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London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [circa 1930]. [Children's Illustrated Literature] VINTAGE ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (26 x 19cm), pp. 128. Publisher's blue illustrated cloth lettered in gilt to upper and spine, illustrative dust-jacket with the printed price of 6/- to front flap. With twelve coloured illustrative plates and nineteen black and white in-text illustrations, two tone (blue and black) endpapers. To the plate face p.104 there is a closed 2cm tear to base of page and 1cm to the top, previous owner's name dated 1930 in black ink to flyleaf, toning to endpapers, toning and some spotting to edges of textblock, sunning and rolling to crown and base of spine, bumping to corners, some slight tearing to jacket hinges at the crown of the spine, jacket has some toning, wearing and soiling. Very good indeed. The classic tale of Peter Pan in Neverland, featuring Tinker Bell, Tiger Lily, The Lost Boys, and Captain Hook. This story is retold by May Byron for a younger audience, and is accompanied…
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