I. When We Were Very Young.
II. Winnie-the-Pooh.
III.Now We Are Six.
IV.The House at Pooh Corner
London, Methuen & Co, Ltd., 1924-1928.
A superbly bound and delightful first edition set of a children's classic.
First editions, first impressions of the four Pooh books, When We Were Very Young in the second state, with the page number ix present in the preliminary pages; 8vo; illustrated throughout by E.H. Shepard, age-toning to bound-in endpapers of second volume and half title of third, erased signature to half-title of second volume, a couple of spots to margins of fourth, otherwise very bright and clean; modern full morocco in the respective cloth colour of the original and also with relevant gilt blocks to front covers, original illustrated 'map' endpapers to Winnie-The-Pooh, all edges gilt and contained within a custom-made, leather-entry slip-case.
First editions, first impressions of the four Pooh books, When We Were Very Young in the second state, with the page number ix present in the preliminary pages; 8vo; illustrated throughout by E.H. Shepard, age-toning to bound-in endpapers of second volume and half title of third, erased signature to half-title of second volume, a couple of spots to margins of fourth, otherwise very bright and clean; modern full morocco in the respective cloth colour of the original and also with relevant gilt blocks to front covers, original illustrated 'map' endpapers to Winnie-The-Pooh, all edges gilt and contained within a custom-made, leather-entry slip-case.
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