Kenneth Grahame | The Wind in the Willows, 1908, first edition in dust-Jacket

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows. London: Methuen and Co., 1908

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, frontispiece by Graham Robertson, original green pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, pictorial light brown dust-jacket (second state), some spotting and browning to endpapers with adhesive tape marks to front free endpaper, head and foot of spine bumped, dust-jacket stained at head of spine, minor loss to head and foot of spine and other extremities, price cancelled on upper panel

The dust-jacket for the first edition exists in two states. The earliest includes the price of 6/- on the upper panel. The second state notes a price of 7/6 NET, as here. Loosely inserted are two 4pp. publisher's adverts.