The Wind in the Willows

No book-club edition is relevant to first-edition identification. Beware conflating the 1908 first with later reissues: the Methuen edition was reprinted many times (later impressions state additional printings and/or carry the printed price second-issue jacket). Distinct illustrated editions — Paul Bransom (Scribner, 1913, first illustrated), Wyndham Payne (Methuen, 1927), Ernest H. Shepard (Methuen, 1931), and Arthur Rackham (Limited Editions Club, New York, 1940) — are separate publications, NOT states of the 1908 first, and are commonly mistaken for it.