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Lot 229
Sale 2107 - Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller
Dec 5, 2024
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$400 -
600
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$2,032
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Lot Description
[Sendak, Maurice] Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Kingston, New York: Battledore Ltd, 1995. First and limited edition, #2/250 numbered copies, signed by Maurice Sendak and Iain Bain, and with a small drawing of Peter Rabbit by Sendak. Introduction by Sendak. Illustrated with 34 line block prints, printed from the original blocks used in the first private edition from 1901. Introduction and plates each separately bound in limp gray wrappers; in blue cloth fall-down-back box.
A fine and unique copy, with an original drawing by Maurice Sendak.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.