The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle - Beatrix Potter

1905 - Frederick Warne and Co, New York - First American Edition
A fine and thus rare First American Edition

Once upon a time there was a little girl called Lucie, who lived at a farm called Little-town.

One of Beatrix Potter’s most successful characters, inspired by her pet hedgehog of the same name, and Kitty MacDonald a Scottish washerwoman.
 
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Price HK$ 7,000



The Tale of Pigling Bland - Beatrix Potter

1913 - Frederick Warne and Co., London - First Edition
A scarce fine example of this wonderfully illustrated first edition with fifteen colour plates.

The Tale of Pigling Bland is based on two of Beatrix Potter’s pigs who she called Alexander and Pigling Bland, who were sold because food was running short and they had such big appetites ‘five meals a day and not satisfied’.

She also had a little black girl-pig (the inspiration for Pigling’s lady friend Pig-wig) who she ‘put it beside her bed and fed it herself night and day, until in the end it became her pet, and followed her everywhere indoors and out’.
 
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Price HK$ 5,000