Author: Daisy Ashford; J. M. Barrie [preface]
Title: The Young Visiters, or, Mr. Salteena&Apos;S Plan
Description: London, Chatto & Windus, 1919 . Cloth. The fourteenth impression of this novel from a nine year old author, with an introductory preface from J. M. Barrie. An unusual novel from English writer Daisy Ashford, who wrote the work in 1890 at nine years old. In 1917 and aged 36, Ashford rediscovered her manuscript, prompting its publications. An exceedingly popular work, it was reprinted eighteen times in its first year alone. This is the fourteenth impression of the work, published four months after the first, and features a frontispiece photographic portrait of the author as a child, and a further plate showing the original manuscript. Collated, complete.The work was published almost exactly as it was written, retaining the author's grammar and spelling errors. With a preface from J. M. Barrie, rumours soon started that the book was in fact an elaborate literary hoax and had been written by J. M. Barrie himself. These rumours persisted for years, but were never proven. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding, with marbled paper covered boards. Bumping to spine head and tail, with discolouration to spine label. Lacking front free endpaper. Hinges lightly strained, with boards holding firm. Internally, binding strained. Offsetting to title page, with pages otherwise clean and bright. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

Keywords: peter pan j m barrie The Young Visiters j m barrie Not Stated


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