Buy this book on-line POTTER**, BEATRIX: : A Very Naughty Rabbit: Tales of Mayhem and MischiefLONDON FREDERICK WARNE/THE PENGUIN GROUP,2010. ISBN 9780723265306.
UK,Qrto HB+slipcase,illustrated,1st edn thus. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and an absence of a published price.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,gold paper-covered card slipcase with repeated 18 thumbnail colour illustrations of Potter's assorted characters along front's and rear's fore and spine-edges - the front's design of slipcase being repeated to front board of the book - with dark green-lettered author name and book's part and sub-titles; slipcase's spine backstrip with repeated front's lettering of author and book's titles,with thumbnail colour illustrations of Mr. Macgregor and Peter Rabbit. Rear panel of slipcase with front's repeated design/illustrations but with dark green-lettered book's part+sub-titles and a list of the 11 Tales to it's centre,between the colour illustrations.Both slipcase and book with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - and both without nicks,tears or splits present,only a trio of tiny indents to book's front's fore-edge near top corner.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,similarly covered,coloured and illustrated front board of book as slipcase's front,book's rear board with 5 thumbnail character colour illustrations along fore and spine-edges with publisher's black-lettered note and their facsimile signature to an address to 'Dear Readers'.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp and clean without blemish,ageing/toning or any foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight and clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread other than my own collation.A gold silk bookmark ribbon and immaculate Potter characters' colour thumbnail illustrations with publisher's printed THIS BOOK BELONGS TO bookplate to front free endpaper,the characters' thumbnails repeated to rear endpapers but without the bookplate.UK,Qrto HB+ slipcase,illustrated,1st edn thus,10 and 3-194pp [paginated] includes 11 colour+b/w thumbnail illustrated tales of mischief and mayhem, beginning with Peter Rabbit and ending with The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit.Plus [unpaginated] half-title page with a colour Peter Rabbit thumbnail illustration,title page with another colour,but different Peter Rabbit thumbnail illustration,a Contents list/table with a potted biography of Beatrix Potter with an oval, contemporary b/w side profile photographic headpiece to its reverse,a Peter Rabbit colour thumbnail illustrated title page with a colour illustrated Mrs. Rabbit headpiece,and as last page,a Take Heed advice to readers.
Visually,the external appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it's age and nature, i.e. a child's book.It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for it's brightnesss,cleanliness and lack of age-acquired detracting faults commonly encountered in child's book.
Dear Readers,
As publisher's of the world-renowned Beatrix Potter's tales,it is with a sense of trepidation that we at Frederick Warne bring you this most diverting of story collections.
With so many scandalous displays of naughtiness to choose from,it was difficult for us to agree upon the eleven tales of mischief contained within this treasury.
Then imagine our concern when we discovered Beatrix otter's picture letters which continue the stories of these most wayward characters! We hope you enjoy reading these tales and find solace in the afterwords which seek to teach us how best to behave, Kind Regards,Frederick Warne + Co. [a facsimile signature.]
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