OFFERED HERE is a unique lot of FIVE classics by J.M. Barrie, the Scottish author of Peter Pan. We list them below.

1) Margaret Ogilvy, by her son, J.M. Barrie. Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1896 first edition. Sized 8x5 inches, 204 pages. Bound in period cloth with gilt titles.

2) The Little Minister, by J.M. Barrie, the photoplay edition for the 1934 film starring Katharine Hepburn. Published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York. With a great dust jacket. Sized 8x5 inches, 321 pages. Illustrated with scenes from the movie.

3) Auld Licht Idylls, by J.M. Barrie, as published in New York in 1894 by Lovell, Coryell & Co., New York. Sized 8x5 inches, 249 pages. Bound in blue cloth, gilt titles.

4) A Window in Thrums, by J.M. Barrie, as published by R.F. Fenno & Co., New York, 1904. Bound in decorated brown cloth, 9x6 inches, 192 pages. 

5) Sentimental Tommy, by J.M. Barrie, as published by The American News Co., New York, 1896. Bound in vivid red cloth with white titles. Sized 8x5 inches, 478 pages. 

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (first included in Barrie's 1902 adult novel The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 West End "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland.

Although he continued to write successfully, Peter Pan overshadowed his other work, and is credited with popularising the name Wendy. Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents. Barrie was made a baronet by George V on 14 June 1913, and a member of the Order of Merit in the 1922 New Year Honours. Before his death, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, which continues to benefit from them.