Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

The census claim that Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1906 is the true first is upheld: dealers and auction houses uniformly catalogue the Hodder printing as the first edition, in both the trade issue and the 500-copy signed deluxe issue, and catalogue the Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1906 printing as the first American edition (green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, the same 50 Rackham plates tipped in at the rear; recorded at Riall p. 74). No source consulted supplies day-level dates for the two 1906 issues, so the UK-over-US ordering rests on trade consensus and on the Scribner copyright notice printed on the Hodder verso, rather than on a documented date gap. Both editions are collected, the signed deluxe being the crown jewel. Critical 'first thus' trap: this is the first SEPARATE and first Rackham-illustrated edition only. The text is lifted, with light revision to read free of its frame story, from chapters 13-18 of Barrie's The Little White Bird (Hodder & Stoughton, London / Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1902), which is the first appearance of the Peter Pan material.