The Tale of Beatrix Potter : A Biography
London: Frederick Warne & Company, 1946.
First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. Item #17234
Light cock, light tone, 1946 owner's signature, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket edgeworn with chipping, spine darkened, tone, wear. Solid hardcover. ; "Few lives have been more jealously hidden from the public eye than Beatrix Potter's. ... When she died in December, 1943, no one, not even her husband, knew the whole story of her life. Her lonely Victorian childhood, her struggles for independence, her unhappy love-affair and happy marriage, the accidental influences that developed her genius, are here told for the first time by Margaret Lane." ; xii, 162 pages.
Price: $29.95