Buy this book on-line HORWOOD**, WILLIAM: : THE WILLOWS AT CHRISTMASLONDON.HarperCollins Publishers,1999. ISBN 0002256045.
UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.From 'THE TALES OF THE WILLOWS' cycle/series - and set after the original,but before 'The Willows in Winter.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain CREAM cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and silhouette figure of Toad,a red+ yellow headband and immaculate plain red endpapers.UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-244pp [paginated] includes XII(12) chapters,b/w line illustrated chapter head+tail pieces by Patrick Benson throughout; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,b/w line illustrated title page,a contents list/ table,and to rear of the book,10pp blanks.
See also,my book IDs' rja1132,rja596116, rja682917 and rja797818 respectively for similar UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edns of 'The Willows in Winter.
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The twelve days of Christmas are fast approaching and Mole is planning to enjoy every one of them with his River Bank friends.So when the normally cheerful Toad despairs at the arrival of Mrs. Ffleshe,an impossibly rude houseguest who every year sets out to protect Toad from overindulgence,Mole must do something about it.But the plan he hatches with Ratty, Badger,and Otter goes horribly wrong.With the prospect of spending Christmas in jail, Mole will have to work hard if he is to salvage some Christmas spirit for his friends.
'The Willows at Christmas' is the crowning achievement of William Horwood's enchanting sequels to Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows.' The new story is set just after the original,but before Horwood's critically acclaimed 'The Willows in Winter'.It will give pleasure to the countless readers around the world who have revelled in each new work.Merry Christmas!
The four books in the cycle/series: 'The Willows in Winter','Toad Triumphant','The Willows and Beyond' and 'The Willows at Christmas.'. All three other titles with multiple UK,1st edn examples available.
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