MILNE, ALAN ALEXANDER. When We Were Very Young, [1924], slight foxing to upper cover, no. 36 of 100 copies, PRESENTATION ALS (see below); Winnie-the-Pooh, [1926], A FINE COPY, no. 3 of 350 copies; Now We Are Six, [1927], one of 200 copies, unnumbered and inscribed "This is a presentation copy for W. F. Forrester, Esq."; The House at Pooh Corner, [1928], one-inch tear to dust-jacket, no. 84 of 350 copies; Toad of Toad Hall, a Play from Kenneth Grahame's Book 'The Wind in the Willows', [1929], very minor foxing to upper cover, dust-jacket torn at top, no. 31 of 200 copies signed by Grahame and Milne; all London, together 5 vols., small 4to, original cloth-backed boards, paper labels on upper covers, occasional fraying, fading or soiling to dust-jackets of all but the second, blue morocco-backed folding boxes by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (backstrips slighty faded), FIRST EDITIONS, LIMITED EDITIONS, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR, the first four illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard; [With:] Autograph letter signed from Milne to a young friend, Chelsea, 15 December 1926, one page, 8vo, on Milne's letterhead stationery, loosely inserted in the first work: "Dear Marthanda, Here is your book... First editions of When We Were Very Young are rather difficult and rather expensive to get, but if you asked a good bookseller... I daresay he would be able to. Christopher Robin thinks you have the most exciting name he ever heard, and he goes about singing it to himself. He and Pooh send their love...". (5)

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MILNE, ALAN ALEXANDER. When We Were Very Young, [1924], slight foxing to upper cover, no. 36 of 100 copies, PRESENTATION ALS (see below); Winnie-the-Pooh, [1926], A FINE COPY, no. 3 of 350 copies; Now We Are Six, [1927], one of 200 copies, unnumbered and inscribed "This is a presentation copy for W. F. Forrester, Esq."; The House at Pooh Corner, [1928], one-inch tear to dust-jacket, no. 84 of 350 copies; Toad of Toad Hall, a Play from Kenneth Grahame's Book 'The Wind in the Willows', [1929], very minor foxing to upper cover, dust-jacket torn at top, no. 31 of 200 copies signed by Grahame and Milne; all London, together 5 vols., small 4to, original cloth-backed boards, paper labels on upper covers, occasional fraying, fading or soiling to dust-jackets of all but the second, blue morocco-backed folding boxes by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (backstrips slighty faded), FIRST EDITIONS, LIMITED EDITIONS, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR, the first four illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard; [With:] Autograph letter signed from Milne to a young friend, Chelsea, 15 December 1926, one page, 8vo, on Milne's letterhead stationery, loosely inserted in the first work: "Dear Marthanda, Here is your book... First editions of When We Were Very Young are rather difficult and rather expensive to get, but if you asked a good bookseller... I daresay he would be able to. Christopher Robin thinks you have the most exciting name he ever heard, and he goes about singing it to himself. He and Pooh send their love...". (5)