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The Pie and the Patty-Pan.
by POTTER, Beatrix
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co.,, 1905. Original deluxe binding First edition, first impression, deluxe issue. The deluxe cloth binding was issued at 2s., double the price of the standard binding of paper-covered boards. The Mildred Greenhill-Bradley Martin copy, with their respective bookplates to front pastedown and endpaper. Small quarto. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front cover in blue, decorations and vignette to front cover in blue and gilt, bevelled edges, white moiré paper endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a blue velvet-lined cloth solander box. Frontispiece and 9 colour illustrations by the author. Bookseller's ticket to rear free endpaper. Front hinge splitting at head, some faint foxing, misbound with page numbering erratic but complete. A very good copy. Linder, p. 425; Quinby 9.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 130135
- Title
- The Pie and the Patty-Pan.
- Author
- POTTER, Beatrix
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co.,
- Date Published
- 1905
Terms of Sale
Peter Harrington
All major credit cards are accepted. Both UK pounds and US dollars (exchange rate to be agreed) accepted. Books may be returned within 14 days of receipt for any reason, please notify first of returned goods.
About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Quarto
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- New
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