wind willows introduction milne de rackham arthur grahame kenneth, Ancien ou d'occasion (7 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Rackham, Arthur (illustrateur). Includes the monthly Magazine of the Junior Heritage Club, in slipcase.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. A couple minor blemishes on slipcase edge ; Mag for junior heritage club included.

[Children's classic] RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION, a reprint. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xii; 178 [2]. Beautifully illustrated by Rackham with 12 full colour plates, including a frontispiece, plus several line drawings. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to black backing on the spine. With the bright green illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £2.50. Toning and spotting to edges, otherwise internally clean. Bright jacket shows spotting to flaps and reverse. Very good. The classic tale of the riverbank, wonderfully illustrated by the celebrated English book artist Arthur Rackham.

8vo (23.5 x 16.5 cm); 12 colour plates and further in-text illustrations by Arthur Rackham; later half green morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, green cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt in six compartments, top edge gilt, a fine copy; xii, 178pp. Rackham's illustrations brilliantly capture the characters and capers of Badger, Mole, Ratty and Toad, the protagonists of this classic story.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. none. 4to. Deluxe limited edition, no. 296 of 500 copies. A beautiful book bound in full white calf, with gilt lettering on the spine, top edge gilt and printed on hand made paper. xii, 178 pp., with 12 beautiful mounted color plates with captions printed below, as well as many line drawings. A fine copy, with pages gleaming white and some pages still unopened. protected by publisher's slipcase with paste on label, the slipcases is bright and clean with just the most minimal edge wear.

First UK edition, number 329 of 500 copies. This is the 100th edition of Grahame's classic, originally published in 1908. Rackham's illustrations first appeared in the Limited Editions Club edition. "During his last illness Rackham worked on illustrations to. The Wind in the Willows, a book for which he had a strong affection, and which he had longed for years to illustrate. The resulting pictures (the edition was published posthumously in 1940) are among his most affecting works, replete with wit, invention, and carefully controlled emotion" (ODNB). Milne writes in his introduction, "One does not argue about The Wind in the Willows. The young man gives it to the girl with whom he is in love, and if she does not like it, asks her to return his letters. The older man tries it on his nephew, and alters his will accordingly. The book is a test of character. When you sit down to it, don't be so ridiculous as to suppose that you are sitting in judgment on my taste, or on the art of Kenneth Grahame. You are merely sitting in judgment on yourself." In 1921, the literary agent Curtis Brown suggested Milne write a dramatized version, and Milne responded that "I shall love doing it". Toad of Toad Hall became, as noted by Thwaite, "a regular Christmas treat for children". Indeed, it is now "the only Milne play that is still regularly produced". A review in the Daily Telegraph reckoned that the success of the play was that "the Wild Wood of Mr Grahame's book is evidently only a mile or two away from the Forest in which dwell Mr Milne's own creations, Winnie-the-Pooh and the rest". Riall, p. 200. Ann Thwaite, A. A. Milne. His Life, 1990. Tall octavo. Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates mounted on captioned leaves, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Original full white calf, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. With original publisher's slipcase with printed label on front board. Tears to head of spine, slight soiling to binding as usual, slight browning to free endpapers, gatherings unopened, slipcase worn at extremities and soiled; a very good copy in like slipcase.

Tall hardback, 12 x 9.5 inches. Full vellum/goatskin binding. Gilt lettering to spine. In hard card slipcase with octagonal paper title label to front. In very good condition with very good slipcase. (SC some minor tanning, paper rubbed and slightly chipped on corners.) Cover with some minor darkening on boards, spine a little darkened and rubbed, surface bump/nick nr bottom end. Endpapers clean, neat inscription/initial to bottom corner ?F. 1975.? One or two minor light thumb marks, else pages all very clean and tight throughout. Plates all clean and bright. Edges rough/uncut. Else an excellent limited 100th edition. 178 pp; 12 mounted colour plates. & many B&W illustrations in text. Handmade paper.