GRAHAME, Kenneth; SHEPARD, Ernest H. (illustrator)
The Wind in the Willows.
London, Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1931.
The text of The Wind in the Willows also encrypts a family tragedy. In 1899, Grahame married and had one child, a boy named Alastair who was troubled with health problems and a difficult personality, culminating in the boy's eventual suicide, the cause of much parental anguish. When Grahame finally retired from the Bank of England (as Secretary) in 1908, he could concentrate on the stories he had been telling his son, the stories of the Thames riverbank on which Grahame himself had grown up. So The Wind in the Willows is a tale steeped in nostalgia, and inspired by a father's love for his only son.' (Robert McCrum)
First edition thus; 8vo (190 x 130 mm); some very light spotting to prelims (now usual) but no inscriptions, else very good plus; publisher's green boards, gilt illustration to upper board, gilt lettering to spine, illustrated endpapers, top edge green, one tiny light mark to upper board, light edge wear to extremities but with no chipping or tearing to cloth, very good plus; 312pp.
Stock code 125240
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The Wind in the Willows.
ROWLING, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
2003
The first edition, first impression of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, a near-fine copy in the original dust-jacket
£250.00
MILNE, A.A.; SHEPARD, E.H. (illustrator).
Now We Are Six.
1927.
A handsome first edition of Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne with illustrations by E.H. Shepard.
£350.00
CARROLL, Lewis [pseud. DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge]; TENNIEL, John (illustrator).
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [with] Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice Found There.
1885.
A handsomely illustrated copy of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass.
£1,500.00
