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J. M. Barrie (James Matthew Barrie) | First Editions
1860 - 1937
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, who gave life to the adored children's character, Peter Pan.
Barrie was born and educated in Scotland, but found literary inspiration in London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays. Upon meeting the Llewelyn Davies boys, Barrie began writing a tale about a boy's adventures in Kensington Gardens. This boy re-appeared in Barrie's fully developed novel, Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, also known as Peter and Wendy. As lovers of children's literature will know, this was the story of an ageless boy and the daughter of a London clerk. Peter and Wendy have exciting (and treacherous) adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. Peter and Wendy is credited with popularising the then-uncommon name Wendy.
J.M. Barrie's commitment to charity and the protection of children is shown both through his unofficial adoption of the Davies boys, following the deaths of their parents, and in giving the rights of the Peter Pan franchise to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London.
See below our stock of J. M. Barrie First Editions, and fine bindings.
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Peter Pan and Wendy.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [circa 1930]. [Children's Illustrated Literature] VINTAGE ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (26 x 19cm), pp. 128. Publisher's blue illustrated cloth lettered in gilt to upper and spine, illustrative dust-jacket with the printed price of 6/- to front flap. With twelve coloured illustrative plates and nineteen black..... More
Peter and Wendy. The Blampied Edition of Peter Pan. The Original Text of Peter and Wendy by J.M. Barrie. Newly Illustrated by Edmund Blampied.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST BLAMPIED-ILLUSTRATED EDITION, first impression. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.vi; 216. With 12 tipped-in colour illustrations and 17 black and white plates, all by Blampied. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Pictorial endpapers. A blue ink..... More
Quality Street. A Comedy in four acts. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [circa 1913]. [Illustrated Drama] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.[4] viii; 198 [2]. With a loose flier for the original exhibition of Thomson's watercolour illustrations for the book, November and December 1913. Complete with 22 colour plates by Thomson, including a frontispiece..... More
A Window in Thrums. With Illustrations by Clifton Johnson.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1896. [Literature] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xix [3] 272. With copious halftone illustrations by Johnson, including a frontispiece. Publisher's pictorial green cloth, illustrations and titles stamped in green, black, and gilt to upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. Internally clean..... More
The Admirable Crichton. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [c.1914]. FIRST HUGH THOMSON EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), with twenty mounted colour plates and captioned tissues. Publisher's pale green cloth blocked in dark green and red to upper, gilt to spine. Contents are a little foxed, binding lightly handled, one neat/accidental pull to crown..... More
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