The Peter Pan: Picture Book By Sir J. M. Barrie (1991-04-04)
Sir J. M. Barrie
The Peter Pan: Picture Book By Sir J. M. Barrie (1991-04-04)
Sir J. M. Barrie
- Publisher: Hodder Children's Books (1991-04-04)
- Date published: 1656-01-01
- Format: Hardcover
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Peter Pan and Wendy By J. M. Barrie
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan and Wendy By J. M. Barrie
J. M. Barrie
- Publisher: SCRIBNERS AND SON
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The Story of Peter Pan, Retold From the Fairy Play By J. M. Barrie
J. M Barrie And Daniel O'Connor
The Story of Peter Pan, Retold From the Fairy Play By J. M. Barrie
J. M Barrie And Daniel O'Connor
- Publisher: G. Bell
- Date published: 1931
- Format: Hardcover
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J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Wendy
Barris, J.M.; Retold By May Byron
J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Wendy
Barris, J.M.; Retold By May Byron
- Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
- Date published: 1945
- Format: Hardcover
144 pages. Undated. Appears to have been printed prior to 1950. Circa 1945? Lovely illustrated plates. Above-average wear. Decorated red boards secured by red tape along spine. Front hinge open. Back hinge starting. Give greetings upon front free endpaper. A worthy copy of this charming work.; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Barris, J.M.; Retold By May Byron J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Wendy.
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Alice in Wonderland and J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Wendy, Beautifully Illustrated in Colour
J. M. Barrie; Lewis Carroll
Alice in Wonderland and J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Wendy, Beautifully Illustrated in Colour
J. M. Barrie; Lewis Carroll
- Publisher: Juvenile Productions LTD
- Date published: 1945
- Format: Paperback
Beautifully illustrated abridged editions of two beloved works of classic children's literature, 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Peter Pan'. Charmingly illustrated and abridged volumes of classic children's novels 'Peter Pan and Wendy' by J. M. Barrie, and 'Alice in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll, both billed as 'beautifully illustrated in colour' by the publisher. With a colour title page to each volume, fourteen pages of colour illustrations to 'Alice', and fifteen pages of colour illustrations to 'Peter Pan'. Undated; dated 1945 via Jisc. Contemporary inscription to verso of front wrap of 'Alice'. In the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps. Losses to back strips, with closed tear to head of 'Alice' back strip. Wraps exceptionally bright. Inscription to verso of 'Alice' front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright, with the odd spot to page perimeters. Very Good.
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Alice in Wonderland and J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Wendy, Beautifully Illustrated in Colour
J. M. Barrie; Lewis Carroll
Alice in Wonderland and J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Wendy, Beautifully Illustrated in Colour
J. M. Barrie; Lewis Carroll
- Publisher: Juvenile Productions LTD
- Date published: 1945
- Format: Paperback
Beautifully illustrated abridged editions of two beloved works of classic children's literature, 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Peter Pan'. Charmingly illustrated and abridged volumes of classic children's novels 'Peter Pan and Wendy' by J. M. Barrie, and 'Alice in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll, both billed as 'beautifully illustrated in colour' by the publisher. With a colour title page to each volume, fourteen pages of colour illustrations to 'Alice', and fifteen pages of colour illustrations to 'Peter Pan'. Undated; dated 1945 via Jisc. Contemporary inscription to verso of front wrap of 'Alice'. In the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps. Losses to back strips, with closed tear to head of 'Alice' back strip. Wraps exceptionally bright. Inscription to verso of 'Alice' front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright, with the odd spot to page perimeters. Very Good.
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J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
Barrie, J. M. Rackham, Arthur (Illus. ) Byron, May
J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
Barrie, J. M. Rackham, Arthur (Illus. ) Byron, May
- Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
- Date published: 1937
- Format: publisher's cloth in dust jacket.
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J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
Barrie, J. M. Rackham, Arthur (Illus. ) Byron, May
J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
Barrie, J. M. Rackham, Arthur (Illus. ) Byron, May
- Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
- Date published: 1937
- Format: publisher's cloth in dust jacket.
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Peter Pan Or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up the Uniform Edition of the Plays of J. M. Barrie
Barrie, J. M
Peter Pan Or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up the Uniform Edition of the Plays of J. M. Barrie
Barrie, J. M
- Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
- Date published: 1956
- Format: Hardcover
Blue boards, yellow titles. Binding tight and straight, inner pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is price-intact, upper corner clipped. Dust jacket has few small edgechips, now protected within mylar cover.; 162 pages.
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The Works of J.M. Barrie: Peter Pan Edition, 9-Volumes
Barrie, J. M.
The Works of J.M. Barrie: Peter Pan Edition, 9-Volumes
Barrie, J. M.
- Publisher: Scribner's
- Date published: 1929
- Format: Hardcover
Incomplete set, 9 of 18 volumes. #554/1030. Signed by publisher, limitation page. 1/4 cream cloth, brown boards, gold Peter Pan embossed seal front cover. Deckled pages. Frontis photo, birthplace of J. M. Barrie. Bindings tight, inner pages age-toned but unmarked. Beige spine label. All volumes in slipcases, however most are poor/good condition, bottom cardboard panels separated on several volumes. Slipcase covers stained.; Volumes include: Vol. 1, Auld Licht Idylls/A Window in Thrums, Vol. 3: When A Man's Single, Vol. 5: Sentimental Tommy, Vol. 6: Tommy and Grizel, Vol. 11: The Admirable Crichton and Other Plays, Vol. 12: What Every Woman Knows and Other Plays, Vol. 13: Dear Brutus and Other Plays, Vol. 14: Mary Rose and Other Plays, Vol. 15: M'Connachie and J. M. B, The Entrancing Life, The Little Minister. Missing volumes: 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10.
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Charles Frohman Presents Maude Adams in J.M. Barrie's Play Peter Pan Or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up
Frohman, Charles (J.M. Barrie)
Charles Frohman Presents Maude Adams in J.M. Barrie's Play Peter Pan Or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up
Frohman, Charles (J.M. Barrie)
- Publisher: Charles Frohman
- Date published: 1907
- Format: Staplebound Pamphlet
Landscape octavo pamphlet, 9.25 in. x 12.1 in. Unpaginated (eight leaves). Illustrated with sepia-toned photographs of Peter Pan characters and scenes. Light tan paper covers with pasted on photo-image of Peter Pan in green and sepia to front. Title in green and dark brown to front. Edgewear to pamphlet, with small chips to corners of cover photo. Laid in: 8.25 in. x 5.75 in. insert printed in red and black entitled: "For the Benefit of Late Comers, The Following Outline of the Story of Peter Pan Is Given." Insert has horizontal crease across center. Laid in: Postcard of Maude Adams in full Peter Pan dress by Detroit Publishing Co. (Photo by Sarony). From Utah Women's History: Known as the most famous and highest-paid actress of her time, Maude Adams (1872-1953 was an incredibly beautiful and intensely private person who donned so many personalities; she alluded to her own as being 'the one I knew least." In addition to her acting success, she helped invent technology to improve stage lighting and develop color film photography....In 1889, Maude met producer Charles Frohman, who propelled her career forward by casting her in a variety of successful roles, including a series of plays with leading man John Drew, Jr. Audiences came to see Drew, but were impressed with Maude. During the opening of The Masked Ball in October 1892, the audience gave her a two-minute standing ovation and 12 curtain calls. Harpers Weekly wrote: "It is difficult to see just who is going to prevent Miss Adams from becoming the leading exponent of light comedy in America." Maude's greatest successes came by acting in several of J. M. Barrie's plays. Her most famous role was debuting the character Peter Pan on Broadway in 1905. She acted in more than 1, 500 stage performances of Peter Pan and made $20, 000 a month. Children would attend the performance night after night, memorizing all of the lines. At her peak, Maude was earning a yearly income of more than one million dollars. Maude wrote of her feelings about Peter Pan: It was not only that Peter was the most delightful of all the plays, but it opened a new world to me, the beautiful world of children. My childhood and girlhood had been spent with older people, and children had always been rather terrifying to me...Children remained an enigma to me until, when I was a woman grown, Peter gave me open sesame; for whether I understood children or not, they understood Peter.
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Charles Frohman Presents Maude Adams in J.M. Barrie's Play Peter Pan Or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up
Frohman, Charles (J.M. Barrie)
Charles Frohman Presents Maude Adams in J.M. Barrie's Play Peter Pan Or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up
Frohman, Charles (J.M. Barrie)
- Publisher: Charles Frohman
- Date published: 1906
- Format: Staplebound Pamphlet
Landscape octavo pamphlet, 9.25 in. x 12.1 in. Unpaginated (eight leaves). Illustrated with sepia-toned photographs of Peter Pan characters and scenes. Light tan paper covers with pasted on photo-image of Peter Pan in green and sepia to front. Title in green and dark brown to front. Edgewear to pamphlet, Laid in are two photos of Maude Adams as Peter Pan. One is an actual photo postcard dated March of 1906, with a canceled one-cent stamp of Franklin; the second is one of the photos which appears in the subject booklet. From Utah Women's History: Known as the most famous and highest-paid actress of her time, Maude Adams (1872-1953 was an incredibly beautiful and intensely private person who donned so many personalities; she alluded to her own as being 'the one I knew least." In addition to her acting success, she helped invent technology to improve stage lighting and develop color film photography....In 1889, Maude met producer Charles Frohman, who propelled her career forward by casting her in a variety of successful roles, including a series of plays with leading man John Drew, Jr. Audiences came to see Drew, but were impressed with Maude. During the opening of The Masked Ball in October 1892, the audience gave her a two-minute standing ovation and 12 curtain calls. Harpers Weekly wrote: "It is difficult to see just who is going to prevent Miss Adams from becoming the leading exponent of light comedy in America." Maude's greatest successes came by acting in several of J. M. Barrie's plays. Her most famous role was debuting the character Peter Pan on Broadway in 1905. She acted in more than 1, 500 stage performances of Peter Pan and made $20, 000 a month. Children would attend the performance night after night, memorizing all of the lines. At her peak, Maude was earning a yearly income of more than one million dollars. Maude wrote of her feelings about Peter Pan: It was not only that Peter was the most delightful of all the plays, but it opened a new world to me, the beautiful world of children. My childhood and girlhood had been spent with older people, and children had always been rather terrifying to me...Children remained an enigma to me until, when I was a woman grown, Peter gave me open sesame; for whether I understood children or not, they understood Peter.
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J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens Retold for Little People With Pictures By Arthur Rackham
Barrie, J. M.; Byron, May (Adaptation)
J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens Retold for Little People With Pictures By Arthur Rackham
Barrie, J. M.; Byron, May (Adaptation)
- Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton Limited
- Date published: 1929
- Format: Hard Cover
This is the Peter Pan who plays in Kensington Gardens retold by May Byron with the permission of the author and illustrated by the inimitable Arthur Rackham. No date; circa 1929. Bright green buckram (full-cloth) boards, crisp black cover and spine titles, design, light shelf wear. Stylish vignette at cover of babe Peter playing his pan flute sitting upon a mushroom patch. Deckled pages near fine; small vintage inscription at blank endp. Bind good; hinges intact. Includes six color plates and fifteen more in b&w; all by Arthur Rackham. Pictorial endpapers with Map of Kensington Gardens. Beautifully charming and subdued imagery by Arthur Rackham. Rare dust wrapper, moderate edge wear, rub; unclipped, protected in new clear sleeve. Lovely pictorial dust jacket with the full colour illustration of Peter Pan playing flute in mushroom patch, lettering in red and black on front panel and spine, black and white illustrated rear panel listing the three May Byron re-tellings of Peter Pan, this title being the last listed; price of 2/6 on the spine. A near fine example in very good jacket. In Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, J.M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as an infant, living a wild and secret life with birds and fairies in the middle of London. Later Barrie let this remarkable child grow a little older and he became the boy-hero of Neverland, making his first appearance with Wendy, Captain Hook, and the Lost Boys. The Peter Pan stories were Barrie's only works for children but, as their persistent popularity shows, their themes of imaginative escape continue to charm even those who long ago left Neverland. Mary Clarissa "May" Byron (1861-1936) was an author in her own right, but was best known for her abridgements of J.M. Barrie's works for children. 123 pages. Insured post.
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Peter Pan Or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up the Uniform Edition of the Plays of J. M. Barrie
Barrie, J. M
Peter Pan Or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up the Uniform Edition of the Plays of J. M. Barrie
Barrie, J. M
- Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
- Date published: 1956
- Format: Hardcover
Blue boards, yellow titles. Binding tight and straight, inner pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is price-intact, upper corner clipped. Dust jacket has few small edgechips, now protected within mylar cover.; 162 pages.
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The Works of J.M. Barrie: Peter Pan Edition, 9-Volumes
Barrie, J. M.
The Works of J.M. Barrie: Peter Pan Edition, 9-Volumes
Barrie, J. M.
- Publisher: Scribner's
- Date published: 1929
- Format: Hardcover
Incomplete set, 9 of 18 volumes. #554/1030. Signed by publisher, limitation page. 1/4 cream cloth, brown boards, gold Peter Pan embossed seal front cover. Deckled pages. Frontis photo, birthplace of J. M. Barrie. Bindings tight, inner pages age-toned but unmarked. Beige spine label. All volumes in slipcases, however most are poor/good condition, bottom cardboard panels separated on several volumes. Slipcase covers stained.; Volumes include: Vol. 1, Auld Licht Idylls/A Window in Thrums, Vol. 3: When A Man's Single, Vol. 5: Sentimental Tommy, Vol. 6: Tommy and Grizel, Vol. 11: The Admirable Crichton and Other Plays, Vol. 12: What Every Woman Knows and Other Plays, Vol. 13: Dear Brutus and Other Plays, Vol. 14: Mary Rose and Other Plays, Vol. 15: M'Connachie and J. M. B, The Entrancing Life, The Little Minister. Missing volumes: 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10.
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Charles Frohman Presents Maude Adams in J.M. Barrie's Play Peter Pan Or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up
Frohman, Charles (J.M. Barrie)
Charles Frohman Presents Maude Adams in J.M. Barrie's Play Peter Pan Or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up
Frohman, Charles (J.M. Barrie)
- Publisher: Charles Frohman
- Date published: 1907
- Format: Staplebound Pamphlet
Landscape octavo pamphlet, 9.25 in. x 12.1 in. Unpaginated (eight leaves). Illustrated with sepia-toned photographs of Peter Pan characters and scenes. Light tan paper covers with pasted on photo-image of Peter Pan in green and sepia to front. Title in green and dark brown to front. Edgewear to pamphlet, with small chips to corners of cover photo. Laid in: 8.25 in. x 5.75 in. insert printed in red and black entitled: "For the Benefit of Late Comers, The Following Outline of the Story of Peter Pan Is Given." Insert has horizontal crease across center. Laid in: Postcard of Maude Adams in full Peter Pan dress by Detroit Publishing Co. (Photo by Sarony). From Utah Women's History: Known as the most famous and highest-paid actress of her time, Maude Adams (1872-1953 was an incredibly beautiful and intensely private person who donned so many personalities; she alluded to her own as being 'the one I knew least." In addition to her acting success, she helped invent technology to improve stage lighting and develop color film photography....In 1889, Maude met producer Charles Frohman, who propelled her career forward by casting her in a variety of successful roles, including a series of plays with leading man John Drew, Jr. Audiences came to see Drew, but were impressed with Maude. During the opening of The Masked Ball in October 1892, the audience gave her a two-minute standing ovation and 12 curtain calls. Harpers Weekly wrote: "It is difficult to see just who is going to prevent Miss Adams from becoming the leading exponent of light comedy in America." Maude's greatest successes came by acting in several of J. M. Barrie's plays. Her most famous role was debuting the character Peter Pan on Broadway in 1905. She acted in more than 1, 500 stage performances of Peter Pan and made $20, 000 a month. Children would attend the performance night after night, memorizing all of the lines. At her peak, Maude was earning a yearly income of more than one million dollars. Maude wrote of her feelings about Peter Pan: It was not only that Peter was the most delightful of all the plays, but it opened a new world to me, the beautiful world of children. My childhood and girlhood had been spent with older people, and children had always been rather terrifying to me...Children remained an enigma to me until, when I was a woman grown, Peter gave me open sesame; for whether I understood children or not, they understood Peter.
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J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan & Wendy Retold By May Byron for Little People With the Approval of the Author. Pictures By Mabel Lucie Attwell
Barrie, J. M.; Byron, May (Adaptation)
J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan & Wendy Retold By May Byron for Little People With the Approval of the Author. Pictures By Mabel Lucie Attwell
Barrie, J. M.; Byron, May (Adaptation)
- Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton Limited
- Date published: 1935
- Format: Hard Cover
No date; circa 1935. Early printing with Mabel Lucie Atwell's illustrations. Dark blue cloth boards, black embossed cover and spine titles, design, light shelf wear. Vignette silhouette of what appears to be littlest Darling boy, Michael Nicholas at cover and spine. Thick heavy stock leaves, near fine, clean. Rare original wrap-around pictorial wrapper, moderate edge wear, chip, rub; protected in new clear sleeve. Charming pictorial wrapper. Near fine in original near very good wrapper. Features uniquely charming color gravure plates and partial-page designs by Mabel Lucie Attwell. J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan is a thrilling adventure for all ages! Barrie's story of the boy who refuses to grow up is a tale that never gets old. It follows the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael, who befriend the magical Peter and are whisked away to Neverland, where the villainous Captain Hook and the brave Lost Boys await. Mabel Lucie Attwell's gentle illustrations and distinctive style have been a gift to young and old for generations. This illustrated edition of Peter Pan and Wendy was first published in 1921. Mabel Lucie Attwell's interpretation is presented here as a beautiful hardback gift edition, featuring original full-color plates and line artwork. Contents include: "Chapter I. Peter Breaks Through; II. The Shadow; III. Come Away, Come Away! ; IV. The Flight; V. The Island Come True; VI. The Little House; VII. The Home Under the Ground; VIII. The Mermaid's Lagoon; IX. The Never Bird; X. The Happy Home; XI. Wendy's Story; XII. The Children are Carried Off; XIII. Do You Believe in Fairies; XIV. The Pirate Ship; XV. 'Hook or Me This Time'; XVI. The Return Home; XVII. When Wendy Grew Up." 144 pages. Insured post.
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens By Barrie, J. M
J. M Barrie
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens By Barrie, J. M
J. M Barrie
- Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
- Date published: 1906
- Format: Hardcover
1907 Scribner (December 1906 verso title page) Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 50 color plates, mounted on heavy stock and each with a lettered tissue guard. xiv, 126 pp of text. Cloth hardcover is worn binding is tender, tissue guards show foxing. Ownership ink to flyleaf. Please email for photos.
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Charles Frohman Presents Maude Adams in J.M. Barrie's Play Peter Pan Or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up
Frohman, Charles (J.M. Barrie)
Charles Frohman Presents Maude Adams in J.M. Barrie's Play Peter Pan Or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up
Frohman, Charles (J.M. Barrie)
- Publisher: Charles Frohman
- Date published: 1906
- Format: Staplebound Pamphlet
Landscape octavo pamphlet, 9.25 in. x 12.1 in. Unpaginated (eight leaves). Illustrated with sepia-toned photographs of Peter Pan characters and scenes. Light tan paper covers with pasted on photo-image of Peter Pan in green and sepia to front. Title in green and dark brown to front. Edgewear to pamphlet, Laid in are two photos of Maude Adams as Peter Pan. One is an actual photo postcard dated March of 1906, with a canceled one-cent stamp of Franklin; the second is one of the photos which appears in the subject booklet. From Utah Women's History: Known as the most famous and highest-paid actress of her time, Maude Adams (1872-1953 was an incredibly beautiful and intensely private person who donned so many personalities; she alluded to her own as being 'the one I knew least." In addition to her acting success, she helped invent technology to improve stage lighting and develop color film photography....In 1889, Maude met producer Charles Frohman, who propelled her career forward by casting her in a variety of successful roles, including a series of plays with leading man John Drew, Jr. Audiences came to see Drew, but were impressed with Maude. During the opening of The Masked Ball in October 1892, the audience gave her a two-minute standing ovation and 12 curtain calls. Harpers Weekly wrote: "It is difficult to see just who is going to prevent Miss Adams from becoming the leading exponent of light comedy in America." Maude's greatest successes came by acting in several of J. M. Barrie's plays. Her most famous role was debuting the character Peter Pan on Broadway in 1905. She acted in more than 1, 500 stage performances of Peter Pan and made $20, 000 a month. Children would attend the performance night after night, memorizing all of the lines. At her peak, Maude was earning a yearly income of more than one million dollars. Maude wrote of her feelings about Peter Pan: It was not only that Peter was the most delightful of all the plays, but it opened a new world to me, the beautiful world of children. My childhood and girlhood had been spent with older people, and children had always been rather terrifying to me...Children remained an enigma to me until, when I was a woman grown, Peter gave me open sesame; for whether I understood children or not, they understood Peter.
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J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens Retold for Little People With Pictures By Arthur Rackham
Barrie, J. M.; Byron, May (Adaptation)
J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens Retold for Little People With Pictures By Arthur Rackham
Barrie, J. M.; Byron, May (Adaptation)
- Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton Limited
- Date published: 1929
- Format: Hard Cover
This is the Peter Pan who plays in Kensington Gardens retold by May Byron with the permission of the author and illustrated by the inimitable Arthur Rackham. No date; circa 1929. Bright green buckram (full-cloth) boards, crisp black cover and spine titles, design, light shelf wear. Stylish vignette at cover of babe Peter playing his pan flute sitting upon a mushroom patch. Deckled pages near fine; small vintage inscription at blank endp. Bind good; hinges intact. Includes six color plates and fifteen more in b&w; all by Arthur Rackham. Pictorial endpapers with Map of Kensington Gardens. Beautifully charming and subdued imagery by Arthur Rackham. Rare dust wrapper, moderate edge wear, rub; unclipped, protected in new clear sleeve. Lovely pictorial dust jacket with the full colour illustration of Peter Pan playing flute in mushroom patch, lettering in red and black on front panel and spine, black and white illustrated rear panel listing the three May Byron re-tellings of Peter Pan, this title being the last listed; price of 2/6 on the spine. A near fine example in very good jacket. In Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, J.M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as an infant, living a wild and secret life with birds and fairies in the middle of London. Later Barrie let this remarkable child grow a little older and he became the boy-hero of Neverland, making his first appearance with Wendy, Captain Hook, and the Lost Boys. The Peter Pan stories were Barrie's only works for children but, as their persistent popularity shows, their themes of imaginative escape continue to charm even those who long ago left Neverland. Mary Clarissa "May" Byron (1861-1936) was an author in her own right, but was best known for her abridgements of J.M. Barrie's works for children. 123 pages. Insured post.
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