THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS

KENNETH GRAHAME , ARTHUR RACKHAM

Verlag: THE HERITAGE ILLUSTRATED BOOKSHELF, NEW YORK

Beschreibung

Blur Cloth Boards with bright gilt blocked titles to spine and toad dressed as washerwoman to front, 240 x 165 mm approx. all edges of book block stained red, xiv + 190 pp. Frontis + 11 other full colour plates by Rackham as called for + chapter head b/w line drawings. Undated - 1940's - The Heritage Press New York edition published by permission of the Limited Editions Club Inc. Please see our images of the book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good/ Poor (Book- fading to cloth spine where loss to jacket-, no notable shelf wear, 5 cm crack to gutter of front end paper, no damage to mull and binding otherwise sound. Ink gift insc. dated 1949 to free front end paper. No other defects. Dust Jacket- significant loss to head and tail of spine but more especially to top half of rear panel. The dust jacket has been spot pasted to ivory goat parchment paper and placed in a removable proprietary protective sleeve to prevent further degradation of the remnants and to lend it some respectability but has been priced as lacking jacket in view of it's condition). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 128695

Bibliografische Details

Titel: THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS

Verlag: THE HERITAGE ILLUSTRATED BOOKSHELF, NEW YORK

Einband: Hardcover

Illustrator: ARTHUR RACKHAM

Zustand: Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor