy street reaching from the lower right corner to the center of the picture, while in the recent New York edition this shadow is entirely lacking. In No. 4, p. 59, there is a dark sky and a dark moonlight shadow on the lower part of the houses in the center background which reaches out to the center of the snowy square so that the light from the window at left shows up strongly, while in the recent New York edition all sense of this being a night picture is lost.
Seller: Hayden & Fandetta Rare Books ABAA/ILAB, Horseshoe Bay, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$960.65 + shipping
Description: , [7], pp 8-85, [1], with colour frontispiece and 26 illustrations, this being a First Printing with maroon boards, 1903 on title page, and same endpapers repeated [Linder pg 423], The Tailor of Gloucester was Beatrix Potter's third book published by Warne First Edition, First Printing , edges of covers and spine a little rubbed, covers clean, light spotting to endpapers, front hinge repaired, small surface scuff to lower corner of most pages, with small piece chipped at lower corner of pages 27/28 and 57/58, page 26 plate creased, some margins lightly thumbed but text and illustrations are nice and clean, a nice copy of a true first edition , maroon paper covered boards with colour inset illustration and white titles 14.5 x 11 cm Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Potter, Beatrix. THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER. Frederick Warne and Co.: London, 1903.
Price: US$977.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illus. by the author, 5.5 x 4", gilt-dec brown cloth with color pict label of a mouse on a spool inside an upside-down heart-shaped window, 85pp, extremities bumped and lightly fraying, pp a bit used, but still a decent copy. Later printing (double-page endpapers), in the SPECIAL GILT-DECORATED CLOTH BINDING. SCARCE.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1280.86 + shipping
Description: , [7], pp 8-85, [1], with colour frontispiece and 26 illustrations, this being a First Printing with maroon boards, 1903 on title page, and same endpapers repeated [Linder pg 423], The Tailor of Gloucester was Beatrix Potter's third book published by Warne First Edition, First Printing , edges of covers and spine a little rubbed, covers clean, spine slightly faded, frontispiece a little stuck to title page at inner margin, pages clean, slight crease to p14 that has made an imprint on pages either side, small booksellers label to rear endpaper, near fine condition , maroon paper covered boards with colour inset illustration and white titles 14.5 x 11 cm Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Beatrix Potter. The Tailor of Cloucester. Frederick Warne & Co, New York, 1903.
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Description: 85pp. Green paper on board with applied litho label. Color frontispiece of dancing couple in period costumes). 26 colored illustrations. The classic Beatrix Potter story about a nice tailor and thread wielding mice who repay his kindness. It was one of Potter's personal favorites of the stories she has written. First American edition. The illustrations, with fully clothed mice and coated cats, represent all the hallmarks of Potter's illustrative work and adds great visuals to a sweet story. Dark green paper boards. 5 1/2" x 4" Inscription on title page, given as a Christmas gift 1903. Provenance: Christie's East. Beatrix Potter. The Doris Frohnsdorff Collection. Original Drawings, Autograph Letters, first Editions and Ephemera. Wednesday, 16 April 1997. Litho from back strip detached but present.
Seller: Eclectibles, ABAA, Tolland, CT, U.S.A.
POTTER, Beatrix.. The Tailor of Gloucester.. London Frederick Warne, 1903.
Price: US$2299.00 + shipping
Description: First trade edition, first issue with date on title-page and a single-page endpaper repeated four times; 16mo; 27 full-page colour illustrations, title vignette and pictorial endpapers by the author; publisher's dark green boards with inset colour illustration, presented in later cloth solander box. An exceptional copy of the first Warne edition of The Tailor of Gloucester, of which the author & illustrator Beatrix Potter wrote 'my own favourite amongst my little books' (cf. Linder, The History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter, 1987, p.121). Quinby 4.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. London Frederick Warne & Co. 1903, 1903.
Price: US$4803.24 + shipping
Description: Deluxe edition. 11 x 14 cm blue cloth with ornate gilt stamped decoration and small spade shaped pictorial onlay to font board. All edges gilt, pictorial endpapers (double page endpapers repeated twice, as called for for this edition), 85[1]pp printed on one side only. A very good copy with a little light rubbing to the corners and spine. Name in pencil to the half title page and very light finger marks to p.52 and p.62/63, otherwise it appears beautifully clean and fresh inside. This deluxe edition replaced the floral fabric deluxe edition. The title page is dated 1903 and Linder (p.423) notes: ' [the floral fabric pattern] edition was replaced in October 1904 by one having a gilt decorated cloth cover with gold lettering. Copies having the year 1903 on the front of the title page would have been bound from the first edition sheets.' We can find only one copy at the time of listing, with the 1903 dated title page, and in this binding to have appeared at auction in the last 30 years and another forming part of the Leslie Linder bequest to the Victoria & Albert museum (LB 1579). Far more scarce than the floral fabric edition. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
Seller: Rainford & Parris Books - PBFA, Bishop's Stortford, United Kingdom
Price: US$6900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hard Cover. No Jacket. Signed by Author. Hardback NODJ, 1903, PRESENTATION COPY, EARLY Edition, 1 Volume, FINE-/VG, AS-IS, NODJ, Bound in the publisher's pictorial boards, inner and outer hinges fine, head of spine lightly rubbed, generally a VG copy, Salmon Cover Sunning Extremites & Spine with Paper inset onlay Label on front in Triangle Shape of color illustration of Mouse Reading Paper sitting on Spool thread, Slight Lean to Book, Tiny Chips Extremites Spine, Interior Nice tight Clean light Wear light Wrinkling,85 pgs, with Title, author & Publishers Name on Front in White, White lettering of Title on Spine
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
POTTER, Beatrix. Tailor of Gloucester, The. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903, 1903.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Description: First Published Edition In the Rare Original Printed Glassine Dust Jacket POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903. First published edition, first issue (printed October 1903), with a single-page endpaper occurring four times. Twelvemo (5 7/16 x 4 1/16 inches; 139 x 105 mm.). 85, [1, printer's imprint] pp. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates (included in pagination). Seventeen illustrations are entirely new for this edition; eleven of the illustrations are repeated from the December 1902 privately printed edition. Original maroon boards ruled and lettered in white on front cover and lettered in white on spine. Color pictorial label on front cover within a blind panel in the shape of a truncated pyramid outlined in blind. Color pictorial endpapers (Quinby Plate I, a single-page endpaper occurring four times). Minimal fading to spine. Small circular bookseller's label on rear pastedown. Otherwise a spectacular copy in very fine condition. Housed in a quarter brown morocco clamshell case with felt lining. In the rare correct glazed paper glassine dust jacket printed in black with the price "1/- NET" at foot of spine, an advertisement for "The Peter Rabbit Books" on the back panel listing The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, and The Tailor of Gloucester, and with vertical lines at the top and bottom of the spine indicating where the fold should come for the front panel. The jacket has a few very small chips along the top edge (the largest being a 3/8 inch piece missing at the top of the spine), but is certainly the finest jacket for this title that we have ever seen. "The year 1903 appears on the front of the title-page of the first two printings. The first printing [October 1903] has a single-page end-paper occurring four times, and the second printing [December 1903], a double-page end-paper occurring twice. In the art fabric de-luxe edition, some copies have the usual frontispiece, others have the cover picture in its place. Both pictures were printed on one sheet, which was cut in half, and each half used as a tipped-in frontispiece. With this binding there was no cover picture" (Linder, p. 423). Linder, p. 423. Quinby 4. V & A 1576.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.