barrie j m illus arthur rackham (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Original dust jaket shows moderate wear, tear, chipping, split front flap. Pages lightly tanned and clean.

Zustand: Fair. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. 8vo. 126pp. Illus. by Arthur Rackham. Book Good. No dust jacket. Spine ends worn, tail torn; writing in pencil at crown. Boards rubbed, soiled, and edgeworn. Paint stain on front board illustration. Gifter's inscription on front free endpage. Frontis. detached. Binding shaken. (fantasy, brothers and sisters, Arthur Rackham, color plates) Inquire if you need further information.

Circa 1915. First edition thus [truncated edition]. 8vo. Green boards with gilt titles & vignette to front board. A very good+/near fine copy. No marks to boards. Bright gilt. No chipping or splitting. Some spotting to edges only - text clean. Internally clean with all 24 colour plates present with tissue guards. No inscriptions. Map endpapers original and unsplit. A lovely copy. One of the immortals of children's literature, Peter Pan as a boy living in secret with the birds and fairies in the middle of London and as the children he was invented for grow up so does Peter reappearing in Neverland.

First Rackham edition, first US printing. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens was the most popular Christmas gift book for 1906 and was highly successful commercially. The story of Peter Pan had its genesis in Barrie's 1902 novel The Little White Bird, in which the central chapters tell of a child "who escaped from being a human when he was seven days old. and flew back to Kensington Gardens". Barrie developed this story into a play (first performed in 1904, but not published until 1928), this book of 1906 (the first to appear with the name of the character in the title) and, finally, the novel Peter and Wendy which was published in 1911. As noted by Fred Gettings, the "publication and quality" of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens "was a sure sign that Rackham had arrived, and was now to remain as one of the leading illustrators in a wide field of book titles". The Pittsburgh Post noted, on 17 September 1906, that "October will see the publication by the Scribners of Barrie's. Peter Pan. Arthur Rackham has prepared the colored pictures for the book". It appears, therefore, that UK and US editions had a similar publication date. On 5 October 1906, The Times Literary Supplement reported the announcement of publication from the English publishers and a review appeared in that paper on 14 December 1906. Fred Gettings, Arthur Rackham, London, Studio Vista, 1975, p. 112; Riall p. 74; The Pittsburgh Post, 17 September 1906, p. 6; Times Literary Supplement, 5 October 1906, p. 338; Times Literary Supplement, 14 December 1906, p. 418. Quarto. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, decoration on front cover in gilt, brown endpapers. Colour frontispiece and 49 coloured plates mounted on brown paper, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Arthur Rackham. Extremities a little rubbed and bumped, small holes to front joint, some light soiling, occasional light finger-soiling: a very good copy.

Best Rackham edition, originally published in 1906. This edition is enlarged with a new frontispiece and seven full-page drawings that are not in the first edition. The plates were bound in sequence with the story for the first time. "Mr Barrie's touch of fantasy, homely but eerie too, is admirably reflected. Moreover, the pictures are simple, and are clearly and firmly drawn" (Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art). "The delightful colour and black-and-white illustrations are Arthur Rackham at his best, and, perhaps, no other artist could have been so happy in his results. Mr Rackham's work is such that one is always finding charming little unexpected surprises in out-of-the-way corners of his pictures. These illustrations are not to be merely glanced at, but carefully studied to derive the full amount of pleasure from them" (The Bystander). The Bystander, 4 December 1912, p. 550; Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, 8 December 1912, Supplement, p. iv. Quarto. Finely bound in full green morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, front cover decorated in gilt, floral dentelles in gilt, marbled endpaers, gilt edges. Colour frontispiece and 49 mounted colour plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Minor scratch to rear cover, minor splitting to front hinge, slight browning to free endpapers: a near-fine copy.

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens was first published in 1906, in both deluxe and trade editions, with the plates gathered at the end. The "New Edition" of 1912 is in larger format, with new illustrations dated 1912, the colour plates distributed throughout the text, the text entirely reset (readily identifiable by running headlines in a large italic typeface), uncoloured head- and tailpieces to each chapter, a calligraphic title page printed in two colours without the word "Limited" after the publishers' name, and with untrimmed fore and lower edges. In the first impression, the map of Kensington Gardens is printed across the page, with a blank verso. Later impressions of the New Edition have the title page printed in black only and the company name given as "Hodder & Stoughton Limited": these were presumably issued after December 1919, when the firm was incorporated as a limited company. The edges of later impressions are trimmed straight all round, resulting in a very slightly shorter book. This copy comes from another edition, superficially similar to the later impressions of the 1912 New Edition, but with the text now restored to the original 1906 setting, distinguished by the headlines printed all in capital letters, but enhanced by the addition of the head- and tailpieces from the 1912 edition. The map of Kensington Gardens is printed perpendicular, with the uncoloured illustration of Kensington Gardens on the verso. This appears to be the final form of the book as it continued to be issued by Hodder and Stoughton throughout the 1920s. The price-clipped jacket has the illustration entitled "A chrysanthemum heard her, and said pointedly, 'Hoity-toity, what is this?'" mounted on the front panel. The box has the illustration "An afternoon when the Gardens were white with snow" mounted on the lid. Laid in to the book is a four-page folding advert for Hodder and Stoughton's illustrated books, undated but giving the price of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens bound in cloth, with 50 colour plates, as 15/- net. Latimore & Haskell, p. 40; Riall, p. 114. Quarto. Original green cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front board gilt, plain endpapers. With the pictorial dust jacket. In the original publisher's pictorial box. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and 49 coloured plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white drawings in the text, by Rackham. Gift inscription to front free endpaper dated 1931, touch of rubbing to corners and ends of spine, in the price clipped dust jacket, wear to extremities, chipping to corners, chip to top end of spine with tape on verso, spine toned, light soiling to panels. An excellent copy.

First Rackham edition, trade issue, bound by Bayntun. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens was the most popular Christmas gift book for 1906. The story of Peter Pan had its genesis in Barrie's 1902 novel The Little White Bird, in which the central chapters tell of a child "who escaped from being a human when he was seven days old. and flew back to Kensington Gardens". Barrie developed the story into a play (first performed in 1904, but not published until 1928), this book of 1906 (the first to appear with the name of the character in the title) and, finally, the novel Peter and Wendy which was published in 1911. Riall, p. 74. Quarto (239 x 180 mm). Finely bound in late-20th century blue calf by Bayntun, lettering to spine in gilt with morocco lettering pieces in red and black, double fillet border to covers in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Colour frontispiece and 49 coloured plates mounted on heavy grey paper, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Occasional foxing, very minor split at head of front hinge; a near-fine copy.

Signed limited edition, number 263 of 500 copies signed by the artist, of this acknowledged classic of the "Golden Age" of book illustration. It also represents the first ever appearance of Peter Pan in the title of a book. Following publication, Barrie wrote to Rackham stating he had "shed glory" on the text and requested they continue to collaborate (cited in Hudson, p. 66). The story of Peter Pan had its genesis in Barrie's 1902 novel The Little White Bird, in which the central chapters tell of a child "who escaped from being a human when he was seven days old. and flew back to Kensington Gardens". Barrie developed this story into a play (first performed in 1904, but not published until 1928), the present book, and finally the novel Peter and Wendy (1911). Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, the most popular Christmas gift book for 1906, was the second of Rackham's books to be published in both a trade edition and in this luxurious deluxe format. "Its publication and quality was a sure sign that Rackham had arrived, and was now to remain as one of the leading illustrators in a wide field of book titles" (Gettings, p. 112). Latimore & Haskell, p. 27; Riall, p. 74. Fred Gettings, Arthur Rackham, 1975; Derek Hudson, Arthur Rackham His Life and Work, 1960. Quarto. Original vellum, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, front cover with gilt illustration after the vignette title page, brown endpapers, front free endpaper with map of Kensington Gardens, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Colour frontispiece and 49 colour plates tipped to brown art paper, as issued, with captioned tissue guards. Spine foot bumped, silk ties lacking, vellum lightly soiled, gilt bright, edges of white leaves foxed, contents unaffected. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to. pp. xii, 125, [1]. 50 colour plates by Rackham tipped onto thick brown paper mounts. tissue guards, with legends. map on front free-endpaper. original gilt-stamped russet-coloured cloth (very slightly rubbed, a few marginal spots on title). First Trade Edition with Rackham Illustrations.