J.M. Barrie & the Lost Boys by Andrew Birkin ISBN 13: 9780094620001

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Penguin Random House. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Penguin Random House. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Penguin Random House. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Brand: Constable, 0000-00-00. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good.

London: Constable and Company, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Brown cloth, matching buff stained top edges, gilt titles to red leather spine label. Unclipped dust jacket with a little edgewear. xii, 323. Illustrated. The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature said of the book, 'the most candid and perceptive biography to have been written of Barrie'. Minor lean to spine.

Constable, London 1979. 1979. Hardcover. 8vo. hardcover. 323pp. index. Very good+. / Very good+ d/w. Comprehensive biography of the author of Peter Pan. Profusely illustrated, family trees on end papers. .

Constable, London, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. J. M. Barrie, novelist, playwright, and author of Peter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, led a life almost as magical and interesting as his famous creation. Childless in his marriage, Barrie grew close to the five young boys of the Llewelyn Davies family, ultimately becoming their guardian and devoted surrogate father when they were orphaned. Andrew Birkin draws extensively on a vast range of material by and about Barrie, including notebooks, memoirs, and hours of recorded interviews with the Llewelyn Davies family and their circle, to describe Barrie's life and the wonderful world he created for the boys. Originally published in 1979, this enchanting and richly illustrated account is reissued with a new preface to mark the release of Neverland, the film of Barrie's life, and the upcoming centenary of Peter Pan 323 pages. Light foxing to outer page edges. Dust jacket has fading to spine edge. Dust… Read More

Constable,. Hardback. First edition. The story of the author of Peter Pan and his friendship with the Llewellyn Davies family. Llewlyn DAvies and Du Maurier family trees to endpapers. Black and white illustrations to most pages. Detailed index. Brown marl cloth with brown printed label and gilt titles to spine is very clean though slightly softened to spine ends. Dust jacket is a little rubbed and rolled to edges. Clean and sound. Very good copy in good+ dust jacket . Hardback. First Edition. 1979.

London : Constable, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xi, 323 p. : ill. (photographs) ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) 1860-1937 ; Biography. The davies boys. Peter pan. The lost boys. Biography.

London England: Constable, 1979. Hardcover. First Edition. J. M. Barrie and the Lost Boys. Price clipped to D/J. Slight shelf wear to top edge of D/J. Up to the age of six, James Barrie lived in the shadow of his elder brother David, the golden boy of his mother's eye; and when David died in a skating accident, it was a catastrophe from which she never recovered. But she drew a measure of comfprt from the notion that her favourite son, in dying a boy, would remain a boy for ever. It was a notion that, acting on the unusually powerful imagination of her son James, would emerge thirty-three years later in the creation of Peter Pan. In November 1884, Barrie left his birth place Kirriemuir, in Scotland, and went to London in the hope of making a career as a journalist and writer. His first novel Better Dead appeared in 1888 and was not well received. But the Thrums novels - Thrums was his native Kirriemuir - the first of which appeared in the same year, were an immediate success and attracted the… Read More

London: Constable, 1979 price clipped DW under plastic sleeve, near fine copy, xii 323pp illustrated throughout with photographs, . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.