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Peter and Wendy. Illustrated by F.D. Bedford.
by BEDFORD, F.D.: BARRIE, J.M:
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1911 5th (Same year as 1st). Hardback, 8 x 5.5 inches. Green cloth with gilt titles on spine, and attractive pictorial white decorations to front board. In very good condition. Fading to cloth on spine and rear boards, front white decorations nice and bright, corners a little bumped. Endpapers darkened & inscription dated 1912. Moderate foxing to prelims and inside pages. One plate a little tatty on edges with two tears. Other Plates still clean and bright. Else a good clean and tight copy. 267pp; Illustrated with 12 B&W plates including frontis and decorative title page. This novel was first published in 1911, following the 1904 play. Telling the familiar story of Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn't grow up, the Lost Boys, Tinkerbell, Captain Hook, the children of Darling family, and their adventures in Neverland. The final chapter of this novel, entitled 'When Wendy Grew Up', sees Peter visiting a grown up Wendy. This had not appeared in the play or earlier versions of the story.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 95178
- Title
- Peter and Wendy. Illustrated by F.D. Bedford.
- Author
- BEDFORD, F.D.: BARRIE, J.M:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1911 5th (Same year as 1st)
- Keywords
- Illustrated Books BEDFORD, F.D.: BARRIE, J.M: Peter and Wendy, Illustrated, Hodder & Stoughton, 1911, decorative, gilt,
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The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
Glossary
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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