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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. Signed Limited Edition of Arthur Rackham’s “Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens” [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. BARRIE, J.M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (From “The Little White Bird”). With Drawings by Arthur Rackham. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. Deluxe edition. Limited to 500 copies, numbered and signed by the artist (this being copy No. 77). Large quarto (10 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches; 273 x 225 mm.). xii, 125, [1] pp. Color frontispiece and forty-nine color plates (collected at the end of the text) mounted on heavy brown paper, with descriptive tissue guards. Four black and white drawings (two on the title and one each on p. 1 and p. 14). Publisher's vellum over boards pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Endpapers of the same heavy brown paper with map of Kensington Gardens on front free endpaper. Board slightly bowed, original silk ties missing but laid-in, otherwise a fine…

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is one of J.M. Barrie's works that features the character Peter Pan, offering a backstory to the beloved 'boy who wouldn't grow up.' Originally part of Barrie's book 'The Little White Bird' (1902), these chapters were later republished as a stand-alone story detailing Peter's adventures in London's famous Kensington Gardens. It's a tale of fantasy that explores themes of childhood innocence and escapism.