Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$323.09 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: UK limited edition. No 199 of 275 copies. SIGNED by Grahame and Shepard. VG overall with a little browning to vellum spine. Lacking slipcase.
Seller: Hunter Books, Burnham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
Price: US$374.09 + shipping
Description: 168pp. 8vo. Original vellum-backed marbled boards, illustrated, in plain grey slipcase with paper label. A near fine copy. Large paper edition, printed on a specially made rag paper, is limited to 275 copies, of which this is no. 44. Special edition of the first edition with Shepard illustrations. SIGNED BY BOTH KENNETH GRAHAME AND ERNEST H. SHEPARD
Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
GRAHAME, Kenneth. DREAM DAYS. Bodley Head, 1930.
Price: US$639.71 + shipping
Description: First edition illustrated by E.H. Shepard. Deluxe issue, limited to 275 copies of which this is number 102, printed on rag paper and signed by both Grahame and Shepard. Original quarter vellum over marbled boards. Top edge gilt others uncut. In the original slipcase. A fine copy. Illustrated throughout in silhouette and line by E.H. Shepard. Grahame's early collection of children's stories, which includes The Reluctant Dragon. Originally published in 1899, it was reissued with Shepard's illustrations, shortly before his immensely successful rendering of The Wind in the Willows.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
Kenneth Grahame. Dream Days. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1930.
Price: US$703.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: John Lane The Bodley Head,1930. LIMITED edition, number 159 of only 275 copies. SIGNED by both the author and the Illustrator. From the limitation page - ' This Large Paper Edition, printed on a specially made rag paper, is limited to two hundred and seventy-five copies, of which this is No. 159.' Kenneth Grahame is most noted as being the author of 'The Wind in the Willows'. The illustrator, Ernest Shepard, also illustrated the 'Winnie the Pooh' books and 'Wind in the Willows'. Grey, marbled boards with gilt title on vellum spine. Top edge gilt. Rough cut on fore-edge. 29 illustrations. Spine is slightly darkened, lightly foxed endpapers, tiny bump on top front corner, otherwise no defects. This book has barely been open, binding is still tight, several pages remain uncut. A very scarce and completely lovely collectible.
Seller: PJK Books and Such, Murrells Inlet, SC, U.S.A.
Grahame,Kenneth & Shepard, Ernest H.. DREAM DAYS. John Lane / The Bodley Head, 1930.
Price: US$781.30 + shipping
Description: DREAM DAYS, John Lane / The Bodley Head, 1930, first edition thus, lower front fore edge corner tip gently bumped, small piece of upper front fore edge marbled corner tip flaked off, else a near fine copy of this, the large paper edition, 1/275 copies SIGNED by both the author and illustrator.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed limited large paper edition of this collection of short stories by the author of THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, one of only 275 copies signed by Grahame and Shepard. THE DREAM DAYS contains Grahame's most famous work outside THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS: the short story "The Reluctant Dragon," an alternate version of the classic St. George and the dragon story which paved the way for 20th-century English fantasies depicting dragons as friendly, rather than hostile. It was later adapted into a Disney film in 1941. A beautiful copy. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original quarter vellum, marbled paper boards. Top edge gilt, fore-edge deckle. Illustrated in black and white. xii, 168 pages. Signed by Grahame and Shepard to limitation page, numbered 201. Contemporary bookseller ticket of W. & G. Foyle Ltd. at 119-125 Charing Cross Road on rear pastedown. In original slipcase with printed paper spine label with inked number matching the number on the limitation page. Box with light edgewear. Sharp.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Grahame, Kenneth. DREAM DAYS. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1930.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: Large Paper edition Limited to 275 copies Signed by Kenneth Grahame and Ernest H. Shepard. This no. 266. Octavo. xii, 168p. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard with frontispiece and 28 black drawings in line style and in silhouette. Bound with gilt-titled vellum spine over marbled boards, t.e.g. Endpapers with spotting from the binding glue, else bright and fine Large Paper edition Limited to 275 copies Signed by Kenneth Grahame and Ernest H. Shepard. This no. 266.
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Grahame, Kenneth. Dream Days. John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, London, 1930.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: London, John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1930. This is a limited edition copy of Dream Days, signed by both Kenneth Grahame and Ernest H. Shepard. This was a limited printing made with rag paper that is number 262 out of 275 that were made. The book is in fine condition with minor shelf wear.
Seller: Antiquarian Book Company, Miami, FL, U.S.A.