When We Were Very Young; Winnie-the-Pooh; Now We Are Six; The House at Pooh Corner.
London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1924-1928.
An exceptionally rare set of first editions (first state) with dust-jackets also in first state, all signed by author and artist. An exceptionally rare set in that all four volumes are signed by both author and illustrator (it would appear all at the same time); the first title is in the rare first state and the set is internally near-fine and very bright, The only minor restoration is to the head of the jacket spine on one corner of the first title, a very pure set.
Milne's first volume (When We Were Very Young) was published in November 1924 and was such a resounding success that the subsequent three titles followed in quick succession.
When We Were Very Young (1924), first edition, first state (with page ix unnumbered), dust-jacket, front fixed endpaper slightly cockled, small repair to spine-head and one corner of dust-jacket; Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), first edition, dust-jacket in first state ('117th Thousand' noted); Now We Are Six (1927), first edition, dust-jacket; The House at Pooh Corner (1928), first edition, light spotting to half-title along internal edge, dust-jacket in first state ('179th Thousand' noted); 4 vols, 8vo; all volumes signed by both Milne and Shepard; publisher's pictorial cloth lettered with designs in gilt, top edges gilt, some browning to endpapers, head and foot of spines slightly bumped, extremities of dust-jackets light rubbed in places, usual light dust soiling; preserved in a later quarter morocco solander box.
Milne's first volume (When We Were Very Young) was published in November 1924 and was such a resounding success that the subsequent three titles followed in quick succession.
When We Were Very Young (1924), first edition, first state (with page ix unnumbered), dust-jacket, front fixed endpaper slightly cockled, small repair to spine-head and one corner of dust-jacket; Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), first edition, dust-jacket in first state ('117th Thousand' noted); Now We Are Six (1927), first edition, dust-jacket; The House at Pooh Corner (1928), first edition, light spotting to half-title along internal edge, dust-jacket in first state ('179th Thousand' noted); 4 vols, 8vo; all volumes signed by both Milne and Shepard; publisher's pictorial cloth lettered with designs in gilt, top edges gilt, some browning to endpapers, head and foot of spines slightly bumped, extremities of dust-jackets light rubbed in places, usual light dust soiling; preserved in a later quarter morocco solander box.
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