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Peter Pan and Wendy
by J. M. Barrie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Brockhampton Press, 1967. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1967. First Edition Thus. 128 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over colour illustrated cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis and black and white illustrations throughout. Minor tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen and pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and visible tanning to text block edges. Binding is loose. Boards have mild rubbing and heavier bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and visible sunning to spine. Unclipped jacket with heavy edge wear and rubbing. There is visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends and splitting to joints. Major sunning to spine.
Synopsis
Peter Pan: or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904) is the title of Scottish playwright and novelist James M. Barrie's most famous play, and Peter and Wendy is the title of Barrie's 1911 novelization of it. Both tell the story of 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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1631279782MHP
- Title
- Peter Pan and Wendy
- Author
- J. M. Barrie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Brockhampton Press
- Date Published
- 1967
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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