English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations
English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations
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July 9, 05:08 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
MILNE, A.A.
Complete signed set of Winnie-the-Pooh books. Methuen and Co., 1924-1928, comprising:
i) When We Were Very Young. 1924, FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE (with page ix unnumbered), dust-jacket, front fixed endpaper slightly cockled, minor loss to upper panel of dust-jacket; ii) Winnie-the-Pooh. 1926, FIRST EDITION, dust-jacket in first state ("117th Thousand" noted); iii) Now We Are Six. 1927, FIRST EDITION, dust-jacket, minor split to foot of upper hinge; iv) The House at Pooh Corner. 1928, FIRST EDITION, dust-jacket in first state ("179th Thousand" noted); all 8vo, ALL VOLUMES SIGNED BY BOTH A.A. MILNE AND E.H. SHEPARD, original pictorial cloth lettered with designs in gilt, top edges gilt, collector's folding box, some browning to endpapers, head and foot of spines slightly bumped, extremities of dust-jackets very slightly frayed in places, folding box worn with hinges broken
A RARE SET OF FIRST EDITIONS (FIRST STATE) WITH DUST-JACKETS ALSO IN FIRST STATE AND ALL SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST.
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