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Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: x, 166 [1] pp. With illustrations and decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. 8vo, publisher's vellum-backed marbled boards; t.e.g. First edition; No. 3 of 275 copies in the Large Paper Edition, signed by Kenneth Grahame and Ernest H. Shepard. Free endpapers slightly tanned; a few very light spots of foxing to the backstrip; a fresh, unworn copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$581.48 + shipping
Description: First edition with these illustrations. Octavo. pp xii, 166. Drawings in black and white and in silhouette. Pages unopened.Number 36 of 250 copies printed on rag paper, signed by the author and the artist and bound in quarter vellum with marbled boards, top edge gilt.Endpapers faintly tanned. Very near fine.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed limited edition of Grahame's reminiscences of his boyhood, framed as a conflict between the Olympians (adults) and the Argonauts (children) - the first with illustrations by regular collaborator Ernest H. Shepard. Best known for his illustrations of THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS and WINNIE THE POOH, in THE GOLDEN AGE Ernest H. Shepard's artistic talent is on full display. This limited edition on "specially made rag paper" is signed by both Shepard and Grahame. An unusually attractive copy. 8.75'' x 5.5''. Original parchment-backed marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Black-and-white frontispiece with 27 black-and-white illustrations. x, 168 pages. Signed by Grahame and Shepard to limitation page, numbered 190 of 275. Bookplate of architect Parker Morse Hooper to front pastedown. Binding with mild bumping to corners, slight lean. Clean.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.