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Dear Ivy, Dear June: Letters from Beatrix Potter
by POTTER (Beatrix)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Kingston, New York, United States
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About This Item
POTTER (Beatrix)
Dear Ivy, Dear June; Letters from Beatrix Potter
Toronto: Friends of the Osborne and Lillian H Smith Collections, 1977.
Illustrated, including many facsimile sketches taken from Helen Beatrix Potter's original picture-letters, here transcribed.
8vo., x 166 pp.; brown cloth with gilt title on spine and pictorial design gilt-stamped on upper cover, orange pictorial board slip-case. As New.
First and only edition of these fifty-four letters written from 1924 to 1943 to Ivy Hunt Steel and her daughter Jane. The elder recipient was born in London and emigrated ti Canada in 1920.
With an introduction and biographical end-piece "Beatrix Potter 1866-1943" by Margaret Crawford Maloney and a checklist of the Beatrix Potter holdings at the Osborne Collection (compiled by Dana Tenny. Fine Condition.
Dear Ivy, Dear June; Letters from Beatrix Potter
Toronto: Friends of the Osborne and Lillian H Smith Collections, 1977.
Illustrated, including many facsimile sketches taken from Helen Beatrix Potter's original picture-letters, here transcribed.
8vo., x 166 pp.; brown cloth with gilt title on spine and pictorial design gilt-stamped on upper cover, orange pictorial board slip-case. As New.
First and only edition of these fifty-four letters written from 1924 to 1943 to Ivy Hunt Steel and her daughter Jane. The elder recipient was born in London and emigrated ti Canada in 1920.
With an introduction and biographical end-piece "Beatrix Potter 1866-1943" by Margaret Crawford Maloney and a checklist of the Beatrix Potter holdings at the Osborne Collection (compiled by Dana Tenny. Fine Condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BATTLEDORE LTD
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ABB033
- Title
- Dear Ivy, Dear June
- Author
- POTTER (Beatrix)
- Illustrator
- Beatrix Potter
- Format/Binding
- Gilt-stamped brown cloth, slipcased
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Friends of the Osborne and Lillian H Smith Collections
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1977
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Potter, Beatrix Potter, letters, illustrated letters, checklist
- Bookseller catalogs
- children's books;
- Size
- 8vo.
Terms of Sale
BATTLEDORE LTD
10 day return policy guaranteed, with full refund including original shipping costs if an item arrives wrongly described or physically damaged.
About the Seller
BATTLEDORE LTD
Biblio member since 2020
Kingston, New York
About BATTLEDORE LTD
Founded in 1988, Battledore has been promoting children's books and related references/bibliographies through catalogues, by direct mail, online internet sales and special exhibitions, including the annual ABAA Antiquarian Rare Books Fair in New York City (Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street). Since 2002 we have maintained a "by appointment" store front gallery in Kingston NY that is fully operational. For scheduling a visit to discuss collection development, please email us at battledore@mail.com. The President of Battledore Ltd has represented Maurice Sendak as liaison for private collectors and institutions worldwide from 1970 thru 2003 and continues to maintain a fine inventory of his original artwork along with curated selections of original illustration art for children's books by other well-recognized artists and illustrators.
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