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Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: x [2] 126 pp. With 50 tipped-in color illustrations by Arthur Rackham, each with printed tissue overleaf. 4to, original green gilt cloth, expertly rebacked retaining the original gilt spine. First U.S. trade edition. 1906 ink gift inscription on front free endpaper; title page and the leaf following foxed; scattered foxing to the tissue overleaves; plates fine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
J. M Barrie. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by Barrie, J. M. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906.
Price: US$399.99 + shipping
Description: 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. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, x, 126 pages. In Good plus condition. Full binding of green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Mild shelf wear. Chipping of cloth at head and tail of spine. Some staining to front and rear covers. Interior pages clean. Features 50 colored illustrations by Rackham, including frontispiece and 49 illustrations tipped in at rear. Shelved in Case 14. Riall page 74. 1371036. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$955.53 + shipping
Description: First Rackham edition, first US printing. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens was the most popular Christmas gift book for 1906 and was highly successful commercially. The story of Peter Pan had its genesis in Barrie's 1902 novel The Little White Bird, in which the central chapters tell of a child "who escaped from being a human when he was seven days old. and flew back to Kensington Gardens". Barrie developed this story into a play (first performed in 1904, but not published until 1928), this book of 1906 (the first to appear with the name of the character in the title) and, finally, the novel Peter and Wendy which was published in 1911. As noted by Fred Gettings, the "publication and quality" of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens "was a sure sign that Rackham had arrived, and was now to remain as one of the leading illustrators in a wide field of book titles". The Pittsburgh Post noted, on 17 September 1906, that "October will see the publication by the Scribners of Barrie's. Peter Pan. Arthur Rackham has prepared the colored pictures for the book". It appears, therefore, that UK and US editions had a similar publication date. On 5 October 1906, The Times Literary Supplement reported the announcement of publication from the English publishers and a review appeared in that paper on 14 December 1906. Fred Gettings, Arthur Rackham, London, Studio Vista, 1975, p. 112; Riall p. 74; The Pittsburgh Post, 17 September 1906, p. 6; Times Literary Supplement, 5 October 1906, p. 338; Times Literary Supplement, 14 December 1906, p. 418. Quarto. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, decoration on front cover in gilt, brown endpapers. Colour frontispiece and 49 coloured plates mounted on brown paper, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Arthur Rackham. Extremities a little rubbed and bumped, small holes to front joint, some light soiling, occasional light finger-soiling: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Barrie, J. M.. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1906.
Price: US$1150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 4to. Superb binding of half green morocco, spine in six compartments, gilt, green cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. The binding is unsigned but is reminiscent of Bayntum-Riviere or Sangorski & Sutcliffe. All plates are present with their tissue guards, and all but the frontispiece are bound after the text. A fine copy with only traces of age and rubbing. Latimore & Haskell, p. 27. .
Seller: Thorn Books, ABAA, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 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
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.