Barrie, J.M.

8vo (190 x 125mm.), 3 volumes, FIRST EDITION, blanks and half-titles in each volume, 12pp. publisher's catalogue at end of volume 1 (coded "5 G. 9.91"), original light brown cloth, floral pattern endpapers, collector's chemises and box, some hinges splitting, head and foot of spines slightly bumped (3)

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A fine copy of the author's first successful novel. There were three silent film treatments before the sound version with Katharine Hepburn was released in 1934. Sadleir calls for 16pp. of the publisher's catalogue and this copy therefore appears to be a bibliographical variant.