Author: POTTER, Beatrix Title: Peter Rabbit’S Almanac for 1929
Description: New York: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. 1928. The First American Edition of “Peter Rabbit’s Almanac for 1929 POTTER, Beatrix. Peter Rabbit’s Almanac for 1929. Copyright 1928. New York: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. 1928. First American edition. Twelvemo (4 7/8 x 3 9/16 inches; 125 x 92 mm.). [44] pp. Color frontispiece, color vignette on title-page, and twelve color plates. Publisher's tan-colored boards lettered in brown on covers and spine. Color pictorial label (depicting Peter Rabbit coming and going) on each cover within a blind vertical egg-shaped panel with a straight base. Color pictorial endpapers. A fine copy. Intended by Warne to be one of a series, Beatrix Potter was fundamentally dissatisfied with the finished product and felt the work interfered too much with her other commitments. This was therefore the one & only almanac. Linder, p. 431. Quinby 28 (describing the first English edition). V & A 1725. .
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Price: US$ 850.00 Seller: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
- Book number: 06115
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