He moved to London, where he developed a career as a novelist and playwright. The child of a family of small-town weavers, he was educated in Scotland. The author: Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM ( – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. Barrie continued to revise the play for years after its debut the novel reflects one version of the story. Barrie's friendship inspired the play and novel with the Llewelyn Davies family. Both versions tell 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. Barrie's most famous work, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel. The book: Rare and attractive First American edition of Peter Pan or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up or Peter and Wendy is J. Illustrations: Complete with the 12 very nice full-page plates (by F. Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911 - First Edition, First Printing, with "Published October 1911" and the Scribner seal present on the copyright page.īinding: Very good and attractive full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed with very bright gilt decorations) under a removable mylar cover.Ĭontent: Very good content (bright and tight, some light foxing and staining, gift note of a previous owner on the first endpaper, small repaired tear on the outer margin of the frontispiece illustration - as shown).
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