An uncommonly well-preserved example of the first American edition
Publisher and Year: New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1911
Edition: First American edition, first printing, with “Published October, 1911” and the Scribner seal on the copyright page, and without the list of Barrie’s works on the verso of the half-title page (added in some later printings). Published in the same week as the first British edition (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911) with the same cover design, likely about three days later [1-3]. Lacking the dust jacket. (Cutler, 1931)
Condition and Description: Octavo, 7.5” x 5”, publisher’s olive cloth stamped in gilt, 267 pp. Contains all thirteen monochrome illustrations by F.D. Bedford, including the frontispiece and title page. Gilt notably bright on the front board and slightly dulled on the spine; light shelfwear to the cloth; tanning to the spine and extremities. Tight hinges and binding. Clean pages, with no prior owner’s markings. A touch of foxing to the upper portion of the tissue guard, frontispiece, and title page.
“Pan, who and what art thou?” he cried huskily.
“I’m youth, I’m joy,” Peter answered at a venture, “I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”
References
1. Credit to bookseller Scott Brown for his catalog description noting that contemporary advertisements place the American edition slightly later than the first British edition (see below).
2. The London Daily Telegraph, 18 October 1911, p. 14. The first British edition is announced as “Ready Today.”
3. The New York Times, 20 October 1911, p. 5. The first American edition is announced as “Ready Tomorrow.”
Inventory ID: 205 - 887 - 338
An uncommonly well-preserved example of the first American edition
Publisher and Year: New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1911
Edition: First American edition, first printing, with “Published October, 1911” and the Scribner seal on the copyright page, and without the list of Barrie’s works on the verso of the half-title page (added in some later printings). Published in the same week as the first British edition (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911) with the same cover design, likely about three days later [1-3]. Lacking the dust jacket. (Cutler, 1931)
Condition and Description: Octavo, 7.5” x 5”, publisher’s olive cloth stamped in gilt, 267 pp. Contains all thirteen monochrome illustrations by F.D. Bedford, including the frontispiece and title page. Gilt notably bright on the front board and slightly dulled on the spine; light shelfwear to the cloth; tanning to the spine and extremities. Tight hinges and binding. Clean pages, with no prior owner’s markings. A touch of foxing to the upper portion of the tissue guard, frontispiece, and title page.
“Pan, who and what art thou?” he cried huskily.
“I’m youth, I’m joy,” Peter answered at a venture, “I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”
References
1. Credit to bookseller Scott Brown for his catalog description noting that contemporary advertisements place the American edition slightly later than the first British edition (see below).
2. The London Daily Telegraph, 18 October 1911, p. 14. The first British edition is announced as “Ready Today.”
3. The New York Times, 20 October 1911, p. 5. The first American edition is announced as “Ready Tomorrow.”
Inventory ID: 205 - 887 - 338
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