Tommy and Grizel.
London: Cassell and Company, 1900. First edition, first printing. 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, 431, [1], 8 ads. 8" x 5" Toned cloth, gently rubbed extremities concentrated to corners and tips, hinges split, but holding strong, moderately foxed edges and first several pages, partially removed bookplate to front pastedown, still very good, in very good, lightly edge-worn slipcase with mildly rubbed boards, and several small spots of discoloration. Overall a square copy. Item #238401
THE BOY WHO HAD TO GROW UP
Tommy Sandys, the "boy who wouldn't grow up" who laid the thematic groundwork for J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, presses into adulthood in this sequel to Sentimental Tommy. As he launches into London working life, Tommy matures from a stumbling boy living in the tenements to a young man seeking success as a writer and struggling under the weight of ambition. Barrie explores the emotional depth required outside of an eternal childhood, cementing Tommy and Grizel as a pinnacle of sentimental fiction at the turn of the century.
This first edition is inscribed and signed "Yours Sincerely" by Barrie on the half title page and is beautifully encased in a custom slipcase.
[Cutler 51; Garland 29].
Price: $1,750.00