2 J. M. Barrie first editions are documented on this shelf, from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906) to Peter and Wendy (1911). Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that J. M. Barrie title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.

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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens — 1906 · Hodder & StoughtonFirst edition, Hodder & Stoughton, London, published late November or early December 1906 in two simultaneous issues. The trade issue is bound in publisher's russet cloth, lettered and pictorially blocked in gilt on the upper board and spine, all edges tinted brown, with a map of Kensington Gardens printed on the front free endpaper; roughly 125-126 pages of text followed by the plates. Both issues carry 50…. The census claim that Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1906 is the true first is upheld: dealers and auction houses uniformly catalogue the Hodder printing as the first edition, in both the trade issue and the 500-copy signed deluxe issue, and catalogue the Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1906 printing as the first American edition (green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, the same 50 Rackham plates tipped in at…. No book-club issue is documented for the 1906 edition. The principal reprint trap is Hodder's own 1912 reissue, described in the trade in near-identical publisher's russet cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, gilt illustration to the upper cover, and the same 50 tipped-in Rackham plates with captioned tissue guards; the title-page date is the deciding point. Deluxe copies must retain the numbered….
Peter and Wendy — 1911 · Hodder & StoughtonUK Hodder & Stoughton first: the title-page verso is undated and carries no notice of any subsequent printing — any statement of a later impression rules out the first. Collation is vii, 267 pp. with 13 plates including the frontispiece and title, illustrated by F. D. Bedford. Binding is publisher's olive-green cloth elaborately blocked in gilt to spine and front cover, the front design showing Peter, two…. The census is correct: the UK Hodder & Stoughton edition (London, 1911) is the accepted true first, published 18 October 1911, with Charles Scribner's Sons (New York) following on 21 October 1911 — three days later, hence "nearly simultaneous" but not co-equal. Burnside Rare Books (ABAA) catalogues the Hodder as "the true first edition of the novel colloquially known as Peter Pan". Both editions are illustrated…. No 1911 book-club issue is documented. The dominant traps are the many later Hodder & Stoughton reprints and decorative-cloth reissues — a 1930 Hodder "New Edition" is one commonly offered — which retain Bedford's plates and similar gilt-blocked cloth but state a later printing or a later date on the title-page verso. Reduced-format and abridged Peter Pan retellings, and editions illustrated by other hands, are….

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