Lot 119
Grahame (Kenneth) The Wind in the Willows, second edition, 1908.
Hammer Price: £1,800
Description
Grahame (Kenneth) The Wind in the Willows, second edition, frontispiece by Graham Robertson, scattered foxing hinges repaired, ink ownership inscription and 3 ink stamps to endpaper and pastedown, original pictorial cloth, gilt, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, retaining original backstrip (a little browned), corners repaired, rubbed and marked, t.e.g., others uncut, dust-jacket priced 7/6, spine lightly browned, hinges neatly repaired with tissue to verso, spine ends and corners repaired and restored, a few other small repairs and some retouching to extremities, some marking to rear panel, 8vo, 1908.
⁂ The second edition, published in the same month as the first and with the jacket identical to the first edition, second state.
Description
Grahame (Kenneth) The Wind in the Willows, second edition, frontispiece by Graham Robertson, scattered foxing hinges repaired, ink ownership inscription and 3 ink stamps to endpaper and pastedown, original pictorial cloth, gilt, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, retaining original backstrip (a little browned), corners repaired, rubbed and marked, t.e.g., others uncut, dust-jacket priced 7/6, spine lightly browned, hinges neatly repaired with tissue to verso, spine ends and corners repaired and restored, a few other small repairs and some retouching to extremities, some marking to rear panel, 8vo, 1908.
⁂ The second edition, published in the same month as the first and with the jacket identical to the first edition, second state.