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Description:
Potter, Beatrix (1866-1943) The Tale of Johnny Town Mouse. New York: Frederick Warne & Co., 1918. First American edition, 12mo, without "Ltd." on title page, title vignette and twenty-seven color illustrations, bound in publisher's dark gray paper boards, front board with color illustration inset, covers and corners worn, upper hinge cracking, foxing to frontispiece verso and title, 5 1/2 x 4 in.
N.B. This copy sold as Lot 127 at Christie's East, the Doris Frohnsdorff Collection, April 16, 1997.
Estimate $200-300
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