Lot 212
  • 212

Grahame, Kenneth

Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • Grahame, Kenneth
  • The Wind in the Willows ... with a frontispiece by Graham Robertson. London: [William Brendon & Son in Plymouth for] Methuen and Co., [1908]
  • paper
8vo (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.; 190 x 120 mm, uncut). Half-title, frontispiece; some marginal spotting. Publisher's slate-blue pictorial cloth goldstamped "Pan" and title on upper cover, spine gilt, top edge gilt; light rubbing to extremities. In a blue half-morocco slipcase.
With: one autograph letter signed, 1 page, Boham's, Blewbury, Didcot, Berkshire, 4 September 1910, to an unnamed addressee, and one typed letter signed, 1 page, same address, 17 August 1916, to Kenneth Josling, both laid in.

Literature

Cahoon, Children's Literature no. 269

Condition

some marginal spotting. Publisher's slate-blue pictorial cloth goldstamped "Pan" and title on upper cover, spine gilt, top edge gilt; light rubbing to extremities.
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Catalogue Note

First edition.