Milne, A. A.
The House at Pooh Corner
£5,040
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928. 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 178 [2] pp., original light blue quarter cloth, cream paper boards, printed paper label to front board, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, frontispiece and illustrations throughout the text by E. H. Shepard, with the dust jacket. A few minute flecks to boards, customary faint browning to front free endpapers, small marginal spot to p. 74, dust jacket spine-panel toned and with a few nicks to head, tiny nick to head of fold between front panel and flap, small closed tear to foot of fold between rear panel and flap