JONKERS RARE BOOKS
237. POTTER, Beatrix PETER RABBIT’S ALMANAC F. Warne & Co Ltd., 1929. First edition. 12mo. Beige paper boards with lettering in brown and colour onlays of Peter delivering the mail on the covers. This copy in the unprinted glassine wrapper. Pictorial end- papers of little bunnies. Colour frontispiece of Peter Rabbit, colour title page vignette. Twelve colour plates, one for each month, with a separate page for the calendar surrounded by line drawings of bunnies. A very near fine copy, in the rare original glassine, which is a little chipped and worn, but has preserved the book very well indeed. [42351] £1,500 This was the only almanac to be produced by Potter. It took her a long time to get it how she wanted and as a result only this one was published. However, it is delightful. Due to the throw away nature of almanacs and diaries few copies of this book have survived. 238. [POTTER, Beatrix] HEELIS, Beatrix THE FAIRY CARA- VAN Privately printed, Ambleside, 1929. First edition, one of 100 copies to be privately printed by the author. Small 4to. Cloth backed blue-grey paper covered boards with title printed on upper cover in black. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter with six colour plates and numerous black and white line drawings. A fine copy. Exceptionally clean and crisp. Internally perfect and largely unopened. [40051] £6,000 This book, which is of a semi-autobiographical nature, was written
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from Potter’s personal jottings about her beloved Lakeland and its people. “She had no intention of producing another book until Alexander McKay came over from Philadelphia and persuaded her to do so. It was intended that this book should be published only in America, and would contain some of her writings about her farm animals in a fairy caravan setting... Beatrix Potter did not wish for an English edition of The Fairy Cara- van, because she felt the stories were ‘too personal - too autobiograph- ical’... Her next concern was to obtain English copyright... So she asked for one hundred sets of sheets to be sent over in order to have them bound privately. This was done by George Middleton, printers and publisher’s Ambleside, Westmorland. (Linder - The History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter).
239. RANSOME, Arthur PETER DUCK Cape, 1932. First edition. Original green cloth with gilt lettering in pictorial Clif- ford Webb dustwrapper. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, an exceptionally bright crisp copy. [39957] £5,000 The third in the series of Swallows and Amazons.
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