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large paper copies. Original full white calf lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt and others untrimmed, the text printed on handmade paper. Housed in the original publisher’s slipcase. Twelve beautiful mounted colour plates with captions printed below, as well as many line drawings. A fine copy, uncommonly clean and fresh in a fine slipcase with a little wear to the corners. A superb copy of a notoriously fragile book. [42591] £3,000 This deluxe edition celebrates the 100th edition of the Wind in the Willows. It is the most sumptuous edition of the story with Rack- ham’s illustrations, and the calf binding rarely survives in such a bright, clean state. 163. GRAHAME, Kenneth; SHEPARD, E.H. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS Methuen, 1971. First edition to be fully illustrated in colour by Shepard. 8vo. Publisher’s brown cloth lettered in gilt with blind stamp of Toad to upper cover, in the original pictorial dustwrapper. Colour map endpapers and a host of illustrations shown here for the first time in colour. A fine copy in a very good, price- clipped, dustwrapper, the panels a little toned. [43983] £250 Since E. H. Shepard first illustrated Grahame’s classic tale of the Riverbank in 1931, his images have become inextricably linked with the story. For this edition, Shepard redrew his illustrations basing them on the 1931 illustrations but adding colour.
160. GRAHAME, Kenneth; BRANSOM, Paul THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS Methuen, 1913. First UK edition illustrated by Bransom, first issue. 8vo. Pub - lisher’s green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, with black and white vignette to upper cover. Top edge gilt and all others untrimmed. Pictorial endpapers and ten colour plates by Paul Bransom, as well as one in black and white by Graham Robertson. A near fine copy, sharp and fresh external - ly. Some occasional light spotting internally. [43984] £400 This is the first illustrated version of Grahame’s tales of the river bank. 161. GRAHAME, Kenneth; SHEPARD, E.H. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS Methuen, 1931. First edition with illustrations by E.H. Shepard. 8vo. Original dark green cloth with gilt vignettes on upper cover and titles on the spine, in the original printed dustwrapper. Map endpa- pers. Illustrated throughout in line by E. H. Shepard. A very good copy indeed, in a very good dustwrapper, the panels dusty with a couple of short closed tears. [43988] £950 162. RACKHAM, Arthur; GRAHAME, Kenneth THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS With an Introduction by A.A. Milne. Methuen, 1951. First UK Rackham edition, deluxe issue. Number 269 of 500
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