Author: Kenneth Grahame
Title: The Golden Age & Dream Days
Description: London, John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1904. Cloth. Two smart later editions of these works from British writer Kenneth Grahame. Two volumes. Written by Kenneth Grahame, a British writer best remembered for the classic of children's literature The Wind in the Willows. This set contains: The Golden Age, 1904. Sixteenth edition. A collection of reminiscences of childhood with the Prologue and six of the stories having previously appeared in the National Observer. Grahame casts his reminiscences in imagery and metaphor rooted in the culture of Ancient Greece. Dream Days, 1904. Fourth edition. A further collection of children's fiction and reminiscences of childhood, being a sequel to the collection The Golden Age with some of its selections featuring the same family of five children. Both collections were notable for their conception "of a world where children are locked in perpetual warfare with the adult 'Olympians' who have wholly forgotten how it feels to be young". With the publisher's advertisements to the rear. Previously held in the library of Sir Laurence George Brock, a British civil servant. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Light spotting and minor age toning to the endpapers with the previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Keywords: Golden Age Dream Days Age None


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