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Lot 33
Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, Or, The Roly-Poly Pudding, first edition thus, first issue, [1926].
Hammer Price: £170
Description
Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Samuel Whiskers. Or, The Roly-Poly Pudding, first edition thus, first issue with undated title and small advertisement to front free endpaper verso, colour frontispiece, plain and full-page colour illustrations, faint ink gift inscription dated 26.XII.26 and bookseller's stamp to front free endpaper, original light red boards with mounted colour illustration, light sunning to spine and covers, short splits to foot of joints, still a very good copy overall, [Linder p.427; cf. Quinby 15], 16mo, [1926].
⁂ Frederick Warne & Co. republished The Roly-Poly Pudding in 1926 with the new title and in the smaller format in order to make it uniform with the rest of the series.
Description
Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Samuel Whiskers. Or, The Roly-Poly Pudding, first edition thus, first issue with undated title and small advertisement to front free endpaper verso, colour frontispiece, plain and full-page colour illustrations, faint ink gift inscription dated 26.XII.26 and bookseller's stamp to front free endpaper, original light red boards with mounted colour illustration, light sunning to spine and covers, short splits to foot of joints, still a very good copy overall, [Linder p.427; cf. Quinby 15], 16mo, [1926].
⁂ Frederick Warne & Co. republished The Roly-Poly Pudding in 1926 with the new title and in the smaller format in order to make it uniform with the rest of the series.
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