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J. M. BARRIE. PETER PAN. HODDER AND STOUGHTON, LONDON, GREAT BRITAIN, 1928.
Price: US$10.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: * PUBLISHER : HODDER AND STOUGHTON * YEAR : 1928 * ISBN : N/A * No OF PAGES : 160 * CONDITION : USED - GOOD * OTHER: THE COVER BOARDS ARE LIGHTLY RUBBED WITH BUMPING AND LIGHT FADING ALONG THE EDGES AND CORNERS. THE SPINE IS RUBBED AND FADED WITH BUMPING AT BOTH ENDS. THE TITLE STICKER PLATE TO THE TOP OF THE SPINE IS FADED AND STAINED. THE BINDING IS FIRM. THERE IS FOXING ALONG THE FOR-EDGE AND INSIDE BOOK. THE PAGES ARE LIGHTLY TANNED, HOWEVER PAGES REMAIN CLEAR AND CRISP. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.
Seller: Happyfish Books, Meopham, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$10.27 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This first Uniform edition is in good condition. Foxing and sunning present to the spine and tanning to the front end paper. Otherwise internally a very good clean copy.
Seller: Our Kind Of Books, Liphook, United Kingdom
J M Barrie. Peter Pan or the boy who would not grown up. Hodder & Stoughton, 1928.
Price: US$15.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1928 Hodder & Stoughton third edition hardback, no dj; Good ex-reference library local collection copy, usual stickers and stamps; programme of a 1931 production of Peter Pan pasted in; UK dealer, immediate dispatch
Seller: Simply Read Books, Boat Of Garten, United Kingdom
J M Barrie. Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. Hodder & Stoughton, 1928.
Price: US$17.90 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners bumped and a little worn, top and bottom of spine bumped and a little worn, slight lean to spine, spine a little grubby, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear, but some light foxing on edges / fore edge, inscription to a previous owner on front end paper and previous owners book plaque on front paste down
Seller: Neo Books, Sidcup, KENT, United Kingdom
J M Barrie. Peter Pan or The boy Who Would not Grow up. Hodder and Stoughton, 1928.
Price: US$18.93 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1928. Hodder and Stoughton. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE Blue boards. Some wear. Spine Rubbed. Foxing on Page Edges. Writing on 1st Page. 7x5
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$19.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: different jacket design, bookplate on fep
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, Bucknell, SHROP, United Kingdom
J M Barrie. Peter Pan or the Boy who would not grow up. Hodder & Stoughton, 1928.
Price: US$21.82 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1928. Hardcover. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. Third Edition. 160pp. HARDCOVER "The uniform edition of the plays of J.M. Barrie. Prev Owners Insr. to ffep., o/w clean internally. External blue cloth has some rubbing & marks. Frt. title is via pasted label which is complete & legible, although a little grubby. Another similar label attached to spine is worn & cannot be read. Binding remains strong
Seller: Westmoor Books, Leyburn, United Kingdom
J. M. Barrie. MY LADY NICOTINE. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1928.
Price: US$25.67 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 - 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (first included in Barrie's 1902 adult novel The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. This edition published in the early nineteen hundreds in full blue calf with bright gilt titling and decoration to the spine and JMB device to the upper board. There are blind borders to the sides and gilt top page edges. From the creator of Peter Pan, My Lady Nicotine is one of his earlier works. Focusing on his days as a smoker, J.M. Barrie takes us through his life as a smoker to his last pipe as he begins his non-smoking days. Barrie's humorous essays about his companions, habits and quitting are sure to delight readers. Ref P 4 Size: 276pp
Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom
Barrie, J. M.. PETER PAN or THE BOY WHO WOULD NOT GROW UP. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1928.
Price: US$25.67 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 160pp. HARDCOVER "The uniform edition of the plays of J.M. Barrie." Presentation bookplate to ffep., o/w clean internally. External blue cloth has some rubbing & marks. Frt. title is via pasted label which is complete & legible. Another similar label attached to spine is worn & cannot be read. Binding remains strong. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. Size: 12mo - over 63/4" - 73/4" tall
Seller: Stephen Dadd, Ashford, United Kingdom
Price: US$27.55 + shipping
Description: Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Minor, scattered marginal foxing. Physical description: v, 844 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portraits ; 23 cm. Contents: Peter Pan, or The boy who would not grow up -- Quality street -- The admirable Crichton -- Alice sit-by-the-fire -- What every woman knows -- A kiss for Cinderella -- Dear Brutus -- Mary Rose -- Pantaloon -- Half an hour --Seven women -- Old friends -- Rosalind -- The will -- The twelve-pound look -- The new word -- A well-remembered voice -- Barbara's wedding -- The old lady shows her medals -- Shall we join the ladies? Subjects: Children's plays, English. Plays; Theatre. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Barrie, J. M. Peter Pan. Hodder and Stoughton, 1928.
Price: US$32.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. 8vo, blue cloth boards with paper label on front and spine. Xxxiii + 160pp. Part of The Uniform Edition of the Plays of J. M. Barrie published in the 1920?s. Very good and clean inside. The classic children?s story with Tinker Bell et al. We have a few more from this series in stock. Private library mark on front end paper and half title page.
Seller: Bird's Books, Edinburgh, SCOTL, United Kingdom
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Minor, scattered marginal foxing. Physical description: v, 844 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portraits ; 23 cm. Contents: Peter Pan, or The boy who would not grow up -- Quality street -- The admirable Crichton -- Alice sit-by-the-fire -- What every woman knows -- A kiss for Cinderella -- Dear Brutus -- Mary Rose -- Pantaloon -- Half an hour --Seven women -- Old friends -- Rosalind -- The will -- The twelve-pound look -- The new word -- A well-remembered voice -- Barbara's wedding -- The old lady shows her medals -- Shall we join the ladies? Subjects: Children's plays, English. Plays; Theatre. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$42.00 + shipping
Description: Crown 8vo. 5 x 7.375 in. xxx, [i], 160 pp. Blue cloth, with printed title lables to upper cover & spine. Very good indeed. Light edgewear, light soiling to covers, with moderate toning to spine. Light offsetting to endpapers. Binding square & tight, text otherwise clean & bright. Lacking dust jacket.
Seller: Irving Book Company, Asheville, NC, U.S.A.
BARRIE, J.M.. Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1928.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. 160 pages. Part of the uniform edition of Barrie's plays. A clean very near fine copy in blue cloth boards with paper labels affixed to the front cover and spine and with some slight toning to the endpapers and a vintage small bookseller sticker to the rear pastedown. No dust jacket. A lovely copy.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$51.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, original cloth with printed title labels; browning to endpapers o/w fine internally without inscriptions. Includes 29pp dedication by the author to The Five in which is revealed that although this book is part of the publisher's Uniform Edition of the plays of J.M. Barrie, this publication of Peter Pan as a play is it's first appearance in print. xxxiii,160pp
Seller: Trafford Books PBFA, Manchester, United Kingdom
Price: US$66.12 + shipping
Description: Very good cloth copy with title paper label. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Previous owner's signature. Physical description; 160 pp.; 19 cm. Notes; The plays of J.M. Barrie series. Subjects; Peter Pan (Fictitious character) ; Drama. Peter Pan (Fictitious character). 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$82.29 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1928. 160 pages. Beige jacket over blue cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$83.41 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Published in London in 1928, this is the First Edition of the play of Peter Pan, Hardback format in blue cloth with paper title labels, 7.5 inches tall approx., 160 pages, not illustrated. The covers have some mild edge bumps, light foxing to spine title label else covers in nice clean condition, internally some browning to endpapers, light foxing to opening and closing few pages, and outer page edges else contents in nice general condition.
Seller: Andrew Cox PBFA, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$89.82 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: THE DUST JACKET IS RUBBED AND FADED. THE CORNERS AND EDGES ARE SCUFFED. THERE IS A 5CM BY 2CM TEAR TO THE TOP EDGE OF THE FRONT JACKET. THE SPINE IS RUBBED AND YELLOWED. THE BASE OF THE SPINE HAS A SMALL TEAR, THE TOP OF THE SPINE HAS A 2CM TEAR. THERE IS SOME FOXING TO THE JACKET. THE PAGE EDGES HAVE LIGHT FOXING. THERE IS A PENNED NAME TO THE FFEP. THE BINDING IS TIGHT. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.
Seller: Happyfish Books, Meopham, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$110.87 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1928. 4th Edition. 160 pages. Full bound blue leather. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Minor dog-eared corners. Tears to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges. Light scratches overall.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$121.91 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: xxxiii, 160 pp. Full blue leather with gilt monogram to front board and gilt lettering and devices to spine; t.e.g. Some foxing to edges, though internally clean. The Uniform Edition of the plays of J. M. Barrie. The West End stage play that would later be expanded by Barrie into the novel Peter and Wendy. Small 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
J. M. Barrie. Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1928.
Price: US$122.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1928. Fourth Edition. 160 pages. No dust jacket. Full bound blue leather. Clean pages with mild tanning throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Notable sunning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends. Boards are mildly warped.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Barrie, J. M.. Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1928.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 4th "edition" (i.e. printing), same year as the 1st edition of this play, better than VG in a VG dust jacket, spine-sunned and with several small chips - very near VG. Previous owner's inscription on ffep, and with an old postcard of Kirriemuir laid in, depicting Barrie's birthplace and first theatre.
Seller: Montreal Books, Westmount, QC, Canada
Barrie, J. M.. Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1928.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 4th "edition" (i.e. printing), same year as the 1st edition of this play, better than VG in a VG dust jacket, spine-sunned and with several small chips - very near VG. Previous owner's inscription on ffep, and with an old postcard of Kirriemuir laid in, depicting Barrie's birthplace and first theatre.
Seller: RPBooks, Champlain, NY, U.S.A.
Barrie, J.M.. Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1928.
Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is the Uniform Edition of The Plays of J.M. Barrie; dark blue leatherette covers with gilt emblem to front, decorated spine and gilt lettering, clean and tidy, gilt closed edges to head, ribbon marker, pale stone coloured marbled endpapers, loose sheet and newspaper cuttings dated 1934 inserted in front of book by previous owner regarding author's plays, pp clean and unmarked, text clear to read, binding sound, a very neat and tidy copy. Size: 12mo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Barrie, J. M.. Peter Pan. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1928.
Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: From the series 'Uniform edition of the plays of J.M. Barrie'. Pages clean and bright, small tear on foot of front soft cover, bookmark detached from binding, shelf wear to soft covers, otherwise neat. Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: FOURTH EDITION. 8vo. Publishers delux leather binding. Bound in publishers delux blue limp leather binding with circular gilt JMB device on front board and gilt decoration and lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. A previous owners neat bookplate on the first blank free endpaper otherwise a near fine, bright copy. Scarce in this delux binding
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$175.17 + shipping
Description: 190mm x 120mm (7" x 5"). xxxiii, 160pp. With rubbed and marked dust jacket. Signed photograph of Elsa Lancaster tipped-in to the fep. The dedication by the author to 'The Five' indicates that although this book is part of the publisher's Uniform Edition, this publication of Peter Pan as a play is it's first appearance in print. The play and novel were inspired by Barrie's friendship with the Llewelyn Davies family. Barrie continued to revise the play for years after its debut until publication of the play script in 1928. G: in good condition. Dust jacket edge-chipped and with browning to spine. Prelims and fore-edge foxed
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
J M Barrie. The plays of J.M. Barrie in one volume. Hodder and Stoughton, 1928.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Deluxe edition bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London. Bound in full leather with raised bands and gilt decoration, gilt dentelle turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Cover shows minor wear, rubbing, and fading. Pages are clean. 844 pages. Contents: Peter Pan, Quality Street, The Admirable Crichton, Alice Sit-by-the-Fire, What Every Woman KNows, A Kiss for Cinderella, Deaer Brutus, Mary Rose, Pantaloon, Hal an Hour, Seven Women, Old Friends, Rosalind, The Will, The Twelve-Pound Look, The New Word, A Well-Remembered Voice, Barbara's Wedding, The old Lady Shows her Medals, and Shall We Join the Ladies?
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
BARRIE, J. M.. PETER PAN OR, THE BOY WHO WOULD NOT GROW UP.. Hodder & Stoughton,, London,, 1928.
Price: US$205.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Uniform Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp xxxiii, 160. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered blue on spine and front cover label. Uniform edition of the plays. Very slight browning to endpapers, otherwise about fine in slightly used and chipped, near very good dust jacket, with slight browning at spine.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
J. M. BARRIE. PETER PAN OR THE BOY WHO WOULD NOT GROW UP. HODDER & STOUGHTON, LONDON, 1928.
Price: US$205.32 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST PRINTING. A FIRST EDITION FROM THE PLAYS OF J. M. BARRIE SERIES, HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING WITH THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET, HALF TITLE. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES WITH 33 + 160 PAGES. FEW SMALL CHIPS TO EDGES OF JACKET WITH SPINE BROWNED AND TEXT TO SPINE OF JACKET FADED, FEW MINOR MARKS TO CLOTH COVER AND SPINE LABEL ON CLOTH, PRIVATE BOOKPLATE TO FRONT ENDPAPER, FIRST 25 PAGES WITH A CREASE TO TOP CORNER MARGINS, ENDPAPERS LIGHTLY BROWNED. OVERALL IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, DUST JACKET IS IN GOOD-VERY GOOD CONDITION. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JACKET HAS A CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING THAT DOES SHOW SOME REFLECTIONS IN IMAGES. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
J. M. Barrie. Peter Pan. Hodder & Stoughton, 1928.
Price: US$224.57 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1928. The Plays of J. M. Barrie. Peter Pan or the Boy who would not grow up. Lovely decorated binding. Stifff card. Uncommon.
Seller: PETER FRY (PBFA), Grange- over -Sands, CUMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$224.57 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.1 inches). A fine bright copy in publishers original blue cloth with printed paper labels on front board and spine. In the scarce original dustwrapper, lettered in blue and red. The wrapper is near to very good with some loss to the edges and darkening to the spine. Overall a very good copy. ----- This is the first edition of the play, and was issued as a volume in the uniform edition of the Plays of Barrie. Copies retaining the fragile original dustwrapper are scarce. ------ There are three versions of the Peter Pan story that J. M. Barrie published, after the character first appeared in hie novel The Little White Bird in 1902. The first is Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, which was issued in 1906, complete with fifty full colour plates by Arthur Rackham. This is the story of Peter Pan having adventures with the Fairies, Pixies and Animals of the Famous London Park. The second book issued was Peter and Wendy, published in 1911, with a decorative title page and twelve full page mono plates by F. D. Bedford. This is the Best known of the three, with Peter and Wendy and the other Darling children visiting Never Never Land and meeting Captain Hook and the Crocodile. The last is Peter Pan; or the Boy who would not grow up, published in 1928. This is actually the first time Barrie's famous Peter Pan play, performed on stage since 1904, was published in book form.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Barrie (J.M.). Peter Pan, or, The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1928.
Price: US$333.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First play edition. 8vo. Original blue boards with printed title label to spine and upper cover. Dust-jacket, An uncommon edition in the jacket, which has done a great job of preserving the book beneath. Barrie's classic tale for children, re-rendered for the stage. A very good example of the book; jacket a little marked and chipped, spine slightly darkened.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$385.72 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series: The plays of J.M. Barrie. Physical description: xxxiii, 160p. ; 20cm. Subjects: Peter Pan (Fictitious character) ; Children's drama. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
J. M. Barrie. PETER PAN or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1928.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine, clean and tight hardcover copy. No bumped corners. Paper label to spine and cover are in perfect condition. Jacket is very good/brodart covered. Jacket has aged with a toned spine and soiling. Small pieces missing to top and bottom of jackets spine with chips and small pieces missing to all four corner folds with edge wear and small nicks to jacket. Stated First Edition copyright page. = WE BOX AND SHIP ALL BOOKS WITH USPS TRACKING. = WE HAVE BEEN BUYING AND SELLING USED BOOKS FOR OVER 34 YEARS.
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
BARRIE, J.M.. Peter Pan. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1928, 1928.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Fine in a dust jacket with a darkened spine and some small chips. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Barrie (J.M.).. Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. Hodder and Stoughton Limited,, 1928.
Price: US$404.23 + shipping
Description: Some browning to end-papers and foxing to fore-edge, nevertheless a very nice copy in slightly frayed and marked dust-wrapper, the spine panel rather browned Original blue cloth, spine and upper cover with printed labels From the Uniform Edition of Barries plays, First Edition.
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$430.00 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series: The plays of J.M. Barrie. Physical description: xxxiii, 160p. ; 20cm. Subjects: Peter Pan (Fictitious character) ; Children's drama. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
J. M. Barrie. Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., London, 1928.
Price: US$433.11 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition of the Play, Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., London 1928. Octavo. Book is near fine with some slight browning to the text block and mild dusting to top edge. With the printed paperlabels to spine and front board. Faint partial tanning to free endpapers. Dustwrapper is very good+ with slightly rubbing and very faint spotting. Four miniscule tears at spine top of dw. and on each front bottom corner. With a Dedicatory Preface: TO THE FIVE especially written for this printing by the author. Scarce in this condition. Although written and first performed in 1904, the play of Peter Pan was not published until 1928 in the 'Uniform Edition of the Plays of J. M. Barrie'.
Seller: Nik's Bookstore Versandantiquariat, PBFA, Oestrich-Winkel, Germany
Barrie, J.M.. Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1928.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition of the play (the novel was published in 1911), in the uniform edition of The Plays of J.M. Barrie. Blue cloth, vg, no dj; very slight outer wear, with some toning of the title pieces, and an owner's name and date written small on the ffep. 160 pp.
Seller: Page 1 Books - Special Collection Room, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Barrie, J. M. PETER PAN or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1928. Although part of Hodder & Stoughton's Uniform Edition, this is indeed the First Separate Edition, First Printing. Although Peter Pan had appeared as a character in various earlier works, Barrie had continuously worked and re-worked the play until this definitive stand-alone edition. A Fine copy in a Fine, bright, priced (Five shillings) and unsoiled cream-colored Original Dust Jacket. As nice an example as one could hope for.
Seller: Lakin & Marley Rare Books ABAA, Mill Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$453.75 + shipping
Description: 21 vols, Sml. 8vo (180 x 130 mm (7 1/4 x 5 in); small, marginal corner stain affecting poart of one vol. (When a Man's Single), otherwise clean and bright; publisher's full blue calf, spines gilt, author's gilt monogram to front covers, top edge gilt, near-fine. From the author's inscription to the verso of the second upper free endpaper of; The Little Minster, this set would appear to be a gift to a nurse caring for him at the time: 'Some Scotch books to my kind nurse Sister Seaton, at 15 Park Lane, from her grateful patient, J. M. Barrie, Feb 1933'. Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (1860 - 1937), Scottish dramatist and novelist who is best known as the creator of Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up. Barrie's first successful book, Auld Licht Idylls (1888), contained sketches of life in Kirriemuir (his birthplace) and the stories in A Window in Thurms (1889) continued to explore that setting. The Little Minister (1891), a highly sentimental novel in the same style, was a best seller and, after its dramatisation in 1897, Barrie wrote mostly for the theatre. His autobiographical novels When a Man's Single (1888) and Sentimental Tommy (1896) both feature a little boy in Kirriemuir ('Thrums') who weaves a cloak of romantic fiction between himself and reality and becomes a successful writer. Most of those early works are marked by quaint Scottish dialect, whimsical humour, comic clowning, pathos and sentimentality. Most of Barrie's stage triumphs have been dismissed by critics as marred by ephemeral whimsicalities but at least six of his playsQuality Street (1901), The Admirable Crichton (1902), What Every Woman Knows (1908), The Twelve-Pound Look (1910), The Will (1913) and Dear Brutus (1917), are of indisputably high quality.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-xxxiii [xxxiv] [1-2] 3-160 [note: first leaf is a blank]. title page printed in red and black, original blue cloth, printed paper labels affixed to front and spine panels. First edition. Issued as part of "The Uniform Edition of the Plays of J. M. Barrie." First publication of the play, first performed in 1904. Peter Pan first appeared in Barrie's THE LITTLE WHITE BIRD (1902) and the part concerning Peter later became PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS (1906). Barrie later wrote a prose version of the play, PETER AND WENDY (1911). There is no 1904 Scribner edition of PETER PAN, it is a ghost. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-18 (citing a Scribner edition and mis-dating it 1904). Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), pp. 87 and 754. Bleiler (1978), p. 16 (citing a Scribner edition and mis-dating it 1904). Cutler, p. 200. A fine copy in very good printed dust jacket with several closed tears and some mild dust soiling. Overall, a nice example of this flimsy jacket. (#107117)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$866.20 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of the play text. The production opened on 27 December 1904 to huge success, breaking all previous theatrical records. Barrie followed up with Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906), the text of which was based not on the play but rather on revised extractions from his story collection The Little White Bird (1902). Issued as part of "The Uniform Edition of the Plays of J. M. Barrie", it includes a 29-page dedication "To the Five", in which Barrie relates how he created Peter Pan. Octavo. Original blue cloth, paper label on spine and front cover printed in blue. With dust jacket. Title page printed in red and black within double ruled frame. Jacket spine lightly toned, a couple of nicks and small chips, two tape reinforcements on verso, unclipped: a fine copy in near-fine jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$19000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST PLAY EDITION PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol., 7-3/8" x 5", inscribed on the front blank endleaf "To my dear Jane Pan from her loving admirer and uncle and servant J. M. Barrie. Aug 31, 1930, Stanway", bound in the publisher's deluxe blue limp leather binding with circular gilt JMB device on front cover, gilt decorated spine, top edge gilt, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine fine, very minor foxing to first and last leaves otherwise internally clean and bright, A VERY GOOD COPY. An important presentation/association copy of this classic children's fantasy play with a superb inscription. "Jane" was the lifelong nickname given to Sylvia Jocelyn Llewellyn Davies, the daughter of Jack Lewellyn Davies, one of the principal inspirations for Peter Pan and the Lost Boys. Jane was named after her grandmother, the daughter of French-born cartoonist and writer George du Maurier, who was a close companion of Barries whose death would lead to the author becoming the guardian of her sons. RBH locates only 5 inscribed copies of this title, with only one that might be as close a personal association - that being a copy of the Rackham illustrated limited edition of “Peter Pan” inscribed by Rackham to Barrie and additionally inscribed by Barrie to his sister Maggie. That copy sold in 2011 for $35,000. Provenance: By descent through the family of Jack Llewellyn Davies and thence to the present owner.
Seller: D&D Galleries - ABAA, Somerville, NJ, U.S.A.