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Price: US$22000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., N.d. [1904-1906]. Early printing. 86 pages; frontispiece and 26 illustrations, all in color. Bound together with The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1904. First edition. 86 pages; frontispiece and 26 illustrations, all in color; vignette on title page in black and white. Signed on the front free blank flyleaf by Beatrix Potter, who has written "This is an early edition of Peter Rabbit and I believe it a first edition of Benjamin Bunny - Beatrix Potter Nov. 1929." Bound in contemporary half blue morocco over blue marbled paper by Harrison of Pall Mall. Very Good with superficial edge wear and toning to binding. Two leaves in Peter Rabbit have edge-tears, frontis in Benjamin Bunny is partially detached along the bottom joint. Quinby 2D & 6.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.