Kenneth Grahame | The Wind in the Willows, 1908, first edition, dust-jacket

Grahame, Kenneth

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows. Methuen and Co., 1908

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, frontispiece by Graham Robertson, original green pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, pictorial light brown dust-jacket (second state), some spotting and browning to endpapers with adhesive tape marks to front free endpaper, head and foot of spine bumped, dust-jacket stained at head of spine, minor loss to head and foot of spine and other extremities, price cancelled on upper panel

The dust-jacket for the first edition exists in two states. The earliest includes the price of 6/- on the upper panel. The second state notes a price of 7/6 NET, as here. Loosely inserted are two 4pp. publisher's adverts.