Barrie, Peter Pan Kensington Gardens Rackham 1stEd 1930
"J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens", Retold by May Byron for Little People with the Permission of the Author, pictures by Arthur Rackham, published by Scribner, New York, 1930, First American Edition, First Printing with marking 'A' and Scribner's colophon present on the copyright page.
Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937), better known as J.M. Barrie, Scottish journalist, playwright, and children's book writer, became world famous with his story about Peter Pan.
For it was in 1897 that Barrie became acquainted with the three little boys in Kensington Gardens: five-year-old George, four-year-old Jack, and baby brother Peter, who came to play in the park each day attended by their nanny. They talked about cricket, pirates, and fairies; he dazzled them by the way he could wiggle his ears; and before long, Barrie was meeting up with the boys on a regular basis.Barrie's Peter Pan is human-born, not a fairy, but he's lived in Never Land so long that he's as much a fairy as he is a boy: magical, capricious, and amoral, like the fairies of the old Scots tradition. He's a complex mixture of good and bad. He's a liminal creature, standing on the threshold between fairy and child, mortal and immortal, villain (when he lures children from their homes) and hero (when he rescues them from pirates).
Barrie was awarded a baronetcy in 1913 in recognition of his status as one of the best loved authors in Britain.
Arthur Rackham [1867-1939], a famous British illustrator.
Although acknowledged as an accomplished black-and-white book illustrator for some years, it was the publication of his full color plates to Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" by Heinemann in 1905 that particularly brought him into public attention, his reputation being confirmed the following year with J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens". Income from the books was greatly augmented by annual exhibitions of the artwork at the Leicester Galleries. Rackham won a gold medal at the Milan International Exhibition in 1906 and another one at the Barcelona International Exposition in 1912. His works were included in numerous exhibitions, including one at the Louvre in Paris in 1914.
US: Priority (c 2-4 days) -------- $14.50
Canada: Priority (c. 2-6 weeks) -- $27.50
World: Priority (c.2-8 weeks) ---- $37.50
Condition Report: Hard cover, original publisher's pictorial cloth (spine ends and corner wear, spine fading, the boards have small fade spots: see photos); 5.1/2" x 8", 123 pages, "Map of Peter Pan's Kensington Gardens" on the page before half-title; 6 color plates on glossy paper [all plates are present], 15 b/w plates and text illustrations, a few stains, very good condition.
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"J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens", Retold by May Byron for Little People with the Permission of the Author, pictures by Arthur Rackham, published by Scribner, New York, 1930, First American Edition, First Printing with marking 'A' and Scribner's colophon present on the copyright page.
Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937), better known as J.M. Barrie, Scottish journalist, playwright, and children's book writer, became world famous with his story about Peter Pan.
For it was in 1897 that Barrie became acquainted with the three little boys in Kensington Gardens: five-year-old George, four-year-old Jack, and baby brother Peter, who came to play in the park each day attended by their nanny. They talked about cricket, pirates, and fairies; he dazzled them by the way he could wiggle his ears; and before long, Barrie was meeting up with the boys on a regular basis.Barrie's Peter Pan is human-born, not a fairy, but he's lived in Never Land so long that he's as much a fairy as he is a boy: magical, capricious, and amoral, like the fairies of the old Scots tradition. He's a complex mixture of good and bad. He's a liminal creature, standing on the threshold between fairy and child, mortal and immortal, villain (when he lures children from their homes) and hero (when he rescues them from pirates).
Barrie was awarded a baronetcy in 1913 in recognition of his status as one of the best loved authors in Britain.
Arthur Rackham [1867-1939], a famous British illustrator.
Although acknowledged as an accomplished black-and-white book illustrator for some years, it was the publication of his full color plates to Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" by Heinemann in 1905 that particularly brought him into public attention, his reputation being confirmed the following year with J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens". Income from the books was greatly augmented by annual exhibitions of the artwork at the Leicester Galleries. Rackham won a gold medal at the Milan International Exhibition in 1906 and another one at the Barcelona International Exposition in 1912. His works were included in numerous exhibitions, including one at the Louvre in Paris in 1914.
US: Priority (c 2-4 days) -------- $14.50
Canada: Priority (c. 2-6 weeks) -- $27.50
World: Priority (c.2-8 weeks) ---- $37.50
Condition Report: Hard cover, original publisher's pictorial cloth (spine ends and corner wear, spine fading, the boards have small fade spots: see photos); 5.1/2" x 8", 123 pages, "Map of Peter Pan's Kensington Gardens" on the page before half-title; 6 color plates on glossy paper [all plates are present], 15 b/w plates and text illustrations, a few stains, very good condition.
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