In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the publication of When We Were Very Young, we are delighted to present a complete deluxe set of the Pooh books, each being one of a limited edition signed by both A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard and remaining in outstanding condition throughout. The set was acquired when new by the vendors’ family and has never previously been offered for sale.
A. A. Milne had already established himself as a moderately successful author when he began writing When We Very Young over the course of a wet family holiday in Wales in 1923. Its publication the following year changed his life and heralded the creation of a world which would capture the imagination of generations of children – and adults – to come. Printed in November, the work was in its sixth edition by Christmas, and was being acclaimed in the Times as the greatest children’s book since Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
