Peter Pan First Edition by J M Barrie (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First edition THUS. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Covers show slight wear and scuffing. All pages intact, binding is sound. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light scuffing and smudging to boards and spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Sarah Warburton (illustrator). 1st Edition. A fine UK Nosy Crow Illustrated Gift Edition - first printing thus hardback - My books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY SARAH WARBURTON & CARYL HART - Pictures available upon request. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" by J.M. Barrie and ill. by Arthur Rackham. London, Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1906, 1st trade ed., XII,125,(1)p., 50 tipped-in col. plates (incl. frontisp.), ills., bookdec. and orig. gilt cl. by A. RACKHAM. - Sl. foxed (worse at the beginning and end); one text leaf w. large tear. Covers waterst. in upper corners; spine-ends worn. = Latimore/ Haskell p.27.

Hodder & Stoughton. No date - which is a first edition point. [1911]. Large 8vo hardback. No DW. Original green cloth, decorated in gilt. FIRST EDITION POINTS: Blank leaf before half-title, vii, [i], 267 pages, frontis, pictorial title page and 11 plates, one is loose. Small water mark to front cover, spine slightly faded with a frayed head and crumpled tail, joints rubbed as are edges, pages foxed and browned, gift inscription to front pastedown, front free endpaper creased vertically otherwise a clean and sound copy of a very scarce item. The first edition of Barrie's best-loved work and the fullest version of the Peter Pan story. It is a longer version of Barrie's play 'Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up', first performed in 1904 but not published until 1928. Peter Pan made his first appearance in 'The Little White Bird' in 1902.

Hardcover, Vellum. Condition: Near Fine. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). 1st Edition, Limited Edition. BOOK INFO Published in 1907 by Hachette et Cie in Paris. First French edition, the scarce Grand edition de lux limited first edition with gorgeous cream vellum binding, gold lettering and pictorial cover design, high quality paper, silk yellow ties, top edge gilt and dozens of tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham. This is #74 out of only 270, with only 20 being signed by Rackham. Illustrated chapter head pieces. Map of Kensington Gardens printed on the FFEP. Quarto, 12" x 9." Remarkably has both of its original yellow silk ties, one still attached (quite scarce). OVERALL CONDITION NEAR FINE with 48/50 plates. First French edition published a year after the first English edition illustrated by Rackham at Hodder & Stoughton. Limited edition of 270 for this luxury edition in special binding. The white or vellum paper cartons were reserved only for luxury prints of works illustrated by Arthur Rackham. The color plate printing process was developed specifically to reproduce the delicacy of the watercolors of Arthur Rackham (1867-1939). One of 250 copies. The other 20 being printed on Japanese paper and signed by Rackham. This edition is very sought after and quite scarce in this condition. The more common first French trade edition, published the same year, was bound with cloth and contained only 24 plates. CONDITION In Near Fine antiquarian condition. The final two plates are missing. The remaining 48 color plates are in excellent condition. Square spine with firm hinges and joints and tight boards and pages (scarce as the boards often bow). Corners are sharp and crown and heel of spine unrubbed (scarce!) Just some rubbing and light soiling to the all-white vellum (per usual). The interior is beautifully clean and free of writing, stamps and ex libris marks. Pages are crisp. One page corner bent. Minimal foxing, mostly to some of the outer page margins/edges. Text pages are a creamy white and quite striking. Comes with BOTH original yellow silk ties. A magnificent and scarce first limited edition of a beloved all-time classic in high grade collectible condition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). First Edition. 1906 at title page. Stated verso title page: "Copyright in the Unites States of America by Charles Scribner's Sons." Voluminous 8" x 10" x 2" design. Russet colored full cloth boards, bright gilt embossed cover and spine design with flourishing titles, moderate shelf wear. Cover depicts crisp stylized titles with bright gilt design of babe Peter hands-free on bucking goat. Deckled leaves generally very good, clean; some sporadic fox, especially at first few. Frontispiece mounted plate with captioned tissue guard: "There now arose a mighty sotrm and he was tossed this way and that". Dark matte green pictorial endpapers featuring Rackham's map of Peter's village. Intriguing statement verso front endpaper over green matte: "This publication is for sale in Great Britain, its Colonies and Dependencies, but its sale and exhibition in France is prohibited." Antiquarian fountain pen inscription at half-title page: "To G. M. L. Marshall, from KluLtu. Xmas 1906," or similar. Dark tinted green text block at all sides. Features fifty color plates by Arthur Rackham mounted on heavy stock dark green matte leaves with fine captioned tissue guards throughout illlustrated latter half of volume. Bind good, square; hinges intact. Dedication: "To Sylvia and Arthur Llewelyn Davies and their boys (my boys)." Scarce sharp, near very good British first edition profusely embellished by Arthur Rackham. 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. Barrie's novel The Little White Bird of 1902 contains the first sketches for Peter Pan. The narrator is 'a gentle, whimsical, lonely old bachelor', an author by profession, whose ambition is to have a son. He meets a penniless young couple whose own son David fulfills his desire. The narrator explains that all children in our part of London were once birds in the Kensington Gardens. And, that the reason there are bars on nursery windows and a tall fender by the fire is because very little people sometimes forget that they no longer have wings, and try to fly away through the window or up the chimney. One such child, Peter Pan, escaped from being a human when he was seven days old and flew back to the Kensington Gardens. 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. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press. 126 pages of text with few vignettes prior to large plate section. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Harcover. Secondhand.First Illustrated Edition with illustrations by Arthur Rackham. The text is Peter Pan's origin story, recounting how he left his home and took up residence in Kensington Gardens. fairies are also rumored to have some involvement. The 50 tipped-in Rackham plates are complete with captioned interleaving. 1906 first edition hardback. Spine and cover worn and faded, with tape-mended hinge. Minor foxing to some pages. Noted that some of the 50 plates are loose.