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    Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows. London: Methuen & Co., [1931]. First edition with Ernest Shepard illustrat...

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    Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows. London: Methuen & Co., [1931]. First edition with Ernest Shepard illustrations, limited issue on hand-made paper, limited to 200 copies, of which this is number four, and signed by the author and illustrator. Small quarto (8.75 x 6.75 inches; 222 x 171 mm.). [8], 312 pages. Publisher's green buckram backstrip over gray boards, printed paper label on spine; top edge trimmed, others untrimmed. Original dust jacket. Some foxing to paper label on spine; very minor rubbing to spine at edges; some light offsetting to endleaves; light foxing to edge of text block. Dust jacket spine very lightly toned; some light rubbing to jacket edges; some moderate thumbsoiling to jacket. Near fine. Housed in later cloth clamshell case. From the James C. Seacrest Collection.

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    March, 2018
    7th Wednesday
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