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Barrie, J.M.. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Hodder and Stoughton,, London, 1910.
Price: US$58.04 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: [126pp.] 24 colour plates by Arthur Rackham (1 detached), e.p. maps. Cover warped & discoloured all pagres loose needs rebind. Inscription is 1910
Seller: Victoria Bookshop, BERE ALSTON, DEVON, United Kingdom
J. M. Barrie. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1910.
Price: US$115.89 + shipping
Description: An early edition of J.M. Barrie's tale about an infant Peter Pan, illustrated throughout by leading English book illustrator Arthur Rackham. An early edition of this work, being the second issue of the trade edition.With gilt blind stamp to front board of Peter sitting on mushrooms playing pipes, gilt detailing to back-strip, with printed maps of Kensington Gardens to green endpapers, list of contents, list of illustrations, and 'From The Little White Bird'to the verso title page, as called for.Collated, illustrated with twenty-three colour plates by Arthur Rackham, each retaining their original captioned tissue guards. Lacking plate 10, which should appear facing page 40.First appeared in 1906,Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is one of four classic tales to feature the widely known and beloved character of Peter Pan. Most of the text appeared previously in Barrie's 1902 work The Little White Bird. This story tells of a seven-day-old Peter's adventures as he flies to Kensington Gardens. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Boards bright. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with discolouration to spine. Hinges strained, but firmly held. Small loss to head of front free endpaper. Ink inscription to recto of frontispiece. Internally, binding strained. Frontispiece detached and loosely inserted. Leaves b-2 and plate number 2. detached and loosely inserted. Lacking plate 10, which should appear facing page 40. Pages bright, but with instances of spotting and foxing throughout. Good Only
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$138.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo. 8 1/4 in. x 6 1/4 in. Green cloth boards with gilt illustration of young boy sitting atop a mushroom playing a panpipe. Gilt lettering to spine. 126 pp. General wear to cloth, rubbing to extremities, Olive green map endpapers on card stock. 23 of 24) lovely mounted illustrations by Arthur Rackham, each protected with captioned tissue-guard some not in stated order. Occasional light spotting to wide margins throughout book, but not to obscure.
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
Barrie, J. M.. Quality Street : A Comedy in Four Acts. Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1910.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good hardcover circa 1913, bluish cloth covers with gold designs, Folio 22 tipped-in color plates plus numerous B&W illustrations top of spine slightly split, previous owner's signature, 22 tipped-in color plates plus numerous B&w illustrations
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$199.31 + shipping
Description: Grünes OLn./origin dark green book cover, mit goldener Deckelillustration, 8°, 125 (1) S., Mit 24 farbigen Zeichnungen von Arthur Rackham. With 24 coloured drawings by Arthur Rackham. Zustand/condition: gut/good. Die hintere Einbanddecke etwas fleckig, the back book cover a bit stained.
Seller: Antiquariat Das Bücherdepot, Vienna, VIENN, Austria
Barrie, J.M.:. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1910]., 1910.
Price: US$245.81 + shipping
Description: From 'The Little White Bird'. 6 x 8.25 inches. With 24 drawings by Arthur Rackham. vii, 126 pp. Tissue-guarded colour frontispiece & 20 other delightful, rather magical colour plates by renowned illustrator Arthur Rackham (three of the original 24 plates are missing). All plates with descriptive tissue guards. Four plates are loose. A charming children's story chronicling Peter Pan's adventures in Kensington Gardens, London. Green eps with Peter Pan's Map of Kensington Gardens. Spots of light foxing on prelims and intermittently in text. Binding loosening internally. Green cloth boards with decorative gilt lettering on spine and gilt vignette in centre of front board - Peter Pan seated on mushrooms playing the pan pipes. Top, bottom and edges of spine rubbed. Three short nicks in top of spine. Corners rubbed. Overall condition Good. No dust wrapper.
Seller: Owl Books, County Leitrim, Ireland
Price: US$345.09 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Barrie, J. M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / with twenty-four drawings by Arthur Rackham. London: Hodder and Stoughton, s.d. [1910] Hardback, Good to Fair. Dark green cloth boards, a little bumped to corners and top/base of spine, slight rubbing along spine edge and a few small marks. Gilt embossed cover design and stylized spine titles, cover vignette of Peter Pan playing his pan flute sitting upon a mushroom patch. Binding good, with some movement. Map of Kensington Gardens on thick light olive endpapers at front and back. Colour frontispiece with captioned tissue guard, illustrated title page with light foxing. Foxing also to contents page. 126pp., colour plates. All the plates are present but plate and tissue guard adjacent to p.1 loose but intact. Plates and captioned tissue guards adjacent to pp.9, 17, 57, 97 ditto, some frayed around the edges. Occasional foxing, otherwise contents clean and bright.This is the first trade ediiton, with the point of issue verso title page simply stating: "From The Little White Bird". SCARCE. 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. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.
Seller: RightWayUp Books, Woodbridge, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Circa 1910 based upon research with other examples. Point of issue verso title page simply stating: "From The Little White Bird". Title page states: "Hodder and Stoughton, Publishers" without "Limited" or "Ltd." which occurred about 1920. Fine dark green cloth boards, gilt embossed cover design and stylized spine titles, moderate shelf wear, rub. Golden raised cover vignette, rich in subtle detail, of babe Peter playing his pan flute sitting upon a mushroom patch. Deckled pages generally very good with attractive toning. The notorious, but rather scarcely seen bio-predation of the 'bookworm' of lore has done some burrowing at the front endpaper ending at title page and back endpapers ending diminishing to final page of text; majority of volume remains free of its works. Map of Kensington Gardens on thick light olive matte endpapers at front and back. Includes two dozen color plates with captioned tissue guards and decoration. Beautifully charming and subdued imagery by Arthur Rackham. String-bind good; hinges intact. Near very good rarity. 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. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press. 126 pages. Insured post. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$498.27 + shipping
Description: In-8° pp. 124 con 24 tav. a col. f.t. protette da velina. Legatura in tela edit. con ill. impressa in oro al piatto e con titolo e dorature al dorso. Pianta di Kensinton sui fogli di guardia. Ben conservato.
Seller: Libreria Gullà, roma, ROMA, Italy
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher's red cloth binding stamped in gilt. All edges stained. Brown endpapers. Measuring 245 x 180mm and illustrated throughout. Some staining and rubbing to cloth; front signature professionally strengthened. Contemporary gift inscription to front endpaper: "Evelyn Demy. Xmas 1910." Internally pleasing and clean. Laid in is an early photographic image of the author with some notations to the verso. Arthur Rackham was one of the great illustrators of the early 20th century, a period which is referred to as the "golden age" in British book design. His works were produced in both limited and mass market editions as there was a large market for ornately illustrated books before the First World War. Rackham used a unique style, thought to mix European and East Asian influences, that involved both pen and India Ink as well as watercolor. His work was displayed all over Europe - and received awards at International Exhibitions in Milan and Barcelona and Rackham would influence heavily many illustrators, especially those of children's books, who came after him. "Rackham's illustrations to Grimm, Hans Andersen or Poe show him at his most imaginative and observant of human nature, while his gnomes, fairies and gnarled anthropomorphic trees in Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens or A Midsummer Night's Dream represent his more fantastic side. He was - and remains - a soloist in front of an orchestra, a player with the responsibility to interpret and add a personal lustre to great works with variations of infinite subtlety and grace" (Arthur Rackham: A Life). Very Good.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Barrie, J.M.. Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1910.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto. 10" x 7.5". 125 pp. Collated and complete. Beautifully hand-painted ownership decoration on front paste-down. Frontis, 49 tipped-on illustrations with captioned tissue guards in rear on thick dark green stock paper. Small inked in inscription; moderate foxing to half-title, very mild foxing to page fore edges throughout; cracked hinge at final text signature, binding still tight; spine tips gently pressed, corners slightly turned and soiled, extremities lightly rubbed; spine sunned a shade with faint strip of offsetting to rear board. Overall, near fine, gilt and binding still bright and tight. Full red cloth, pictorially gilt title, ffep with map of Kensington Gardens, all edges trimmed with dark green stain
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
J M Barrie. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Hodder and Stoughton, UK, 1910.
Price: US$515.05 + shipping
Description: New Edition Circa 1910. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Correct 1st Issue with point of issue verso title page simply stating: "From The Little White Bird". Title page states: "Hodder and Stoughton, Publishers" without "Limited" or "Ltd." which occurred later and all plates listed in illustrations contents page.Front and back flaps are blank. Back panel features Hodder and Stoughton advert for the Presentation Edition of this same Rackham title which was available approximately 1908-1912. Map of Kensington Gardens on thick light olive matte endpapers at front and back. Includes two dozen color plates with captioned tissue guards and decoration. Rare original white pictorial wrapper not found with other issues, golden titles at front and spine. Undated. 1st printing in this format. Correct 1st state with the list of illustrations. Book is very good++ and very bright. Contents good. The wrapper is about good with small loss to spine top. Spine darkened and generally age toned to the rest of the wrapper. Edge rubbed and nicked. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 16441
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
Price: US$643.82 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens From The Little White Bird. Written by JM Barrie Illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1912 Hardback with 50 plates, colour illustrations all with tissue guards attached. Published by Hodder and Stoughton 1912. Beautifully rebound by Temple Bookbinders in Oxford, in full leather, with unique fairy ring pattern to covers, Title and author in gilt to the spine. Gilt page edges. Externally fine, internally the very occasional light foxing, generally very clean. Complete with 50 tissue guarded full colour plates by Rackham with no creasing. A charming and nostalgic book for the collector.
Seller: SOA Books, Northumberland, United Kingdom
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Extra large 8" x10" x 2" illustrated design. 1910 at title page; stated Seventh Edition. Brick red full-cloth boards, bright gilt embossed cover design and flourishing spine titles, moderate cover wear, spine edge wear, rub. Cover depicts stylized titles and gilt design of Peter riding bucking goat w/large rounded horns. Thick heavy stock pages generally very good, few w/edge wear, discoloration. Antiquarian pictorial bookplate at front pastedown featuring b&w design of Baptistry Canterbury structures w/opened scroll below: "Ex Libris, Venice Dabell". Fountain pen signature to adjacent endpaper: "Mabel Dabell". Dark olive matte pictorial endpapers featuring Rackham's map of Peter's village. Dark tinted text block at all sides. Features fifty color plates by Arthur Rackham mounted on heavy stock dark matte leaves w/captioned tissue guards throughout the illlustrated latter half of volume. Bind good, intact. Large, intact and profusely illustrated early printing. 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 in Great Britain by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty at the University Press, Edinburgh. 127 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
BARRIE, J.M; RACKHAM, Arthur. PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS. Hodder & Stoughton, 1910.
Price: US$849.84 + shipping
Description: First Octavo edition with illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Dark olive green cloth covers with lovely gilt decoration to the front upper and gilt lettering to the spine, in the original pictorial dustwrapper. Previous owner's school prize bookplate for book-illustration loosely laid in. A bright, fine copy, in a very good dustwrapper, uncommonly clean with some loss to the head of the spine and one short closed tear to upper panel. Map of Kensington Gardens on the front free endpaper, with twenty-four colour plates. J.M. Barrie's tale of Peter Pan was first published as a Christmas Gift book with colour illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Both the tale and the illustrations were a hit with the critics and public and have become very collectable. A contemporary review of the book published in "The World" reads "Mr Barrie has done what no one else has done since the inventor of "Alice", he has invented a new legend, a modern folk story which comprehends all the innermost secrets of the modern child, be he four or forty. Mr Rackham, for his part, has been bewitched in his cradle: he does not dream of fairies or hobgoblins, he knows them."
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth hardcover, with gilt picture of a boy sitting on a mushroom on the cover and gilt lettering to spine. Inside front and rear covers is a map of Peter Pan's Kensington Garden. 24 illustrations in color by Arthur Rackham with tissue guards. Very Good condition with bumped corners. Pictures on request
Seller: Karl Books, Alpharetta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1113.81 + shipping
Description: 8vo., Trade Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present), title-vignette, 23 fine coloured plates (all original captioned tissue guards present) and endpaper maps on green stock, fore-edge very lightly dust-soiled; original green buckram, upper board blocked in gilt and pink, gilt back, expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, firm copy. This copy is something of a curiosity, for it seems to match no recorded edition. Following Riall as closely as possible It is clearly a variant of the second issue of the Trade Edition: (a) gilt backstrip; (b) 24 plates; (c) no gilt top. BUT (a) upper board blocked in gilt and pink; (b) front and rear endpaper maps; (c) list of contents; (d) list of illustrations; (e) 'Little White Bird' on title verso. A VERY SCARCE UNRECORDED VARIANT. Latimore & Haskell makes no mention of this all; see Riall, pp.105-6;
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Circa 1910 based upon research with other examples. Point of issue verso title page simply stating: "From The Little White Bird". Title page states: "Hodder and Stoughton, Publishers" without "Limited" or "Ltd." which occurred about 1920. Fine dark green cloth boards, gilt embossed cover design and stylized spine titles, light shelf wear. Golden raised cover vignette, rich in subtle detail, of babe Peter playing his pan flute sitting upon a mushroom patch. Deckled pages generally near fine, clean; exterior text block w/some fox, slightly to interior edges; few at front and back of volume w/some light fox. Map of Kensington Gardens on thick light olive matte endpapers at front and back. Includes two dozen color plates with captioned tissue guards and decoration. Beautifully charming and subdued imagery by Arthur Rackham. String-bind good; hinges intact. Rare original pictorial wrapper not found elsewhere, in white with golden titles at front and spine, moderate shelf wear, some discoloration, rub; protected in new clear sleeve. Front panel features rendition of twelfth plate from Rackham: "He passed under the bridge and came within full sight of the delectable Gardens". Spine features golden stylized titles and vignette of Peter riding the goat. Front and back flaps are blank. Back panel features Hodder and Stoughton advert for the Presentation Edition of this same Rackham title which was available approximately 1908-1912. Near very good rarity in same original wrapper. 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. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press. 126 pages. Insured post. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Barrie, J. M.. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Hodder & Stoughton, 1910.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The first Octavo and early Arthur Rackham illustrated edition of this classic children's book, fine in a near fine dust jacket. 24 color plates. Rare in the dust jacket and in this condition. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Circa 1910 point of issue verso title page simply stating: "From The Little White Bird". Title page states: "Hodder and Stoughton, Publishers" without "Limited" or "Ltd." which occurred later. Fine dark green cloth boards, gilt embossed cover design and stylized spine titles, light shelf wear. Golden raised cover vignette, rich in subtle detail, of babe Peter playing his pan flute sitting upon a mushroom patch. Deckled pages generally near fine, clean; exterior text block and few at front and back of volume w/light fox. Map of Kensington Gardens on thick light olive matte endpapers at front and back. Includes two dozen color plates with captioned tissue guards and decoration. Beautifully charming and subdued imagery by Arthur Rackham. String-bind good; hinges intact. Rare original white pictorial wrapper not found with other issues, golden titles at front and spine, moderate edge wear, rub; protected in new clear sleeve. Front panel features rendition of twelfth plate from Rackham: "He passed under the bridge and came within full sight of the delectable Gardens". Spine features golden stylized titles and vignette of Peter riding the goat. Front and back flaps are blank. Back panel features Hodder and Stoughton advert for the Presentation Edition of this same Rackham title which was available approximately 1908-1912. Finally, this complete example features the original two-piece pictorial light brown box, reinforced at seams with some rub, missing 3/4" from one corner of flap. Features matching gilt titles and bordered image of Peter passing under bridge. Near fine rarity in same original wrapper in the original protective box. 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. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press. 126 pages. Insured post. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.