Without extremely scarce original dust jacket. First published August 1903, with a second printing the following month the words “Author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit” are believed to have been added to the title page after the second issue, and it is therefore impossible to distinguish between first and second issues. The tale remains one of Potter’s best known. I shall always have a preference for cheap book myself-even if they do not pay all my little friends happen to be shilling people” (Linder, 141-42). She wrote her publisher: “I am delighted to hear such a good account of Nutkin… I have had such comical letters from children about ‘Scell nuskin’-it seems an impossible word to spell but they say they have ‘red’ it right through and that it is ‘lovely’-which is satisfactory. To the author’s pleased surprise, the book proved an instant success. This “story for Norah” about an impertinent, owl-taunting red squirrel evolved from a picture letter Potter sent to Norah Moore, a friend’s daughter, in 1901. 16mo, original dark gray paper boards, mounted cover illustration, pictorial endpapers.įirst edition, first or second issue, of Potter’s third children’s book. London and New York: Frederick Warne, 1903. “THIS IS A TALE ABOUT A TAIL…”: FIRST EDITION OF THE TALE OF SQUIRREL NUTKIN
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