Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by Barrie, First Edition (25 results)

Condition: Near Fine. First edition. One of 500 copies, numbered and signed by the artist (this being copy 77). Large quarto (273 x 225 mm). xii, 125, [1] pp. Color frontispiece and forty-nine color plates (collected at the end of the text) mounted on heavy brown paper, with descriptive tissue guards. Four black and white drawings (two on the title and one each on p. 1 and p. 14). Publisher's vellum over boards pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, silk ties replaced. Endpapers of the same heavy brown paper with map of Kensington Gardens on front free endpaper. Housed in a fleece-lined, three-quarter tan morocco clamshell case, spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. A bit of foxing to edges. A bright, Near Fine copy. In the more lighthearted chapters of his novel The Little White Bird (1902), J.M. Barrie introduced the world to the timeless character of Peter Pan. Those chapters are reissued here, beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. It was one of the great successes of his career: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens "was the book which first made Rackham's work famous" (The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature). Arthur Rackham (1867 - 1939) is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrator of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth, Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper in 1892. Over the next few years, he took on more and more commissions for children's books, hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classic from Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe. Latimore and Haskell, p. 27. Riall, p. 74. Near Fine.

First edition. Quarto. pp xii, 126 + fifty tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards. Full pictorial vellum gilt. Top edge gilt.One of 500 copies numbered and signed by the artist.Contemporary (1906) gift inscription on half-title page. Lacks silk ties, as is usually the case. Near fine.

Condition: Near Fine. Jacket Condition: Custom Solander Box. 1st Trade Edition, 18.5 x 25.3 cm, full leather binding by Bayntun Riviere with painted pictorial leather panel to the front based on plate 33 'Peter Pan is the Fairy Orchestra' and gilt stamped titles and borders to the front and spine and gilt borders and blind stamped decoration to the rear. All edges gilt with highly decorative dentelles including a Bayntun Riviere stamp on the bottom turnover. Marbled endpapers, xii, 125(1)pp with 50 tipped in plates on brown heavy stock each with captioned paper guards. Two ribbon book marks, one for the plates and one for the text. The book comes with a fawn cloth covered solander box with titles to the spine. A lovely copy with a little light rubbing to the spine and corners There is a small 3mm light scuff on the front board just below the author's name and a touch of light dust marking to the rear. Internally the book is very clean with no name, inscription or bookplate and just a little toning to the free endpapers in line with the dentelles on the pastedown and a touch of faint spotting to the prelims and final page. The tipped in plates are all in fine condition and without rubs, tears or creases and all have their captioned paper guards. The solander box is has light dust marking and just a touch of rubbing to the corners. This a very collectable, beautifully bound 1st Trade Edition Copy. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). 1st Edition. (Rackham, Arthur) illustrator. PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS by J. M. Barrie; with drawings by Arthur Rackham. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. FIRST EDITION. 4to - 7-5/8" x 10-1/8". All edges tinted brown. Original russet cloth covered boards with decoration and lettering to upper cover stamped in gilt and lettering to spine stamped in gilt with just a hint of wear to the extremities for a wonderful copy of the book. Dark brown endpapers with map on FFE; small bookplate on front paste-down. 125, [1] pp. plus [50] leaves with tissue guarded color plates mounted on thick brown paper; guard sheets with descriptive letterpress. A bright clean copy of a magnificent Rackham production. The condition of the book is NEAR FINE.

Hardback. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). 1st Edition. This limited edition of one of Arthur Rackhams greatest works signed by Arthur Rackham this being number 174 of 500 copies pp xii 126 pp Complete with 50 colour plates this magnificent work being the limited edition bound in full vellum with gilt decoration to the front board and spine The plates are all sharp and in stunning condition with captioned tissue guards the binding is tight A clean and sharp copy of one of the most desirable childrens books ever to be published The ulitmate Christmas gift for the Arthur Rackham and Peter Pan fan view in the shop or online nbsp. book.

Full Vellum. Condition: Minor Soiling. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). Limited, Signed Edition. Brown endpapers with map of Kensington Gardens on front free endpaper. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. This edition was limited to 500 copies, numbered and SIGNED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM on the limitation page. This is copy #203. There are a total of fifty color illustrations including the frontispiece, each tipped-onto heavy brown stock, with a protective captioned tissue-guard. Collated complete. They are to be found together following the text. All are in fine condition. The typography of the book includes wide margins, clean and crisp throughout. THE SILK TIES ARE PRESENT. Area of slight discoloration of vellum near spine on rear cover. 126pp. followed by illustrations. Housed in a custom box with leather spine label, lined in white felt. Please see photos. Latimore and Haskell p.27 and Riall p.74. Size: Quarto. Signed by Illustrator.

rackham (illustrator). "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" by J.M. Barrie and illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Hodder & Stoughton, London. 1906 first UK Rackham edition, 50 colour tipped-in plates, original upper cloth cover bound-in at rear, all edges gilt, modern russet morocco gilt.

ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM (illustrator). HARDBACK BOUND IN A FAIRLY MODERN HALF LEATHER BINDING RETAINING THE ORIGINAL ENDPAPERS WITH THE MAP TO FRONT ENDPAPER. 50 FULL PAGE MOUNTED COLOUR PLATES WITH TISSUE GUARDS BOOK MEASURES APPROX 10 x 7 INCHES VERY MINOR SURFACE ABRASIONS TO HALF TITLE WITH SOME OCCASIONAL LIGHT FOXING TO TEXT PAGES. OVERALL A SUPERB COPY WITH ALL PLATES IN FINE CONDITION & BOARDS WELL ATTACHED. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). First edition. Beautifully illustrated with colour plates from Arthur Rackham, this is a wonderful first trade edition of J. M. Barrie's iconic children's tale. The first trade edition of Arthur Rackham's illustrated edition of J. M. Barrie's classic children's tale. In the publisher's original cloth binding, and with bright tipped in full colour plates from Rackham.Featuring a colour frontispiece, and forty-nine further tipped in colour plates from Rackham to the rear of the work, each retaining their original captioned tissue guard. Collated, complete.This work was the first to feature the name of the central character, Peter Pan, in the title. The majority of the text of this work originally appeared Barrie's 1902 novel 'The Little White Bird', in chapters 13 to 18. The novel 'Peter and Wendy' was not published until 1911, with the play - first performed in 1904 - not published until 1928.A beautifully illustrated first edition of J. M Barrie's beloved tale about the boy who never grew up. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with light rubbing to joints. Small area of fading to fore edge of front board. Internally, firmly bound. Areas of significant spotting to first and last few leaves of text. Plates clean and bright, retaining their original captioned tissue guards. Very Good. book.

Tela editoriale con titoli impressi in oro al ds. e al piatto anteriore (piccole mancanze alle cuffie e minime tracce d usura marginali). Lievi sporadiche fioriture, ma nel complesso esemplare in più che buono stato di conservazione. Prima edizione ( trade edition ). Cfr. Hudson, p. 167. 4to (cm. 25), XII-125(1) pp. Con 2 illustrazioni in nero n.t. e 50 tavole a colori applicate e protette da velina parlante f.t. (di cui una in antiporta). Mappa dei Kensington Gardens al contropiatto anteriore.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). First Edition. 1906 at title page. Stated verso title page: "Copyright in the Unites States of America by Charles Scribner's Sons." Voluminous 8" x 10" x 2" design. Russet colored full cloth boards, bright gilt embossed cover and spine design with flourishing titles, moderate shelf wear. Cover depicts crisp stylized titles with bright gilt design of babe Peter hands-free on bucking goat. Deckled leaves generally very good, clean; some sporadic fox, especially at first few. Frontispiece mounted plate with captioned tissue guard: "There now arose a mighty sotrm and he was tossed this way and that". Dark matte green pictorial endpapers featuring Rackham's map of Peter's village. Intriguing statement verso front endpaper over green matte: "This publication is for sale in Great Britain, its Colonies and Dependencies, but its sale and exhibition in France is prohibited." Antiquarian fountain pen inscription at half-title page: "To G. M. L. Marshall, from KluLtu. Xmas 1906," or similar. Dark tinted green text block at all sides. Features fifty color plates by Arthur Rackham mounted on heavy stock dark green matte leaves with fine captioned tissue guards throughout illlustrated latter half of volume. Bind good, square; hinges intact. Dedication: "To Sylvia and Arthur Llewelyn Davies and their boys (my boys)." Scarce sharp, near very good British first edition profusely embellished by Arthur Rackham. In Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, J.M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as an infant, living a wild and secret life with birds and fairies in the middle of London. Later Barrie let this remarkable child grow a little older and he became the boy-hero of Neverland, making his first appearance with Wendy, Captain Hook, and the Lost Boys. Barrie's novel The Little White Bird of 1902 contains the first sketches for Peter Pan. The narrator is 'a gentle, whimsical, lonely old bachelor', an author by profession, whose ambition is to have a son. He meets a penniless young couple whose own son David fulfills his desire. The narrator explains that all children in our part of London were once birds in the Kensington Gardens. And, that the reason there are bars on nursery windows and a tall fender by the fire is because very little people sometimes forget that they no longer have wings, and try to fly away through the window or up the chimney. One such child, Peter Pan, escaped from being a human when he was seven days old and flew back to the Kensington Gardens. The Peter Pan stories were Barrie's only works for children, but as their persistent popularity shows, their themes of imaginative escape continue to charm even those who long ago left Neverland. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press. 126 pages of text with few vignettes prior to large plate section. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM (illustrator). HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL GILT DECORATED BINDING WITH ORIGINAL ENDPAPERS & MAP TO FRONT ENDPAPER, COMPLETE WITH 50 x FULL PAGE MOUNTED COLOUR PLATES WITH TISSUE GUARDS BOOK MEASURES APPROX 10 x 7 INCHES SOME MINOR RUBBING TO COVER EDGES WITH MINOR WEAR AT TOP & BOTTOM OF SPINE, OCCASIONAL LIGHT FOXING TO TEXT PAGES WITH MORE MODERATE FOXING TO HALF TITLE, ONE TEXT PAGE WITH AN OLD CRUDE TAPE REPAIR TO ONE CORNER MARGIN, COUPLE OF TISSUE GUARDS PARTIALLY DETACHED WITH SOME TISSUE GUARDS CREASED. OVERALL A LOVELY COPY IN BETTER THAN THE USUAL CONDITION WITH ALL PLATES FINE, BOARDS WELL ATTACHED & GILT TO COVER BRIGHT. PLEASE NOTE THAT IMAGES OF THE BINDING HAVE SEVERAL REFLECTIONS FROM THE CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING & NOT PRESENT ON THE BOOK. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.

First trade edition, first printing. Original russet cloth with gilt titles to the spine and upper board, along with a gilt illustration. With beautiful colour illustration plates by Arthur Rackham. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with some rubbing to the extremities and a mark to the lower board and spine. The contents, with a short closed tear and a small contemporary inscription to the half title and some light foxing to the prelims and infrequently throughout, along with the odd finger mark to the margins, are otherwise clean and bright throughout. All 50 plates, one at the front as the frontispiece and the other 49 grouped together at the back, are present with their captioned tissue guards and in fine condition without corner creases or marks. Peter Pan first appeared in the chapters 13 to 18 of Barrie's 1902 novel "The Little White Bird". Barrie extracted the story and following the success of his Rip Van Winkle illustrations, through The Leicester Galleries, asked Arthur Rackham to provide the illustrations. The resulting first edition of Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens became not only a highlight of golden age book illustration, but for many, their first introduction to "the boy who wouldn't grow up". Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. Quarto. Hardcover. Publisher's original maroon cloth with gilt decorations. Book is very good. Sound and tight binding. All plates and illustrations intact. Covers have some light shelf wear and rubbing. Previous owner bookplate front pastedown. Owner notation on title page bottom. Has some light pencil marginalia throughout (can be erased if desired). A wonderful first printing of this beloved classic featuring the iconic artwork of Arthur Rackham.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good- condition. 1st Edition. [xii], 126 pages of text. Dark green hardcover cloth binding with minor shelfwear and soiling, and a bumps to the corners; protected in custom stiff archival and easily removable Mylar. Complete with 50 tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham (1867-1939). Additionally illustrated with a one-page black-and-white map. Illustrations are not included in the pagination. All 50 captioned tissue-guards present; some with minor creasing. The bottom corner suffered a fairly strong bump, causing small creases to the lower corners of the entirety of the text margins, not affecting text. Minor bump to the top corner. Minor soiling and tiny spots of discoloration scattered minimally throughout text. Previous owner's photographic postcard James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937). Height: 9 15/16" (253mm). Tipped in on a front blankleaf is a real photo postcard of Maude Ewing Adams Kiskadden (November 11, 1872 - July 17, 1953), known professionally as Maude Adams, was an American actress and stage designer who achieved her greatest success as the character Peter Pan, first playing the role in the 1905 Broadway production of "Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up." The postcard is signed by her and dated 1909. The back of the postcard is addressed to what appears to read "Ellis W. Roble Eldora IA.". Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. First Edition. Rackham's second major commission and generally considered his most important book. With guarded frontis and 49 other guarded plates, mounted on brown card and bound in at rear. The book has been sympathetically and expertly rebacked with the original spine laid on. Corners are bumped, foxing to first few pages. All of the plates are in fine condition. 126.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A beautiful copy of one of the most beloved illustrated books of the 20th century, in a period binding by Bayntun of Bath, 3/4 red morocco over matching cloth, spine with raised bands, and gilt floral tooling within compartments with scrolled borders, covers sectioned with a single gilt fillet, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers (has some wear to spine at foot and to upper hinge at top). First trade edition, that is not only the first appearance of Rackham's work, but the first separate book edition of the text. The text is Peter Pan's origin story, recounting how he left his home and took up residence in Kensington Gardens. fairies are also rumored to have some involvement. Latimore & Haskell, p27. The 50 tipped-in Rackham plates are complete with captioned interleaving. One of the most celebrated illustrated books of the 20th century. xii+125+[1]+plates.

Hardcover. First American Edition. Octavo, x, 126 pages. In Good plus condition. Full binding of green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Mild shelf wear. Chipping of cloth at head and tail of spine. Some staining to front and rear covers. Interior pages clean. Features 50 colored illustrations by Rackham, including frontispiece and 49 illustrations tipped in at rear. Shelved in Case 14. Riall page 74. 1371036. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Arthur Rackham's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens First American Trade Edition With Fifty Mounted Color Plates [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. BARRIE, J.M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (From 'The Little White Bird'). With Drawings by Arthur Rackham. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. First American trade edition. Quarto (9 3/4 x 7 3/16 inches; 247 x 182 mm.). xii, [1, blank], [1, map of Kensington Gardens], 126 pp. Color frontispiece and forty-nine color plates (collected at the end of the text) mounted on heavy brown paper, with descriptive tissue guards. Four black and white drawings (two on the title and one each on p. 1 and p. 14). Sporadic minimal foxing just affecting some of the descriptive tissue guards. Publisher's green cloth, front cover pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt, spine decoratively lettered in gilt, gray endpapers. Neat ink inscription (dated 2/9/07) on front free end-paper. Covers with very slight insect nibbling (not through the cloth), one small one inch split on rear joint. Relevant newspaper cutting affixed to rear paste-down. Still a near fine copy of the first American trade edition of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. J.M. Barrie's novel The Little White Bird (1902) "contains the first sketches for Peter Pan. The narrator is 'a gentle, whimsical, lonely old bachelor', an author by profession, whose ambition is to have a son. He meets a penniless young couple whose own son David becomes a substitute in his affections. He explains to David that 'all children in our part of London were once birds in the Kensington Gardens; and that the reason there are bars on nursery windows and a tall fender by the fire is because very little people sometimes forget that they no longer have wings, and try to fly away through the window or up the chimney.' The central chapters of the book tell the story of one such child, Peter Pan, who 'escaped from being a human when he was seven days oldand flew back to the Kensington Gardens'The Peter Pan chapters of The Little White Bird were re-issued in 1906 as Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, with colour plates by Arthur Rackham; this was the book which first made Rackham's work famous. It should not be confused with Peter and Wendy (1911), Barrie's novelization of the play Peter Pan" (The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature). Latimore and Haskell, p. 27. Riall, p. 74.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Quarto, 126pp., plus 50 plates (frontispiece plus 49 leaves after the text, all with printed tissue guards, as issued). A very good or slightly better copy in the publisher's green cloth, decorated in gilt. Spine gently cocked, mild edgewear, and a smudge to the front board. Tiny tear to the tissue guard at the frontispiece, near the gutter. Apart from a few negligible foxing marks, a very clean copy overall, with the plates in excellent condition. A much-loved book, prone to wear, this is a rather well-preserved example, with inner hinges intact.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). 1st Edition. reddish rust boards with gilt titles to spine and front board and gilt illustration front board, disclouration spots to spine, slight wear to spine ends and corners, clean condition, Peter Pan's Map of Kensington Gardens printed front end-paper, tipped in frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrated title page, 126pp + 49 colour tipped in illustrations on thick card+ tissue guards which are at the back of the book, pages are clean and in near fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. First Edition thus. Quarto, 125pp., plus 50 plates (frontispiece plus 49 leaves after the text, all with printed tissue guards, as issued). Binding rather worn at the corners and spine ends, touch of foxing to the first few leaves, but the illustrations and the rest of the text uniformly bright and fresh. Front inner hinge thinly cracked, and handsome contemporary bookplate to the front paste-down. Overall in good or better condition. Most of the text first appeared as part of "The Little White Bird" in 1902, but was reworked here as a standalone story, and published here for the first time, with Rackham's illustrations.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. 4to, xii, 126 pp. Frontispiece, plus 49 color plates each mounted on heavy cardstock with captioned tissue guards all bound at the end. Red cloth, gilt decoration and lettering to upper cover, gilt lettering to backstrip. Rebacked and recornered with original cloth laid down, boards somewhat faded, two tissue guards torn, plates generally in very good condition. § First trade edition, one of Rackham's early successes and one of his most richly illustrated books.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" by J.M. Barrie and ill. by Arthur Rackham. London, Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1906, 1st trade ed., XII,125,(1)p., 50 tipped-in col. plates (incl. frontisp.), ills., bookdec. and orig. gilt cl. by A. RACKHAM. - Sl. foxed (worse at the beginning and end); one text leaf w. large tear. Covers waterst. in upper corners; spine-ends worn. = Latimore/ Haskell p.27.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). 1st Thus. 126 pages with 24 full colour plates by Arthur Rackham. green cloth boards with a cherubic Peter sitting on toadstools embossed on cover and an ornate lettered embossed gilt spine, map of Kensington gardens endpapers, tissue guards to all 24 plates, some foxing throughout mostly at edges, cloth clean, no splits, gilt bright on cover and spine, square octavo. *The book was printed in 1906 in this smaller version of 24 plates and a larger format with 50 plates. Taken from the 1902 "The Little White Bird" and made into a play in 1904. This was enlarged into this book and published in 1906.