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— Henry Ward Beecher
The Wind in the Willows.
New York, NY: The Heritage Press, 1940. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST RACKHAM TRADE EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xiv, 190 [2]. With colour plates illustrated by Rackham, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with Toad dressed as a washerwomen stamped in gilt to upper, and gilt titles to spine. All edges red. With the publisher's colour-illustrated card slipcase. Black ink ownership of John Edward Snyder to front fly-leaf, dated 1946. Faint pencil marks to rear blank, otherwise internally crisp and clean. Light general handling and a few minor marks to cloth. Moderate wear to box. Very good. The classic tale of the riverbank, wonderfully illustrated by the celebrated English book artist Arthur Rackham. Not published in the UK until 1950. Item #76485
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