Kenneth Grahame DREAM DAYS 1st Edition Thus - Ernest Shepard Illustrated

Description: Dream Days by Kenneth Grahame Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard (famously illustrated Winnie the Pooh and Wind in the Willows) Overall condition: VG+/G+ Published in 1931 by Dodd, Mead & Company in New York. First edition thus. Original beige cloth covered boards with beautiful pictorial art on front cover and gilt lettering. Original pictorial dust jacket. Octavo, 172 pages. Kenneth Grahame (March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a British writer. He is best remembered for the classic of children's literature The Wind in the Willows (1908). Scottish by birth, he spent most of his childhood with his grandmother in England, following the death of his mother and his father's inability to look after the children. After attending St Edward's School in Oxford, his ambition to attend university was thwarted and he joined the Bank of England, where he had a successful career. Before writing The Wind in the Willows, he published three other books: Pagan Papers (1893), The Golden Age (1895), and Dream Days (1898). Ernest Howard Shepard (December 1879 – March 1976) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is known especially for illustrations of the anthropomorphic animal and soft toy characters in The Wind in the Willows and Winnie-the-Pooh. Shepard's original 1926 illustrated map of the Hundred Acre Wood, which features in the opening pages of Winnie-the-Pooh (and also appears in the opening animation in the first Disney adaptation in 1966), sold for £430,000 ($600,000) at Sotheby's in London, setting a world record for book illustrations. Condition info: The book is in VERY GOOD+ condition - beautiful pictorial cover art matching the dust jacket. Clean, unfaded boards. rubbed spine tips, slight spine lean, “800” written in small font on FFEP, a few smudges and rear pastedown crease. Bright pages. The unclipped dust jacket is in GOOD+ - chipping along spine, spine tips and corners; edge wear; some rubbing, a few small tears; back panel with several large horizontal creases. Please view pictures as they are an important part of the condition description and book information. As a fellow book collector, I know how frustrating it can be when items aren’t accurately described or poorly packaged for shipping. That is why I (1) take a lot of pictures and try to describe condition issues as accurately as possible and (2) pack your book purchases with the utmost care before shipping. I have been selling and buying on eBay for over 10 years and have a 100% satisfaction rating, and offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee 30-day return policy. Happy to combine shipping on multiple orders to save you money. Be sure to check out my store and to give me a follow. I have thousands of rare, signed, and collectible books to list in the coming weeks and months!

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