First American Edition, First Printing

"J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens", Retold by May Byron for Little People with the Permission of the Author, pictures by Arthur Rackham, published by Scribner, New York, 1930. First Edition, First Printing with marking 'A' and Scribner's colophon present on the copyright page.

Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937), better known as J.M. Barrie, Scottish journalist, playwright, and children's book writer, became world famous with his story about Peter Pan.
Barrie's Peter Pan is human-born, not a fairy, but he's lived in Never Land so long that he's as much a fairy as he is a boy: magical, capricious, and amoral, like the fairies of the old Scots tradition. He's a complex mixture of good and bad. He's a liminal creature, standing on the threshold between fairy and child, mortal and immortal, villain (when he lures children from their homes) and hero (when he rescues them from pirates).

Daily life went on. Barrie continued to write, and "Peter Pan" continued to cast its spell, becoming the most famous of Barrie's works. The tale of Peter Pan as a baby, originally published in "The Little White Bird", was now available in a separate children's book edition, called "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens", with illustrations by Arthur Rackham.

Barrie's literary star continued to rise, and he was awarded a baronetcy in 1913 in recognition of his status as one of the best loved authors in Britain."

Arthur Rackham [1867-1939], a famous British illustrator.

Although acknowledged as an accomplished black-and-white book illustrator for some years, it was the publication of his full colour plates to Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" by Heinemann in 1905 that particularly brought him into public attention, his reputation being confirmed the following year with J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens". Income from the books was greatly augmented by annual exhibitions of the artwork at the Leicester Galleries. Rackham won a gold medal at the Milan International Exhibition in 1906 and another one at the Barcelona International Exposition in 1912. His works were included in numerous exhibitions, including one at the Louvre in Paris in 1914.

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Hard cover, original publisher's pictorial cloth (the boards are slightly wavy, small fade spots; inscription dated "Christmas 1931" on the front endpaper, the endpapers are not creased at the hinges; 5.1/2" x 8", 123 pages, "Map of Peter Pan's Kensington Gardens" on the page before half-title; 6 color plates, 15 b/w text illustrations, very good binding and condition.