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London: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1959. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover in a Good Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Dust jacket has light edgwear and rubs on the spine tips. The jacket is price-clipped. 8vo; 8.75 inches tall; 400 pages with an index. Illustrated. Kenneth Grahame was a British writer born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is most famous for The Wind in the Willows, a classic of children's literature, as well as The Reluctant Dragon. Both books were later adapted for stage and film, of which A. A. Milne's Toad of Toad Hall, based on part of The Wind in the Willows, was the first. Other adaptations include Cosgrove Hall Films' The Wind in the Willows, and the Walt Disney films.

John Murray, 1959. Book. Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, thick octavo, a tightly bound copy but with soiling to the closed top edge and thus good only, details of a previous owner to the head of the front free endpaper, the price clipped dust jacket is rubbed and chipped and with remains of a label to the return flaps, b&w frontis, plates, xvi + 399pp.

London: John Murray (Publishers) Limited, 1959. First edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in good condition for its age. Newspaper book review dated 1959 laid in. Jacket is worn, marked and sunned. Edges are creased and nicked. Dampstains noted at the lower edge of both boards, the jacket interior and pastedowns. Board corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Crease along the length of the spine, which is slightly cocked. Page block, pasetdowns and endpapers are lightly tanned and blemished. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Used.

London: John Murray, 1959. Illustrated, octavo, pp xvi, 400, seven relevant interesting newspaper cuttings have been fixed to the endpapers and the half-title, the sellotape used has become very brown), a signature on the front endpaper, otherwise very clean and sound internally, green cloth in very good condition, the spine very slightly faded.. First Edition. Cloth. Good.

London: John Murray. 1959. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ price clippped dust jacket. Owner imprint on FEP. Faint rubbing alogn panel edges. .