The Reluctant Dragon
London: Acorn Library / The Bodley Head, 1959.
Price: $20.00
Hardcover. Reprint. Illustrations by Peggy Fortnum. 75pp. Contemporary owner gift inscription on half-title, very good in a good only price-clipped dust jacket with dampstain, pen on front panel, chips and tears on edges.
Item #253556
Kenneth Grahame
birth name: Kenneth Grahame
born: 3/8/1859
died: 7/6/1932
Biography
Author of The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the English classics of children's literature. Its animal characters-principally Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad-combine captivating human traits with authentic animal habits. Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore