The Wind in the Willows hippies How have mountains come to

How have mountains come to exert such a strange and sometimes fatal hold on the human psyche

do much to bring a fanciful touch to the otherwise stark exposition of a treatise on pearls" - Hughey

Original cloth-backed pictorial boards

Edgar Allan Poe

Exhibition catalogue

The Wind in the Willows hippies How have mountains come toLondon: Methuen, 1932. First edition to carry the E. H. Shepard illustrations, 38th overall. 8vo. pp [iv]. 312, 8p catalogue. Numerous line drawn illustrations by Shepard throughout the text. Original green cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and gilt vignette of Mole and Ratty to front board. Tips of corners lightly rubbed. Top edge green (as issued). Illustrated endpapers, spotted on versos, old owner's name at top of half title page. A near fine