Fairy Caravan
$7,500 · Offered by Biblio
London and Philadelphia: Copyright of the author, 1929. Full Description: POTTER, Beatrix. The Fairy Caravan by Beatrix Heelis (?Beatirx Potter?). [Philadelphia and London]: Copyright of the Author, 1929. Beatrix Potter?s privately printed Ambleside edition. One of 100 copies, with the first nine leaves printed at Ambleside and the remaining sections from the sheets of David McKay?s Philadelphia edition. Large octavo (9 x 6 3/4 inches; 230 x 175 mm). 225, [3, blank] pp. Pages [1]-18 are printed on laid paper watermarked ?Abbey Mills/Greenfield? surmounted with a crown. Frontispiece and five color plates, twenty-one full-page black and white illustrations (including the vignette of seven dogs on p. [5]), and forty-two black and white vignettes in the text. Original quarter dark green cloth over green boards. Front cover lettered in dark green. Spine extremities with a little shelfwear. Minimal rubbing corners. Uncut and mostly unopened. A very fine copy of this extremely scarce Beatrix Potter item. Housed in a full dark green cloth clamshell case, with pictorial paper label. ?It was intended that this book should be printed only in America, and would contain some of the writings about [Beatrix Potter?s] farm animals in a fairy caravan setting, pieced together with fragments of her miscellaneous unpublished work...It is about a travelling circus known as Alexander and William?s Circus, which was invisible to humans...Apart from the numerous pen-and-ink drawings for The Fairy Ca
- Publisher: Copyright of the author
- Year: 1929
- Binding: unknown
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