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The Story of J.M.B.: Available Copies

1941. First Published. 736 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white photographic frontispiece. Prize plate stuck to front free endpaper. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Staining overall.

1941. First Edition. 736 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Ex Libris plate to front pastedown. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Binding worn at spine and edges, a little loose. Pages good, clean and unmarked.

1941 edition on blue cloth split down on side seam

1941. Reprinted. 736 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards with lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front pastedown. Top textblock edge dyed blue. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creases. Moderate tear to spine. Moderate tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.

1941. Peter Davies. First Edition. No jacket. Good Condition only, bumped edges to boards. Boards toned. Page block toned. Heavy book, will incur extra charges for overseas postage, please ask for a quote.

Dj chipped & worn at edges. Fox spotting to page edges.

1949. Reprinted. 736 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Prize plate stuck to front free endpaper. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen markings to front free endpaper. Top textblock edge dyed blue. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Minor loss to spine and edges. Moderate tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.

Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 736 p.: port. Notes: "First published April 1941, reprinted 1941." Includes index. Subjects: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) 1860-1937. Biography. Barrie. Genre: Biography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 736 p.: port. Notes: "First published April 1941, reprinted 1941." Includes index. Subjects: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) 1860-1937. Biography. Barrie. Genre: Biography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

8vo, first edition,third impression,pp,736, portrait frontispiece, white titled blue cloth.

VG/G * complete dj edge wear/age toning * first US edition * 1941 * 736pp * secure packaging * fast shipping

First Edition (Scribner 'A' and seal on the copyright page). The inside covers and first and last endpapers are a swirling marbled combination of browns. The second of three front endpapers is or was blank. It now has a red stamped address and the penned signature with a little drawing of the previous owner, the mystery writer, J. Bigelow Clark. He dated it 1943. The address (see photo) is Long Mountain, Gaylordsville, Connecticut. You can see the covers in the photos. The previous owner went to the trouble of putting the book into this really nice half-binding, with leather spine and corners and a gilt top page edge. The leather is in generally nice condition. There is a small spot of rub-through at each of the four corners, also a small spot of it on the rear bottom edge that comes up a tiny bit onto the rear cover (third photo). There's also some lighter rubbing on the two bottom edges and at the front side of the spine. There is a dark spot off the rear top edge adjacent to the spine. So, not perfect but as you should be able to see from the photos, very nice-looking. The cloth part of the covers has a soft texture and is very clean, as is the leather. The spine looks terrific, just a little bit of wear at the bottom edge. The gilt top page edge is in very good shape and very bright. The middle page edge and bottom page edge look very good as well. The book is square. The spine is straight. The binding of the pages is very solid. They are nicely tight from cover to cover, free of any issue. The front cover is very nicely bound. The rear cover needs to be pasted back into position as it is not pasted at the spine, but is otherwise very solidly bound. The issue is not structural. It just needs to be pasted back in place. I could do this but I'd rather let you, unless you ask me to. A little bit of the paper at the juncture there has lifted up and a few little bits of it s paper have come off (although they are still there), but when the cover is glued back into place back in place, the juncture should look pretty decent, not perfect. I'm going to provide a photograph. In very tiny printed letters, just off the top edge of the blank verso of the first front end paper, is the name 'Brentanos', a likely indication that they created the binding. The pages are in very nice condition. I've scrolled through them a number of times. I saw a total of only a handful of very light amber-colored spots over the first few pages and then none at all after that. I'm not finding any soiling. I'm not finding any conspicuous wear. Over the early pages there is a teeny tiny tip of the top corner semi-crease, not a corner that had been turned down or needed to be flattened out. Other than that I didn't find any creasing. The corners look very good. The stamped address is the only marking in the book. Mr. Clark's signature is the only writing to be found anywhere in the book. There are no attachments of any kind. 'Denis George Mackail was an English novelist and short-story writer. His first work was as a stage-set designer, notably for J. M. Barrie's The Adored One and George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. After a nervous breakdown, Mackail as therapy set about writing the official biography of J. M. Barrie, which appeared in 1941. He went on to produce seven more novels and some books of reminiscences, but after the early death of his wife in 1949, he published nothing further and lived quietly in London until his own death in 1971.'

Book is in good lightly marked condition. Dust jacket is in good condition with some wear. Dust jacket condition enclosed in new clear plastic non-adhesive removable protective covering. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 736 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8395.

Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 736 pages. Subjects; J. M. Barrie. Biography. 1 Kg.

Ex-library book, usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. With Dust Cover. Occasional marking due to age at page margins, but otherwise good condition. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 736 pages. Subjects; J. M. Barrie. Biography. 1 Kg.

736 Pp. Blue Cloth, Spine Lettered In White. First Printing. Near Fine. Bookplate (Circa 1920?) Of Janet Jacks Balch Designed By Feg Murray. Janet Jacks Balch (1863-1943), Of The Rancho Family In Monterey, And Her Husband, Engineer Allen C. Balch (1864-1943), Were Part Of The Original Group Who Founded Scripps College And Were Donors Of A $250,000 Gift That Made Balch Hall Possible. The Balchs Also Provided Funds For A Reading Room That Was Part Of Scripps's Eleanor Joy Toll Residence Hall. The Couple Gave Significant Funding Not Only To Scripps But Also Cornell University (They Were Both Alumni) And Caltech. Allen Balch Set Up Electrical Utilities In Ca, Including Those That Would Eventually Develop Into Pacific Gas And Electric And Southern California Edison. Frederic Seymour Murray (1894 – 1973), Known As Fred Murray Or Feg Murray, Was An American Athlete Who Competed Mainly In The 110 Meter Hurdles. He Had Been Captain Of The Track Team At Stanford University In 1916. He Was The 1915 U.S. National Champion In The 120 Yard High Hurdles And The 1915 And 1916 National Champion In The 220 Yard Low Hurdles. In 1917, During World War I, Murray Went To France As Part Of The Friends' Ambulance Unit Of The Red Cross. In April 1918, He Enlisted In The American Expeditionary Forces, Where He Served In The Trenches. He Won A Bronze Medal In The 1920 Summer Olympics. After His Athletic Career Ended, After Studying At The Art Students League Of New York, Murray Began Drawing Sports-Related Cartoons For The Sun And United Media, Which Syndicated His Work. He Returned To California In 1934, And Worked For The Los Angeles Times As A Sports Columnist And Cartoonist. He Also Drew The Daily Cartoon "Seein' Stars", Syndicated By King Features Syndicate, In Which Murray Drew Hollywood Celebrities Accompanied By Brief Anecdotes. His Older Brother Was Chemist And Tennis Champion Robert Lindley Murray.

Hardcover; 8vo; 736 pages. First edition. Blue cloth hardcovers with white titles on spine. Sunned/faded edges. Lightly rubbed. Yellowing but clean interior. In a paper jacket with dark red titles. Sunned spine. Bumped/chipped edges. NPC. In a mylar jacket. VG+/VG-

Very nice. A tight, clean copy, only a little shelfwear. DJ is very nice, slight yellowing to spine, very little wear, now in a protective sleeve (see pictures). All our books at the moment are reduced so the price you see reflects a 33% discount. You may be interested in The Literaticus Book Service. We specialise in tracking down those harder to find editions, among other bookish services such as gift fulfilment. Get in touch to send us your Book Wants or ask a bookish question. If this is intended as a gift, please email first and I can gift wrap for no extra charge. If you would like special delivery but don't see an option for it, just email first and I'll obtain a quote. If you have any questions, require more information or if you would like more pictures, do not hesitate to get in touch. 2023

736 pp., blue cloth case faded around spine, but internally excellent with clean text. Biography of Scot Sir James Barrie, novelist and playwright best known for Peter Pan, but a man of many other literary interests and activities. Peter Pan was based on the Llewellen family children in Kensington, and the rights were given to Great Ormond St. Hospital which still benefits from them. Clean unmarked text, bindng sound fitst edition. 2 hardbacks & pamphlet for £45. Size: 8vo