Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens. From The Little White Bird. by BARRIE, J.M. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Preface by David Wooton

(London: Hodder and Stoughton: 1951) Decorated boards (that is, hard covers) pp. xii, 123 (255 x 190 mm). Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. An old tape mark to the front free endpaper; two unobtrusive marks to the boards; otherwise a near fine copy in a damaged and incomplete price-clipped dust-jacket.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. circa 1933.. 1933. 8vo. embossed red cloth decorated gilt title to spine. news clipping tipp-in on fep. 126pp. 16 colour plates, + 22 line drawings. Poor, solid copy with water damaged to cover, pages foxed & soiled. All plates in very good condition. / Fair d/w. .

London: The Folio Society, 2004. 1st Thus. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Folio. Arthur Rackham. pp XVIII, 150. 1st printing. An unread book with 12 tipped in colour plates and 22 line drawings. A lovely book in a slipcase structurally as new that shows slight use.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. 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.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. quarto. Rackham, Arthur. Type: Book pp xii, 125 + plates, rebacked using original spine, lacks lower 42 mm of original spine, internally fine, includes all 50 captioned tissue protected iconic tipped in Rackham illustrations

London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited No date, presumed First Edition. Once green (?) cloth on boards now shelf-sunned and faded to a chartreuse mix of colours. Front of cover with gilt title, four gilt birds on top margin and six gilt gnomes (?) on bottom margin. Mildly soiled and rubbed. Spine: head & foot with thin wear. Small wear to some of the boards corners. Light small indent to head of front boards top-edge. Edges: Light age yellowing and moderate foxings. Eps: mild foxings; ffep with two short inscribed, one is Xmas 1927. Front hinge with a few short splits. 50 coloured plates all clean and present. Frontis: coloured plate of child and fairies. Most pages margins are light to moderately foxed. Refp pages with loosely tipped in b/w illustrations with light touches of wear to extremeties and foxings. Binding is VG 127p Large book: 280 x 225 mm / 2 kgs.. Hb. VG/None. Illus. by Arthur Rackham.

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.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. Book. Illus. by Rackham, Arthur. Very Good. Hardcover. A New Edition. 8vo. 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..

London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1898. Book. Illus. by Arthur Rackham. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Rebacked with orignal cloth laid down, gilt, and original endpapers. Previous cover shows significant scuffing. Rebind immaculate. Endpapers tanned. Front endpaper and frontis folded behind the plate. Former owner's inscription on the dedication page. Tear in margin of p10. Occasional sporadic spotting, mostly in the margins. Contains 48 of 50 colour plates, covered in protective tissues with descriptive captions. Lacking two plates: opposite p2 and p54. Pencil back of plate 32. Plates 18, 27 and 28 darkened around the edges. Plate listed as opposite p116 is actually opposite p118. Also contains 20 b&w illustrations..

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. 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.… Read More