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BARRIE, J. M. (1860-1937). Peter and Wendy. Illustrated by F. D. Bedford. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1911].

Estimate: $300 - $500
Starting Bid
$150

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BARRIE, J. M. (1860-1937). Peter and Wendy. Illustrated by F. D. Bedford. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1911]. 8vo. Illustrated with 13 plates after Bedford, including frontispiece and pictorial title-page. 267 pp. Publisher's full olive green cloth, front board and spine stamped in gilt. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF THE FIRST PETER PAN NOVEL. 

Condition

Spine sunned worn, and chipped with loss of cloth, boards worn, soiled, chipped, corners bumped, front endleaves offset from newspaper clippings (no longer present), ink blot stains at lower parts of front endleaves up to the title-page, one plate is loose (yet present), a few pages creased, roughly opened at fore-edge. Fair. 

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