Peter and Wendy [First edition, first printing]
by J.M. Barrie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1911. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good+. 8.1" Tall. F.D. Bedford. First edition, hardback in good+ condition. The first printing (blank to reverse of title-page). Intricate gilt decorations and lettering on the cover & spine on olive green cloth. 13 illustrated plates throughout, complete (including frontispiece and title-page). Rebacked, with dedication on front paste-down and front free end paper. 8.1" tall. 267pp.
Synopsis
Peter and Wendy (1911) is the title of James M. Barrie's novelization of his most famous play, Peter Pan: or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904). Inspired by Barrie's friendship with the Llewelyn Davies family, both the play and the novel tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous young boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy Darling and her brothers. The novel follows the play closely, though its final chapter is an addition to the original work. Peter and Wendy was first published in 1911 by Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom and Charles Scribner's Sons in the United States. In 1929, Barrie gave the copyright to the works featuring Peter Pan to Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), Britain's leading children's hospital.
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- Bookseller
- Armchair Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- VICAREFUL267
- Title
- Peter and Wendy [First edition, first printing]
- Author
- J.M. Barrie
- Illustrator
- F.D. Bedford
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1911
- Pages
- 267
- Size
- 8.1" Tall
- Size
- 8.1" Tall
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- good+
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- gilt
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- spine
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- rebacked
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- paste-down
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