MILNE, A.A. Toad of Toad Hall: A play from Kenneth Grahame’s 'The Wind in the Willows'.

MILNE, A.A. Toad of Toad Hall: A play from Kenneth Grahame’s 'The Wind in the Willows'.MILNE, A. A. Toad of Toad Hall: A play from Kenneth Grahames 'The Wind in the Willows'. Methuen and Co. 1929. 8vo. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, frog vignette in gilt to upper board, top edge gilt, in beige typographical dust jacket; pp. [16], 166, [2], [8 (publishers catalogue)]; extremities of cloth very lightly rubbed, jacket a little soiled with light wear to extremities, spine very slightly darkened, and one short closed tear to

MILNE, A.A. Toad of Toad Hall: A play from Kenneth Grahame’s 'The Wind in the Willows'. Methuen and Co. 1929.

8vo. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, frog vignette in gilt to upper board, top-edge gilt, in beige typographical dust-jacket; pp. [16], 166, [2], [8 (publisher’s catalogue)]; extremities of cloth very lightly rubbed, jacket a little soiled with light wear to extremities, spine very slightly darkened, and one short closed tear to head, spotting to edges of textblock, offset to front free endpaper; a few light spots to first and final leaves, else a very good and clean copy.

First edition of A. A. Milne's theatre adaptation of The Wind in the Willows.

Toad of Toad of Hall first premiered at Liverpool Repertory Theatre on 21 December 1929. The play deviates slightly from the novel, most notably with the elevation of the character of Toad to the protagonist of the story.

Milne is quoted on the front flap of the dust-jacket describing the play as ‘enough of Kenneth Grahame in it to appease his many admirers, and enough of me in it to justify my name upon the title-page’.

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