Accession number:
PML 199203
Published:
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.
Description:
[5], vi-vii, [4], 2-267, [1] pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Credit:
Gift of Davida Deutsch in honor of Alvin Deutsch, 2024.
Notes:
First American edition of the novel now known as Peter Pan, published simultaneously in London by Hodder & Stoughton.
Illustrations, pictorial title page, and binding design by Francis Donkin Bedford (1864-1954).
Alvin Deutsch's copy, the American attorney and intellectual property expert who worked on behalf of Samuel French, publisher of the play and musical Peter Pan, and the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, to which J. M. Barrie had bequeathed Peter Pan's copyright.
Binding:
Publisher's pictorial green cloth binding stamped in gold on spine and upper board with Bedford's designs.
Provenance:
Frances Copeland; Alvin Deutch; by descent to Davida Deutch.
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