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Peter Pan and Wendy
by Barrie, J. M. Illustrated By Mabel Lucie Attwell
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Title page dated 1926. Worn but generally sound copy with all nine color plates, but with page 101/102 badly torn with most of it missing. Black cloth with color illustration mounted on the front cover, no dustjacket. Heavy wear and scuffing to the front cover, some edgewear, fraying to corners and spine ends, good hinges, text block sound but not tight, erased pencil scribbles on preliminary blank, frontis tissue absent, bookplate on front free endpaper, no other markings.. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Peter Pan: or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904) is the title of Scottish playwright and novelist James M. Barrie's most famous play, and Peter and Wendy is the title of Barrie's 1911 novelization of it. Both tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy Darling and her brothers, the fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, the Indian princess Tiger Lily, and the pirate Captain Hook.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 039921
- Title
- Peter Pan and Wendy
- Author
- Barrie, J. M. Illustrated By Mabel Lucie Attwell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1926
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- CHILDRENS COLOR ILLUSTRATED CLASSIC NEVERLAND
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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