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Sale 399: Illustrated & Children's Books - Fine Books in All Fields (#399) 03/12/2009 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #54The Wind in the Willows

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Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

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Sale 399: Illustrated & Children's Books - Fine Books in All Fields (#399) 03/12/2009 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Description

Title:

The Wind in the Willows

Author:

Grahame, Kenneth

Place Published:

London

Publisher:

Methuen & Co.

Date Published:

[1908]

Description:

[6], 302 pp. Frontispiece by Graham Robertson. 7½x4¾, publisher's gilt-decorated blue-green cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. First Edition.

The classic children’s tale written as bedtime stories to be told to the author’s son, featuring Toad, Rat, Mole and Badger.

Condition:

Extremities rubbed, a bit of wear to the gilt on front cover, endpapers browned; overall a very good copy of a title typically found in a lesser condition.

Item#:

200365

Headline:

Grahame The Wind in the Willows first edition
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