Wag-by-Wall by Potter, Beatrix - 1944

Hardback. Acceptable.

Boston: The Horn Book, Inc., 1944. Lovely little book in off-white bukram cover that is slightly soiled and shows some slight water damage around top edge of cover back and front. Has tipped-in wood-cut illustration of little cottage and red type. Inside endpapers are beautiful red floral pattern and facing cover page has tipped-in photo of Potter with little girl and dog. Title page in two colors and initial letters of sections are in red. Woodcuts are really special. Colophon notes that this first edition is set in Scotch Roman and printed in Flemish Book laid paper at the printing press of Thomas Todd on Beacon Hill in Boston. Deckled pages. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/None. Illus. by J.J. Lankes. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" Tall.

The Horn Book Inc, 1944. hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 0x0x0. J.J. Lankes. 1944; gray illustrated cloth covered boards with red titles; wear and discoloration around edges; 16mo, 5 3/4" to 6 3/4" tall; jacket is in pieces, laid in; Interior is clean and unmarked; unpaginated; Photos available upon request.

Boston: The Horn Book, Inc, 1944. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Lankes, J.J.. Taupe cloth. Tipped in photo frontispiece. Dustjacket is chipped at bottom and top thirds of its spine, top edges, and corners; title on spine intact, and images on front and back wrap are crisp.

Boston:: Horn Book,. Near Fine. 1944. Hardcover. First edition. Near fine in gray cloth with red lettering and paste-down woodcut illustration on front board. No dust jacket. .

Horn Book Inc., 1944. Book. Illus. by Lankes, J.J.. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Pictorial paper label missing from verso of half-title page. Light soiling..

Boston, MA: The Horn Book Inc, 1944-01-01. First of this edition. Hardcover. Good. Woodcuts by J. J. Lankes. First edition. The story was written in 1909 & finally published, posthumously in 1944; printed by Thomas Todd on Beacon Hill on Boston and illustrated with the woodcuts of J. J. Lankes. Wag-by-Wall is a Christmas tale of Sally Benson and her little thatched cottage & wag-by-wall, her handsome clock. 12m0. Grey linen with pastedown illustration of the cottage on front board. Red floral patterned endpapers. Title page in red and black; tipped in (taped in, in this copy) frontispiece portrait of an elderly Beatrix Potter with a young girl and her dog. No dust jacket. Published by the This homely Christmas story was first published in the HORN BOOK magazine a few months before the author's death. It is published here for the first time in book form. Former owner's stamp on endpapers: "H. W. Silsby 3rdm Annandale, Virginia"

The Horn Book, 1967T. hardcover. Acceptable. 0.3750 in x 6.1250 in x 4.6250 in. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.

Frederick Warne, 1987. Hardcover. In good condition with a dust jacket in good condition with some sticker residue on the back.. Pauline Baynes.

Boston: The Horn Book, Inc, 1944. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Very good +/Fair. J.J. [Julius] LANKES. First edition. 12mo; [32pp]; tan buckram over board with red stamped title, author and illustrator to front; woodcut cottage illustration onlay; decorative endpapers; frontispiece a tipped in photographic illustration of author with a young child, facsimile signature below; illustrations in text; light age toning of paper, a few small spots on page tails, one small (1/8") closed tear to page fore edge; cream illustrated dust jacket; dj flaps and spine separated front and rear; very good plus in fair dj. Quinby 32. Published posthumously (Beatrix Potter 1866-1943) with a forward by Bertha E. Mahony, founder of The Horn Book children's magazine and part of the children's literature movement. Frontispiece is a lovely tipped-in photograph of Potter with a young child. Wag-By-Wall is a Christmas story held by request of Potter "for our Twentieth Anniversary Number (May-June 1944), states the front dust… Read More