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The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes.

Stock Code 97318

London, Frederick Warne and Co., 1911

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Original price $1,561.00 - Original price $1,561.00
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A near fine example. The story of Timmy and Goody Tiptoes is the only Beatrix Potter story apparently set in North America - although this is implicit rather than stated anywhere in the book. All the main animal characters are indigenous to North America: grey squirrels, chipmunks and a 'large bear' but the waters are muddied somewhat by the presence of Yellowhammers (or Emberiza citrinella, the birds that sing 'Little bita bread and-no-cheese!') whose range includes Europe and much of Asia but not America.

First edition, first or second printing, with date to title; 16mo (160 x 110mm); colour frontispiece, plain title vignette and 26 colour plates, pictorial endpapers, publisher's green boards with mounted colour illustration, spine slightly faded, still near-fine overall; preserved in custom-made solander box with upper board of book replicated on lid.

Linder p.429; Quinby 20.
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The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes.

POTTER, Beatrix.

Stock code: 97318

$1,561.00

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