The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher.
New York and London: Frederick Warne & Co. 12 East 33d Street, (1906) early US edition: certainly 1911 to 1920, probably mid to late teens; brown paper boards with silver titles and circular plate of Jeremy fishing, pasted down endpapers with Mrs. Tittlemouse and Bee, no central picture; no printer mentioned on p. 86; single sided plates on coated paper with double sided text; 85 pp. Small hardback.
A very pleasant early American edition volume with magical colour in the water scenes and hazy shores. This book found with a 1914-1917 Pigling Bland also with the G. A. Schwarz, Philadelphia seal. (The toy store owned by a brother of F. A. O. Schwarz.).
CONDITION: Very Good; no names or other marks, tight, clean paper boards, extrems and especially bottom corners bumped, foxed top edge, a little rubbing to spine creases, about five tiny foxing spots on plate, pages flat and clean with occasional foxing in gutter, all in all very nice. Item #20304
Price: $255.00