![]() ![]() Rackham seems to have dropped out of some cloud in Mr. "The 50 color plates were unanimously praised by all who saw them. ![]() From these stories came the 'Peter Pan' chapters in The Little White Bird, afterwards re-issued with Arthur Rackham illustrations as Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" (Carpenter, 177). ![]() According to these stories Peter, like all babies, had once been a bird and could still fly out of his nursery window and back to Kensington Gardens, because his mother had forgotten to weigh him at birth. The character's first name "came from Peter Llewelyn Davies, who when still a baby became the subject of stories told by Barrie to. Peter Pan wasn't always the boy from Never Land who lost his shadow and fought Captain Hook. Barrie to Pauline Chase, who played Peter Pan in the original London production of the play, "To Pauline Pan, a great Peter, from a grateful JMB." A superb association copy, inscribed on the illustrated original endpaper by J.M. Signed limited first separate edition, number 128 of only 500 copies signed by Rackham, with 50 mounted color illustrations. Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. Quarto, early half vellum gilt over light grey boards, brown morocco spine label, top edge gilt, uncut. BARRIE TO PAULINE CHASE, WHO PLAYED PETER PAN IN THE PLAY'S ORIGINAL LONDON PRODUCTION "TO PAULINE PAN, A GREAT PETER": THE HIGHLY PRIZED PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS, ILLUSTRATED AND SIGNED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM, A SUPERB PRESENTATION/ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED BY J.M. ![]()
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