Antiquarian Book Monthly Review (ABMR) magazine, December 1987, Vol. XIV No. 12, Issue 164: James Barrie and The Boy Castaways; Directory Diversions; Rupert, Masefield, Punch cover

Antiquarian Book Monthly Review (ABMR), December 1987, Vol. XIV, Number 12, Issue 164 (cover price £1) – the Oxford monthly of the antiquarian and second-hand book trade, edited by John Kinnane with associate editor Stuart Bennett. Features: 'James Barrie and The Boy Castaways' by George Sims (page 452), on J. M. Barrie's privately printed photographic book of the Llewelyn Davies boys' games, the seed of Peter Pan; and 'Directory Diversions' by Grant Uden (462). Book reviews: David Ashford on Encyclopedia of Comic Characters (Denis Gifford), More Adventures of Rupert, The Rupert Annual and Words to Rhyme With (Willard Espy); Angus O'Neill on Paris: A Literary Companion (Ian Littlewood) and Modern First Editions: Their Value to Collectors (Joseph Connolly); Toby English on John Masefield: A Bibliographical Description of His First, Limited, Signed and Special Editions (Crocker Wight). Columns: ABMR Diary, Letters, Globetrotting (Dennis Butts), Paul Minet's Book Chat, Ephemera (Graham Hudson), Common Market (Anatole Braun), Written by Hand (Avril Pedley), A Winter Frivolity, Auctions (Stuart Bennett), Catalogues (James Fergusson, Stuart Bennett, Anatole Braun), and booksellers' classified advertisements. Cover: a winter tobogganing cartoon from Punch, January 1894. Published by ABMR Publications Ltd, 52 St Clements Street, Oxford (publisher Stef Mulkey); composition and page artwork by Comersgate Art Studios, Oxford; UK subscription then £13 a year. ISSN 0306-7475. About 40 pages, 19 x 25.5 cm, stapled. THEMES: antiquarian book trade, J. M. Barrie and Peter Pan, children's books and comics, Rupert Bear, John Masefield bibliography, modern first editions, ephemera, manuscripts, 1980s book trade.

Author: John Kinnane (ed.)

Publisher: ABMR Publications

Publication Date: 1987

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Used - Very Good