Winnie The Pooh Set : Four First Editions

Publisher : Methuen Year : 1927 Edition : First Printing : First Condition : Very Good Dust Jacket : Yes Price : Not For Sale

Item Description :

Methuen, 1925-1928. Four volumes. 8vo. Each volume in it's original cloth (blue, green, maroon and pink respectively) with gilt vignettes and lettering, top edge gilt. The books are illustrated throughout with line drawings by E.H. Shepard. When We Were Very Young has plain endpapers, whilst the other volumes have endpapers illustrated in black and white by Shepard. An attractive and very scarce set. With these first four books, Milne and Shepard had created characters which would go on to become amongst the most loved literary creations of all time. The first four very scarce titles in A A Milnes "Winnie The Pooh Series." All from original UK publisher, Methuen. Comprising of . . . NOW WE ARE SIX, 1927 - A. A. Milne - FIRST EDITION - DJ Methuen, 1927. First Edition / First Printing ... Condition Near Fine With No Inscriptions,Completely Unmarked. Comes With Original Jacket Which Is Tatty With Some Loss To Spine,But Retaining Price Of 7/6. WINNIE THE POOH, 1927 - A. A. Milne - FIRST EDITION Methuen, 1927. First Edition / 4th Print (stated as fourth edition per Methuen policy.) Very Near Fine With No Inscriptions, A Superb Copy. HOUSE AT POOH CORNER, 1928 - A. A. Milne - FIRST EDITION Methuen, 1928. First Edition / First Printing. Condition Is Fair / Good. Owners Plate To Fep. Some Fading And Soiling To Covers, Light Crack To Front Inner Hinge, But Good Tight Binding. the final Pooh book, in which Tigger makes his appearance and Poohsticks is invented. 8vo. Original salmon pink cloth, titles to spine gilt, rule and devices of Christopher Robin and Pooh to upper board gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. With the dustjacket. Frontispiece and 108 illustrations in the text by E. H. Shepard, of which 7 are full-page. WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG, 1925 - A. A. Milne - FIRST EDITION Methuen, 1925. First Edition / 8th Print (stated as eighth edition per Methuen policy.) Internally Very Clean, Some Light Bubbling And Loosening To Covers.A Reasonable Copy.



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