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Kenneth Grahame

Male : Writer of Children's books. Married Elspeth Thomson in 1899. Died of a brain Haemorrhage
Nationality : Scottish Place of Birth : Edinburgh

Date of Birth : 1859 Date of Death : 1932 Age : 73

Other Work : Worked in the Bank of England 1879-1907

Education : St Edward's Sch, Oxford
Pagan Papers (1893, dated 1894 John Lane & Elkin Mathews) - frontis by Aubrey Beardsley
450 for UK

The Golden Age
(1895 John Lane) (1895 Stone & Kimball) - unillustrated
(1900 John Lane) - Maxfield Parrish
(1915 John Lane/BH) - R J Enraght-Mooney
(1921 John Lane/BH) - Lois Lenski
(1928 BH) - Ernest Shepard. 275 large paper signed by both
The Golden Age and Dream Days
(1962 BH) - twin edition - Charles Keeping

Dream Days
(1898 John Lane) (1898 John Lane, US) - unillustrated
(1902 John Lane) - Maxfield Parrish
(1922 John Lane/BH) - Lois Lenski
(1930 BH) - Ernest Shepard. 275 large paper signed
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The Headswoman
(1898 JL, Bodley Head)
The Headswoman
(1921 JL, The BH) - Marcia Lane Foster. 75 signed
Fun o' the Fair
(1929 Dent) 30 page booklet - Roberta F C Waudby
The Kenneth Grahame Book
(1932 London)
The Kenneth Grahame Day Book
(1937 Methuen) - compiled by M Coleman
The Reluctant Dragon from KG's Dream Days
(1941 Garden City Publ Co) - Walt Disney
First Whisper of "The Wind in the Willows"
(1946 Methuen 6/-)
Sweet Home from The Wind in the Willows
(1946 Methuen)
- illus in Colour Photography by Paul Heninng
The Reluctant Dragon
(1953 Holiday House) - E H Shepard
The Reluctant Dragon
(1983 Holt, Rinehart & Winston) - Michael Hague

The Wind in the Willows
(1908 Methuen) (1908 Scribner) - frontis Graham Robertson
[Grahame had wanted Arthur Rackham to illustrate the book]
(1913 Methuen) - Paul Branson
(1922 Methuen) - Nancy Barnhart
(1931 Methuen) - Ernest Shepard
(1940 Ltd Editions Club, NY) - 2020 signed by Bruce Rogers
Offered in 1991 for £440
(1940 Heritage Press, NY) - 1st Rackham trade ed
(1950 Methuen) - 1st UK Rackham trade ed
(1951 Methuen) - Rackham A De Luxe Edition of 500 in a slipcase
Offered in 1996 for £1200
(1953 Scribners - 1st US edition)
(1959 Methuen Revised Ed with new colour plates) - Ernest Shepard
(1960 Methuen, 101st Edition) - Ernest Shepard
(1967 Editions Gallimard, Paris) (1985 Badger Books £8.95) - Owen Wood
(1971 Methuen) - E Shepard. First Colour ed + 250 numbered and signed by Shepard
(1975 Methuen Childrens Books) - Rackham
(1980 Methuen's Children's Books) - Michael Hague
(1983 Ladybird) - M Aitchison
(1983 Viking) - John Burningham
(1984 Octopus Books) - Jonathan Langley
(1991 Gollancz) - Justin Todd
(1991 Pavilion Books) - Graham Percy
(1991 Methuen) - Babette Cole. Pop-up book
(1992 Troll Assoc, US) - Laura Lydecker
(1994 Harper Collins £12.99) - Patrick Benson

First Whisper of 'The Wind in the Willows'
(1944 Methuen) - Ed by Elspeth Grahame
[Filmed in 1996]

READING
Patrick Chalmers : Kenneth Grahame - Life, Letters and Unpublished Work
(1933 Methuen)
Peter Green : Kenneth Grahame 1859-1932 - A Study of His Life, Work & Times
(1959 Murray) (1959 World, NY)
Benjamin Hoff : The Tao of Pooh
(1982 Dutton NY)
Kenneth Grahame : Paths to the River Bank
(1983 Souvenir Press)
Alison Prince : Kenneth Grahame - An Innocent in the Wild Wood
(1994 Allison & Busby)

Related Writers

Arthur Rackham


See also

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
Val (balint Stephen) Biro
Father Frederick William Rolfe