James Matthew Barrie 1860 - 1937

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

London 1906 Hodder & Stoughton rebacked expertly saving the contemporary cloth upper board, upper board with title, baby on a goat, author’s name, and illustrators name in gilt. Flat spine with title, author name in gilt. J. M. Barrie was a Scottish dramatist and novelist, known for the whimsy and sentimental fantasy of his work. Barrie’s best-know plays are Quality Street (1901), The Admirable Crichton (1902), Peter Pan, Alice Sit-by-the-Fire (1905), What Every Woman Knows (1908), and Dear Brutus (1917). His outstanding prose works include A Window in Thrums (1889); The Little Minister (1891), a novel, dramatized in 1897; Margaret Ogilvy (1896), a biography of his mother and Sentimental Tommy (1896), a novel. (Benet’s) 4to Contains fifty full page mounted color plates including frontis, and a map of Kensington Garden. A bright clean copy very good to excellent. Bateson III 623 P. map, printer’s imprint, half-title, blank (2), frontis, contents, blank, title, copyright, dedication, blank, illustration list (4), 1-126, 49 plates.

• USD 1,750.00 > other currencies
• ordernr.: 1917

• bookseller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books (CANADA)