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Price: US$16.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No jacket. Titles on spine rubbed, spine and front board soiled, rear hinge starting. 1940 Hard Cover. xiv, 190 pp. 8vo. Grahame's classic novel, with color plates by Arthur Rackham. "The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie. The Wind in the Willows was saved from obscurity by the then-famous playwright, A.A. Milne, who loved it and adapted a part of it for stage as Toad of Toad Hall. The book made Grahame's fortune, enabling him to retire from his bank job, which he hated, though it was respectable and well-paid. He moved to the country, where he spent his time by the River Thames doing much as the animal characters in his book do; namely, as one of the most famous phrases from the book says, 'simply messing about in boats'. The seventh chapter of the book, 'The Piper at the Gates of Dawn,' inspired the successful band Pink Floyd on their debut album (called The Piper at the Gates of Dawn)." -- Wikipedia
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 6 x 9 in. Cloth boards. Color plates. Condition is VERY GOOD ; clean, no wear. Binding tight, text very clean. Heritage brochure for the book is near new. Slipcase has some spots on front, staining to rear, mild edge wear. Chil. Stax.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willow. Heritage Press, New York, 1940.
Price: US$34.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: Village Works, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Grahame, Kenneth. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. Heritage Press, New York, 1940.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book is in VG condition with light offsetting to end papers & inner boards, light rubbing to edges, light bumping to spine ends else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in G condition with chipping to edges, small damp stain to top edge does not bleed through to boards or text else still intact. Book lacks slipcase.
Seller: JB's Book Vault, Buffalo, WY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A couple minor blemishes on slipcase edge ; Mag for junior heritage club included
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover, Good. First Heritage Press Edition, copyright 1940. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham and introduction by A. A. Milne. Media itself is in Good+ while the jacket is Good-/Acceptable condition. Jacket is heavily worn with moderate chipping and tears around the edges with an inch-size chip on bottom of spine. Jacket is unclipped and wrapped in mylar cover. Pages are bright and clean. All edge stained red by publisher. Binding is solid.
Seller: Copperfield's Used and Rare Books, Petaluma, CA, U.S.A.
Kenneth Grahame/ illustrator Arthur Rackham. The Wind in the Willows. The Heritage Press, 1940.
Price: US$119.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Heritage Press, New York, 1940. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket Good,three chips on the spine. Not price clipped. Slipcase poor but still intact. ARTHUR RACKHAM (illustrator). First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. LIMITED EDITION CLUB. Intro by A.A. Milne Blue boards and red cloth at spine with The Toad in bright gilt outlining.(very bright) No signatures or marks. Stated: Special Permission has been retained for the publication of this edition by the LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB; and the special contents of this edition are copyright 1940 by the Limited Editions Club. All edges are red. Interior pages crisp, white, clean, unmarked. 12 lovely illustrations. Book is TIGHT.
Seller: Memphrebooks, Magog, QC, Canada
Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. The Heritage Press, New York, 1940.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Blue cloth with gilt illustration of a dressed-up toad on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Fading to top cover and to bottom of spine. Edges worn. Rear pasted-down endpaper has tape residue. Dust jacket has some chipping and tears to edges. At base of spine is a 1-inch chip. On book spine is a faded mark the same size as chip on dust jacket. Possibly a sticker was removed? Introduction by A.A. Milne. The special contents of this edition are copyright, 1940, by the Limited Editions Club. Twelve color plates. Line drawings at chapter headings. Red page edges. 190 pages.
Seller: Toadlily Books, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$158.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Tall 8vo, half leather and green cloth with gold titles, Illustrated beautifully by Arthur Rackham with glossy colour and B&W plates, 190 pages. Weight: 1 lb. 13 oz. SUPERIOR CONDITION! Splendid plates. Handsomely bound with very slight rubbing and edgewear. No previous owner's marks. Kenneth Grahame (1859 - 1932) was a Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. It has given rise to many film and television adaptations. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon.
Seller: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.
GRAHAME, Kenneth. RACKHAM, Arthur.. The Wind in the Willows.. The Heritage Press, New York, 1940.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: Introduction by A. A. Milne. 190 pp. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 8vo, publisher's illustrated cloth, edges stained red, in publisher's illustrated dust jacket and slipcase. A reprint by special arrangement with The Limited Editions Club. A fine copy in a bright jacket with a shallow (1/16") chip and a tiny (1/4") closed tear. Light dust-soiling to the slipcase.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: The First Trade Edition of The Wind In The Willows with Illustrations by Arthur Rackham [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Introduction by A.A. Milne. New York: The Heritage Press [1940]. First trade edition with the first appearance of the fifteen (one repeated) line drawings in the text, which were not included in the 1940 limited edition designed by Bruce Rogers. Octavo ( 9 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches; 235 x 155 mm.). xiv, 190 pp. Pictorial half-title and title-page. Twelve full page color plates, twelve black & white chapter headings and three other line-drawings (one repeated). Publishers red buckram over blue cloth boards, front cover pictorially stamped in yellow, spine lettered in yellow, all edges stained red. Neat ink signature at top of free endpaper. A very fine copy in the original pictorial dust jacket and very slightly worn color pictorial slip-case. "The Wind in the Willows was not published in England until 1950, but it found two publishers, one for a de luxe edition (The Limited Editions Club, New York) and one for a trade edition (The Heritage Press, New York) in the United States posthumously in the year following Rackham's death. The (Heritage Press edition) is a gentle delight, presenting twelve illustrations which in no way fight with the more famous imaginative world created by Shepherd, although if Shepherd had not preceded him, then Rackham might have anthropomorphized his creatures even more. Several of the plates are delightful: the âGolden Day (facing p. 32) when the three heroes walked by the Caravan, Mole leading a happy horse'; the (frontispiece) with placid Rat handing a hamper to put into a boat, a plate famous among Rackham lovers because it was the boat for which Rackham forgot to draw the oars, an omission which some see as significant in view of the artist's imminent death. Perhaps the most interesting picture is the color plate facing p. 113, which depicts the egocentric Toad leveled to the drab clothes of a no-pocket washerwoman, hopping about permissively, totally unequipped for the real contest. In the real world of people, like all egoists, animal or human, he is alien, and it is a typical piece of Rackhamerie that we should see two children laughing at the glum toad, not because he is a toad, but because he is obviously pretending to be something else. Riall pp. 197-198.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Arthur Rackham's "Wind in the Willows" [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. With an Introduction by A.A. Milne & Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1940. Limited to 2,020 numbered copies (this copy being No. 1315), signed by the designer, Bruce Rogers. Quarto (11 3/8 x 8 1/8 inches; 289 x 207 mm.). [2], 244, [2] pp. Sixteen mounted color plates. "Printed at the Walpole Printing Office.The edition was designed by and printed under the supervision of Bruce Rogers" (Colophon). Original quarter pale yellow buckram over patterned paper boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. A very fine, partially uncut copy. In the original publisher's olive green cardboard slipcase. "The Wind in the Willows was not published in England until 1950, but it found two publishers, one for a de luxe edition (The Limited Editions Club, New York) and one for a trade edition (The Heritage Press, New York) in the United States posthumously in the year following Rackham's death. The book is a gentle delight, presenting sixteen illustrations which in no way fight with the more famous imaginative world created by Shepherd, although if Shepherd had not preceded him, then Rackham might have anthropomorphized his creatures even more. Several of the plates are delightful: the âGolden Day when the three heroes walked by the Caravan, Mole leading a happy horse'; the placid Rat handing a hamper to put into a boat, a plate famous among Rackham lovers because it was the boat for which Rackham forgot to draw the oars, an omission which some see as significant in view of the artist's imminent death. Perhaps the most interesting picture is the frontispiece, which depicts the egocentric Toad levelled to the drab clothes of a no-pocket washerwoman, hopping about permissively, totally unequipped for the real contest. In the real world of people, like all egoists, animal or human, he is alien, and it is a typical piece of Rackhamerie that we should see two children laughing at the glum toad, not because he is a toad, but because he is obviously pretending to be something else. It is with a sense of a serious loss that one turns to the imprint of the de luxe edition in search of the familiar Rackham signature, and finds not the careful hand of Rackham, but that of the designer Bruce Rogers, who saw the book and Rackham's pictures through the press." (Gettings, Arthur Rackham. Pp. 168-169). "This was the final book Arthur Rackham illustrated before his death in 1939" (Riall, pp. 197-198). Bruce Rogers (1870 - 1957) was an American typographer and type designer, acclaimed by some as among the greatest book designers of the twentieth century. Rogers was known for his "classical" style of design, rejecting modernism, never using asymmetrical arrangements, rarely using sans serif type faces, favoring stolid roman faces such as Caslon and his own Centaur.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.