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Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Eleven volumes, Complete (1901-1903). Full green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on covers and spines, gilt borders on front covers, t.e.g., fore and bottom edges deckle. Author's facsimile signature in each volume. Tissue-protected frontispieces in each volume. The set includes: (1). Auld Licht Idylls, Better Dead; (2). When a Man's Single; (3). A Window in Thrums, An Edinburgh Eleven; (4&5). The Little Minister; (6&7). Sentimental Tommy; (8). My Lady Nicotine, Margaret Ogilvy; (9&10) Tommy and Grizel; (11). The Little White Bird (which includes the first appearance of Peter Pan). (NB: Peter and Wendy was not published until 1911. The first appearance of Peter Pan came in "The Little White Bird," which was serialised in the United States, then published in a single volume in the UK in 1902. Barrie's most famous and enduring work, "Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up," had its first stage performance on 27 December 1904. It has been performed innumerable times since then, was developed by Barrie into the 1911 novel Peter and Wendy, and has been adapted by others into feature films, musicals, and more). This is a large set which may require additional shipping charges. . All volumes show mild shelf-wear, spines sunned, hinges starting on several volumes, else near fine. VERY GOOD. . B&W Illustrations. 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Round Table Books, LLC, Palatine, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Scribner's, 1903. 8vo. Quarter Vellum. Limited edition. The Novels, Tales and Sketches of J. M. Barrie. White vellum spine with gold titles, blue-grey boards, vellum corner-protectors. Printed on Japan paper. 286 pp. Author's edition, limited to 150 copies for America and England, this being #116. Volume XI of 12-volume set. Frontispiece with protective tissue. Facsimile signature of author on copyright page. One additional illustration, with protective tissue. Pages lightly foxed. Previous owner's name inside front board. Spine soiled and faded, boards lightly scuffed. A rare copy of the first mention of Peter Pan in a very limited edition, in very good condition.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.