[Children's & Illustrated] Milne, A.A. The Pooh Books

A Handsome Set of First Editions of the Four Pooh Books

1. When We Were Very Young
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., (1924). First edition. 12mo. (xi), (100) pp. Illustrated with numerous black and white illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard. Publisher's blue pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt, a few spots of very subtle bubbling on front board; top edge gilt; very light foxing to prelims; dust-jacket wanting.

2. Winnie-the-Pooh
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., (1926). First edition. 12mo. xi, (v), 158, (2) pp. Illustrated with numerous black and white illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt; top edge gilt; illustrated endpapers, with some light offsetting; in illustrated dust-jacket, spine slightly darkened; wear to head and tail of spine panel.

3. Now We Are Six
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., (1927). First edition. 12mo. x, (ii), 103, (1) pp. Illustrated with numerous black and white illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard. Publisher's dark red pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt, top edge gilt; illustrated endpapers, with light offsetting; split in gutter pp. 52-53; in illustrated dust-jacket, spine slightly darkened, some chipping at head and tail of spine panel, encroaching on top of front panel.

4. The House at Pooh Corner
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., (1928). First edition. 12mo. xi, (I), 178, (2) pp. Illustrated with numerous black and white illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard. Publisher's salmon pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt; top edge gilt; illustrated endpapers, with light offsetting; contemporary bookseller's ticket on rear paste-down, original receipt from same laid in; Methuen Pooh-related ad laid in; in illustrated dust jacket, spine slightly darkened, light chipping to head and tail of spine panel.

Provenance

From the Children’s and Illustrated Books Library of Susan Kilgore Wiley, Raleigh, North Carolina