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The Pooh Books

A.A. Milne, 1934

    Price Realised USD 5,292
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    The Pooh Books

    A.A. Milne, 1934

    Price Realised USD 5,292
    Price Realised USD 5,292
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    MILNE, A.A. (1882-1956). Set of the four Pooh books: When We Were Very Young. * Winnie-the-Pooh. * Now We Are Six. * The House at Pooh Corner. Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London. Methuen & Co., 1934.

    A Christmas presentation of the first uniform edition of the four Pooh books, each volume inscribed and signed the author. Each front free endpaper is inscribed: "For Mrs Wilson / from A.A. Milne / Christmas 1934." This is the first printing of the collected set, with the new blue dust jackets and boards.

    Four volumes, octavo (187 x 122mm). Half-titles. Illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard. Original blue pictorial cloth stamped in black (spine tips sunned, light spotting to paper edges); blue pictorial dust jackets (spine panels lightly rubbed).
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