Sentimental Tommy : The Story of His Boyhood.
London: Cassell and Company, 1896. First edition, first printing, first issue. Publisher's deep purple cloth, spine title stamped in gilt, teg, grey, decorated endpapers, housed in custom quarter green morocco slipcase with chemise. Octavo. viii, 452, 4, [16, pub. catalogue]. 8" x 5" Moderately toned spine, gently rubbed extremities concentrated to corners and tips, extremely mild foxing to first several pages, still very good, in very good, lightly edge-worn slipcase with mildly rubbed boards, and several small spots of discoloration. Overall a square and internally clean copy. Item #238270
SIGNED PREMONITION OF PETER PAN
J. M. Barrie, like so many Scottish authors, followed the London literary world's draw south, leaving his home and childhood behind, which produced a yearning he would never completely escape in his writing. Living in the city, Barrie's nostalgia transformed into something palpable as he created his first "boy who wouldn't grow up,” Tommy Sandys. Tommy's adventures in tenement London laid the thematic groundwork for Peter Pan, the ultimate eternal child who cemented Barrie in literary history.
This copy is signed by Barrie on full title page and beautifully encased in a custom slipcase. It is a first edition, first issue with date 6G-8.96 to the lower right corner of p. 5 of ads.
[Cutler 46; Garland 25].
Price: $1,750.00