The Tailor of Gloucester
by Potter, Beatrix
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Topeka, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Frederick Warne. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1903. Early Reprint. Hardcover. Circa late 1910's printing. Jacket lists to The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, published 1918 and advertises "The Latest Novelty" Peter Rabbit's Race Game (1917). This early jacket design is based on the original end paper design with advertising on both flaps. Full-page color illustrations throughout. Covers show wear, mostly at corners and spine ends. Single sheet, color-illustrated end pages. There is a gift inscription, dated 1922, on front pictorial end-page's verso. Otherwise, a fairly clean text showing a few scattered smudges. The jacket is 95% complete with small amounts of loss at the corners and a piece missing and the top center of the front cover. There is also wear at all jacket edges and folds. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 85 pages .
Synopsis
The Tailor of Gloucester is a children's novel by Beatrix Potter that was first published in October 1903. The story tells of a group of mice helping a tailor finish his work in time for Christmas. It is traditionally read to children on Christmas Eve, just before bed time.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7495
- Title
- The Tailor of Gloucester
- Author
- Potter, Beatrix
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- Early Reprint
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1903
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col
Biblio member since 2014
Topeka, Kansas
About Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col
We sell antiquarian and gently used books specializing in all things Kansas. We also offer a large selection of books for children, vintage young adult & series books; Agriculture; Psychology; Militaria and Western Americana.
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.