A play from Kenneth Grahame's book "The Wind in the Willows".
London, Methuen, 1929
The first dramatisation based on Wind in the Willows, here in it's deluxe format signed by Milne and Grahame.
Milne extracted the adventures of Mr. Toad, which form only about half of the original book because they lent themselves most easily to being staged. Milne loved Grahame's book, which is one of the reasons he decided to adapt it. The play has four main characters: Rat, Badger, Mole, and Toad. Toad's caravan and car adventures are included, as well as his imprisonment, escape, and subsequent fight with the weasels and stoats to regain his home with the help of his friends. Although not a musical, the play contains six songs.
First edition. 8vo., edition limited to 200 numbered copies on handmade paper, this copy an out of series presentation copy signed by Milne and Kenneth Grahame , original blue cloth-backed boards, paper label to upper cover, spare label at end, light edge wear, dark blue half morocco solander box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a very good copy.
Milne extracted the adventures of Mr. Toad, which form only about half of the original book because they lent themselves most easily to being staged. Milne loved Grahame's book, which is one of the reasons he decided to adapt it. The play has four main characters: Rat, Badger, Mole, and Toad. Toad's caravan and car adventures are included, as well as his imprisonment, escape, and subsequent fight with the weasels and stoats to regain his home with the help of his friends. Although not a musical, the play contains six songs.
First edition. 8vo., edition limited to 200 numbered copies on handmade paper, this copy an out of series presentation copy signed by Milne and Kenneth Grahame , original blue cloth-backed boards, paper label to upper cover, spare label at end, light edge wear, dark blue half morocco solander box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a very good copy.
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