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Kenneth Grahame,E. H. Shepard. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, London 01/12/1908, 1908.
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Kenneth Grahame,E. H. Shepard. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, London 01/12/1908, 1908.
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Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen Children's Books Ltd, 1908.
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Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen young books, 1908.
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Condition: Good
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Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen young books, 1908.
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Grahame, Kenneth; Illustrated By Ernest H. Shepherd. Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908.
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Condition: Fair
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Kenneth Grahame; E. H. Shepard [Illustrator]. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, London, 1908.
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Condition: Good
Description: Cover differs from the one shown. Book is in good condition. Pages are yellowing.
Seller: Re-Read Ltd, Doncaster, United Kingdom
Kenneth Grahame; E. H. Shepard [Illustrator]. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, London, 1908.
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Condition: Good
Description: Book is in good condition. Pages are yellowing.
Seller: Re-Read Ltd, Doncaster, United Kingdom
Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows (A Thrushwood Book). Methuen Children's Books Ltd, 1908.
Price: US$9.22 + shipping
Condition: Good
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Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows (A Thrushwood Book). Methuen Children's Books Ltd, 1908.
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Condition: Good
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Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows (A Thrushwood Book). Methuen Children's Books Ltd, 1908.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.15
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows (A Thrushwood Book). Methuen Children's Books Ltd, 1908.
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Condition: Good
Description: Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.15
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Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows (A Thrushwood Book). Methuen Children's Books Ltd, 1908.
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Condition: Good
Description: Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.15
Seller: ThriftBooks-Reno, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Grahame, Kenneth; Illustrated By Ernest H. Shepherd. Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908.
Price: US$10.47 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen young books, 1908.
Price: US$10.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents.
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows (A Thrushwood Book). Methuen Children's Books Ltd, 1908.
Price: US$11.84 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 1.05
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows (A Thrushwood Book). Methuen Children's Books Ltd, 1908.
Price: US$11.85 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within 1.05
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Grahame, Kenneth; Illustrated By Ernest H. Shepherd. Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908.
Price: US$19.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting.
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows. Binker North, 1908.
Price: US$25.76 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast-paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in a pastoral version of Edwardian England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality and camaraderie, and celebrated for its evocation of the nature of the Thames Valley. In 1908, Grahame retired from his position as secretary of the Bank of England. He moved back to Berkshire, where he had lived as a child, and spent his time by the River Thames doing much as the animal characters in his book do - as the book says, 'simply messing about in boats' - and expanding the bedtime stories he had earlier told his son Alastair into a manuscript for the book.The novel was in its 31st printing when playwright A. A. Milne adapted part of it for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall in 1929. Almost a century later, it was adapted again for the stage as a musical by Julian Fellowes. In 2003, The Wind in the Willows was listed at number 16 in the BBC's survey The Big Read. Kenneth Grahame was born on 8 March 1859 in Edinburgh. When he was 5, his mother died from puerperal fever, and his father, who had a drinking problem, gave the care of his four children over to their grandmother, who lived in Cookham Dean in Berkshire. There they lived in a spacious but dilapidated home, 'The Mount', in extensive grounds by the River Thames, and were introduced to the riverside and boating by their uncle, David Ingles, curate at Cookham Dean church.[2] At Christmas 1865 the chimney of the house collapsed and the children moved to Fern Hill Cottage in Cranbourne, Berkshire. In 1866, their father tried to overcome his drinking problem and took the children back to live with him in Argyll, Scotland, but after a year they returned to their grandmother's house in Cranbourne, where Kenneth lived until he entered St Edward's School, Oxford in 1868.[3] During his early years at St. Edwards the boys had freedom to explore the old city with its quaint shops, historic buildings, and cobbled streets, St Giles' Fair, the idyllic upper reaches of the River Thames, and the nearby countryside.[4] Grahame married Elspeth Thomson in 1899; they had only one child, a boy named Alastair (whose nickname was 'Mouse') born blind in one eye and plagued by health problems throughout his life.[5] When Alastair was about four years old, Grahame would tell him bedtime stories, some of which were about a toad, and when he holidayed alone he would write further tales of Toad, Mole, Ratty and Badger in letters to Alastair.[3] In 1908 Grahame took early retirement from his job at the Bank of England and moved with his wife and son to an old farmhouse in Blewbury, where he used the bedtime stories he had told Alastair as a basis for the manuscript of The Wind in the Willows.A number of publishers rejected the manuscript. It was published in the UK by Methuen and Co., and later in the US by Scribner. The critics, who were hoping for a third volume in the style of Graham's earlier works; The Golden Age and Dream Days, generally gave negative reviews.[3] The public loved it, however, and within a few years it sold in such numbers that many reprints were required. In 1909, then sitting US President Theodore Roosevelt wrote to Grahame to tell him that he had 'read it and reread it, and have come to accept the characters as old friends
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Grahame, Kenneth; Illustrated By Ernest H. Shepherd. WIND IN THE WILLOWS. Methuen, 1908.
Price: US$98.94 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.66
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
GRAHAME, Kenneth. WIND IN THE WILLOWS. London: Methuen, 1908.
Price: US$154.52 + shipping
Description: "Fourteenth edition, with a frontispiece by Graham Robertson showing three cherubic children playing by a waterfall while an otter slips into the pool beside them, with the original tissue-guard. Post 8vo (7.75 x 5.25 ins); pp (iv) + 302 + (2) + 8 pps publisher's adverts. Publisher's original green cloth blocked in gilt with the figures of Pan and the book's animal characters, Mole, Ratty and Toad, the latter appearing on the spine in his driving goggles. Gilt on front and spine really fresh and bright, light rubbing to ends of the spine and corner tips. Top edge gilt. Some browning to endpapers. A very good copy of this enduring children's classic tale of animal life on the river bank. The Wind in the Willows (the original title was the less euphonic Wind in the Reeds), was first published in New York on 4 October 1908, and in London four days later. The publisher, Algernon Methuen, listed it as an adult not a juvenile book. It was certainly more than a light-hearted narrative about a riverside community of animals. Grahame's biographer, Matthew Dennison, called it "an aggressively conservative book," targeting "socialism and any form of faddishness or craving for novelty, Toad's great weakness". (Rupert Neelands) One of the central classics of children's fiction, it was Grahame's fourth book and began life as a series of bedtime stories told to his son Alastair, known as Mouse the first of these was told on Mouse's fourth birthday, 12 May 1904, and concerned "moles, giraffes & water-rats", these being the animals the boy had selected. (Oxford Companion to Children's Literature)"
Seller: Surrey Hills Books, Cranleigh, United Kingdom
Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen and Co, London UK, 1908.
Price: US$1146.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame with a frontpiece by Grahame Robertson. A second edition of The Wind in the Willows. The second edition was published in the same month as the first. Original pictorial green cloth, neatly re-backed retaining original spine strip. Spine strip gilt is rubbed and ends are repaired. Corners and edges are lightly repaired. Top edge gilt with others uncut. Browned end papers with 3 dates stamped on the front paste down plus a previous owners signature on the front free page. Plus small residue of a previously stuck label on front paste down. Repaired internal hinges. Tissue guard for frontpiece present. Toned contents with foxing in places. 8vo 301 pp
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$2420.76 + shipping
Description: 8vo., Second Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), neat signature on front paste-down, front free endpaper lightly browned, some light and occasional marginal browning; original dark blue cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, joints minimally rubbed else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Published in the same month as the first edition. The delightful period binding is crisp, clean and unmarked. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$3200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, [8], 302pp, [2]. Full forest green morocco, five raised bands, title in gilt on red label affixed to spine. Gilt embellishments to spine, thin gilt border to both covers. Top edge gilt, with light wear. Fore edge and bottom edge uncut. Marbled endpapers. Stated "First published in 1908" on copyright page. Solid text block, light foxing to edges of leaves throughout, near fine. Includes frontispiece with tissue cover. Publisher's original cloth front cover and spine affixed to rear flyleaves. A beautiful example. Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) developed The Wind in the Willows from the bedtime stories he told his son, Alastair. Alastair served as inspiration for the main character, Mr. Toad. The Wind in the Willows is now Grahame's best-known title, and has since been adapted to stage and screen by other creators including A.A. Milne, Cosgrove Hall Films, and Walt Disney.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen & Co., London, 1908.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Description: Contemporary blue half-calf backed blue cloth, six-paneled spine, title and author panels in red and green, respectively, gilt decorations. Fore- and lower edges untrimmed, top edge trimmed and gilt. Margins remain wide and largely unaffected. This is the first appearance of one of the most important imaginative texts of the 20th century. Kenneth Graham's beautifully bucolic bedtime-story-turned-book rests in the influential background of the likes of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, A.A. Milne and many others. Some trivial foxing throughout, overall internally bright, tight, and clean. Minor rubbing and scuffing to leather. Overall very near fine.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows (in fine binding). Methuen, 1908.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame. Methuen, London. 1908 first UK edition, half-title, misbound after title, frontispiece by Graham Robertson, a little frayed at fore-edge, a few other ff. likewise so, contents leaf with small paper repairs, spotting, endpapers renewed, twentieth century olive morocco, with pattern of willow leaves in gilt to covers and spine, red morocco labels to spine, a small scuff to upper cover, spine lightly sunned. A beautifully bound copy of Grahame's masterpiece in first edition.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows (First Printing). Methuen, 1908.
Price: US$4184.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first impression. A handsome copy, tightly bound in the publisher's original blue boards, the endpapers having been skilfully and sympathetically renewed using paper in keeping with the age and character of the original. Very Good: tight and square binding in blue cloth with bright gilt vignettes, lettering and decorative devices to the backstrip and upper board; lightly rubbed and pushed to the extremities; a little staining/discolouring to the lower board; publisher's gilt top-edge to the page block, modestly dulled and scratched; uncut fore and bottom-edges, browned and with just a touch of minor fraying to the edges; light sporadic spotting and a little dustiness to the new endpapers; frontispiece ('And a River went out of Eden') with tissue guard; some sporadic browning/spotting/marking to the margins of the text. Lacking the rarely-seen dustwrapper. A very pleasing example. All orders are sent carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and sturdy cardboard.
Seller: Bradhurst Fine Editions, Framlingham, United Kingdom
Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows - UK 1st. Methuen, 1908.
Price: US$4377.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK edition first impression from 1908. The original cloth binding has been reinforced with contemporary boards. No internal markings, pages clean, binding is firm. Flyleaf to copyright page illustration still intact. Please see pics.
Seller: Setanta Books, Richmond, SURRE, United Kingdom
Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows From the library of Ivor Novello. Methuen, UK, 1908.
Price: US$5150.55 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st Edition 1908. From the library of Ivor Novello with his bookplate to the endpaper. A very bright example of this classic children's book. Wonderful quality bespoke full leather binding that was undertaken for Ivor Novello. Slip case is fine. Ivor Novello 1893-1951 was a Welsh actor, dramatist, singer and composer who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century. Book is near fine and bright. Contents good. Light foxing to pages. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18372
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
GRAHAME Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. , 1908.
Price: US$5150.55 + shipping
Description: First edition. Frontispiece by Graham Robertson. 8vo. Original green cloth, pictorial design of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, blocked in gilt on the front cover, and Mr. Toad in the willows blocked on the spine. London, Methuen and Co. Originally written as bedtime stories and letters addressed to Grahame's only child, a sickly boy named Alastair and nicknamed 'Mouse', the book was rejected by Grahame's publisher The Bodley Head and eventually taken up by Methuen, albeit without advance payment, ?such was the firm's lack of confidence in the book? (ODNB). ?After the publication of The Wind in the Willows by Methuen in 1908, it found an unlikely transatlantic fan in US president Theodore Roosevelt who, in 1909, wrote to Grahame to tell him that he had ?read it and reread it, and have come to accept the characters as old friends? Elsewhere, the critical response was more mixed, and it was not until AA Milne adapted parts of the book into a popular stage version, Toad of Toad Hall, in 1929, that it became established as the evergreen children's classic it is known as today? (The Guardian). A very good copy, with some wear to the cloth, especially to the head and tail of spine and the joints, spine a little rubbed and faded, top edge a little worn, some marks to the rear cover. Offsetting and spotting to the endpapers.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Grahame (Kenneth).. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen and Co.,, 1908.
Price: US$5408.08 + shipping
Description: Frontispiece by Graham Robertson with tissue guard Gilt lettering and designs fresh and bright, a little wear at edges and covers with a few very light stains, some professional colour restoration; preliminaries and end-leaves somewhat darkened and foxed as usual and edges of some leaves also foxed, but a nice copy of an increasingly scarce book. Ownership inscription erased from fly-leaf but from the library of Dame Freya Stark and her husband Stewart Perowne, bearing their Asolo bookplate Published twenty-three years before the first appearance of Ernest H. Shepards illustrations of this classic tale of Toad, Ratty, Mole and their friends, the first edition has a representation of Toad in motoring costume on the spine and an illustration for the controversial chapter VII, "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn", on the upper cover. Never originally intended for publication, it was first written in the form of letters to Grahames son, Alistair.
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Grahame, Kenneth. Wind in the Willows. Methuen and Co. 1908, London, 1908.
Price: US$6438.19 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Frontis., [viii.], 302 pp., blank, printer's details on verso. Original blue/green gilt lettered and elaborately decorated cloth; top edge gilt, others uncut. Frontispiece by Graham Robertson. Some rubbing to the edges, bumping to base of spine, a little foxing to the prelims and endpapers, faint ink owner's name to front pastedown, but otherwise internally clean - a very good, characterful copy. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Grahame, Kenneth. Wind In The Willows, First Edition. Methuen & Co, 1908.
Price: US$7725.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a first edition, first printing of Kenneth Grahame's "Wind In The Willows", published by Methuen and Company Ltd in 1908. It is one of the most beloved modern children's books, inspired by the bedtime stories that Kenneth Grahame told his son. Grahame's famed children's novel, featuring the beloved Mr. Toad, Rat, Badger, and Mole. Much of the plot of The Wind in the Willows had its origins both in the bedtime stories Grahame had invented to tell his own son, and in Grahame's childhood experiences in Berkshire county. It would be adapted into the well-known play Toad of Toad Hall, by A.A. Milne, in 1929
Seller: Arch Books, London, United Kingdom
GRAHAME, Kenneth. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. Methuen, 1908.
Price: US$7725.82 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original blue-green cloth with gilt vignettes and titles to the spine and upper cover. Top edge gilt, all others untrimmed. A very good copy indeed, the gilt bright to the upper cover, with only a little rubbing to the spine. Small ownership stamp to front free endpaper. Woodcut frontispiece by Graham Robertson. Osborne p. 349
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
Grahame (Kenneth).. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen and Co.,, 1908.
Price: US$8112.12 + shipping
Description: Frontispiece by Graham Robertson with tissue guard Gilt lettering and designs especially fresh and bright, short tear at head of spine, just a little other wear at edges and lower cover just a little marked, upper hinge repaired; a little foxing and browning to end-papers as usual, but a very nice copy of an increasingly scarce book; ownership inscription on fly-leaf Published twenty-three years before the first appearance of Ernest H. Shepards illustrations of of this classic tale of Toad, Ratty, Mole and their friends, the first edition has a representation of Toad in motoring costume on the spine and an illustration for the controversial chapter VII, "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn", on the upper cover. Never originally intended for publication, it was first written in the form of letters to Grahames son, Alistair.
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, London, 1908.
Price: US$9000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the words "First Published 1908" printed on the copyright page. A beautiful copy. The book is bound in the publisher's blue cloth and is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with light wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy in collector's condition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen and Co, London, 1908.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A Near Fine copy of the book in the publisher's original green cloth binding, stamped in gilt. Minor wear at the spine ends, short one inch split to rear inner hinge, faint ghost from removed article on front free end paper, but generally in excellent condition internally. Grahame's famed children's novel, featuring the beloved Mr. Toad, Rat, Badger, and Mole. Grahame began writing the book in 1908 - in his late 40s -- after leaving his position as Secretary of the Bank of England. Much of the plot of The Wind in the Willows had its origins both in the bedtime stories Grahame had invented to tell his own son, and in Grahame's childhood experiences in Berkshire county. The book might not have been published if not for the efforts of President Theodore Roosevelt, who lobbied Methuen to release it. While reviews were mixed, the book became a classic - and would be adapted into the well known play Toad of Toad Hall, by A.A. Milne, in 1929. "The Wind in the Willows is a worthy companion to The Golden Age and Dream Days. It is whimsical, fascinating by its apparent seriousness and that sense of underlying poetry which Mr. Grahame somehow manages to convey through all his nonsense" (Contemporary New York Times Review). Near Fine.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen & Co, London, 1908.
Price: US$10500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth with elaborate gilt stamping on upper board and spine; top edge guilt and other edges rough cut. About Fine. A stunning copy with slight rubbing at the extremities, gilt stamping is sharp and bright. Former owner name to front free endpaper, very slight crease to the first several pages, contents bright.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
GRAHAME, Kenneth.. The Wind in the Willows.. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1908, 1908.
Price: US$11266.83 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression. "The joy and self-confidence in so much of Grahame's text. ensured the book's place as a children's classic" (Grolier) and "one of the central classics of children's fiction" (Oxford Companion to Children's Literature). Grolier Children's 100, 61. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered and with extravagant decoration in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in a custom blue morocco-backed folding box by the Chelsea Bindery. Black and white frontispiece by Graham Robertson. Early ownership signature to title page. Bright and fresh, extremities very slightly rubbed, spine very slightly skewed, occasional light browning: a near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, London, 1908.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing SIGNED BY Kenneth Grahame on a laid in signature. A wonderful copy. The book is bound in the publisher's ORIGINAL blue cloth and is in great shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy SIGNED by the author. We buy Kenneth Grahame First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen and Co., London, 1908.
Price: US$12876.37 + shipping
Description: Gilt design on spine and front board fresh and bright. Tissue-guard over frontispiece is a little yellowed. An inscription on the front free endpaper has been neatly obscured by some sort of ink-remover, not causing any damage to the paper. A really bright and desirable copy. Photographs available on request.
Seller: Camilla's Bookshop, Eastbourne, SX, United Kingdom
Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen & Co Ltd, London, 1908.
Price: US$12876.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, author of "The Golden Age", "Dream Days" .First edition with a scarce second state jacket. With a frontpiece by Graham Robertson. Original green cloth boards with rubbed gilt illustration and lettering. Wear to the edges and corners. Uncut pages which are top edged gilt. Signature on the browned front end page dated 2-03-12. Tissue guarded frontis illustration. The contents are clean and tidy. Dust jacket has wear to the extremities and repaired tears on the spine. Small pieces missing from upper and lower edges of spine. 8vo 302 pp
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, London, 1908.
Price: US$14000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, in second issue dust-jacket with price of 7/6. Frontispiece by Graham Robertson with tissue guard. 302 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. In Scarce Dust-Jacket. This classic was developed out of bedtime stories Grahame told to his son Alastair, know in the family as Mouse. "The Wind in the Willows.remains one of the most famous books in the English language, and it can be seriously argued that it is not a children's book at all. Despite the presence of Rat, Toad, Mole, and Badger as central characters, it can be read as an account of threat of social change and the destruction of rural England, and of the response of a generation. Grahame's own life is clearly reflected in its attitude to women, to religion, to retreatism, to food and drink, to rebellion, and to home and friendship, among many other things." (ONDB). Grolier 100 Children's Books 61 Original blue cloth with gilt decoration and lettering on front cover and spine, top edge gilt, others uncut, restoration to rear hinge, faintest foxing, dust-jacket toned and expertly restored Frontispiece by Graham Robertson with tissue guard. 302 pp. 1 vols. 8vo First edition, in second issue dust-jacket with price of 7/6.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen and Co, London UK, 1908.
Price: US$14164.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first impression of The Wind in the Willows complete with original dust jacket. Second state jacket with price 7/6 on the cover. The first issue was only supplied with a handful of copies. Original green cloth boards with gilt illustrations and lettering. Rubbed with wear to the spine ends. Light bleaching/marking spots on the boards. Top edge gilt and others uncut. Lightly browned end pages with light foxing within the text. The bright and clean dust jacket has benefited from professional restoration of the spine and folds.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$18000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (190 x 120 mm). pp. [1] + viii + 302 + i. Laid paper, deckle edges, t.e.g. With a captioned frontispieces, "And a River went out of Eden", on coated paper after a pen-and-ink drawing by Walford Graham Robertson (1866 - 1948); tissue guard. Original blue-green cloth with gilt illustration on the spine (Toad dressed in a driving outfit and goggles) and upper cover ( Pan playing flute to Rat and Mole by the river) and a single gilt rule on the upper cover. In the second issue publisher's pictorial peach-color dust jacket printed in black with price of 7/6 instead of 6/-.The spine of the dust jacket slightly darkened but in excellent condition with a couple small tears at head expertly repaired on verso; scattered foxing and discoloration to dust jacket and pages, wear to spine edges consistent with age. [Grolier: One Hundred Books Famous in Children's Literature, no.61; Osborne I, p. 349; Hunt p. 45 & 66; Hahn, D. Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, p. 241-242]. This is the FIRST EDITION with the SCARCE DUST JACKET of one of the essential classics of children's literature. The book is based on bedtime stories that the Scottish-born banker and author Kenneth Grahame (1859 - 1932) told his young son Alistair, who was sickly and nicknamed "Mouse". The stories began when Alistair was 4 and continued in a series of letters that the father wrote to his son while traveling. When Grahame retired as the Secretary of the Bank of England in 1908 due to ill health. «.Aware of the potential for a fuller treatment Grahame took the letters, which deal with Mr. Toad's adventures escaping from prison and conclude with his return to the society of Ratty, Mole and Badger and the battle for Toad Hall, and converted them into the finished work. What emerged was no lighthearted story about a countryside community of animals but a long and ramifying fable. » The book was bulky and had no illustrations, so the London publisher, Algernon Methuen, put it on his adult rather than juvenile list, stirring confusion and arguments among the readers and critics. (One Hundred Books Famous in Children's Literature, p. 210) Nonetheless The Wind in the Willows flourished and the advertures of the "bad, low animal," Mr. Toad, grew in poupularity. The novel had seen over 30 printings when A. A. Milne adapted part of it for the stage as 'Toad of Toad Hall' in 1929. The first film adaptation was produced in 1949 by Walt Disney as one of two segments in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. Numerous adaptations in film and television have followed since.
Seller: Rob Zanger Rare Books LLC, Middletown, NY, U.S.A.
GRAHAME, Kenneth. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. Methuen, 1908.
Price: US$19314.56 + shipping
Description: Second edition, printed in the same month as the first edition and in identical format. 8vo. Original blue-green cloth with gilt illustration on the spine and upper cover. Top edge gilt. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title, "Austin M. Purves / with greeting, + all the good wishes of the season, from Kenneth Grahame, Christmas 1908" A beautiful, fine copy, bright and crisp and internally perfect. A superb copy. Striking black and white frontispiece by Graham Robertson. Austin Montgomery Purves was a Philadelphia based businessman, associated with the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company for more than thirty years. Purves had a keen interest in grand opera as well as art and literature and sought to move in artistic circles, counting Maxfield Parrish, Jessie Wilcox Smith and Arthur Quiller-Couch amongst his friends. They met the Grahames' at Fowey in 1907, "while the Grahame's were at Fowey in May and June 1907, they made the acquaintance of an American family also on holiday there - Mr and Mrs Austin Purves of Philadelphia, and their five sons. Kenneth actually stood godfather to Pierre, the youngest, at his Fowey christening. Grahame and Austin Purves continued to correspond regularly until the latter's death in 1915." - Peter Green (Kenneth Grahame A Study of His Life, Work and Times) Purves sought to help Grahame by writing a favourable review of the American edition Wind in the Willows for an American magazine. In a letter to Purves of November 1908, Grahame wrote, "I'm most awfully obliged to you for the solid work you are putting in on behalf of 'the W. in the W.' Your review was perfectly charming, & is bound to be most helpful. That the book has given you all personal pleasure is of course very good for me to think of." Presentation copies of The Wind in the Willows are decidedly rare.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
GRAHAME, Kenneth.. The Wind in the Willows.. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1908, 1908.
Price: US$77258.25 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, with the extremely rare first issue jacket (with the first publication price of 6/- on the front panel). "The joy and self-confidence in so much of Grahame's text. ensured the book's place as a children's classic" (Grolier Club, One Hundred Books Famous in Children's Literature). In dust jacket, this is one of the great rarities of 20th-century literature and a keystone book in any collection of children's literature. In the past 45 years there have only been nine copies (including this) in first issue jackets sold at auction where they have commanded premium prices. Later issue dust jackets would show a price of 7/6 on the front panel. This copy includes a single publisher's advertisement leaf which is loosely inserted. The two titles listed are Beatrice Harraden's Interplay ("to be published in September") and Richard Bagot's Anthony Cuthbert (noted as "Mr. Bagot's new novel"). It is believed that the bookplate is that of Ivan Donald Margary (1896-1976), an authority on Roman roads and author of Roman Roads in Britain (first published in 1955). Grolier Children's 100, 61. Octavo. Original green cloth, lettering and decorations on spine and front cover in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Publisher's advertisement leaf loosely inserted. With dust jacket printed in dark green. Housed in custom green full morocco folding box. Black and white frontispiece by Graham Robertson. Bookplate of I. D. Margary on front pastedown. Extremities slightly rubbed with one corner slightly bumped, some internal foxing and browning; a near-fine and remarkably crisp copy. Dust jacket with professional restoration to spine, edges, and joints, including some expert facsimile to spine.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
GRAHAME, Kenneth. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. London: Methuen and Company Ltd., 1908.
Price: US$88203.17 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Original blue-green cloth with gilt illustration and title to the front and spine, in the supplied first printing dustwrapper. Top edge gilt. Black and white frontispiece by Graham Robertson, complete with tissue guard, as issued. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little rubbing at the extremities. The contents, with some spotting to the endpapers and deckled edge are otherwise clean througout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rare first printing dustwrapper that is chipped with a little loss to the spine ends and corners with thin archival tissue paper strengthening to the underside at the folds. Correctly priced 6/- to the upper panel (subsequent editions were published at 7/6). Housed in a bespoke quarter green morocco solander case. An excellent example of this classic of children's literature and a genuine rarity in the first printing dustwrapper. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
GRAHAME, Kenneth. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. Methuen, 1908.
Price: US$96572.81 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original blue-green cloth with gilt vignettes and titles to the spine and upper cover. Top edge gilt. Author's presentation copy, inscribed by Grahame on the half title, "To Ruth Ward, from her friend Kenneth Grahame / Oct. 1908" A little wear to the spine ends and corners, but generally bright and clean and notably fresh internally. Woodcut frontispiece by Graham Robertson. A rare presentation copy of one of the classics of children's literature. Ruth Ward was the daughter of family friends of the Grahames, Sidney and Katherine Ward. Sidney Ward was a colleague of Grahame's at the Bank of England who became a close friend and "companions for hearty country weekends". (ODNB) Ruth was the same age as Grahame's son, Alastair, (known to his parents as Mouse) and became a close childhood friend. Wind in the Willows had its genesis in a series of impromptu bedtime stories which Grahame told Alastair. Katherine Ward was one of the first to hear about these stories, as Grahame refers to them in a letter to her of May 1904, "[Mouse] had a bad crying fit on the night of his birthday, and I had to tell him stories about moles, giraffes & water-rats (he selected these subjects) till after 12." This copy was sent by Grahame to Ward as a birthday present. In a letter to her, Grahame's wife Elspeth writes, "I thought you might like perhaps better than anything else a new book that Mouse's Daddy has just written, so I asked him for one for your birthday present. I want to know how you like it." The two families remained in contact throughout Grahame's life, Elspeth writing to Ruth Ward on Grahame's death in 1932 to tell him that he had been buried next to Mouse (who had committed suicide in 1920), "Kenneth so loved the Boy & so loved Oxford itself that we are glad to think he rests there. I felt you knew Mouse so well & Kenneth also that I would like you to know they were together." Presentation copies of the first edition of Wind in the Willows are of the utmost rarity in commerce. We know of but six copies, 1. Inscribed to Helen Grahame (Oct. 1908). Private American Collection. 2. Inscribed to Ruth Ward (Oct. 1908). Present copy. 3. Inscribed to Foy Quiller-Couch (Oct. 1908). Private American Collection. 4. Inscribed to Thomas Anstey Guthrie ("F. Anstey") (Oct. 1908). Private British collection. 5. Inscribed to Constance Smedley (Oct. 1908). Sold Sotheby Oct. 1981. 6. Inscribed to Mary E. Richardson. Sold Sotheby July 1965. Osborne p. 349
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom