Lot 70
Lot 70
Selections from Maurice Sendak's Personal Collection Sold to Benefit The Rosenbach
Wag-by-Wall

Beatrix Potter, [1944]

    Price Realised USD 1,386
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    USD 500 - USD 800
    Wag-by-Wall

    Beatrix Potter, [1944]

    Price Realised USD 1,386
    Price Realised USD 1,386
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    POTTER, Beatrix (1866-1943). Wag-by-Wall. London: Frederick Warne, [1944].

    Limited, copyright edition, no. 54 of 100 copies. This story was first conceived by Beatrix Potter in 1909 as “The Little Black Kettle” and was intermittently revised. However, it did not appear in print until 1944 when it first appeared in the Anniversary Issue of the Horn Book. According to the copyright statement, Potter had last revised this story “late in the autumn of 1943.” Linder, p. 432.

    12mo. Original green cloth lettered in gilt; printed dust jacket (light soiling, some rubbing at folds and spine panel).
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