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The Wind in the Willows
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| Author(s): | Kenneth Grahame |
| Illustrator(s): | Arthur Rackham |
| Publisher(s): | The Heritage Press |
| Year Published: | 1940 |
| Type: | Hardcover |
| Genre: | Animal Fantasy British Fantasy – English Fiction - novel |
| Age Range: | Ages 7-9: Short Chapter Books |
| Pages: | 190 |
| This is an | All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB) |
| OCLC: | 53185606 |
Description
While lacking four of the sixteen color illustrations in the Limited Editions Club version, this reprint includes pen and ink chapter heads not in the limited edition.
Other Editions
The Wind in the Willows (1908)
Mole goes out on a fine spring day and meets the water rat by the riverside. Before he knows it he is wrapped up in the doings of the river dwellers, including the notorious Toad. Read online at archive.org.
The Wind in the Willows (1913)
This is the first fully illustrated edition of Kenneth Grahame’s masterpiece about Toad, Mole, Rat and Badger and the riverside. The British first edition has a different picture on the cover and a colored frontispiece not in the American edition. Read online at archive.org.
The Wind in the Willows (1923)
Mole goes out on a fine spring day and meets the water rat by the riverside. Before he knows it he is wrapped up in the doings of the river dwellers, include the notorious Toad. This is the second fully illustrated edition. The end papers used were from the Bransom edition. The British edition was published in 1922. Read online at archive.org.
The Wind in the Willows (1927)
This is the third fully illustrated edition of Kenneth Grahame’s story of Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger. It was not published in America.
The Wind in the Willows (1933)
This was the fourth fully illustrated edition of Kenneth Grahame’s story of Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger and their adventures on the riverbank. The British edition was published in 1931 and had a different dust jacket.
Read online at archive.org.
The Wind in the Willows (1940)
Arthur Rackham was the first artist approached to illustrate Kenneth Grahame’s masterpiece about Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger and their adventures on the riverbank, but was too busy at the time. When he was contracted by the Limited Editions Club, he was already mortally ill and it was his last commission. This is the only edition with all sixteen of Rackham’s plates.
Read online at archive.org. This is the Heritage edition.
First Whisper of “The Wind in the Willows” (1944)
This book reprints the original letters written to his son by Kenneth Grahame that later became The Wind in the Willows.It also includes a new story Bertie’s Escapade.
The Wind in the Willows (1953)
For this 101st edition, originally published in Britain in 1951, Ernest Shepard supplied six new full page illustrations of the adventures of Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger on the riverbank.
The Wind in the Willows (1971)
For this edition Ernest Shepard has colored all of the plates of Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger and their adventures on the riverbank.
Read online at archive.org.
The Wind in the Willows (1980)
Setting out one spring morning, mole discovers the river, the water rat, toad and badger.
Read online at archive.org.
My Dearest Mouse (1988)
The original letters Kenneth Grahame wrote to his son Alastair are reproduced with transcriptions and additional editorial matter.
The Annotated Wind in the Willows (2009)
Copious notes and illustrations combine to give a new look to an old favorite.
Read online at archive.org.
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