A superb three-sheet for the sole feature film written by Dr. Usual title stamp on verso (faintly ghosted to recto), with NSS blindstamp in extreme lower blank margin a few very minor breaks at intersections of folds, otherwise an unusually nice example, near fine.
Vintage pictorial color lithographed three- sheet, 40.5 x 78", in two folded panels, as issued. Text clean and bright, binding strong and tight. Cloth split along the front hinge fold, wear at the edges, first signature bit shaken, light, occasional foxing, inscription on fly leaf. Blind embossed brown cloth with gilt spine titles and designs, colored endpapers. 8vo., 5 3/4" x 6 3/4", 372pp., frontis plus numerous wood engravings, full page and within the text, in 12 sections of 31 pages each: Wanderings of Tom Starboard Entertaining and Instructive Stories Stories about Insects Stories about Balloons Stories about Curious and Wonderful Birds Fables Sketches of History and Customs Sketches of the Manners of the Jews Tales about the People of Asia: Tales about Useful Plants Stories about Four-Footed Animals Stories about Fruit of Various Kinds. Anners Hard cover in original blind embossed cloth.
The book is based on bedtime stories that the Scottish-born banker and author Kenneth Grahame.Philadelphia: Henry F. This is the FIRST EDITION with a SCARCE DUST JACKET of one of the essential classics of children's literature. Condition: Near fine in Near fine dust-jacket.
In the second issue publisher's pictorial peach-color dust jacket printed in black with price of 7/6 instead of 6/-.The spine of the dust jacket slightly darkened but in excellent condition with a couple small tears at head expertly repaired on verso scattered foxing and discoloration to dust jacket and pages, wear to spine edges consistent with age. Original blue-green cloth with gilt illustration on the spine (Toad dressed in a driving outfit and goggles) and upper cover ( Pan playing flute to Rat and Mole by the river) and a single gilt rule on the upper cover. With a captioned frontispieces, "And a River went out of Eden", on coated paper after a pen-and-ink drawing by Walford Graham Robertson (1866 – 1948) tissue guard. The Wind in the Willows with a frontispiece by Graham Robertson. A rare first edition, with near-fine dust jacket of the children's classic.
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