8vo. Half-title; numerous illustrations. Original green cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (a touch of wear to extremities); in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (slight soiling and a few stains, slight chipping, some minor scuffing, minor offsetting to endpapers as usual). Provenance: Woods & Co. (bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown); light and partially effaced gift inscription to an unidentified "Barbara" on front flyleaf.

FIRST TRADE EDITION of Milne's beloved classic. In the FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET, with the “117ᵗʰ Thousand” advertisement for When We Were Very Young on rear flap and the "7/6 Net" price on spine panel. Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in Children’s Literature 71.