Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
J.M. BARRIE. A WINDOW IN THRUMS [1st thus Illustrated]. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1912.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A lovely collectible copy of J.M. Barrie's well known story. Golden buckram with lovely illustrations by A.C. Michael. Each tipped in illustration is mounted on a separate stiff page with a titled tissue guard, all present and intact. A previous owner's name, dated 1918 on illustrated fep. Overall a great copy by the author of the Peter Pan stories. No date. Circa 1912.
Seller: Foley & Sons Fine Editions, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens from the Little White Bird.. Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.
Price: US$128.27 + shipping
Description: 50 tipped-in colouyred plates with lettered tissue guards. 4to (11 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches), 126-pages. Original green cloth pictorialy blocked in gult. Two inch tear at head of lower joint, headband rubbed. Four b&w leaves detached, one with tear and ragged margins. Endpapers tanned. 1923 Christmas gift inscription on front free endpaper. The 50 tipped-in coloured plates very good with no corner creasing.
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
Barrie, J.M.. Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens. Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.
Price: US$141.09 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st of this truncated edition. 24 colour plates with tissue-guards. Green cloth covered boards with gilt decoration to front board and gilt titles to spine. Foxing to half-title page and some page margins. There is an inscription verso of the friontispiece. All else is clean and firm inside. Firm boards, gilt still bright and minimal edge wear but there is some yellow marking along spine hinge edges.
Seller: HAUNTED BOOKSHOP P.B.F.A., CAMBRIDGE, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Price: US$210.12 + shipping
Description: Quarto, green cloth boards (reinforced with dark green library cloth to spine & board corners), gilt lettering & gilt illustration to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, viii + 125pp, illus throughout plus 50 colour plates with tissue guard, VG- (library cloth reinforcement as mentioned earlier, heavy fading to rear board & to front board upper edge, dampstaining to front board upper edge & inside upper edge of front pastedown, moderately heavy browning to prelims & terminals, owner's name & address in pencil to prelim, heavy browning to page edges, sporadic foxing throughout)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
J. M. Barrie. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1912.
Price: US$256.53 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New ed. (1912). 126pp. + 50 colour plates. Rebacked in matching green cloth boards using original cloth cover and backstrip, small section of original cloth missing at base of spine. Good copy, binding strong and tight, covers slightly rubbed and worn, corners bumped, covers gently faded with some darkened sections, gilt still moderately bright, foxing to prelims, neat ink inscription to ffep dated 1919, all plates present, excellent and tissue-guarded, internally very good
Seller: Object Relations, IOBA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$297.12 + shipping
Description: 4to. green cloth decorated gilt. 125pp. This is the New Edition, a reprint of the first but with a new colour frontis and an additional 7 b/w drawings. 50 tipped-in colour plates + tipped-in frontis all with captioned tissue guards. Good condition, wear to top front cover edge, some foxing. Spine & cover edges sunned. 6cm crack in front hinge. All colour plates in excellent condition, one tissue guard has a tear and a few have small creases.
Seller: Dial-A-Book, NARRABEEN, NSW, Australia
Price: US$320.67 + shipping
Description: 50 tipped in coloured plates by Rackham, all with lettered guards. Black & white plates and illustrations. Decorative title. 4to (11 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches), 126-pages. Original green cloth pictorially blocked in gilt. Some light damp mottling to binding, 1-inch split at head of lower joint, foxing to rear endpapers. Old inscription on front pastedown.
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$329.99 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. Undated [1912], the "best" edition with a different frontis and 7 additional plates in black and white. Fair to poor condition but with 49 of the total 50 tipped on color plates present (plate at page 116 is absent) and in good to very good condition. Four of the black and white plates are detached and ragged around the edges. Green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Covers heavily worn, sunned and spotted, spine barely legible and with heavily chipped ends, front hinge inexpertly internally reglued but secure, text block sound but not tight, text pages and black and white plates are lightly to moderately foxed but not the plates or the plain pages they are tipped onto, name on front free endpaper. . Hard Cover. Poor. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$348.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth hard cover with gilt titles on front and very slightly faded spine, gilt dragons at top and gilt elves at bottom of front board. Very minor wear to edges and corners, creased spine ends and some fading of rear board. Frontispiece with tissue guard signed Arthur Rackham and dated 1912. Clean interior with 126 pages and 50 tipped in colour plates, numerous illustrations in the text and full page black and white prints including two of which are loose. Printed by T and A Constable Ltd. A new edition without a publication date but 1912 included in frontispiece, and in very good to near fine condition with beautiful illustrations.
Seller: McGonigles', Cerne Abbas, United Kingdom
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarto, green cloth with cover gilt design lettered in gilt; contents immaculate; spine sunned, discoloration to the back cover. New and most desirable edition, with seven additional full-page drawings by Arthur Rackham not included in the original 1906 edition; frontispiece and 49 stunning tipped-in color plates with captioned tissue-guards, and line drawings throughout the text by Rackham. A lovely copy of Barrie's classic children's story.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$416.87 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens from The Little White Bird. A New Edition. Undated, but frontispiece and endpapers dated 1912. 50 mounted colour plates, all with captioned tissue guards. Green cloth with gilt titles and decorations. Illustrated endpapers. Condition: Spine and part of back darkened. Slight lean to text block. Endpapers darkened. Minor scattered foxing, mainly to dedication and contents pages. 3 inch closed tear to dedication page. Now in rremovable film. Size: 11 x 9 inches / 28 x 23 cm. 123 pages. Weight: 1.94 kg.
Seller: Paperworks, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Price: US$448.94 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a very good copy of the 1912 "best edition",mostly following the 1906 one but with new colour frontispiece (dated 1912) and additional line drawings. 126 pages and 50 plates tipped in onto brown thick paper interleaved into the text (not bound together as in some earlier editions), plus some full page and other line drawings by Rackham, cover also designed by him. Pages and plates very clean and sound, no foxing, tissue guards all present, no marks or inscriptions. Front and rear boards very good, typical sunning to spine with gilt dulled, short tear to top of spine also neatly repaired, brown endpapers, hinges and joints all good.
Seller: The Bookmonger, Nottingham, United Kingdom
J. M. Barrie. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Hodder & Stoughton, (1912), London:, 1912.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Very good in its original, gilt decorated light green cloth covered boards with gilt text and designs on the spine and the same on the front board. A quarto of 11 by 8 1/4 inches with the upper 1/2 inch of the spineback worn away and the lower edge of the spine worn down to the edge of the text block, the cloth over the tips of the boards is worn through. The hinges and joints remain strong and tight. The contents are bright and strong in their binding and there is no foxing or tanning of the pages. 127 pages of text illustrated with a tipped-in color frontispiece by Arthur Rackham and all 49 tipped-in color plates each accompanied by printed tissue guards as called for as well as 7 full page black and white line drawings and vignettes all by Rackham for a total of 50 illustrations. (Derek Hudson, Arthur Rackham His Life and Work, p.168) A worthy copy containing one of Rackham's most endearing set of illustrations. The gilt text and illustrations on the front board remain bright and clean.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: (viii), 125, (1) pp. with 50 tipped in color plates and captioned tissue overlays. Hardcover, rebound in an attractive full maroon calf with spine labels and gilt tooling. Marginal staining throughout affecting a few of the tissue overlays but none of the plates; one blank with a long repaired tear.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated with 50 tipped-in color plates with tissue guards as well as some black and white line drawings by Arthur Rackham throughout the text (all plates are present and in excellent condition). No indication of printing or edition (verso of title page is blank, printed by T. and A. Constable). Quarto, bound in green cloth with gilt lettering and design, top edge gilt, Rackham illustrated endpapers. Moderate wear to spine and front board, foxing to endpapers and occasional foxing throughout text block, else very good. No dust jacket. ; 123 pages
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: The Largest Rackham Plates Ever Printed [RACKHAM, Arthur]. BARRIE, J.M. "Peter screamed out, 'Do it again!' and with great good-nature they did it several times" A single plate from The Peter Pan Portfolio, by Arthur Rackham, from "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens," by J.M. Barrie. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d., 1912]. Handsomely framed and glazed in the original mount. Image size 10 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches; 267 x 188 mm. Frame size 21 x 17 1/4 inches; 535 x 438 mm. The Peter Pan Portfolio was limited to 600 copies published in 1912, and contained 12 of Rackham's favorite drawings from his 1906 edition of Peter pan in Kensington Gardens, which had 50 color plates. The Portfolio plates are approximately 60% larger than their 1906 counterparts. Greatly enlarged from their earlier appearance, these plates are considered to be Rackham's personal favorites from the fifty that appeared in his 1906 illustrated trade edition of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Latimore and Haskell, p. 39. Riall, p. 113.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: The Largest Rackham Plates Ever Printed [RACKHAM, Arthur]. BARRIE, J.M. "A chrysanthemum heard her, and said pointedly, 'Hoity-tioty, what is this?'" A single plate from The Peter Pan Portfolio, by Arthur Rackham, from "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens," by J.M. Barrie. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d., 1912]. Handsomely framed and glazed in the original mount. Image size 9 1/2 x 7 1/8 inches; 241 x 181 mm. Frame size 21 x 17 1/4 inches; 535 x 438 mm. The Peter Pan Portfolio was limited to 600 copies published in 1912, and contained 12 of Rackham's favorite drawings from his 1906 edition of Peter pan in Kensington Gardens, which had 50 color plates. The Portfolio plates are approximately 60% larger than their 1906 counterparts. Greatly enlarged from their earlier appearance, these plates are considered to be Rackham's personal favorites from the fifty that appeared in his 1906 illustrated trade edition of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Latimore and Haskell, p. 39. Riall, p. 113.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$533.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: pp. [viii],126; orginal end-papers, no date [1912]. This is the "New Edition", a reprint of the first edition, being the first to have this frontispiece and the seven full-page black and white illustrations. Fifty tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards, distributed throughout the book (unlike the earlier editions where they were collected together at the back of the book); often considered to be the best edition. The book has been collated and is complete. Publisher's lime-green cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration; good and strong with light rubbing to edges. Contents clean and tight, name and date 1921 to the top corner of the front free endpaper, light spotting/foxing to the title page, a few random spots to a few pages, generally very clean. A very good copy. Size: 8vo
Seller: LOE BOOKS, Launceston, United Kingdom
Price: US$577.20 + shipping
Description: , [8], 126 pages, complete with 50 tipped in colour plates (including frontispiece) and various black & white illustrations throughout the text, this edition is larger than others of the period, a reprint of the 1906 edition with the addition of the black and white plates and a new colour frontispiece New Edition , spine slightly sunned, rubbing to head and tail of spine, binding quite loose, gilt on front nice and bright, minor foxing throughout, page edges slightly tanned, colour plates clean and well preserved by tissue guards, overall in very good condition , original green cloth, front cover with gilt titles, four gilt birds, gilt borders, and six gilt elves, gilt titles and decoration to spine , quarto, 29 x 22 cm Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$577.20 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This is a very good copy of the 1912 "new edition", mostly with the 1906 text and illustrations but with new colour frontispiece (dated 1912) and additional line drawings. The title page is imprinted Hodder and Stoughton Limited, which means it is a reprint after1919 (when H & S became a company), but the same as the 1912 printing except that the plates are tipped onto a cream coloured paper rather than brown (frequently this version is listed as the 1912 printing).126 pages and 50 plates tipped in, plus some full page and other line drawings by Rackham, cover also designed by him. Pages and plates very clean and sound, slight foxing to margins of the first and last pages, none elsewhere, tissue guards all present, no marks or inscriptions. Fine condition apart from two very small nicks at top and bottom of the spine, gilt good on boards and spine, hinges and joints all good.
Seller: The Bookmonger, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Barrie, J.M.. PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS. Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.
Price: US$594.53 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st thus 1912. Good condition with no wrapper. This is the "New Edition", a reprint of the first but with a new colour frontis and an additional 7 b/w drawings. 50 superb tipped-in colour plates distributed throughout the book. Numerous b/w drawings including some full-page. Green cloth, elaborate gilt decorations to front cover and spine. 126 pages. Large format, 11.25 x 8.5 inches. Covers are unevenly faded. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Small booksellers label to rear pastedown. Light foxing throughout, endpapers browned. All plates are present and in fine condition. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Issued in 1912, six years after the first edition, this is an altogether grander and more substantial production, in a larger format and with new black and white plates and the colour plates intermixed with the text instead of being printed at the rear. Published by Hodder and Stoughton Limited which would date it to 1919/1920. All plates both coloured and black and white as well as the captioned tissue guards are present. Bound in green cloth with Rackham's gilt decorations. Bleached spotting on lower front cover with some of the same on the rear as well, Spine faded. Three of the full page black and white illustrations are detached but present with considerable wear to their edges. The most desirable edition of Rackham's most important and best loved book. 125 pp.
Seller: Neil Williams, Bookseller, Victoria, BC, Canada
Price: US$609.27 + shipping
Description: The "New Edition", a reprint of the first edition, later impression, probably 1919, though no date is given on the titlepage. Quarto (11 x 9 ins); pp [iii]-xii, [ii], 125, [1]. 50 coloured plates tipped in on art paper, by Rackham, with captioned tissue-guards, distributed at intervals through the book. The plan of Kensington Gardens on fly-leaf (printed vertically on the page) with the illustrations of children playing in Kensington Gardens to verso. Decorative titlepage and head- and tail pieces at each chapter. Original pea green cloth with gilt design and lettering to the front, spine slightly faded and rolled at ends, cloth very slightly marked in places. Titlepage and prelims foxed, also last few leaves, mainly marginal and not effecting the plates, all of which are extremely clean. A near fine copy, with no old inscriptions or other internal markings.
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$617.61 + shipping
Description: Hardback. Physically 11" x 8½" (1.9 kg); 125pp; Illustrated by Arthur Rackham; 1912 reprint of the 1906 edition, but with a new colour frontispiece and an additional seven full page black and white drawings. Includes: Colour plates (under tissue guards) (50); Black & white drawings; Colour frontispiece (tissue-guarded); || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #187596|| Condition: Very Good. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding which is dulled at the spine. A little age-toned at the top edge of the text block.
Seller: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, United Kingdom
Barrie, J.M.. Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens. Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.
Price: US$634.92 + shipping
Description: 50 tipped-in colour plates with tissue-guards and black & white illustrations. A few foxing marks to some page margins otherwise very clean inside and all firm apart from one loose tissue-guard. The green cloth covered boards with gilt titles and decoration are firm with a slightly browned spine and a small brown mark to top of front board. Very minor edge wear.
Seller: HAUNTED BOOKSHOP P.B.F.A., CAMBRIDGE, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: The Largest Rackham Plates Ever Printed [RACKHAM, Arthur]. BARRIE, J.M. "The fairies sit round on mushrooms, and at first they are well behaved" A single plate from The Peter Pan Portfolio, by Arthur Rackham, from "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens," by J.M. Barrie. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d., 1912]. Handsomely framed and glazed in the original mount. Image size 12 5/8 x 9 inches; 321 x 229 mm. Frame size 21 x 17 1/4 inches; 535 x 438 mm. The Peter Pan Portfolio was limited to 600 copies published in 1912, and contained 12 of Rackham's favorite drawings from his 1906 edition of Peter pan in Kensington Gardens, which had 50 color plates. The Portfolio plates are approximately 60% larger than their 1906 counterparts. Greatly enlarged from their earlier appearance, these plates are considered to be Rackham's personal favorites from the fifty that appeared in his 1906 illustrated trade edition of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Latimore and Haskell, p. 39. Riall, p. 113.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$654.50 + shipping
Description: First Printing of the Large Paper and Extra-Illustrated Edition, which is also the first edition to have the plates interleaved within the textblock instead of bound in the rear. With a new tipped-in colour frontispiece plus 49 tipped-in colour plates, plus seven new full-page black and white illustrations and with illustrations within the text by Arthur Rackham. 4to, publisher's original green cloth lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt on the spine and upper cover. 126 pp. A very nice copy, the plates are all in fine order, the text is especially clean and fresh, free of the oft' found foxing except for a very light touch of it only to the first few leaves, the binding is firm and solid, the endpapers intact, the spine panel lightly mellowed. The best edition of Rackham's most desirable book! Here, first appeared a new colored frontispiece, and the additional plates of line drawings also appear in this edition for the first time. This is also the first edition to have the colour plates entertainingly interspersed throughout the text, rather than all being bound together at the rear as in the 1906 edition. PETER PAN is Rackham's most famous book. Within, we find many of the artists best loved and most easily recognized paintings. Perhaps the Pall Mall Gazette summed it best when they said, "Mr. Rackham seems to have dropped out of some cloud in Mr. Barries fairyland, sent by a special providence to make pictures in tune with his whimsical genius."
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Barrie, J. M.. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1912.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The 1912 'Best Edition' with 50 color plates. Light green cloth with gilt decorations. Corners bumped, spine somewhat dust darkened, front end paper somewhat dust darkened. Otherwise a very clean and attractive copy. Quite Oversize Volume!
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
J. M. Barrie. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Deluxe edition published in 1912. 45 tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham, each with tissue guards. Rebound in 3/4 leather. Some shelfwear.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition thus with 50 plates by Arthur Rackham, and many drawings by Rackham. Each illustration tipped in with printed tissue-guards. Green cloth, illustrated Rackham designs on cover and spine. A near fine copy, slight foxing to end papers, no writing or bookplates. All plates and tissue guards present. A very desirable copy with plastic mylar cover.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$795.26 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens from The Little White Bird by J.M. Barrie. A New Edition. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Published by Hodder and Stoughton Limited, London. Undated but c. 1912. A handsome copy of this much admired book. This was the first edition to feature 50 colour illustrations by Arthur Rackham as well as a number of black and white plates, which were positioned throughout the book. The book is near fine overall, and the original publisher's green cloth remains bright and clean with its attractive blind embossed gilt motifs to front cover and spine. Rear cover has 2 small discoloured spots and one 4mm nick to the cloth on the top edge of the rear cover. The text and colour plates are in beautiful condition throughout. The colour plates have printed tissue guards. Text and plates are in immaculate condition and are all present as called for. Just some mild foxing to the free endpaper at each end of the book. A really lovely copy of this classic. Text in English. Frontispiece + vi + 126pp + Black and White & Colour Plates with printed frontispieces. Weight: approximately 1.58kg (unpacked weight). Dimensions: Approximately 285mm tall x 228mm wide x 41mm deep. Extra postage may be payable. More photos on request.
Seller: Lanna Antique, Perth, United Kingdom
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J. M. Barrie (Arthur Rackham, Art) Sunned spine and edges. Spine cloth split open - unattached at front edge. Front hinge cracked, a bit of tape to front endpaper. Owner's 1912 gift note to ffe. Tanned margins, bright plates and crisp tissue guards. No foxing. [1912]. First thus. Publisher's gilt decorated green cloth. Illustrated endpapers (1912 date in the design corner). 50 tipped-in color plates with captioned tissue guards. Frontispiece dated 1912. 7 full-page black and white illustrations. 12 black and white illustrations within the text. Considered the 'Best Edition' of Peter Pan.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$962.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Frontispiece and 49 coloured plates mounted with captioned tissue guards, and 20 black and white illustrations in the text. Large 4to. [285 x 219 x 40 mm]. viii, [iv], 122, [2] pp. Bound in the publisher's original green cloth, the front cover and spine blocked in gilt, illustrated endleaves, top edge gilt. (A little faded and rubbed, with slight fraying to headcaps, endleaves lightly browned). The first Rackham illustrated edition appeared in 1906. He revisited the work and this 1912 edition had an additional new colour plate and seven new black and white illustrations. This is a very good clean copy.
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Rackham Arthur - J.M. Barrie. Peter Pan. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1912.
Price: US$989.03 + shipping
Description: In 4 percaline verte. Mors et dos restaurés, manque la jaquette, pages de garde jaunis, quelques rousseurs.
Seller: La Basse Fontaine, VENCE, France
Price: US$1010.11 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Rebound by Bumpus, Oxford Street. Mild foxing on some prelims Please see photos as part of condition report 1912 1st Edition (Thus) , Rebound PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS By J.M. Barrie 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 several 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 West End "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. Illustrated By: Arthur Rackham Arthur Rackham RWS (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator. He is recognised as one of the leading figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration. His work is noted for its robust pen and ink drawings, which were combined with the use of watercolour, a technique he developed due to his background as a journalistic illustrator. Rackham's 51 colour pieces for the early American tale Rip Van Winkle became a turning point in the production of books since – through colour-separated printing – it featured the accurate reproduction of colour artwork. His best-known works also include the illustrations for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Hodder & Stoughton, London quarto (4to 9+1?2 × 12 241 × 305),Pages 126 ISBN: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is a novel by J. M. Barrie, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, and published by Hodder & Stoughton in late November or early December 1906; it is one of four major literary works by Barrie featuring the widely known literary character he created, Peter Pan. Most of the text originally appeared as chapters 13–18 of Barrie's 1902 novel The Little White Bird. Rackham was commissioned to illustrate the book following the success of his work on the 1905 edition of Rip Van Winkle. The owners of the Leicester Galleries, Brown and Phillips, instigated a preliminary meeting between Barrie and Rackham in June 1905, and he was given almost 18 months to complete the illustrations. The first edition was released in both a trade edition and a larger signed limited edition of 500 copies. Both versions contain 50 colour plates and 3 black and white line drawings, which were exhibited at the Leicester Galleries from November 1906. SKU: BTETM0002205 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Seller: Books That Expand The Mind, Margate, KENT, United Kingdom
Barrie, J. M.. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1912.
Price: US$1045.00 + shipping
Description: A beautifully illustrated novel by James M. Barrie, meant for art collectors as well as children, with its unsurpassed illustrations by Arthur Rackham. First published in 1906 it is one of four major works by Barrie featuring Peter Pan. The color art work in this volume and the full color plates for Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle, brought Arthur Rackham, previously noted for his black and white pen and ink fantasy illustrations, the public attention he so thoroughly deserved. This is a reprint of the 1906 edition but with the addition of a new color frontispiece and seven full page b&w drawings (Latimore & Haskell, p40). The book includes fifty full page, tipped in dramatic color illustrations all with guard sheet printed with descriptive letterpress in the lower left corner, and twelve b&w drawings in the text. The illustrations are in fine condition. Large 4to, color frontispiece, 126pp, 50 color plates, 7 b&w illustrations, 12 b&w ills in text. Green cloth pictorially stamped in gilt, with the front board and spine lavishly decorated with fairies, roosters, and borders intertwined with roses. In the original pictorial dust jacket with a large color illustration at the front panel. The dust jacket with a water mark on foredge front and back, now preserved with mylar cover. The dust jacket hinge is cracked leaving the front cover detached from the spine, but with the mylar wrapper it holds together nicely. Book seller label at bottom of front paste down, Book Lovers Library Melbourne. OCLC: 48034022.
Seller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1058.21 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, UK. Date: 1912. New edition. Original green cloth, richly gilt. Decorated endpapers. Top edge gilt. Size: 23.5cm x 28.5cm. Pp. xvi + 126. Includes 50 tissue-guarded, tipped-in colour plates and 7 full-page line drawings by Arthur Rackham. The best edition with the plates interleaved within the text. Cloth slightly faded but gilt very bright indeed with only very minor creasing. Binding very tight. Pages nice and clean with only very slight darkening to the endpapers. Illustrations very bright and clean and with no creases or damage. Rear board stamped 'Advance Copy' to the base. This is the first pre-publication copy that we have handled. A fine copy overall. Scarce thus.
Seller: Hornseys, Ripon, United Kingdom
Price: US$1122.34 + shipping
Description: New edition. The best edition, being the first to have this frontispiece and the seven full-page black and white illustrations. Quarto. Fifty tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards. For this edition, in order to keep the number of plates at fifty, one of those from the 1906 edition was substituted by the new frontispiece. This is also the first edition to have the plates interspersed in the text rather than gathered together at the rear. Decorated cloth gilt.Some tanning to free endpapers. Fore-edge very slightly spotted. Near fine. A very bright copy
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1539.21 + shipping
Description: , [12], 123 pages, [1], with 50 tipped in colour plates, black & white text illustrations throughout, said to be the best edition, illustrated endpapers Deluxe Edition , scuffed at tail of spine and lightly at lower edges of boards, some light spots to binding, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, and owner's inscription on rear of frontispiece, very small chip at top edge of front free endpaper, plates clean and well preserved by tissue guards, text clean, book in good++ condition , full vellum with gilt titles and illustration to front and spine, top edge gilt Quarto Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: new edition, and considered by many as the best edition. full vellum with gold gilt on the boards and the top edge. complete with all 50 tipped in colour plates with original captioned tissue guards. the plates are spaced throughout the book. numerous black and white plates and sketch map all by Arthur Rackham. a previous owner's neat bookplate under the front board. dated 1912 on the frontis and on one of the black and white illustrations. the vellum boards have age related wear and edge darkening. there is scattered foxing. the book lacks the clasp on the boards and the green ribbon. the slip case is also not present. the binding is excellent. very good for it's age. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Price: US$2565.35 + shipping
Description: Best Rackham edition, originally published in 1906. This edition is enlarged with a new frontispiece and seven full-page drawings that are not in the first edition. The plates were bound in sequence with the story for the first time. "Mr Barrie's touch of fantasy, homely but eerie too, is admirably reflected. Moreover, the pictures are simple, and are clearly and firmly drawn" (Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art). "The delightful colour and black-and-white illustrations are Arthur Rackham at his best, and, perhaps, no other artist could have been so happy in his results. Mr Rackham's work is such that one is always finding charming little unexpected surprises in out-of-the-way corners of his pictures. These illustrations are not to be merely glanced at, but carefully studied to derive the full amount of pleasure from them" (The Bystander). The Bystander, 4 December 1912, p. 550; Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, 8 December 1912, Supplement, p. iv. Quarto. Finely bound in full green morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, front cover decorated in gilt, floral dentelles in gilt, marbled endpaers, gilt edges. Colour frontispiece and 49 mounted colour plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Minor scratch to rear cover, minor splitting to front hinge, slight browning to free endpapers: a near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$3739.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Deluxe Edition. viii, [3], 122, [2] pp.+ 50 unpaginated leaves of plates. Large quarto. Hardcover, publisher's original vellum binding, gilt lettering and illustrations impressed on the front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Boards a bit bowed as usual in vellum bounded books, lacking ties seems to be a common issue in this series. Illustrated endpapers, slightly browned. Including 50 colourful plates (one is the frontispiece), all tipped in and guarded with tissue papers, captions printed on tissue papers. B&W illustrations in text. Very good condition. Arthur Rackham, an English book illustrator who lived until 1939, played a prominent role during the Golden Age of British book illustration. Known for his robust pen and ink drawings, he incorporated watercolor, a technique influenced by his background as a journalistic illustrator. The first Rackham illustrated edition emerged in 1906, featuring a limited signed run of 500 copies. In 1912, he revisited the work, adding a new color plate and seven additional black and white illustrations. A noteworthy deluxe edition.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
BARRIE (J. M.). Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1912.
Price: US$6413.37 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: From the Little White Bird. A New Edition Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Frontispiece and 49 coloured plates mounted with captioned tissue guards, and 20 black and white illustrations in the text. Large 4to. [290 x 222 x 48 mm]. viii, [iv], 122, [2] pp. Bound in the publisher's original vellum, the front cover and spine blocked in gilt, illustrated endleaves, top edge gilt, the others uncut. (Lacking ties, free endleaves lightly browned). [ebc8045]. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. The first Rackham illustrated edition appeared in 1906, with a limited signed edition of 500 copies. He revisited the work and the 1912 edition had an additional new colour plate and seven new black and white illustrations. Although neither numbered nor signed this copy in the full vellum binding is a rare de luxe issue (it is normally found in cloth or half vellum). The last copy to be sold at auction was in 2006 and there are no copies currently being offered for sale. It is in fine condition.
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Description: London: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d., 1912]. One of 500 numbered copies, signed by the Publishers and Engravers/Printers, out of a total edition of 600 copies, this being number 330. Large quarto (21 3/16 x 19 5/8 inches; 539 x 500 mm.). [4] pp. Including engraved title-page and limitation statement. Twelve large proof size color plates mounted in mats with descriptive tissue guards. Original half vellum over light sage green cloth boards. Front cover lettered in gilt. New silk ties. All tissue guards present. Housed in the publisher's original printed box, one bottom panel flap detached but present, and a few small chips to side flaps, some rubbing, especially to the top lid. Overall, a near fine copy. Of the 600 copies of this portfolio (which preceded the American portfolio by two years), one hundred were bound in full vellum and five hundred in half vellum. This portfolio and the American edition contain the largest Rackham plates ever printed. Greatly enlarged from their earlier appearance, these twelve plates are considered to be Rackham's personal favorites from the fifty that appeared in his 1906 illustrated trade edition of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Latimore and Haskell, p. 39. Riall, p. 113. HBS 67733. $12,500.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$44893.56 + shipping
Description: Original pen, ink and watercolour on board. Signed and dated by Rackham in the bottom left corner. 26.5cm x 37cm. Mounted, framed and glazed. A fine, large illustration of the infant Peter Pan, swaddled and sat atop a branch in Kensington Gardens. Peter Pan was Rackham's second major commission and the work which established his reputation as a book illustrator. Issued with new illustrations in 1912 where this image is reproduced in black and white as the chapter heading for chapter 2. A review of this 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." LITERATURE: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J.M.Barrie (Hodder & Stoughton, 1912) p.19 (reproduced in black and white)
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom