Lot 105
Milne, A. A.
[Complete set of the Pooh books:]
Auction: 02 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
When We Were Very Young; Winnie-the-Pooh; Now We Are Six; The House at Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1924-6-7-8. 4 works, first editions, first impressions, 8vo, original varicoloured cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, with the dust jackets, each work with illustrations in the text by E. H. Shepard, When We Were Very Young endpapers blank as called for, remaining works with pictorial endpapers by Shepard, top edges gilt, some dust-soiling and handling-marks to jackets, When We Were Very Young in second state with pagination to p. ix, faint scratch to front cover, small mark to front panel of jacket, Winnie-The-Pooh with old ink-stain to spine of jacket just above price, Now We Are Six jacket with a little fraying to head of spine, The House At Pooh Corner jacket spine with price abraded and old ink-stain above, small mark to front pastedown. Overall a very good set. Housed in a custom blue cloth solander box with spine lettered in gilt