SENTIMENTAL TOMMY: The Story of His Boyhood
by J.M..Barrie
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A story that traces the boyhood of a "man about town" - beginning at age five, in England, his trials and tribulations, on to becoming a young man. The celebrated Tommy first comes into view on a dirty London stair and he was in sexless garments which were all he had and he was five and so though we are looking at him we must do it sideways lest he sit down hurriedly to hide them. That inscrutable face, which made the clubmen of his later days uneasy and even puzzled the ladies while he was making love to them, was already his. Published in 1898 by Charles Scribner's Sons, SENTIMENTAL TOMMY was the first of two books published by Barrie about this character. J.M. Barrie, is of course, best known as the author of PETER PAN. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 10 other plates by William Hatherell, one plate of which has come loose from the bindinging and is laid in. Light wear to brown cloth cover (although not to gilt-embosed floral front board illustration0 and to spine end. Overall condition is very good for a book of this 123-year-old vomtage. L105
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- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024512
- Title
- SENTIMENTAL TOMMY: The Story of His Boyhood
- Author
- J.M..Barrie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1898
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
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Los Angeles, California
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