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Tale of Tom Kitten, The
New York: Frederick Warne & Co., 1907. Item #03879
First American Edition of The Tale of Tom Kitten
In the Original Glassine Wrapper
POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Tom Kitten. London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1907.
First American edition. Twelvemo (5 3/8 x 4 inches; 137 x 101 mm). 84, [1], [1, imprint] pp. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates. Quinby Plate III endpapers as called for.
Original greenish brown boards lettered in white with color pictorial paper label on front cover. Neat ink inscription on half-title dated "February 1908". A very fine copy in the original (very slightly chipped) glassine wrapper.
Quinby 13a. Linder, p. 427 (UK edition).
Price: $950.00