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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1976. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Slim hardcover in red cloth with spine lettered in gilt. 124 pp. Illustrations in color and in black and white by Arthur Rackham. Fine (prev. own. sig. yop edge of front free endpaper) in lightly rubbed dust jacket.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. Hardcover. Good. . Cover shows minor wear, no dj. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.

Charles Scribner's Sons. Collectible - Acceptable. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. 8vo. 126pp. Illus. by Arthur Rackham. Book Good. No dust jacket. Spine ends worn, tail torn; writing in pencil at crown. Boards rubbed, soiled, and edgeworn. Paint stain on front board illustration. Gifter's inscription on front free endpage. Frontis. detached. Binding shaken. (fantasy, brothers and sisters, Arthur Rackham, color plates) Inquire if you need further information.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1914. Hardcover. 16 full page color illustrations by Rackham. Spines show light general wear and fading of gilt title. Front free endpaper removed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 126 pages .

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1948. Twelfth Impression. Hardcover. Poor copy bound in title blocked cloth. Wear and tear as with age (with significant loss to the spine). Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Includes previous owner's inscription. Physical description; 123 pages. Subjects; Peter Pan [fictional character]. J. M. Barrie. Children's Fairy Tales.

London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Modern rebind with marbled slipcase.Endpapers browned. Scattered foxing. [1919]. Reprint. Red hardback leather spine over marbled boards. 200mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 125pp. 12 colour plates with captioned tissue guards by Rackham; map endpapers. Previous owner's inscription and date to rear of fep. .

London: The Folio Society 2005, 2nd printing. (hardcover) xviii, [4], 148pp, [2]. Fine. Folio. In slipcase. Slipcase with light shelfwear and previous owners name small and neat to ffep. Tight, bright, and clean. With Rackham's striking original illustrations throughout; tipped-in plates. A truly delightful volume, as much art as book. Printed on Caxton Wove paper by St. Edmundsbury Press. Bound by Cambridge University Press in full green buckram, blocked with Arthur Rackham's original design, redrawn by Frances Button. A large volume which may require additional postage. Please enquire..

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1937.. First American edition.. publisher's cloth in dust jacket.. Better than very good, in a very attractive illustrated jacket with a slight tiny scrape to the top of the front panel.. 8vo,. Illustrated in color and black and white by Arthur Rackham.. Retold by May Byron for Little People.

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1927.. Reprint.. original green cloth with applied color illustration, in dust jacket.. Some light rubbing at extremities; otherwise a nice copy in a dust jacket with some coin-sized chips and considerable use to the spine; light rubbing to the front panel; some splitting along folds. . 8vo,. With drawings by Arthur Rackham.

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1937.. First American edition.. publisher's cloth in dust jacket.. A fine copy in a very attractive jacket with one short closed tear, a tiny hole to the front panel; and a few brown spots to the back panel.. 8vo,. Illustrated in color and black and white by Arthur Rackham.. Retold by May Byron for Little People.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. Very Good +. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. Reprint with fewer plates and 1910 date to title page. Octavo. 126 pp. 16 color plates by Rackham with tissue guards, complete. Green cloth stamped in gilt with color plate pasted to front cover. Dark topstain and light green endpapers with no map. No dust jacket. Boards show light edgewear and very faint staining. Binding is sound. Previous owner's signature to rear free endpaper, but overall pages clean and unmarked. Aligns with Riall's American Edition of 1913, though here with 1910 date on title page. Overall an attractive and sturdy copy. [Riall pp. 105-106].

Hodder & Stoughton Updated reprint of 1912 editoin. Quarto, green cloth boards (reinforced with dark green library cloth to spine & board corners), gilt lettering & gilt illustration to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, viii + 125pp, illus throughout plus 50 colour plates with tissue guard, VG- (library cloth reinforcement as mentioned earlier, heavy fading to rear board & to front board upper edge, dampstaining to front board upper edge & inside upper edge of front pastedown, moderately heavy browning to prelims & terminals, owner's name & address in pencil to prelim, heavy browning to page edges, sporadic foxing throughout)

Hodder & Stoughton, 1915. Circa 1915. First edition thus [truncated edition]. 8vo. Green boards with gilt titles & vignette to front board. A very good+/near fine copy. No marks to boards. Bright gilt. No chipping or splitting. Some spotting to edges only - text clean. Internally clean with all 24 colour plates present with tissue guards. No inscriptions. Map endpapers original and unsplit. A lovely copy. One of the immortals of children's literature, Peter Pan as a boy living in secret with the birds and fairies in the middle of London and as the children he was invented for grow up so does Peter reappearing in Neverland.

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1906.. First U.S. trade edition.. original green gilt cloth, expertly rebacked retaining the original gilt spine.. 1906 ink gift inscription on front free endpaper; title page and the leaf following foxed; scattered foxing to the tissue overleaves; plates fine. . 4to,. With 50 tipped-in color illustrations by Arthur Rackham, each with printed tissue overleaf..

London:: Hodder and Stoughton,, 1909.. Early edition.. publisher's red cloth illustrated and lettered in gold.. Spine very slightly sunned; very slight rubbing at extremities; a fresh unworn copy.. 4to,. With fifty full-page illustrations in color, mounted on gray paper and with printed tissue overleaves, by Arthur Rackham (in this edition all bound at the rear except for the frontispiece).

Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. Used - Very Good. 1906. 1st. Dec. cloth, xii, 125 pp. + plates sectioon. First Trade Edition. Latimore & Haskell, p. 27. Corners of boards bumped. Head and heel of spine frayed, with some loss. Irregular spotting and fading to covers. Foxing to first few leaves of text section, most noticeable on the half-title page and diminishing rapidly over the next several leaves. The plates section, which follows th etext, is on diffreent paper stock and has no condition problems. A presentable copy, allowing for the faults as noted above. (Subject: Books on Books & Cartography.)

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1906. The first appearance of Peter Pan in the title of a book First Rackham edition, first US printing. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens was the most popular Christmas gift book for 1906 and was highly successful commercially. The story of Peter Pan had its genesis in Barrie's 1902 novel The Little White Bird, in which the central chapters tell of a child "who escaped from being a human when he was seven days old... and flew back to Kensington Gardens". Barrie developed this story into a play (first performed in 1904, but not published until 1928), this book of 1906 (the first to appear with the name of the character in the title) and, finally, the novel Peter and Wendy which was published in 1911. As noted by Fred Gettings, the "publication and quality" of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens "was a sure sign that Rackham had arrived, and was now to remain as one of the leading illustrators in a wide field of book titles". The Pittsburgh Post noted, on 17 September… Read More

1906. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket . No dustwrapper. Large 8vo. - First Rackham Trade Edition - Contemporary gift dedication to front free endpaper - Terracotta cloth boards w/ gilt decoration and lettering to upper board and spine - Boards a little worn w/ gilt rubbed in places - Spine slightly cracked - Corners and spine ends a little crushed and frayed w/ spine head pulled but still strong - Edges of text block heavily tanned - Some scattered foxing throughout - Book ow/ solid w/ all plates present - xii/125/50 pages

London:: Hodder and Stoughton,, [no date].. Early edition.. original green cloth , embossed and gilt stamped.. Bookplate on pastedown; some scattered foxing; shallow cihpping to spine and wear at corners; tight and sound. The autograph letter is fine.. 8vo,. With twenty-four drawings by Arthur Rackham, each with printed tissue overleaf. Tipped in at the front is a three-page autograph letter signed by Arthur Rackham, to F. W. Crowninshield of The Century Co., New York, 25 Aug. 10, relating to terms of projected illustrative work, with a little discussion of his philosophy of illustration for children..

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1909.. Early U.S. trade edition.. original green gilt cloth in dust jacket.. There is some very light tanning to the green cloth, and tiny areas of use at the extreme extremities. Contents perfectly clean; tight and sound. There are two internal tape repair to closed tears to the jacket, which has some shallow chipping and is lightly soiled. . 4to,. With fifty tipped-in color illustrations by Arthur Rackham, each with printed tissue overleaf..