Milne, A. A.
[The Pooh books:]
£693
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 June 2023 at 11:00 BST
Description
When We Were Very Young; Winnie-the-Pooh; Now We Are Six; The House at Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927-26-27-28. 4 works, 8vo, original varicoloured pictorial cloth gilt, top edges gilt, pictorial endpapers and illustrations throughout the text all by E. H. Shepard, WWWVY and THAPC with the dust jackets, WWWVY spine rolled, dust jacket slightly dust-soiled and with fraying to head of spine, WTP spine slightly rolled, light rubbing to extremities, a few faint scuffs and small marks to rear board, customary browning to endpapers, closed tear in pp. 77/8, a few small marks to margins of text, NWAS with light rubbing to extremities, a few internal blemishes and marks, THAPC dust jacket with slight softening and loss to spine-ends, short close tear to foot of rear panel, a few faint marks, covers marked, upper fore corner of front cover bumped, customary browning to free endpapers, inner hinges slightly tender, pp. 5/6 with closed tear in gutter, a few leaves dog-eared, a few other blemishes and marks
Footnote
Note: First editions of Winnie-the-Pooh, Now We Are Six, and The House at Pooh Corner. When We Were Very Young is a fifteenth edition; the work first appeared in 1924.