Author: GRAHAME, KENNETH (AUTHOR); SHEPARD, ERNEST H. (ILLUSTRATIONS)
Title: The Wind in the Willows (Fifty-First Edition, 1936)
Description: London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1936. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. A 1936 fifty-first edition of Kenneth Grahame's cherished work featuring Mr. Toad, Mr. Badger and the rest of the author's cast of woodland characters, first published in 1908. With black and white illustrations throughout by Ernest H. Shepard, including his map of the wooded area in which the story takes place at endpapers. --- In full green cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped Shepard images of three characters to front cover, spine titling in gilt; green topstain. Lacks the dust jacket. --- A well-preserved copy: clean, tightly-bound and sound but with inked gift inscription & recipient's notes to front flyleaves, discreet Cambridge bookseller label to front paste-down, incidental wear & slight bumps to cover extremities and evidence of spine sticker removal.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; (6), 312 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Juvenile and Children's >>Illustrated Classics