Peter and Wendy

Overview:

  • Title: Peter and Wendy
  • Author: J. M. Barrie
  • Year: 1911
  • Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
  • Price: $1.50
  • Pages: vii+267+[12]
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Peter and Wendy
  • Notes:
    • First American edition.
    • Interior art consists of 13 full-page illustrations (including the title page and frontispiece). Cover is olive green cloth with gilt titles and decorations to front and spine. Dust jacket shown in attached photo.
    • Data from Heritage Auctions and from PBA Galleries
    • Library of Congress and WorldCat (LCCN and OCLC, below) report "vii, 267 pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm".
    • LC links two copies at HathiTrust Digital Library, there catalogued as "C. Scribner's Sons [c1911]". One title leaf states "Published October, 1911"; the other "Printed in the United States of America". Identical illustrated title pages are undated.
    • Price from advertisement "Scribner's Fall Publications" NY Times 1911-10-28 p11