PETER PAN AND WENDY : Illustrated in Colour and Black & White By Mabel Lucie Attwell
by Barrie J. M
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton. Cloth. Near Very Good/No Jacket. Attwell, Mabel Lucie. Lovely early Edition illustrated by Mabel, Lucie Atwell, with 12 Tipped in Colour Plates and 19 B&W In-Text illustrations. Frontis illustrated with "Peter Kept Watch". Title Page illustrated in B&W with Peter & Wendy, Captain Hook, Crocodile & other Characters. Endpapers illustrated with Blue Line-Drawings of Peter and fairy folk. Undated edition, probably 1930s. Blue cloth cover with blind stamped Linear border. Gilt Lettering to spine. Comes with a Circular colour illustration of Peter letteing Wendy sew on his Shadow, possibly from a dustjacket. 320 Pages, 940g, 9 1/2" Tall. Some edge wear, mainly at spine ends and tips of corners. 3 small patches of faded colour on cloth (see photo). No inscriptions. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Synopsis
Peter Pan: or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904) is the title of Scottish playwright and novelist James M. Barrie's most famous play, and Peter and Wendy is the title of Barrie's 1911 novelization of it. Both tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy Darling and her brothers, the fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, the Indian princess Tiger Lily, and the pirate Captain Hook.
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- Bookseller
- Cornish Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015018
- Title
- PETER PAN AND WENDY : Illustrated in Colour and Black & White By Mabel Lucie Attwell
- Author
- Barrie J. M
- Illustrator
- Attwell, Mabel Lucie
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- CHILDREN'S FICTION/CLASSICS/CHILDREN'S CLASSICS/ILLUSTRATED BOOKS/PETER PAN
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