Details
POTTER, BEATRIX. Ginger & Pickles. New York: Frederick Warne & Co., [1909]. Title vignette, 10 color illustrations, and numerous text illustrations. Small 4to, original green paper boards, upper cover with mounted color pictorial label, upper cover and spine lettered and decorated in green, color pictorial endpapers (Quinby VIII [at front] and IX [at rear]), a little soiling to covers; contents cracked between half-title and title, some marginal soiling, owner's label mounted on upper pastedown. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with "UNEEDA" on biscuit tin in illustration on p. 9 (English edition reads "CARR & CO."), and "TOILET SOAP" on box in illustration on p. 27 (English edition reads "SUNLIGHT SOAP"), and the prices in the text have been converted to U.S. currency. Precedes Quinby 17A; V & A 1674.
Provenance
Marion A. Schuele, booklabel mounted on upper pastedown.