The Golden Age by Grahame, Kenneth; Shepard, Ernest H [illus.] - 1928

Dodd Mead, 1922. Hardcover. Used - Very Good.

John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, 1952. Hardcover. Good. 1952. Reprinted. 166 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth with decorations. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, 1928. 8vo, x, [1]-166, [4. ads] pp., 29 b&w captioned plates, including frontis. Original cream cloth with title gilt stamped on upper board and backstrip, silhouette of children seated under a tree stamped in black on upper board. Some foxing to the cloth, otherwise very good. Owner ink signature to first pastedown. § Early reprint of the first edition with illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard.

London:: John Lane The Bodley Head,, [1928].. publisher's white illustrated cloth.. Some light use to cloth; tight and sound.. 12mo,. With illustrations and decorations by Ernest H. Shepard..

London: John Lane - The Bodley Head Ltd. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. 1948. Reprint. Beige illustrated hardback cloth cover. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 166pp. .

London: John Lane - The Bodley Head Ltd. G : in good condition without dust jacket. cover rubbed and darkened with wear to spine. 1928. Reprint. Cream illustrated hardback cloth cover. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). x, 166pp + ads. First Shepard illustrated edition. .

New York: Dodd Mead, 1953. Fine in very good jacket.. Midcentury edition, printed from new plates and illustrated by Shepard with a completely new series of pictures specially for this edition. 8'' x 5.75''. Original pictorial cloth. In original dust jacket that is chipped at spine ends.

London:: John Lane The Bodley Head,, [1928].. First edition; No. 3 of 275 copies in the Large Paper Edition, signed by Kenneth Grahame and Ernest H. Shepard. . publisher's vellum-backed marbled boards; t.e.g.. Free endpapers slightly tanned; a few very light spots of foxing to the backstrip; a fresh, unworn copy.. 8vo,. With illustrations and decorations by Ernest H. Shepard..

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1928. Near fine.. Signed limited edition of Grahame's reminiscences of his boyhood, framed as a conflict between the Olympians (adults) and the Argonauts (children) - the first with illustrations by regular collaborator Ernest H. Shepard. Best known for his illustrations of THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS and WINNIE THE POOH, in THE GOLDEN AGE Ernest H. Shepard's artistic talent is on full display. This limited edition on "specially made rag paper" is signed by both Shepard and Grahame. An unusually attractive copy. 8.75'' x 5.5''. Original parchment-backed marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Black-and-white frontispiece with 27 black-and-white illustrations. x, 168 pages. Signed by Grahame and Shepard to limitation page, numbered 190 of 275. Bookplate of architect Parker Morse Hooper to front pastedown. Binding with mild bumping to corners, slight lean. Clean.