THE WILLOWS AND BEYOND

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original red cloth with titles, borders and badger illustration in gilt to the spine, in the Patrick Benson illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers and with black and white drawings throughout by Patrick Benson. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£12.99 to the lower front flap).

Signed by the author William Horwood in black ink on the half-title. The third and penultimate book in Horwood's Tales of the Willows series, which follow on from Kenneth Grahame's classic children's novel 'The Wind in the Willows' (1908).