Milne, A. A.
Winnie-the-Pooh
£6,930
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926. First edition, signed limited issue, one of 350 numbered copies printed on handmade paper and signed by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard on the limitation page, 4to, xi [5] 158 [2] pp., original dark blue quarter cloth, light blue paper boards with printed paper label to front, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, illustrations by E. H. Shepard throughout, folding map of the Hundred Acre Wood to rear (with laid-in tissue-guard), with the dust jacket. Very faint bump to fore edge of rear board, customary browning to free endpaper, dust jacket sunned on and either side of spine, panels uniformly faded to pale green, small chips and tears to spine and rear panel, a few faint marks