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  Rare Association Copy of Arthur Rackham's Illustrated edition of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens; signed and inscribed by J.M. Barrie, George Frampton, Princess Beatrice, Princess Marie Louise, Nadejda Mountbatten, and Arthur Rackham with an original drawing

  BARRIE, J.M. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

  Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.

  London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, n.d.

  New edition of Rackham’s highly-sought-after masterpiece, which established his reputation as one of England’s premier illustrators. Quarto, original publisher's green cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 50 mounted color plates complete with captioned tissue guards including frontispiece. Association copy, signed by author J.M. Barrie on the verso of the front free endpaper, signed by Arthur Rackham on the recto of the frontispiece with an original drawing as well as Nadejda "Nada" Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, signed by the sculptor of the Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens, George Frampton on front pastedown, and signed by Princess Beatrice and Princess Marie Louise on the verso of the front free endpaper, "Beatrice Princess of Great Britain & Ireland January 1927" and "Marie Louise Jan. 1927." A January 4, 1927 issue of the Westminster Gazette explains the book's origin as a prize offered for "the best costumes from 'Peter Pan' and 'Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens'" at an annual London charity "Peter Pan" party. "There were not many 'Peter Pans.' Boys preferred pirates, most of them fierce-looking, with daggers protruding from their belts. Among the prizes were books of the play by Sir J. M. Barrie, autographed...

  Price: $18,000.00     Item Number: 142267

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