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MILNE, Alan Alexander. When We Were Very Young. -- Winnie-the-Pooh. -- Now We Are Six. -- The House at Pooh Corner. All London: Methuen & Co., 1924-1928.
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MILNE, Alan Alexander. When We Were Very Young. -- Winnie-the-Pooh. -- Now We Are Six. -- The House at Pooh Corner. All London: Methuen & Co., 1924-1928.
Together 4 volumes, 8o. Illustrated by E.H. Shephard. Original gilt-decorated cloth, top edges gilt; pictorial dust jackets (spine panels slightly darkening and some spine ends with minor chipping); quarter morocco slipcase. SIGNED by Shepard on 3 upper panels of dust jackets and all titles: "Ernest H. Shepard, 9 December 1971."
FIRST EDITIONS, SIGNED BY E.H. SHEPARD on 3 front dust-jacket panels. Milne began the poems in When We Were Very Young for his son Christopher Robin. They had originally appeared in Punch magazine and, to the shock of Milne and Methuen, the book sold out on publication day (Thwaite pages 338-39). (4)
Together 4 volumes, 8o. Illustrated by E.H. Shephard. Original gilt-decorated cloth, top edges gilt; pictorial dust jackets (spine panels slightly darkening and some spine ends with minor chipping); quarter morocco slipcase. SIGNED by Shepard on 3 upper panels of dust jackets and all titles: "Ernest H. Shepard, 9 December 1971."
FIRST EDITIONS, SIGNED BY E.H. SHEPARD on 3 front dust-jacket panels. Milne began the poems in When We Were Very Young for his son Christopher Robin. They had originally appeared in Punch magazine and, to the shock of Milne and Methuen, the book sold out on publication day (Thwaite pages 338-39). (4)