Auction details
12:00 PM PT - Dec 11th, 2008
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Title: The Tailor of Gloucester
Author: Potter, Beatrix Description: 85 pp. Illustrated with color plates by Potter. 5½x4, red boards, triangular color pictorial cover label, color pictorial endpapers, printed glassine jacket.Rare glassine jacket with list of 3 Frederick Warne publications on front flap and an additional 2 titles on rear flap, list of 11 Peter Rabbit books on rear panel including the "New Book For 1910. The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse". Heading: Place Published: London Publisher: Frederick Warne Date Published: [1903, but c. 1910] Please note: This is a two day auction running Thursday 12/11 and Friday 12/12. Invoices will not be available before Monday 12/15. Condition reportLarge chip and long archivally repaired tear on rear of jacket with some loss of text from the Daily Chronicle quotation at bottom; rear of volume and jacket with some water damage and resulting staining, other light chipping to jacket edges.
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