Author Peter Pan (5 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 93 pages. 8.25x5.00x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Decorative Hardcover. Condition: Used-Acceptable. No Jacket. Marjorie Torrey (Illustrator) (illustrator). Copyright 1957. 128 pp. A rare, hard-to-find, out-of-print, scarce, true collectible gem! A good copy! A perfectly acceptable study or work or reading or research copy! Well bound copy with moderate to extensive overall wear and use. Occasional pen markings on text. Front and back cover boards mostly detached from book. Slightly bumped cover board corners. No dust jacket.

Lady Cynthia Asquith was Barrie's personal secretary in his later years, and inherited the bulk of his estate, but not the rights to 'Peter Pan'. The letter is 2pp, 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged, with small holes to one corner from staple. With red date stamp marking receipt. Begins: 'Dear Sir | Sir James Barrie directs me to express his regret at your letter having remained unanswered for so long but he has been absent from London, and unable to attend to his correspondence. He much appreciates the honour of your suggestion but is quite unable to undertake any further writing of any description.'.

London; Oxford University Press. 2006. 8vo. Original red cloth with red metallic vignette of Peter to upper board, lettered in metallic red to spine, preserved in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [xii] + 275; with chapter-headings in silhouette by David Wyatt; a fine copy in similarly fine dustwrapper with the original adhesive limitation label to upper panel.First edition, with number string 1-10. One of a limited edition of only 1500 numbered copies signed by the author. This is the official sequel to Peter Pan, which was commissioned to appear in 2006, the centenary of the first appearance of Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens (1906). Reportedly over 100 authors applied to write this sequel, the commission for which was awarded to Geraldine McCaughrean, previous winner of the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Book Award (three times), the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and the Blue Peter Book of the Year.