About this title: This work brings together Beatrix Potter's 23 tales in one volume. The complete texts are arranged in the order in which they were first published, and are presented with the original illustrations, both colour and black and white. Each story also has a brief introductory note about its history.
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Description: Acceptable. Book is in good reading condition. Cover has wear at edges and corners, and may have creases. Spine has wear at edges and may have creases. read more
Description: Used-Good in Fair jacket. Corner Wear; Clean Pages with Vivid Color Illustrations; DJ Shelf Wear in Fair Condition; Edge Wear; Pen Name First Page; Shelf Wear; Good Condition. Reliable customer service and no-hassle return policy. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co, New York
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780723236184ISBN:0723236186
Description: Very Good- in Very Good- jacket. Signed by Previous Owner Second printing of 1989 edition with new colour reproductions. Text and illustrations near fine. With previous owner's ex-libris and "This Book Belongs To" filled in. Expedited or International shipping may cost more. read more
Binding: Boards
Publisher: Penguin, New York
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780723236184ISBN:0723236186
Description: Small quarto. 384 pages. The 23 original Peter Rabbit books. Texts complete with all original illustrations. Covers sligtly edgeworn, name of previous owner on front endpage, else a near-fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket, lightly edgeworn, in a mylar cover. read more
Edition: Illustrated. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Frederick Warne and Company
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780723236184ISBN:0723236186
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. Picture book. With dust jacket. 400 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile. This is the deluxe edition which has all of Beatrix Potter's 23 Peter Rabbit tales. Marvelous reproductions of her original color illustrations. 383 pages. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780723236184ISBN:0723236186
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. The 23 original Peter Rabbit books collected in a single large-format volume, the stated first printing of this reformatted edition. The copyright page states that the reproductions were made from entirely new transparencies of Potter's original watercolors using scanning methods that produce better results than earlier editions. A clean unmarked copy, although read; dust jacket a bit loose, with various wrinkles. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780723236184ISBN:0723236186
Description: Near Fine in Very Good + jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Po name on ffep. dj has nick on top rt corner of front flap. clean good looking text 6th printing. read more
Binding: Buckram
Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co., New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780723236184ISBN:0723236186
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Pos on ffep, damp stains to covers, light dents to book edges and spine, tight binding with bright clear text and illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London: Frederick Warne,
Date Published: (1989).
ISBN-13:9780723236184ISBN:0723236186
Description: Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 4to. Blue paper covered boards with gilt title to spine. Pristine interior filled with lovely full color illustrations. White and grey illustrated dust jacket with gilt title to front panel and black title to white spine. 381 pages. CHILD/102709. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Frederick Warne, London
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780723236184ISBN:0723236186
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. First Thus Edition, sm 4to, pp.383. --Book condition Near Fine, blue paper boards w gilt rabbit on front and gilt title on spine, very slight rubbing to tail of spine, pages are in pristene condition with new transparencies of Beatrix Potter's original watercolours--Dust-jacket is Near Fine w every so slight crinkling at top of spine, unclipped, as new. "This deluxe volume brings all Beatrix Potter's twenty-three tales and verses together in one book ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: F. Warne & Co.
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780723236184ISBN:0723236186
Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. This book is in Fine condition. The binding is tight and pages are clean. It doesn't appear to have had much if any use. The dust jacket is in very good condition with bumps and scuffs. read more
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0723236186. Frederick Warne; Later Printing; 1989; 383 pages; blue laid paper over boards. Original and Authorized Version with all 23 tales, new color reproductions. Crisp bright book with minor rubbing at head of spine. Jacket with light shelfwear; tiny tear at head of spine. Pristine interior.; Small 4to 9"-11" tall. read more
Edition: 17th Printing, Original & Authorized Ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co, New York, NY
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780723236184ISBN:0723236186
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8 x 10.25 in. / 383 Pages. Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "It spoils people's clothes to squeeze under a gate; the proper way to get in, is to climb down a pear tree, " said Little Benjamin Bunny. Hear Peter Rabbit outwit old Mr. McGregor and Squirrel Nutkin come within a tail's length of being an owl's dinner. Listen as a family of mice save the kind tailor of Glouster and how Peter and Benjamin Bunny battle a barn cat. ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Warne Co., London, England
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780723236184ISBN:0723236186
Description: Illustrated by Potter, Beatrix. 0723236186. VG+ in VG DJ, DJ is clipped at top corner. Minor edge wear both; Illustrations are scans of new transparencies of Potter's original watercolors.; First Thus; Blue cloth; 4to; DJ. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Frederick Warne, London
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780723236184ISBN:0723236186
Description: Beatrix Potter. Near Fine. No Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Clean, tight, square, crisp copy. Full of the original illustrations, 383 pages. read more
Edition: Original Authorized Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co, New York
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780723236184ISBN:0723236186
Description: 0723236186. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket.; 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. read more
Description: Good. Dust Cover Missing. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Description: Good. Minimal damage to cover and binding. Pages show light use. With pride from Motor City. All books guaranteed. Best Service, Best Prices. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Warne
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780723236184ISBN:0723236186
Description: Good. Dust jacket included. shows some wear and tear. Goodwillnyonline carries a wide range of quality new and used items at competitive prices. Goodwillnyonline is operated by Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & Northern New Jersey. A major provider of services for people with disabilities and other barriers to employment. read more
"Beatrix Potter remains one of my favourite authors. I discovered her tales when I was about 7 years old and have revisited her stories over and over. I love the illustrations in particular.
Having visited Beatrix Potter's Lake District I have become even more fascinated by her stories. The places in her tales remain largely unchanged even today."
"PRELUDE; A few weeks ago went to see the film of the Royal Ballet dancing several Tales of Beatrix Potter. The ballet choreographed by Frederick Ashton with music, really delightful, by John Lanchbery was first made into a film some years ago.This recent production was filmed in the actual theatre. There were only two of us in the movie theatre.I was sitting right at the back and was sorely tempted to get up and dance to my heart's content across the large open area behind the last row of seats. I didn't but I did cavort round the house when I got home and played the music. I came to Beatrix Potter late, about age 31.(It's never TOO late!!) Took a break from my job in Athens to join my Mum and Step-father in a motoring holiday around the U.K. Was reading BP's biography by Margaret Lane - an excellent one. And so of course when we hit the Lake District we ended up at her wonderful house left exactly as she had left it. Mum photographed me standing in the doorway where BP had her photo taken.(I knew because the photo was in the book!!)Later Mum was to run around the moors on the edge of Haworth crying out "Heathcliff!!Heathcliff!!!"in a much darker literary clime. After which we got caught in a Yorkshire storm and staggered into our hotel dying of laughter, while my step-father gave us fierce disapproving looks which made us laugh all the more.(He WAS an Accountant, and I'm sure had NEVER read a Beatrix Potter!!) So now I am going to read first the several Tales that were recreated for the ballet. And then follow up with ALL the rest. Ah, blisssssss!!!
MUCH LATER: Now aged almost 62, short of a couple of weeks, I have read All the Tales in Chronological Order. And discovered that Beatrix has a Dark Side!!!(Scarey!!!) In the VERY FIRST story, The Tale of Peter Rabbit", Mrs Rabbit tells her children where they may and may not go, warning them off Mr.McGregor's garden :"...your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs McGregor."(Ouch!!There goes Junior's slumberful night!) Often Beatrix's Own Inspirations didn't live to tell their Tale. Mr Jeremy Fisher - dissected. Peter Rabbit - death by chloroform, followed by dissection and drawn for illustrative purposes. Jemima Puddleduck - ditto. And Squirrel Nutkin shot - at Beatty's request for drawing. And Guess Who performed the dissections. (Not a question!)
Is it surprising then, given the blood on Beatty's hands, that every Tale has at least one sentence that lets Junior know all is NOT well with the World. Life itself is under threat. Even if its just Ginger, (the cat who shared ownership of the popular village shop with Pickles the terrier, popular because it gave generous credit), who had to ask Pickles to serve their mouse customers because they made his mouth water. ("I cannot bear to see them going out at the door carrying their little parcels," he confessed.) Pickles had to make a similar confession about rats, but being a Realist added:"..but it would never do to eat our own customers; they would leave us and go to Tabitha Twitchet's."(The cat whose shop did NOT give credit.)Being much more of a realist, which one would expect of a cat, Ginger replied gloomily: "On the contrary,they would go nowhere." Ginger"s and Pickle's business finally collapses because of their customers' greed( ALL characters from the Tales I am shocked to tell you!!!).They NEVER paid a penny, so poor Ginger and Pickles were forced to eat their own goods...but never laid claw or tooth on their clientle, to their credit.(No pun intended, I assure you!)Pickles became a gamekeeper and Ginger went to live on the warren and became stout and comfortable. Would it surprise you to learn that a warren is a place where rabbits abound? Although Miss Potter tells us:"I do not know what occupation he pursues", her drawing shows Ginger laying nasty traps with big metal teeth - on the warren!!!(Miss Potter's illustrations often convey information she does NOT provide in the text!!)And Miss Tabitha Twitchett put up all her prices and refused to give credit!!!!!
After this Tale of 1909 Miss Potter's Tales just get nastier and nastier. They are thrilling and delightful!! I'm sure All those Edwardian era Mums and Dads had no idea what subversiveness and violence was being smuggled into Junior's nursery under innocent covers. By 1912 Miss Potter had declared that she was tired of writing "goody goody books about nice people." No wonder World War One broke out only a couple of years later. And yet the History Books never mention Miss Potter as one of the chief underlying causes. Feminism has alot to answer for.
EPILOGUE: Miss Potter knew alot. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder??? Tom Kitten, ,victim of the rats Anna Maria, who tied him up, and her husband Mr.Samuel Whiskers who helped her encase him in dough to be cooked and eaten, is rescued just in time. But ever afterwards "he has always been afraid of a rat; he never durst face anything that is bigger than - a mouse!" And I doubt any sensitive reader will either. Except the Insensitive who will no doubt join the Army."
"My mother read these to me as a child and have continued to go back and read them. Beautiful pictures and cute, almost "stuffy" characters (the author is British)."
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