GRAHAME, Kenneth

The Wind in the Willows

First edition. Contemporary owner name on the front fly, boards very slightly bowed, a very good or better copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. Housed in an older, moderately worn, clamshell case. A children's classic, made into innumerable film and television versions, including a 1949 Disney short film narrated by Basil Rathbone and a 1996 version with John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, and Terry Jones (who also directed from his own screenplay). The success of the book allowed Grahame to retire from his despised bank job, and spend the rest of his days on the Thames "simply messing about in boats."

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