J.M. Barrie & the Lost Boys by Andrew Birkin ISBN 13: 9780094620001

Hardback. Acceptable.

Hardback. Very Good.

Constable, 1979. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,950grams, ISBN:0094620008

London: Constable, 1979. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Some light foxing spots to outer textblock foredge. Otherwise VG, clean. No names, inscriptions or other marks. DJ not price clipped. The DJ is supplied by us in a loose protective archival film sleeve to prolong the life of the jacket. (This does not adhere to the book or jacket in any way and is fully removable if preferred). 324pp..

London: Constable, 1979. First Edition, First Impression. Cloth Bound Boards. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1979 first edition, first impression. Size large thick octavo, 323 pages, a heavy book. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, family trees to the end-papers, with the dust jacket. Book condition good, corners and spine ends bumped, binding split in the middle of the book at page 261, webbing showing, pages are clean throughout. Dust jacket condition very good, spine ends slightly nicked and creased, not price clipped. With many photographs

Constable, 1979-01-01. Hardcover. Good.

Constable, London 1979. 8vo. hardcover. 323pp. index. Very good+. / Very good+ d/w. Comprehensive biography of the author of Peter Pan. Profusely illustrated, family trees on end papers. .

Constable, London, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. J. M. Barrie, novelist, playwright, and author of Peter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, led a life almost as magical and interesting as his famous creation. Childless in his marriage, Barrie grew close to the five young boys of the Llewelyn Davies family, ultimately becoming their guardian and devoted surrogate father when they were orphaned. Andrew Birkin draws extensively on a vast range of material by and about Barrie, including notebooks, memoirs, and hours of recorded interviews with the Llewelyn Davies family and their circle, to describe Barrie's life and the wonderful world he created for the boys. Originally published in 1979, this enchanting and richly illustrated account is reissued with a new preface to mark the release of Neverland, the film of Barrie's life, and the upcoming centenary of Peter Pan 323 pages. Light foxing to outer page edges. Dust jacket has fading to spine edge. Dust… Read more

London England: Constable, 1979. Hardcover. First Edition. J. M. Barrie and the Lost Boys. Price clipped to D/J. Slight shelf wear to top edge of D/J. Up to the age of six, James Barrie lived in the shadow of his elder brother David, the golden boy of his mother's eye; and when David died in a skating accident, it was a catastrophe from which she never recovered. But she drew a measure of comfprt from the notion that her favourite son, in dying a boy, would remain a boy for ever. It was a notion that, acting on the unusually powerful imagination of her son James, would emerge thirty-three years later in the creation of Peter Pan. In November 1884, Barrie left his birth place Kirriemuir, in Scotland, and went to London in the hope of making a career as a journalist and writer. His first novel Better Dead appeared in 1888 and was not well received. But the Thrums novels - Thrums was his native Kirriemuir - the first of which appeared in the same year, were an immediate success and attracted the… Read more