The Wind in the Willows
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Overview:
- Title: The Wind in the Willows
- Author: Kenneth Grahame
- Year: 1923
- Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
- Price: $3.00
- Pages: 350
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: The Wind in the Willows
- Notes:
- Published in the US for the 1923 Christmas gift season apparently
- Publ date (inferred) and price from publisher advert NY Times 1923-10-21 pBR15, under subheading "New Books for Boys and Girls" -- "A new edition, with illustrations in color and line by Nancy Barnhart ..." This is the earliest hit in 2017-10-20 automated search ('the wind in the willlows' barnhart) of US newspapers.
- Next year this title/author/illustrator is one of 30 in a "list of the complete series" under heading "Reduced in Price! The Scribner $2.50 Series of Illustrated Classics for Young Readers", above footer "The Illustrated Classics are on sale at all bookstores". One paragraph on the new volume notes "these illustrated classics ... at the new price of $2.50". NY Herald, NY Tribune 1924-11-30 pG12