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John Murray, 1959. Book. Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, thick octavo, a tightly bound copy but with soiling to the closed top edge and thus good only, details of a previous owner to the head of the front free endpaper, the price clipped dust jacket is rubbed and chipped and with remains of a label to the return flaps, b&w frontis, plates, xvi + 399pp.
Kenneth Grahame, 1859-1932 a study of his life, work and times by Green, Peter - 1959
by Green, Peter
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Kenneth Grahame, 1859-1932 a study of his life, work and times
by Green, Peter
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London: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1959. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover in a Good Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good.
The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Dust jacket has light edgwear and rubs on the spine tips. The jacket is price-clipped. 8vo; 8.75 inches tall; 400 pages with an index. Illustrated. Kenneth Grahame was a British writer born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is most famous for The Wind in the Willows, a classic of children's literature, as well as The Reluctant Dragon.
Both books were later adapted for stage and film, of which A. A. Milne's Toad of Toad Hall, based on part of The Wind in the Willows, was the first. Other adaptations include Cosgrove Hall Films' The Wind in the Willows, and the Walt Disney films.
The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Dust jacket has light edgwear and rubs on the spine tips. The jacket is price-clipped. 8vo; 8.75 inches tall; 400 pages with an index. Illustrated. Kenneth Grahame was a British writer born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is most famous for The Wind in the Willows, a classic of children's literature, as well as The Reluctant Dragon.
Both books were later adapted for stage and film, of which A. A. Milne's Toad of Toad Hall, based on part of The Wind in the Willows, was the first. Other adaptations include Cosgrove Hall Films' The Wind in the Willows, and the Walt Disney films.
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Kenneth Grahame 1859-1932 A Study of his Life, Work and Times
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London: John Murray, 1959. No Binding. Very Good. pp 400 A surprisingly unbuttoned biography of the author of The Wind in the Willows inscribed by his nephew, the Canadian novelist on the first blank: 'Gordon Hill Grahame "Ballanack" Jan.1960'. The book is in very good green buckram with some pale marking to the boards and offsetting to endpapers from inserted newspaper clippings. Very Good 1959
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KENNETH GRAHAME 1859-1932 a Study of His Life, Work, and Times - Wind in the Willows Author
by Peter Green
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London: John Murray. 1959. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ price clippped dust jacket. Owner imprint on FEP. Faint rubbing alogn panel edges. .
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