MILNE, A.A.; SHEPARD, E.H. (illustrator).
Winnie-the-Pooh.
Winnie-the-Pooh.
Stock Code 122559
London, Methuen & Co., 1926.
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'How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard?' A lovely copy of the perennial children's classic, decidedly uncommon in such condition.The tale follows Winnie, Piglet, Ee-yore and friends in their adventures, accompanied by delicate illustrations by E.H. Shepard and poems made up by Pooh that he sings along the journey.
First edition, first impression; 8vo (195 x 135 mm); illustrations and map endpapers by Ernest Shepard, occasional minor spot or mark, otherwise very good internal condition; publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, with map endpapers of the forests surrounding Christopher Robin's home, offset strip to front and rear free endpaper, slight bubbling to upper board, else exceptionally bright, illustrated dust-jacket, priced 7/6 on spine and with the advert for the 117th Thousand of When We Were Very Young on rear flap, darkening to spine, linear offsetting to upper panel from another book, one or two faint spots, occasional very minor nick to edge, else also exceptionally good; [xvi], 160pp.
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