[Rarebooks] fa: J. M. BARRIE My Lady Nicotine INSCRIBED to EVAN CHARTERIS re. CRICKET at STANWAY

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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J. M. Barrie: My Lady Nicotine. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d.]. Small 8vo in original publisher's blue cloth; 276 pp. Upper cover with rubbing and a moisture ring, some sunning to the spine and rubbing to the spine label with loss.

PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free-endpaper: "In memory of a happy week at Stanway. To Evan from his friend, J. M. Barrie. Sep 1922. When shall their glory fade! / On to the ball they laid / Till the last runs were made, / Edward and Evan." The recipient, Sir Evan Charteris (1864-1940), friend of Barrie and youngest son of the 10th Earl of Wemyss, was the biographer of John Singer Sargent and Edmund Gosse. Stanway House, Gloucestershire, was home to the Charteris family. J. M. Barrie (by this time Sir James Barrie) was a frequent visitor and, as a passionate devotee and player of cricket, was instrumental in the success of the Stanway Cricket Club, for which he built a pavilion which still stands. While summering at Stanway during the 1920s and '30s, "Barrie decided to get together his own team, which he cleverly named the Allahakbarries, (a pun on the Islamic term 'allahakba' and his own name). To the delight of the locals, the team comprised mainly friends of Barrie who were often well known literary figures, such as H.G.Wells and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" (Famous People with Cotswold Connections, c. 2005).