J M Barrie PETER AND WENDY 1st edition 1911 Hardback F D Bedford

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J M Barrie PETER AND WENDY 1st edition undated c1911 Hardback illustrated by F D Bedford Hardback published by Hodder & Stoughton. Black & white illustrations. No publication date is shown but probably published in 1911, therefore a variant first edition.All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, "Oh, why can't you remain like this for ever!" This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.