Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
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
Price: US$3.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: All orders are dispatched the following working day from our UK warehouse. Established in 2004, we have over 500,000 books in stock. No quibble refund if not completely satisfied.
Seller: Goldstone Books, Llandybie, United Kingdom
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. Frederick Warne and Co., New York, 1909.
Price: US$3.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: (unpaginated) Fourteenth printing thus. The book is slightly cocked. Light scuffing to the extremities of the covers. The binding is tight and the text is clean.
Seller: Persephone's Books, Gastonia, NC, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix. THE TALE OF GINGER AND PICKLES. Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., London, 1909.
Price: US$3.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No date, 75 pages. Illustrated cover on boards, green lettering, illustrated endpapers. The cover is edgeworn, with a couple of marks on the front. The interior is clean & tight. Well illustrated by the author with full page colour illustrations & black & white drawings. Ginger is a yellow tom-cat and Pickles is a Fox Terrier. Juvenile. Size: 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall
Seller: B A Downie Dog Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Price: US$4.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: All orders are dispatched the following working day from our UK warehouse. Established in 2004, we have over 500,000 books in stock. No quibble refund if not completely satisfied.
Seller: Goldstone Books, Llandybie, United Kingdom
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. Frederick Warne & Co. LTD no date, New York, 1909.
Price: US$5.00 + shipping
Description: illustrated boards light edgewear. some marking on FEP. good reading copy.
Seller: Ken's Book Haven, Coopersburg, PA, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix. THE TALE OF GINGER & PICKLES. Frederick Warne and Co, 1909.
Price: US$5.69 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good condition. Book 18. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix. THE TALE OF GINGER & PICKLES. Frederick Warne and Co, 1909.
Price: US$5.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. Frederick Warne & Co., 1909.
Price: US$6.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No Jacket
Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Potter, Beatrix. Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. Frederick Warne & Co. LTD New York, 1909.
Price: US$7.50 + shipping
Description: Reprint Hardbound Good+/Good-., DJ Beatrix Potter, illus. 24mo, 59, General wear to book. DJ is worn with several short edge tears. DJ front panel has some spotting. This is a modern reprint. ISBN:0-7232-0601-5
Seller: Table of Contents, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. Frederick Warne & Co., 1909.
Price: US$7.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: In Good, mylar-wrapped dust jacket. No publication date stated.
Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Ginger and Pickles. Frederick Warne & Co., Inc., New York, 1909.
Price: US$9.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Small hardcover (24mo) bound in dark green boards lettered in white, with color picture of rabbit on front cover, in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 75 pages. Illustrated with color drawings throughout by author. No publishing date, sixth printing, post 1970 with isbn, presumably early 1970's. Volume 18 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 has small nick to lower edge of rear panel. now clear tape repaired on blank verso, else complete with no tears or chips. A near fine copy in a very good dust-jacket.
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. Frederick Warne & Co., Inc., New York, 1909.
Price: US$11.95 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Small hardcover (24mo) bound in dark green boards lettered in white, with color picture of rabbits on front cover, in publisher's partially price-clipped dust-jacket. 59 pages. Illustrated with color drawings throughout by author. No publishing date, fourteenth printing, post 1970 with isbn, presumably early 1980's. Volume 10 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 is price-clipped at upper front flap but retains US dollar price at bottom. There is a small retail price-sticker on front inner flap from Scribner's [bookstore] and very mild age toning, else complete with no tears or chips. A near fine copy in a very good dust-jacket.
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. Frederick Warne and Co., 1909.
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 rabbits 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 Ginger and Pickles. Frederick Warne and Co., 1909.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Undated reprint hardcover with white paper covered boards with green ink and a paste on illustration of a bunny shopping. 75pp text is clean, crisp and complete. Illustration of farm mice on end papers. White out on front end paper to remove PON. Original unclipped dj displays well 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 THE FLOPSY BUNNIES. FREDERICK WARNE and CO., LONDON, 1909.
Price: US$26.45 + shipping
Description: Vol. in -16 picc. (10,5 x 14,5 cm.), legatura editoriale cartonata col. albicocca con illustr. a colori e titoli in verde sul piatto ant, sopracopertina col. avorio con illustr. a colori e titoli in nero sul piatto ant., testo in inglese, pag. 59, (1) con splendide illustr. a colori a p.pagina. Modesti segni del tempo, nel complesso in abb. buone condizioni (integro e ben legato). Collana: THE PETER RABBIT BOOKS by Beatrix Potter - ORIGINAL EDITION 1909 - Book in -16 (10.5 x 14.5 cm.), editorial binding cardboard col. apricot with illustr. in color and titles in green on front cover, dust-jacket col. ivory with illustr. in color and titles in black on the front cover, text in English, pag. 59, (1) with splendid illus. in color on p.page. Modest signs of aging, overall in good condition.
Seller: Stampe Antiche e Libri d'Arte BOTTIGELLA, VIGEVANO, PV, Italy
POTTER, BEATRIX. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies.. Frederick Warne, 1909.
Price: US$32.08 + shipping
Description: First edition. Coloured plates. 12mo (5 1/2 x 4 inches), original printed boards with applied coloured illustration as issued. Boards detached, lacking backstrip, corners worn through, 2 inch tear into one leaf of text without loss, first few leaves detached - hence the price!
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
Beatrix Potter. THE TALE OF THE FLOPSY BUNNIES. Frederick Warne N.D., New York, 1909.
Price: US$45.90 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Small blemish to paper at front panel. No date. ; Potter 23 Tales; 0.3 x 5.5 x 4.2 Inches; 64 pages.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin. Frederick Warne and Co,, London, 1909.
Price: US$65.40 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: undated, however endpapers show the Flopsy Bunnies, so 1909. Early edition. Few millimetres missing top spine. 85pp. Dark Green cover with circular picture
Seller: Victoria Bookshop, BERE ALSTON, DEVON, United Kingdom
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. Frederick Warne & Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green paper covered boards with pictorial pastedown mottled, worn on points and lacking spine paper. Inscription dated 1916 on front decorated endpapers. Hand drawn small penciled mouse on final page, else a complete copy with 27 color plates, just needs some tightening and new spine! ; MCF04007; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 85 pp
Seller: McCormick Books, Hartland, MI, U.S.A.
Beatrix Potter. The Tale of Flopsy Bunnies. Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, London, 1909.
Price: US$94.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An early printing of one of Beatrix Potter's bunny books. No jacket. Lacking the signpost on page 14's illustration. Bound in tan paper over boards with colored illustration on front and green lettering on front and spine. Some rubbing and shading to covers. Illustrated endpapers with some old pencil prices on ffep. Slightly shaken, but all holding. Clean and clear interior with bright illustrations. Pages: 85 Dimensions:5½ x 4¼ x ½.
Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$124.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Bottom front flap clipped. No date circa 1970s. ; ; 5.5 X 4.2 X 0.3 inches; 64 pages.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$124.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Bottom front flap clipped. No date circa 1970s. ; ; 6.0 X 4.5 X 0.4 inches; 64 pages.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Beatrix Potter. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. Frederick Warne & Co, 1909.
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original green paper covered boards, spine slightly browned and with small pull at the tail, first edition, later impression with noticeboard on p14 but with bird on arbour on p81 and scissors not bees on endpapers, 85pp, with all unmarked illustrations although frontispiece loose. ink inscription on half-title page, very slight warp to upper board. Size: 12mo
Seller: Martin Bott Bookdealers Ltd, Felixstowe, United Kingdom
Potter, Beatrix.. THE TALE OF THE FLOPSIE BUNNIES.. Frederick Warne and Co: London, 1909.
Price: US$230.00 + shipping
Description: Color illustr by Beatrix Potter, 5.5 x 4.25, brown boards with color pict cover label, 85 pp, covers quite worn, extremities bumped, spine cocked, top of spine chipped, bottom outer hinge on rear cover torn, hinges loose, front inner hinge cracked, old ink presentation (dated Xmas 1910) from former owner on front fly, pp a bit loose and used with some finger soiling, else a decent copy of the FIRST ED with the "notice board" on page 14, and "1909" on title page.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Beatrix Potter. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Frederick Warne and Co, London, 1909.
Price: US$243.82 + shipping
Description: An early edition of Beatrix Potter's beloved tale of Peter Rabbit, with her original colourful illustrations. An early edition, dated 1909, with dots in the O's to the front board, Plate VII endpapers in Quinby, and without the plate of Mrs McGregor to the plate facing page 14, and 'shed' to page 51.One of the most popular children's work's ever published, 'Peter Rabbit' follows the mischievous and disobedient young bunny as he falls into trouble with Mr. McGregor.Beautifully illustrated in colour in Potter's typical style, with a colour frontispiece, twenty-six colour plates.Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, with plastic lamination to the front board and spine, plastic lifting to the spine, with remnants of plastic to the extremities of the rear board. A few light marks to the rear board. A few spots to the fore edge. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper. Rear endpaper is adhered to the rear paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. A little wear to the gutter between the frontispiece and title page Good Only
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Beatrix Potter. Selected Tales of Beatrix Potter. Frederick Warne & Co c1909-1935, London, 1909.
Price: US$250.24 + shipping
Description: Nine early twentieth century editions of Beatrix Potter's brightly illustrated and much beloved children's tales. Eight volumes of later editions of the classic children's tales of author and illustrator Beatrix Potter, each richly illustrated in colour throughout.Beginning in 1901 with the private printing of 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit' following a mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he is chased around the garden of Mr McGregor, twenty-three of these charming children's tales were published in total.Present here are:The Tale of Two Bad Mice, dated c1909 via endpapers and publisher's imprint. Illustrated with twenty-seven colour plates. Collated, complete.The Tale of Piggling Bland, dated c1913, with first issue endpapers but lacking 1913 to the title page, so not a first edition. Illustrated with fourteen colour plates.The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, dated c1818/19 with Quinby plate VII endpapers, and LTD to publisher's imprint. Illustrated with twenty-seven colour plates. Collated, complete.The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, dated c1818/19 with Quinby plate VII endpapers, and LTD to publisher's imprint. Illustrated with twenty-seven colour plates. Collated, complete.The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, dated c1818/19 with Quinby plate VII endpapers, and LTD to publisher's imprint. Illustrated with twenty-seven colour plates. Collated, complete.The Tailor of Gloucester, dated 1919, with Quinby plate XV endpapers. Illustrated with twenty-five plates. Lacking frontispiece and one further plate.The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, dated c1925, Quinby 25A, printed after May 1919. Illustrated with twenty-seven colour plates. Collated, complete.The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, dated 1926 due to the present of a publisher's advertisement to the verso of the front free endpaper. Illustrated with eighteen colour plates.The Pie and Patty Pan, dated c1925-1935 via endpapers, illustrated with eleven colour plates. In the publisher's original paper covered boards. Red tape repair running the length of Tiggy-Winkle and Flopsy Bunny back strips, with tape to head of Samuel Whiskers back strip. Pigling Bland lacking back strip, with losses to back strip head and tail of Tittlemouse. Marks to Flopsy Bunnies and Gloucester front boards. Hinges strained. Ink inscriptions to preliminary leaves of three volumes. Internally, generally firmly bound, with some volumes slightly tender. Tape to gutters of a number of leaves each to Samuel Whiskers and Johnny Town Mouse. Pages generally clean and bright. Good Only
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Beatrix Potter. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Frederick Warne and Co, London, 1909.
Price: US$288.73 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: An early edition of Beatrix Potter's most popular and enduring children's work, complete with her original colourful plates. An early edition, dated 1909, with dots in the O's to the front board, Plate VII endpapers in Quinby, and without the plate of Mrs McGregor to the plate facing page 14, and 'shed' to page 51.One of the most popular children's work's ever published, 'Peter Rabbit' follows the mischievous and disobedient young bunny as he falls into trouble with Mr. McGregor.Beautifully illustrated in colour in Potter's typical style, with twenty-six colour plates.Collated, bound without the frontispiece. In the original publisher's paper covered boards. Externally, generally smart. Crack to the rear joint and a little lifting of paper. A small amount of loss to the head of the spine. Some marks to the boards, mostly to the rear board. Light bumping to the extremities. Front hinge is strained after the title page. Prior owner's pencil to the front paste down. Internally, generally firmly bound though a little strained in places. Pages are bright and generally clean with some scattered spots. Prior owner's ink to the half-title. Page 17 is detached but present, with a little edge wear and a few marks. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Beatrix Potter. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. Frederick Warne & Co., 1909.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition novel written by Beatrix Potter and published in 1909. Benjamin Bunny and Flopsy are parents of 6 young rabbits called the Flopsy bunnies. They face a big challenge as Mr. McGregor catches the young bunnies.
Seller: GardensofHansen, Salem, UT, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. Frederick Warne and Co., London and New York, 1909.
Price: US$299.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1909. Copyright 1909, 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. Very light cover wear but front cover and spine are faded, good hinges, plates very clean but text pages unevenly age-yellowed with the outer margins remaining white, pages otherwise very 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.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Dated 1909 to both copyright and title pages, with the color frontisipiece of Mr. McGregor. First edition, in original green paper-covered boards showing modest wear, and with a neat green cloth spine covering. However, as spine covering shows no text, we presume this crisp spine covering is a professional replacement, reducing our overall grade to "good." Bees (not scissors) to endpapers. Sign in pg. 14 illustration reads "Peter Rabbit & Mother / Gardens Neatly Razed," etc. (this sign was removed after the first two printings.) Dots centered in the letters "O" to front board. First word of final line of text on pg. 75 is "had," as it should be. (Some later editions change this word to an ungrammatical "has.") Previous owner's name Margaret Sinclair written in two hands to illustrated front free endpaper. Although Miss Sinclair does not list her address here, this is from the same collection of Miss Margaret Sinclair / Russell House / Hampstead Heath that provided our 1903 "Tailor of Gloucester" with its 1903 gift inscription. 85 pp.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Beatrix Potter. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. Frederick Warne and Co, London, 1909.
Price: US$301.57 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Beatrix Potter's charming tale about the children of Benjamin Bunny and Flopsy, complete with Potter's original colourful illustrations. The first edition, the first or second impression, which were indistinguishable from one another, with the notice board illustration to page 14, reading "Peter Rabbit & Mother - Florists - Gardens neatly razed. Borders devastated by the night or year".A charming tale regarding the children of Benjamin Bunny and Flopsy, after they are captured by Mr. McGregor.Beautifully illustrated in colour in Potter's typical style, with a colour frontispiece, and twenty-six colour plates.Collated, complete. In the original paper covered boards. Externally, lacking the backstrip. Minor marks to the boards. A small amount of loss of paper to the rear board. Very light bumping to the extremities. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with a few light spots and handling marks. Plate to page 41 is torn with no loss, tear not affecting illustration. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. F. Warne & Co., New York, 1909.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Brown cloth boards. New York, Frederick Warne and Co., 12 East 33d Street to the title page, no date present. Copyright 1909 to the copyright page. Lacking bird on the arbour on p.81. Lacking colour frontis of Mr. McGregor and no “Evans” imprint to p.86. No Bee’s or scissors to endpapers. The notice-board on the illustration on p.14 reads "Peter Rabbit & Mother - Florists - Gardens neatly razed. Borders devastated by the night or year". Due to translation difficulties it was removed from the third impression onwards. White titles to front board. Paper illustration pasted to front board is complete and unfaded. Spine is missing and has been repaired with book cloth. The first gathering is very loose but attached with a few threads. Rear hinge is a bit “shook”. Light foxing and soiling throughout. Lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Bailey Books, St.Albert, AB, Canada
Beatrix Potter. The Tailor of Gloucester. Frederick Warne and Co, London, 1909.
Price: US$372.15 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A near fine copy of an early edition of Beatrix Potter's charming tale about a mouse tailor. First published in 1903, this is an exceptionally lovely 1909 printing of Potter's beloved work, identified by the presence of Quinby plate VII endpapers, and the date 1903 to the colophon.Beautifully illustrated in colour in Potter's typical style, with twenty-seven plates. Collated, complete.A charming children's work from Beatrix Potter. For years, Potter declared that of all her books this was her personal favourite. She tells the story of a tailor whose work on a waistcoat is finished by the grateful mouse he rescues from his cat. In the publisher's original paper covered boards. Minor bumping to spine head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Potter, Beatrix. THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT. Frederick Warne & Co., 1909.
Price: US$409.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Circa 1909. Very good condition with no wrapper. Small format. Brown boards, white title to spine and front cover. Pictorial onlay to front cover. 85 pages. Tape 'repair' to base of spine. Insert with book says that this item has at one time been rebacked with original endpapers retained. There are no noticeable signs of this - so if it has been full rebacked in the past it has been professionally and very well done indeed! Grubby marks to pictorial onlay. Corners are a little bumped, with wear. Some browning and marks to outer page edges. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Potter, Beatrix. GINGER & PICKLES. Frederick Warne and Co, London and New York, 1909.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st American edition, 1909. Good. 12 mo., 8 - 51 pp. Color frontispiece, plain title vignette, 9 color plates, color pictorial endpapers. Date on copyright page with notice board lettering on p.14 and with Evans printer's imprint on final page. Original olive green boards with color pictorial panel. Spine is missing, tips are rubbed through, some browning to covers at edges. Front and rear hinges starting, scattered light foxing, plates are bright, still an attractive copy of this the 3rd book by Potter. The Tale of Ginger and Pickles is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in 1909. The book tells of two shopkeepers who extend unlimited credit to their customers and, as a result, are forced to go out of business. It was originally published in a large format which permitted Potter the opportunity to lavish great detail on the illustrations and also allowed her to include black-and-white vignettes. Potter filled the tale with characters from her previous books.
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix. THE TALE OF THE FLOPSY BUNNIES. , 1909.
Price: US$525.00 + shipping
Description: London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1909. Original light brown boards with cover pictorial onlay. First Edition, first state, of the author's fourteenth book, which like her first includes Peter Rabbit and Mr. McGregor. Copies were available to the public in green or light brown paper-covered boards at 1/-, or in decorated cloth at 1/6. This copy is in light brown paper-covered boards, and is in the primary (and usual) state, with the p. 14 illustration that includes the ".Gardens neatly razed." notice-board. (There were three printings, all dated 1909, indistinguishable from each other except that this notice-board was removed after the first or second printing.) This is a clean, near-fine copy (a trace of wear at the spine ends) of this fragile volume. Linder p. 428; Quinby 16.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix. Ginger and Pickles. Frederick Warne & Co, New York, 1909.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: Original pale green boards stamped in darker green on front cover and spine. Color pictorial label on front cover within a rectangular blind panel with scalloped bottom edge. Color pictorial endpapers. Small quarto (7 x 5 7/16 inches; 178 x 137 mm.). 51, [1]. Color frontispiece (included in pagination) and nine full-page color illustrations. Black and white vignette on title-page and nineteen black and white vignettes in text. Minimal darkening to spine, still a near fine 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. Quinby 17a.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix. Ginger & Pickles. Frederick Warne And Co, New York, 1909.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: 52 pages. 15.5 x 14 cm. Colour frontispiece, plain title vignette, 9 colour plates, colour pictorial endpapers. Originally a manuscript presented to Harold Warne's daughter as a Christmas present, but with one of the illustrations it contained cut-out for use in the book. The tale tells of two shopkeepers, the eponymousGinger&Pickles, who extend unlimited credit to their customers (a veritable who's-who of characters fromBeatrix's other works) and, as a result, are forced to go out of business. One of Warne's larger format Potter books. QUINBY 17a. Orig. publisher's tan boards, color pictorial inset front cover. Fine in fine velvet lined half green morocco and green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, raised bands and spine panels also gilt. Box bound by Asprey
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix. GINGER & PICKLES. Frederick Warne and Co, London, 1909.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition of this tale of a village shop run by a cat and a dog, based upon a store local to Potter's own Hill Top farm. Potter originally composed this story as a Christmas present for Louie Warne, the daughter of her publisher. In it, she drew from her own experiences visiting the general store in Sawrey, which Margaret Lane notes was "the focus of village life, as much a centre for meeting and gossip." In the published version, Potter dedicated the book to the real shop's owner, John Taylor, who "thinks he might pass as a Dormouse" - and indeed, Mr. John Dormouse and his daughter appear at the end of the book. 7'' x 5.25''. Original tan paper boards stamped in green, pictorial paste-on. Color pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by Potter with 10 full-page color plates and black-and-white in-text illustrations. 52 pages. Small bookseller ticket on front pastedown gutter. Faint spotting around margins of boards. Light marginal foxing to text.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Potter, Beatrix. THE TALE OF THE FLOPSY BUNNIES. Frederick Warne and Co, London, [1904], 1909.
Price: US$775.00 + shipping
Description: Beatrix Potter. First Edition. Hardcover. From TBCL's Children's Bookcase. Potter, Beatrix. THE TALE OF THE FLOPSY BUNNIES. London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co., 1909. First Edition, first state or very early state with the correct endpapers according to Linder, 1909 on the title-page and copyright page and the Noticeboard present on pp. 14 of Beatrix Potter's magical classic, with coloured pictorial endpapers, 24 colour plates, colour frontispiece. 12mo. 85 pp. Bright and fresh in original dark green paper boards, white titles, pictorial dome shaped inset to the front board. "The Tale Of The Flopsy Bunnies is a sequel to The Tale Of Peter Rabbit and The Tale Of Benjamin Bunny". [Signboard on page 14 - No robin on arbor on page 81, - printer's notice on page 86 & pages 72 & 73 are blank]. Linder 195.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
POTTER, Beatrix (author and illustrator).. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies.. , 1909.
Price: US$921.38 + shipping
Description: London, Frederick Warne And Co. 1909. 12mo.; publisher's brownish-grey boards lettered in white with onlaid triangular pictorial label to upper cover, pictorial endpapers; pp. [viii], 9-84 + [ii]; with coloured plates throughout after watercolours by Potter; externally near fine, bright, clean and sharp with only a very small (8mm), neat, split to lower joint at head of spine; internally fine, crisp, and exceptional, without inscription, marks, or signs of handling. First edition, either the first or second printing, which are bibliographically indistinguishable, with the noticeboard depicted in the illustration on page 14 which was removed in later editions due to problems with translation. After the phenomenal success of her two great classics "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" (1902) and "The Tale of Benjamin Bunny" (1904) Beatrix Potter moved away from rabbit protagonists to feature a wide range of animals in her little books. However her rabbit stories were among her most popular and she returned to the subject with this title which has references to both those earlier books. Benjamin Bunny and his cousin Flopsy are now parents to six young rabbits who are captured in a sack by the heartless Mr. McGregor. It requires the ingenuity of Thomasina Tittlemouse to set them free and triumph over the gardener with a clever trick.
Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Beatrix Potter. The Tale of Flopsy Bunnies. Frederick Warne, London UK, 1909.
Price: US$1013.78 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good condition first edition of The Tale of Flopsy Bunnies. Green cloth boards with pictorial imprint and white dots centered on the "O"s of the title and author's name. Pictorial end plates and description are per Quinby No 16. P69. Light fading of the spine colour and tiny tears on top of the spine. Title page hinge with glue marks.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
POTTER, Beatrix.. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies.. London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1909, 1909.
Price: US$1026.61 + shipping
Description: First edition, third impression, with the revised illustration on page 14. A noticeboard within this illustration reading "Peter Rabbit & Mother - Florists - Gardens neatly razed. Borders devastated by the night or year" was removed from the third impression onwards to avoid difficulty for foreign translators. Linder provides a publication date of November 1909, and this is consistent with the date of the inscription in this copy from Xmas 1909. Linder, p. 428; Quinby 16. Sextodecimo. Original brown 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 Xmas 1909 on the verso of the front free endpaper. Extremities a little bumped, very minor tears to spine, occasional light finger soiling, foxing to edges: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$7699.59 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, deluxe issue. Beatrix Potter showed an avid interest in the design of her books. When Warne issued The Tale of Peter Rabbit in paper boards and in cloth at a higher price, Potter complained that "there was not sufficient difference between the two styles of bindings" and that "If the cloth binding had been more distinctly different, and pretty, there might have been more inducement to buy it". For the sequel to Peter Rabbit, Potter designed this binding which sold at 1/6d over standard copies at 1/-. Quinby 16. Sextodecimo. Original green fine-grain cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, front cover with pictorial label, pictorial endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a custom green cloth folding box. Frontispiece and 26 colour illustrations by the author. Minor rubbing to corners, a near fine copy, exceptionally bright and fresh.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. Frederick Warne and Co, London and New York, 1909.
Price: US$8000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Early reprint of the author's fourteenth book. Signed by Beatrix Potter on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original paper-covered boards lettered in green with illustrated onlay to upper board. Near Fine with foxing to the textblock edges. Laid in is an 8-page folded leaflet promoting Beatrix Potter's books, and a dealer's card and description from several decades ago.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.