Lot 50
Lot 50
Selections from Maurice Sendak's Personal Collection Sold to Benefit The Rosenbach
The Tailor of Gloucester

Beatrix Potter, 1903

Price Realised USD 1,386
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USD 600 - USD 900
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The Tailor of Gloucester

Beatrix Potter, 1903

Price Realised USD 1,386
Price Realised USD 1,386
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POTTER, Beatrix (1866-1943). The Tailor of Gloucester. London: Frederick Warne, 1903.

First trade edition, first issue, with the endpaper designed repeated four times. Linder, p. 423; Quinby 4.

12mo. Color frontispiece and 26 color plates by Beatrix Potter (a few soft finger-creases). Original dark green boards with pictorial cover label, pictorial endpapers (tail of upper joint started, some sunning and marks to binding.)
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