Three Pirate Peter Rabbit items].

£225 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books · No longer available

1) Peter Rabbit Painting Book. Charles E. Graham Co., New York, circa 1925 (pencil gift inscription to upper free endpaper). 4to (325 x 220 mm); numerous illustrations, some in colour with uncoloured version opposite for a child to colour (two with some hand-colouring but mostly not); publishers illustrated boards, some wear and chips to edges but the only significant ones to tips of ears. 2) Hollywood Vue Tone Talking Slides - PETER RABBIT 'See and Hear 16 Full Colour Slides and double faced 10'' record synchronised with pictures, plays on any phonograph change slide at ''Tone''. ' Hollywood Vue-Tone Films Inc., 1947. 4to: 260 x 310 mm); illustrated instructions inside front cover, card holder for the 16 slides (complete), card sleeve for the record, showing screen to inside of rear board publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards, rubbed at extremities, otherwise remarkable good. 3) Peter Rabbit The Magician. Complete Magic Show For Fun...and his life story illustrated in colour. The Strathmore Co., Illinois, 1942. 4to (305 x 230 mm); die cut front cover reveals a rabbit pulling a human magician from the hat on the next page, the pirate narrative is most certainly not by Beatrix Potter but still inventive in its reincarnation of Peter Rabbit and his family meeting a rabbit magician; cardboard and paper apparatus for performing various tricks appears complete, including the magic wand, slight age toning to pages; publisher's plastic ring-bound, illustrated boards, slight r

• Binding: Hardcover

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