1983 Paths to the River Bank The Origins of the Wind in the Willows From the Writings of Kenneth Grahame

Description

First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce, With Dustwrapper

The first edition, first impression of the work.

With the original unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. 

With several detailed monochrome vignette illustrations by Carolyn Beresford accompanying the text, including a frontispiece of the sketch by Graham Robertson which was the sole illustration to appear in the first edition of The Wind in the Willows published in 1908. 

An especially handsome copy of his scarce work. 

Kenneth Grahame is best remembered as the author of the beloved children's work The Wind in the Willows, which follows Mole, Ratty, and Badger in their endeavour to help a motorcar-mad Mr Toad. This work brings together a collection of essays which both bear the mark of Grahame's deft style and reveal some of the initial ideas that would come to fruition in The Wind in the Willows.