Search Results: the wind in willows by grahame kenneth milne

Courage Books. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

New York: The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf (Heritage Press), 1940. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 9x6x1. Rackham, Arthur. 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… Read More

Philadelphia: Running Press, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 6 x 8 in. Cream paper boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; one corner crushed, covers clean. Library stamp inked over on title pg, large ink mark on lower text block. Binding tight and no other markings. DJ is VERY GOOD ; no wear, clean, sunned at and around spine. Child. Stax.

NY: Heritage Press. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1908,1940. HARDCOVERS. HARDCOVER. 6x9". VERY Good Cond, Bit wear along bottom edge ..FAIR DUST JACKET HAS SEVERAL 2X2" cips, edgetears.. ; red cloth spine strip...Dark Blue hardcovers showing yellow Frog cover art drawing.. ; 190ps pages; Animal Lives..HERITAGE. Limited Editions Club, Inc. Copyright ed..NICE GLOSSY COLOR PLATES.. .

London: Methuen & Co LTD, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Reprint Of 1929 Edition (1974) The Book Is Bound In A Tan Cloth With Black Stamped Lettering On The Front And Spine. Black Stamped Image Of Toad In A Canoe On The Front. Light Edge Wear To The Jacket.

The Heritage Press, 1940. Book. Fine-. Hard Cover with Slipcase. Hardcover with slipcase : fine minus / very good minus. Book: spine slightly faded. Slipcase: mild general wear..

New York: The Heritage Press, 1952. Hardback. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Large octavo hardback 190 pages 12 colour plates by Arthur Rackham and many line drawings. Very good condition in Fair unclipped dust jacket (closed tears along the folds, about two thirds of the spine area of the jacket is missing) No inscriptions.

London: Methuen & Co , 1964. Book. Good. Hardcover. 5th or later Edition. This text was published in this form in November 1951: Reprint eight times 1964. Introduction by A A Milne and illustrations by Arthur Rackham. British edition. 12 plates, frontispiece tissue on picture facing title page. Book is in good condition Book cover is spoiled and has shading from being next to other smaller books. Now protected in plastic mylar wrap. Gilted edges all around and on front cover. beautiful reading copy No dust jacket 178 pages. All-ways well boxed, All-ways fast service. Thanks. .

New York: The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf, 1940. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. Gilt stamped blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 190pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book has mild soil to boards, hint of wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, mild soil to front endpapers otherwise text clean and unmarked. DJ has chipping to spine ends and corners, rubbing and soil, rear panel has small boomerang shaped hole in middle, now in archival mylar wrap.

London: Methuen & Co., 1952. Spine rubbed with faded titles. Gutters cracked, light foxing to closed edges, endpapers, odd spot throughout, else pp clean and bright. All plates present.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Rackham, Arthur. 8vo.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1951. 8vo.Illustrated. xii, 78 pp. Green cloth with pictorial dust wrapper. Dustjacket is edgeworn with loss to the head of the spine. Minor marks to the cloth. Internally clean and illustrated throughout with twelve colour plates and fifteen in-text line drawings by Arthur Rackham. . Very Good. Cloth. Reprint. 1951.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1951. Large 8vo.Illustrated. xii, 178 pp. Green hardback with gilt letering to spine in pictorial jacket, price clipped. Jacket is worn at edge and joints, with slight loss to the front top corner and rear top edge. Minor marks to boards. Ink name to ffep., otherwise internally clean and illustrated throughout with twelve colour plates and fifteen in-text line drawings by Arthur Rackham. Introduction by A. A. Milne. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1951.

London:: Methuen & Co.,, [1929].. First edition.. publisher's blue cloth in dust jacket.. The endsheets are lightly tanned coinciding with the dust jacket flaps; otherwise a spectacular fine copy in a very near fine jacket,. 12mo,. Publisher's flyer laid in.

London: Methuen and Co. Ltd. 1950. Large 8vo.Illustrated. 178 pp. First Arthur Rackham UK edition. Recently bound in full green morocco. Raised bands to spine with gilt decoration & lettering, gilt line to boards and marbled endpapers. Small mark to back board, otherwise in fine condition, and clean internally. With twelve full-page colour plates by Arthur Rackham. . Fine. Full Morocco. First Edition Thus. 1950.

London: Methuen and Co. Ltd. 1950. Large 8vo.Illustrated. First Arthur Rackham edition. xii, 178 pp. Recently bound in full green morocco. Raised bands to spine with gilt decoration & lettering, gilt line to boards and marbled endpapers. Occasional light fingerprinting to text. With twelve full-page colour plates by Arthur Rackham. . Near Fine. Full Morocco. First Edition Thus. 1950.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1940. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good+ (Textblock Fine) in Good+ Slipcase. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Introduction by A.A. Milne. Rackham had been invited to illustrate the first edition of Willows in 1908, but was unable to accept the project. He regretted the miss for years, but was able, just before passing away, to illustrate the LEC edition (not unlike Alice Neel's death-bed illustration of Fall of the House of Usher for LEC). While the slipcase is in need of repair/replacement, the volume itself is very handsome. Very minor shelf/edge wear, light toning at spine, small soil mark at head, owner bookplate at front pastedown, else tight, bright and unmarred. Slipcase shows several splits (three poorly repaired with [not so] invisible tape, light shelf/edge wear, else bright and clean. Quarterbound, gilt lettering and decorative elements (spine and slipcase), marbled paper boards, color frontispiece, teg. Small 4to.… Read More

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. VG - in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. Slipcase rubbed and edge-worn. Hand made paper. Teg. 1951. Limited Edition [328/500]. Cream calf cover with gilt titles. Cream slipcase. 300mm x 240mm (12" x 9"). 178pp. 12 mounted colour plates + 15 b/w illustrations. One hundreth edition. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. .