The Wind in the Willows. With a Frontispiece by Graham Robertson. London: Methuen, 1926. Nineteenth  Edition. Pp 301, uncut. Publisher’s gilt pictorial and lettered green cloth, featuring ‘Pan’ among the reeds stamped in blind at the riverbank to upper cover, edges untrimmed. the upper & lower wrappers of publisher’s present, chipped & lacking spine. The boards in nice bright condition, scattered foxing throughout the contents pages.

Grahame’s enduring contribution to the shared literature of young and old, featuring the exploits of Mole, Ratty and Toad.

Composed originally as a sequence of letters to his son, Alistair, an unhappy boy who died tragically under a train while an undergraduate at Oxford in 1920.