The Reluctant Dragon
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1988.
Price: $550.00
Hardcover. First edition illustrated by Michael Hague. Small quarto. Fine in cloth and slipcase, in original publisher's shrinkwrap and cardboard mailer. The mailer has some modest wear and has been opened at one end (allowing for the still-shrinkwrapped book to come out). One of 350 numbered copies Signed by Hague, and with a special reproduction of an illustration in the text.
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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