SIGNED BY POTTER
The Fairy Caravan
David McKay Company, 1929.
First edition, number 62 of 100 copies. Original green cloth with pictorial label to upper board, in the matching pictorial dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Illustrated by Potter throughout. A fine copy, in a very good dustwrapper with a little wear to the spine ends and corners resulting in minor loss at the head of the spine, all neatly internally reinforced. Small bookplate to front pastedown.
This book, which is of a semi-autobiographical nature, was written from Potter's personal jottings about her beloved Lakeland and its people.
"She had no intention of producing another book until Alexander McKay came over from Philadelphia and persuaded her to do so. It was intended that this book should be published only in America, and would contain some of her writings about her farm animals in a fairy caravan setting" (Linder - The History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter).
Of the 100 copies of the autographed edition printed, "none... [were] offered for sale".
Stock ID: 45467
£6,000.00
