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J. M. BARRIE
Cricket: being a speech delivered ... on the occasion of the luncheon given to the Australian Cricket Eleven ... April 20, 1926
London: [privately printed by Clement Shorter], 1926. 4to., 8p., mid-20th-century red half morocco, original purple wrappers bound in. Provenance: J.M. Barrie (lot 123 in his sale at Sotheby's, December 1937, purchased by Frank Hollings and sold to: -- G. Neville Weston (see Neville Weston's note in the album below). LIMITED TO 25 COPIES, THIS THE AUTHOR'S COPY inscribed "no. 3" in Barrie's hand. Goldman p. 50; Padwick 6789.
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G. NEVILLE WESTON, compiler
A quarto album, with 2-page signed manuscript note by Neville Weston at front, dated 5 January 1938, regarding the provenance of this copy, cuttings pasted onto 15 leaves giving the text of Barrie's and other speeches as reported in The Times, Wednesday 21 April, 1926, and a further 2 leaves with cuttings from Magg's catalogue 649, 1937, listing works by Barrie, contemporary sky blue half morocco. Weston's note not only establishes the provenance of the above copy but points out differences between the two texts of Barrie's speech. (2)
Cricket: being a speech delivered ... on the occasion of the luncheon given to the Australian Cricket Eleven ... April 20, 1926
London: [privately printed by Clement Shorter], 1926. 4to., 8p., mid-20th-century red half morocco, original purple wrappers bound in. Provenance: J.M. Barrie (lot 123 in his sale at Sotheby's, December 1937, purchased by Frank Hollings and sold to: -- G. Neville Weston (see Neville Weston's note in the album below). LIMITED TO 25 COPIES, THIS THE AUTHOR'S COPY inscribed "no. 3" in Barrie's hand. Goldman p. 50; Padwick 6789.
[and:]
G. NEVILLE WESTON, compiler
A quarto album, with 2-page signed manuscript note by Neville Weston at front, dated 5 January 1938, regarding the provenance of this copy, cuttings pasted onto 15 leaves giving the text of Barrie's and other speeches as reported in The Times, Wednesday 21 April, 1926, and a further 2 leaves with cuttings from Magg's catalogue 649, 1937, listing works by Barrie, contemporary sky blue half morocco. Weston's note not only establishes the provenance of the above copy but points out differences between the two texts of Barrie's speech. (2)
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