POTTER | Collection of 50 volumes of later editions, including limited editions and commemorative volumes

POTTER, BEATRIX

Collection of 50 volumes of later editions, including limited editions and commemorative editions, comprising:

i) The Tailor of Gloucester. Warne, 1968. Number 271 of 1500 copies, facsimile of manuscript, publisher’s acetate dust-jacket, publisher’s slipcase, loss to dust-jacket, minor soiling to slipcase; ii) The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck. Warne, [c. 1974], reprint, loosely inserted autograph letter signed (“Paddy”) by Patrick Leigh Fermor to Lady Diana Cooper praising the book’s “almost uncanny depth of characterisation”, 1 page, Greece, no date; iii) The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse. Decimus Publishing, 1979, number 115 of 500 copies, facsimile of manuscript, publisher’s slipcase; iv) The Derwentwater Sketchbook. Warne, 1984, [one of 250 copies], facsimile sketchbook and commentary book, publisher’s folding box; v) The Tale of Peter Rabbit. [New York:] Warne, 1993, number 472 of 1175 copies, introductory booklet with facsimile of Noel Moore letter, privately printed edition and deluxe edition, publisher’s folding box; vi) The Tale of Peter Rabbit. [London:] Warne, 1993, number 10 of 750 copies, introductory booklet with facsimile of Noel Moore letter, privately printed edition and deluxe edition, publisher’s folding box, corner of box slightly bumped; vii) Come Dance a Jig, to my Granny’s Pig. Kingston, NY: Battledore, 1995, one of 125 copies of which this is number XIV of XXV “Hors Commerce” copies, publisher’s paper wallet; viii) The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Warne, 2006, “commemorative movie edition”, signed “All my love | Ewan [McGregor]”, dust-jacket; ix-xlii) together with 42 others; all various sizes, original bindings (50)

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