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Kenneth Grahame's The Golden Age; finely bound
GRAHAME, KENNETH.
The Golden Age.
London: Thomas Nelson & Sons c. 1920.
Finely bound example of the author of Wind and the Willows, Kenneth Grahame’s collection of short stories for children. Small octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over cloth covered boards with gilt tooling to the spine, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, engraved frontispiece, top edge gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 111086
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Rare complete set of all thirteen volumes of widely celebrated Victorian literary and artistic periodical The Yellow Book
JAMES, HENRY; KENNETH GRAHAME; BARON CORVO; HUBERT CRACKANTHORPE; JOHN DAVIDSON; ELLA D'ARCY; ADA LEVERSON; H.G. WELLS; WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS; ET AL.
The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly.
London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane 1894-1897.
Complete set of all thirteen volumes of one of the most important periodicals of the 1890s, with contributions by Henry James, Max Beerbohm, Kenneth Grahame, H. G. Wells, and W. B. Yeats, among many others. First edition second issue, without book lists or publisher’s announcements to rear. Octavo, thirteen volumes in the original publisher’s yellow pictorial cloth stamped in black, cover designs by Aubrey Beardsley (Vols. 1-4), Ethel Reed, and Mabel Syrett, tissue-guarded illustrated title page to each volume, extensively illustrated with tissue-guarded plates by artists including Beardsley, Max Beerbohm, Laurence Housman, Joseph Pennell, William Rothenstein, and Walter Sickert. In near fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 144075
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"ONE OF THE MOST ENDEARING BOOKS EVER WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN": First edition of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows
GRAHAME, KENNETH.
The Wind in the Willows.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1908.
First American edition of Grahame’s beloved children’s novel which preceded the English edition by only four days, with Scribner’s seal on the copyright page. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece by W. Grahame Robertson. In good condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 143829