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THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT
Written by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1208905
Published by Henry Altemus Company. Circa 1907. Good condition.

US Pirated edition of Peter Rabbit. Pale green pictorial cloth, red title to spine. 121 pages, printed on one side of the paper only. Colour illustrations throughout (not by Potter). Spine and corners bumped. Fading to spine and cover edges. Covers slightly grubby. Endpapers browned. Inscription in ink to verso of frontis. Some light fingermarks to contents.

PETER RABBIT AND JIMMY CHIPMUNK
No author listed. Illustrated by Virginia Albert.
Stock no. 1208903
Published by The Saalfield Publishing Company. Circa 1918. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A US Pirated Peter Rabbit story. Pale blue pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Endpapers partly browned. Some grubby fingermarks to contents. A couple of pages have been browned at top margins. Dustwrapper is worn, torn, creased and grubby, slight loss to top and tail of spine but very minimal loss at edges.

PETER RABBIT AND HIS MA
Written by Louise A. Field. Illustrated by Virginia Albert.
Stock no. 1208902
Published by The Saalfield Publishing Company. Circa 1917. Good condition.

It all came about because Mrs. Rufus Rabbit (Peter Rabbit's Ma) had suddenly become very strict about the comings and goings of Peter Rabit, Molly Cottontail and Flopsy and Mopsy. Pale green pictorial boards. Illustrated endpapers. Full-page colour and b/w text illustrations throughout, illustrated endpapers. Spine and corners worn. Some light marks to top edge of front cover. Title-strip is split and lightly damp stained. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Pale page browning. Tear to lower margin of one of the colour illustrations. Rear free-endpaper is torn with loss at top edge.

PETER RABBIT AND HIS PA
Written by Louise A. Field. Illustrated by Virginia Albert.
Stock no. 1208901
Published by The Saalfield Publishing Company. Circa 1916. Good condition.

A US pirated story of Peter Rabbit. Cream pictorial cloth. Illustrated endpapers. Full-page colour and b/w text illustrations throughout, illustrated endpapers. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Covers are grubby and marked. Some light fingering to contents but generally contents clean. Binding pulled at top stitched but still very tight.

PETER RABBIT AT THE CIRCUS
Written by Alma Hudson. Illustrated by Richard Hudson.
Stock no. 1208900
Published by Cupples & Leon Company. Good condition.

US pirated story of Peter Rabbit. Small format. Red covers with small rectangular pictorial onlay to top of front cover and title beneath. Colour & b/w illustrations. Spine is worn with loss at top and tail. Fading to spine and cover edges. Front free-endpaper has been removed. Joints cracked. Rear free-endpaper is creased. There is possibly a colour illustration missing between pages 12 and 13. Page 12 has a heavy vertical crease to centre. There are fingermarks and other marks to contents.

A NEW STORY OF PETER RABBIT
Written by Samuel E. Lowe. Illustrated by Allan Wright; Ernest Vetsch.
Stock no. 1208898
Published by Whitman Publishing Company. Circa 1926. Almost very good condition.

US Pirated story of Peter Rabbbit. Small format. Blue boards, black titles and vignettes. Colour illustrations throughout and also blue and white text illustrations. Covers edge rubbed. Name in ink to title-page and also in belongs to box on rear pastedown. Some of the small blue and white text illustrations have been coloured in with blue crayon.

CHILDREN'S HOUR WITH PETER RABBIT
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1208897
Published by The Platt And Munk Co. Inc.. Circa 1926. Good condition.

US pirated edition of Peter Rabbit. Brown cloth spine, red boards with gilt title and colour onlay to front cover. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Covers are worn, faded at edges with light damp spots to front cover. Some hinges cracked causing contents to be a little loose but binding still tight. Some grubby fingermarks to page margins. 4 pages have a brown stain to margins, 1 b/w illustration slightly affected.

THE TALE OF BENJAMIN BUNNY
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1208894
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Circa 1919. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Deluxe edition with original gilt decorated grey cloth, oval pictorial onlay to front cover. Colour frontis and 26 illustrations. All edges gilt. 84 numbered pages. Light fingering to the contents but still bright and clean. Spine slightly bumped with slight rubbing to spine and corners. Cloth is beautifully bright having been protected by original printed glassine wrapper which is chipped and torn in places, with archival tape repair to rear panel, large tears to spine and corners. Printed 1/6 net at base of wrapper spine and Timmy Tiptoes is the last title listed on the wrapper. Published between 1911 and 1919 (Timmy Tiptoes published in 1911 and Warne went Ltd in 1919). A very nice copy of a deluxe edition with an exceptionally scarce glassine wrapper.

LITTLE GREY RABBIT TO THE RESCUE A PLAY
Written by Alison Uttley. Illustrated by Margaret Tempest.
Stock no. 1330126
Published by Collins. 1st thus 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Grey pictorial boards, blue titles. Brown and white pictorial endpapers. Blue text. Colour illustrations. 64 pages. ISBN: 0001941135. Spine and corners bumped. Dustwrapper is price-cut, slightly edge worn and slightly grubby.

LITTLE GREY RABBIT'S SPRING-CLEANING PARTY
Written by Alison Uttley. Illustrated by Katherine Wigglesworth.
Stock no. 1330125
Published by Collins. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Yellow pictorial boards. Delightful colour pictures throughout. 63 pages. ISBN: 0001941313. Covers are edge rubbed else bright. Pale page browning else contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly grubby to rear panel.

UNCLE REMUS STORIES
Written by Joel Chandler Harris; Jane Shaw. Illustrated by William Backhouse.
Stock no. 1329942
Published by Collins. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Large format, cream boards with red title and vignette. Delightful colour illustrations. Retold by Jane Shaw. 13 stories. 61 pages. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Endpapers lightly browned. Slight foxing, musty smell to contents else clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with tears to top edge and some loss to top of spine and rear panel (small tape repairs on verso).

FURTHER TALES OF LITTLE GREY RABBIT
Written by Denis Judd; Alison Uttley. Illustrated by Margaret Tempest.
Stock no. 1329604
Published by Collins. 1st 1989. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Written in the same style of the original Alison Uttley stories, this collection of stories is based on a surprise discovery of previously unpublished Margaret Tempest pictures. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour pictures. 158 pages. ISBN: 0001942018. Dustwrapper is price-cut, creased to spine, there is a damp stain (hardly visible) to top edge of front panel.