The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame. First Edition,1908. Peter Harrington Rare Books
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- The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame. First Edition, London: Methuen and Co, 1908.
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Octavo. Original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt on front cover and spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, partially unopened. With the dust jacket. Housed in a green cloth chemise and quarter green morocco slipcase. Black and white frontispiece by Graham Robertson. Small bookplate to front pastedown. Very faint crumpling to spine tips, light tanning to endpapers, a few spots to fore and bottom edges of text block. A beautiful copy in fine condition in an equally bright jacket with minute nicks.
First edition, first impression. With a loosely inserted autograph letter signed from the author to Captain J. C. Grahame. In the letter, dated 22 July 1908 and written on the author’s headed paper from Mayfield, Cookham, Grahame apologizes for being unable to assist his correspondent with his genealogical research. He admits to not having a “genealogical head” and explains: "I possess practically nothing, & am not in communication with anyone who could help, having long lost touch with any Scottish connexions". The year 1908 was the momentous one in which Grahame retired from his position as secretary of the Bank of England, moved back to Cookham, where he had lived as a child, started to put down the stories which would be published, still in that same year, as The Wind in the Willows.
Grahame briefly evokes his new life at Cookham, “I have rather more leisure”, and does not hide his relief on having given up the city, where “the strain was becoming all too much for me”. Extremely rare in the first issue jacket and in such good condition, extraordinary with an autograph letter.
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame. First Edition. - • The Wind in the Willow...
It amazes me how Peter Harrington finds the best examples of rare books keep up the good work and thanks again for sharing these rare treasures with us.Charles E.Huggins Jr
It amazes me how someone could dislike this. Thank you for the video. I have the original art on my shirt right now.
A mole in the bank. 1908. Kenneth Grahame, author of The Wind in the Willows, worked at the Bank of England during his writing career. The Bank of England Museum contains many exhibits on Grahame, and still hosts family readings of The Wind in the Willows.
I have 66th edition of this book printed in 1941.
Our family has that same edition but no box or dust-cover, much more beaten up and falling apart with five generations of inscriptions inside, so, being book binders, we joyously rebound the still intact - [with just a whisper of gold still on the top and bottom of it] - text block with bronze book cloth and fantastical vine-filled gilt papers from Italy and Japan, using the original book boards - so the very dim but still golden Pan is still next to its text block but hidden under Italian paper, 114 years later. We read it every Christmas... I guess it's almost the opposite of that pristine copy, all beaten up and falling apart and read and re-read, and handled and loved and reincarnated...
It's very sad to think that the author send this book to someone who apparently didn't even bother to read it (otherwise the dust jacket would be discarded)
Strays I find in it... wounds I bind in it
The "Murder" Book
Why in Gods holy name is the devil on the cover?
It’s Pan playing his flute. It’s a “fairy tale creature” of nature. But yes, I also reacted when I saw it.
you are a rare book expert yet you hold a rare 1st edition book with a rare ripped jacket with your bare hands. Gloves are needed to hold a rare book' also your putting your fingers all over the book. Your the one thats the expert on rare books :)
That's incorrect. For anything other than very antique books, you are better off holding with your (clean) hands than with gloves of any material.
Your deluded if you think holding a rare book and very rare delicate jacket with your bare hands is not going to harm it then you need to rethink about changing jobs. Your hands have hidden dirt and natural oils that cause discoloration to soft delicate book covers That new white cotton gloves don't 'The gloves put a barrier between your hidden oils and dirt. I think your quoting about a guy that held a rare medieval fifteenth-century book with his bare hands. when he was asked about his mistake he said just what you have said. The way you treated the cover when you were taking it off made me cringe. If that were my book you held I would be coming to collect it from you and that would be the last time we met good day.
Matt Howard at the end of the day it's just a book 🙃
Matt Howard Except this book isn’t an antique it’s just a rare old book, no need for gloves.