FAREWELL MISS JULIE LOGAN, INSCRIBED BY J.M. BARRIE

BARRIE, J. M. Farewell Miss Julie Logan. A Wintry Tale. Hodder and Stoughton: London, 1932. 12mo, original blue cloth, printed paper labels. $550.

First book edition of Barrie’s last work of prose fiction, inscribed by the author in the year of publication, “To William, affectionately from J.M. Barrie, Nov. 1932.”

Barrie's "one undoubted masterpiece in prose" (Ormond, 137), this ghost story, his final piece of prose fiction, was first published as a Times supplement on Christmas Eve 1931. "It attracted a good deal of notice and as a response to numerous requests the Times management re-issued the work in February 1932, still in the format of a newspaper… The pressure remained, however, for the work to be issued as a book and Barrie agreed to its being published by Hodder and Stoughton… in October the following year… as part of the uniform edition of his works. During the intervening months Barrie had amended the Times text considerably, making a vast number of stylistic changes, adding a few passages of description, and most significantly, changing the ending so as to make the final effect of the work quite different from that of the newspaper version" (Nash, 126).

Cloth lightly rubbed and soiled. A near-fine inscribed copy.