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The Workman Collection

J.M. Barrie

Collection of Fiction including When a Man's Single: A Tale of Literary Life and The Little Minister

1891 - 1902

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The Workman Collection

Set of four first-edition books by J.M. Barrie.

  • Sold as a set of 7.
  • J.M. Barrie (Scottish).


When a Man's Single: A Tale of Literary Life.

London: Hoddern and Stoughton, 1888.

First edition.

Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with top edge gilt and dark green endpapers.


The Little Minister.

3 volumes.

London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1891.

Octavo.

First edition.

Unopened.

The Bradley Martin - Mildred Green copy.

Bound in publisher's light brown cloth with gilt lettered spines and pictorial endpapers.

Housed in a custom clamshell case.


Better Dead.

London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1891.

Color frontispiece.

First hardcover edition.

Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt letters to spine and dark blue coated endpapers.


The Little White Bird.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1902.

First edition.

Marks the first appearance of Peter Pan character.

Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt letters to spine and top edge gilt.


The Admiral Crichton.

Illustrated by Hugh Thomson (Irish).

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914.

Small folio.

Tipped in color plates.

Bound in original red cloth boards with decorated gilt ornamental design.

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When a Man's Single: A Tale of Literary Life.

Toning.

Early ownership signature to half-title.

Corners just bumped.


The Little Minister.

A few pages toned.

Some faint toning to endpapers.


Better Dead.

Chip to tissue guard.

Extremities slightly rubbed.


The Little White Bird.

A few stray spots.

Bookplate of Charles and Hilda Keane to front pastedown.


The Admirable Chichton.

Slight marginal toning.

Slight rubbing to extremities.

Feature(s)

First Edition

Language

English

Subject

Novels, Childrens, English literature and history

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