Beatrix Potter Piracy (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Red paper wraps (softcover) with tipped on color illustration of Peter on the front cover. Duodecimo (5.75" x 4.125"). 57 pages. Condition: Good plus. Cover with light stain and scuff, front hinge cracked at top, rear hinge cracked but all still holding together firmly. Old price in ink on the first blank endpaper. Paper is slightly age toned but the interior is otherwise clean. Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit was originally published in October 1902 by Frederick Warne in London. Unfortunately for the author, Warne neglected copyrighting her work in the United States which lead to publishers in the US printing unauthorized editions stealing her text and images. This version circa 1912 copies Potter's original text and the illustrations are similar but decidedly inferior. …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1950. No place [New York]: Duenewald Printing Corporation Sole Agents for Wehr Animations. Octavo (8.4" x 6.75") Paper wraps (softcover) 2 pages. Includes two colorful illustrated cloth hankies neatly folded into slots on the first page, and one Julian Wehr moveable image of Peter eating a carrot on the second of two pages. Condition: Near Fine. Light edgewear otherwise Fine. Hankies are crisp and as new. Complete as issued. Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit was originally published in October 1902 by Frederick Warne in London. Unfortunately for the author, Warne neglected copyrighting her work in the United States which lead to publishers in the US printing unauthorized editions stealing her text and images. At least in this case the publisher Duenewald paraphrased the story on the back cover and reused images by Julian Wehr who illustrated an animated version with 4 moveables published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1943 without any hankies.…