Winnie the Pooh by Milne, Methuen (56 results)

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Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Ernest H. Shepard (illustrator). First Edition. First edition, publishers decorative green cloth. A very clean and attractive copy in excellent condition. Small pen inscription dated 1926. Comes with original Methuen compliments slip and also the very rare and collectable Winnie the Pooh 4 page specimen page pamphlet.

Condition: Good. 1926. First Edition. 159 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering and design to front board. Black and white illustrations throughout by Ernest H Shepard. Map illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. Gilt top text block edge. Pages are bright and clean with mild tanning to edges and free endpapers. Mild cracking to gutters on occasion, however binding remains firm with all pages attached. Previous owners' inscription in pen to front endpaper and half title page. Mild foxing to text block edges. Illustrations are bright and clear, free of any colouring. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild sunning, staining and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.

Ernest H. Shepard (illustrator). First UK Edition. First UK edition. Signed by author on professionally tipped in page from signed limited edition, therefore the authenticity is guaranteed. Measuring approximately 7.75" x 5" with 158 numbered pages. This book is in very good plus condition. Minor bumping to both ends of spine. Gilt lettering and design on spine and front board still full and vivid. Professionally tipped in page signed by author opposite of half title page. Rear hinge cracked. Winnie-the-Pooh is a 1926 children's book by English author A. A. Milne and English illustrator E. H. Shepard. The book is set in the fictional Hundred Acre Wood, with a collection of short stories following the adventures of an anthropomorphic teddy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, and his friends Christopher Robin, Piglet, Eeyore, Owl, Rabbit, Kanga, and Roo. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory# (M4-13).

Signed limited edition, number 288 of 350 large paper copies signed by both Milne and Shepard, printed on handmade paper. Limited signed editions of the first Winnie-the-Pooh story book are increasingly scarce. After the huge success of When We Were Very Young, published in 1924, Milne was asked to contribute a story to the London Evening News. "The Wrong Sort of Bees", published on Christmas Eve 1925, was based on a bedtime story that Milne had told his son Christopher. It starred Christopher's teddy bear, bought at Harrods for Christopher's first birthday, known initially as Edward or Edward Bear and later renamed Winnie-the-Pooh (after a favourite bear cub at London zoo). Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) was an immediate success and garnered even more enthusiastic reviews than its predecessor. It was published in the UK in three issues: an extra limited issue of 20 copies bound in vellum, the present limited issue of 350 copies on large paper, and a regular trade issue. This is the first title of the series to be issued in this format: there was no equivalent issue of the first book, When We Were Very Young (1924), as the magnitude of its success had not been anticipated. John R. Payne, "Four Children's Books by A. A. Milne", Studies in Bibliography, Vol. 23, 1970, pp. 127-39, item IIB. Small quarto. Original dark blue cloth-backed blue paper covered boards, front cover with paper label lettered in black, edges untrimmed. With dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by E. H. Shepard, folding map at end. Browning to free endpapers, a near-fine and crisp copy. Dust jacket spine toned with head and foot slightly rubbed, minor closed tear to front panel, a very good and attractive example.

Hardback, 8vo. (7.5 x 5 ins). In dark green cloth covers with gilt panelled front board and gilt pictorial figures. Top edges gilt. Illustrated light green endpapers. In good condition. Corners slightly bumped, a few faint light marks lower boards. Two small nicks ends of spine. Very slight lean on binding. Small name inscription top edge of front endpaper. Inscription on half title page. Else a good tight copy. 158pp. With B&W line drawings by E. H. SHEPHARD.

First edition, first printing. 8vo. Green boards with gilt titles & gilt vignette of Pooh to front board. Gilt topedge. A very good+/near fine copy with clean boards. Light wear to extremities with no chipping or splitting. A few light marks. Very bright gilt. Internally complete. A few light handling marks within text. No inscriptions. Map endapers original and unsplit. No colouring of illustrations & no loose leaves. An attractive copy. The classic adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends in which Pooh bear pursues honey at a sore cost, Eeyore has a birthday and Piglet meets a Heffalump.

Gilt-decorated Morocco. Condition: Very Good. Shepard, Ernest H. (illustrator). First Edition. 160 pp. First edition. Recently respined with dark green calf spine, and original full, gilt decorated morocco boards. All edges gilt. Some wear to the edges of the boards. Internally clean and bright. Owners' names to the front endpapers and half title. Illustrated throughout in black and white by Ernest H. Shepard and with original pictorial endpapers. Small 8vo. Illustrated.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. SPECIMEN PAGE. 1 page folded, 7-1/8" x 4-5/8", printed in red and black, in VERY GOOD condition. This is a rare four page promotional leaflet advertising the forthcoming book by A. A. Milne, The First Edition of Winnie the Pooh, the first page introduces the books characters and lists the limited editions, the second and third page contains two specimen pages from the book, featuring the illustrations of E. H. Shepard, the last page lists the already published books by A. A. Milne.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. A Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Fresh cloth and bright gilt, having been well protected by the dust jacket. Near Fine jacket with some (unnecessary) tape reinforcements on the verso. Spine just a bit toned. First state jacket with "117th thousand" at the top of the rear panel. A.A. Milne would write the Pooh stories after being inspired by his son, Christopher Robin, and his stuffed animals, one of which was a bear named "Winnie." Milne had written prolifically in other modes and genres, but the Pooh books would go on to outshine all his other works. Indeed, Winnie The Pooh has been listed on the New York Public Library's 100 greatest children's books of the century and the Ashdown Forest, where the stories take place, has become a tourist attraction as a result. "I think Pooh's secret is the kindness and generosity of spirit of the characters toward each other" (NYPL). Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition published by Methuen in 1926. This is a near fine copy. The dark green boards are bright and clean as is the gilt decorations and lettering on the spine. There is a small scuff mark to the bottom edge of the front board. There is also light wear to the spine ends. The end papers - a map of 100 aker wood is a shade browned. Otherwise all the pages are very clean, with no previous owner's names or other marks. Overall a lovely near fine copy.  A near fine first print copy of this children's classic. The second in the winnie the pooh series, after 'When We Were Very Young', illustrated throughout by Ernest Shepard. .

Hardback, 8vo. (7.5 x 5 ins). In dark green cloth covers with gilt panelled front board and gilt pictorial figures. Top edges gilt. Illustrated light green endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing on edges. Corners bumped and rubbed, small light scratch head of front board. Some minor handling marks to boards. Slight tanning to free sides of endpapers. Small owners address label on half title page. Overall very clean and tight throughout. Else a very good 1st edition. 158pp. With B&W line drawings by E. H. SHEPHARD.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.2 inches). Illustrated throughout with beautiful line drawings by E. H. Shepard. Decorative map endpapers. A neat previous owner address has been blind stamped to the front blank endpaper and there are a few minor marks to a handful of pages but overall this is better than very good copy in original dark green cloth, decorated to the front board with an illustration of Christopher Robin and Pooh, within a single ruled border, and double ruled lines and lettering to the spine, all in gilt. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. The cloth and gilt still sharp and fresh. A beautiful copy in the original correct first impression dustwrapper which has some very minor loss to the top and bottom of the spine and corner tips, a couple of small marks and is a little toned to the spine but is still overall a very good example. A lovely copy of this classic. -- More photos available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing Beautiful unrestored crisp fine/near fine book with the scarce original first edition, first state dust jacket. The book is in extraordinary condition considering that many children?s book are usually found ?well loved and read?. The book is clean beautiful condition with crisp green cloth boards, with bright unfaded gilt titles to spine and front. The book has sharp corners and no edgewear, with but a faint slight mark to front board. The binding is tight and square. The end papers are clean with no owner names, bookplates, no bookstore stamps and no stains. The internal pages are clean and bright No handling marks, No stains, No writing, No bent pages and No foxing. Bright gilt to the top of the page block as issued. Beautiful clean, highly collectible example of this title. Please see images. The unrestored scarce original first state dust jacket, with the 117th Thousand on the rear flap, presents as a near fine example with but very slight nicking to the top/bottom of the spine. The jacket has strong vibrant colors, and presents the book beautifully. The jacket is the first state of the first edition showing the requisite 117th thousand to first line of the rear inner flap and the 7/6 Net price to the spine. A beautiful example of this fragile dust jacket. Please see detailed images. A very handsome copy of this title. Presents beautifully on the shelf. ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for other landmark children's titles.

FIRST EDITION, drawings by E. H. Shepard throughout, occasional handling marks to borders, one leaf with short closed tear at head, touching text but not affecting legibility, pp. xvi, 160, foolscap 8vo, original dark green cloth, Shepard designs of Pooh and Christopher Robin with single fillet border to the upper board blocked in gilt, backstrip lettered in gilt, the cloth lightly rubbed at extremities with a few light specks and marks, corners a little pushed with a hint of wear, t.e.g., endpaper maps by Shepard, these slightly browned with a couple of light marks, initial blank with contemporary gift inscription 'To the Queen of the Moon Fairies', later inscription to verso of flyleaf, good.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Ernest Shepard (illustrator). Second Edition. 2nd Edition 1926. Printed in the same format, same year and style as the 1st edition. Book is very good++ with bright boards. Contents good. The wrapper is very good+ and bright. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked. Quite a nice example. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17849.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition first impression from 1926 in VG condition, there is a previous owner inscription to front endpage along with some other minor wear, the binding is firm but with a spine lean (common with this title) please see pics.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Ernest Shepard (illustrator). First Edition. 1st Edition 1926. Book is near fine and extremely bright. Contents very good. A lovely bright example and rare thus. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17372.

Condition: Very Good. Ernest H. Shepard (illustrator). 1677507246. 2/27/2023 2:14:06 PM.

Hardback, 8vo. (7.5 x 5 ins). In dark green cloth covers with gilt panelled front board and gilt pictorial figures. Top edges gilt. Illustrated light green endpapers. In very good condition. Binding slightly squashed. Corners bumped and rubbed, small nicks to ends of spine. Some minor handling marks to boards and some minor rubbing to rear corner. Slight darkening to free sides of endpapers. NEat inscription to blank prelim ?Gwen A. Tucker.? A couple of slightly cracked gatherings, some minor light handling marks and one or two minor spots else pages overall very clean and tight throughout. Else a very good 1st edition. 158pp. With B&W line drawings by E. H. SHEPHARD.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. FIRST EDITION of Milne's classic. A beautiful copy in rare original decorated dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Ernest Shepard. In 1926, Milne "wrote Winnie-the-Pooh, a collection of stories he had developed about Christopher Robin and his beloved stuffed friends. The stories begin with Christopher Robin's pleas to the author to tell Winnie-the-Pooh stories about himself 'because he's that sort of Bear' and conclude when Christopher Robin goes to take his bath, promising to ask for more stories the following day. In between, the author spins tales of the animals' adventures in the forest where they and Christopher Robin ostensibly live. Each animal character is developed carefully and shown to be a little flawed--Pooh is a glutton, Piglet is timid, Eeyore is gloomy Owl is pompous. These characterizations allow Christopher Robin to play the 'adult' role in this world, stepping in to calm fears and solve problems, while remaining enough of a child to suggest games and enjoy parties. The same calm assurance found in Milne's poems that nothing really bad happens in the outdoors permeates the book, in which storms may come and bees occasionally sting, but everything ultimately works out for the best." Winnie-the-Pooh, one of the world's most celebrated children's books, "has been translated into many languages, including Latin" (Encyclopedia of Children's Literature). MILNE, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1926. Octavo, original cloth gilt, original dust jacket; custom presentation box. Usual toning at gutter of endpaper maps but otherwise book fine, with cloth gilt exceptionally bright. Original dust jacket in outstanding condition, bright and fresh, with only a faint band of toning (about a half inch) along the top of the jacket and a tiny bit of wear at the top of the spine. A magnificent copy; rare in such good condition. Original cloth with dust-jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Octavo, pp xi, [5], 158. Bound in green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to the spine and gilt block decorations and ruled line to the upper board. In the correct original dust jacket priced 7/6 to the spine (with 117th Thousand to the top of the rear flap). Illustrations throughout by Ernest Shepard. The book is clean internally with no markings or inscriptions, slight offsetting to the endpapers, boards generally clean, small and discrete mark to the bottom of the front, corners and spine ends a little curled, a crease across the spine 1cm from the top, overall book is in Very Good condition. The jacket is well worn, spine browned, chip to top of spine affecting the book title, split on the joint where the rear panel meets the spine, small wear and chipping at bottom of the spine and top and bottom of the turn-ins. Overall this is a Good condition jacket.

Signed limited edition, number 141 of 350 large paper copies signed by Milne and Shepard, printed on handmade paper. Limited signed editions of the first Winnie-the-Pooh story book are increasingly scarce. This copy includes an autograph letter signed by Milne discussing a publishing agreement, a contribution to a periodical, an injury, and his wonder at the value of limited editions. After the huge success of When We Were Very Young, published in 1924, Milne was asked to contribute a story to the London Evening News. "The Wrong Sort of Bees", published on Christmas Eve 1925, was based on a bedtime story that Milne had told his son Christopher. It starred Christopher's teddy bear, bought at Harrods for Christopher's first birthday, known initially as Edward or Edward Bear and later renamed Winnie-the-Pooh (after a favourite bear cub at London zoo). Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) was an immediate success and garnered even more enthusiastic reviews than its predecessor. It was published in the UK in three issues: an extra limited issue of 20 copies bound in vellum, the present limited issue of 350 copies on large paper, and a regular trade issue. This is the first title of the series to be issued in this format: there was no equivalent issue of the first book, When We Were Very Young (1924), as the magnitude of its success had not been anticipated. This copy includes an autograph letter signed to George Henry Grubb (1875-1934), a director of the publishing firm of Putnam and Co. in London. Milne writes with reference to a publishing agreement (presumably for Three Plays) and states that he is "afraid that the amateur rights must be left in the hands of Samuel French". He admits to having "let myself in for many too many Christmas numbers" and therefore declines an invitation to contribute to the magazine Tit-Bits. Milne regrets not having written before but explains he had "idiotically twisted my inside, playing with Bill and tore some muscles: with the result that I've been strapped up for the last week, and felt too uncomfortable to do anything but lean against cushions and read. a cough or a sneeze or a laugh is agony, so I avoid draughts of humorous books". Milne concludes by asking "did you see in the Times last week that a copy of the limited edition of W[hen] W[e] W[ere] V[ery] Y[oung] went for £53. The record so far." John R. Payne, "Four Children's Books by A. A. Milne", Studies in Bibliography, Vol. 23, 1970, pp. 127-39, item IIB. Small quarto. Original dark blue cloth-backed blue paper covered boards, front cover with paper label lettered in black, edges untrimmed. With dust jacket. Together with an undated autograph note signed ("A.A. Milne") from Milne to G. H. Grubb, 1 leaf (190 x 140 mm), headed notepaper ("13, Mallord Street, Chelsea, S.W.3.") Illustrated throughout by E. H. Shepard, folding map at end. Corners bumped, browning to free endpapers, gatherings unopened, some slight foxing to top edge; a near-fine copy. Extremities of dust jacket worn with loss to head and foot of spine, covers and spine toned; a good example of the jacket. Light browning to letter, together with removed staple holes; a near-fine letter.

VERY RARE 1st Deluxe Edition & 1st printing of the famous children's classic. This edition was published shortly after the first "regular" hardcover edition of the book. It was was followed by the green 2nd Deluxe Edition later in the same year due to overwhelming demand. [ATTRIBUTES:] 185x125mm, 158pp. Red leather hardcover with gilt illustration of Christopher Robin "shushing" Pooh, inside golden borders. Spine also illustrated in gold. All page edges gilt. [CONDITION:] Spine surface tattered and broken with a few small pieces missing, otherwise repaired. Pen inscription by previous owner, dated 1926, on front white-page. [SUMMARY:] An extremely rare and valuable copy of a classic masterpiece, with some unfortunate damage to the spine but otherwise in very good condition for its age. The book is in : English.

First edition, first impression, deluxe issue of Milne's first collection of stories featuring the famous bear. John R. Payne provides details of the special binding, noting that "3,000 copies of the first trade impression were printed by 11 September [1926] and ordered bound in red, blue, and green leather by Burn the same day". Winnie-the-Pooh was an immediate success and garnered even more enthusiastic reviews than its predecessor, with one critic writing that "When the real Christopher Robin is a little old man, children will find him waiting for them. It is the child's book of the season that seems certain to stay" (Thwaite, p. 317). John R. Payne, "Four Children's Books by A. A. Milne", Studies in Bibliography, University of Virginia Press, vol. 23 (1970), pp. 127-139; Ann Thwaite, The Brilliant Career of Winnie-the-Pooh, 1992. Octavo. Publisher's deluxe green sheep, spine lettered in gilt, spine and front cover with pictorial designs in gilt, illustrated map endpapers, gilt edges. In publisher's original box. Illustrations throughout by E. H. Shepard. A fine and notably fresh copy. Some foxing and soiling to box with wear to extremities; a good example of the fragile box.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST PRINTING. HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S CLOTH BINDING, ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION DUST JACKET, SECOND STATE WITH 129TH THOUSAND INSTEAD OF 117TH THOUSAND FOR THE ADVERT OF WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG TO REAR INNER FLAP, THIS BEING THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FIRST & SECOND STATE JACKETS, PRICED AT 7/6 TO SPINE, ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATED ENDPAPERS, NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS BY ERNEST H.SHEPARD THAT ARE FULL PAGE OR AMONG TEXT. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES WITH 159 PAGES. VERY FAINT RING MARK TO FRONT OF JACKET WITH SOME SURFACE ABRASIONS TO TOP LEFT ON FRONT OF JACKET [SEE IMAGE] VERY SLIGHT BROWNING TO SPINE OF JACKET, CORNERS LIGHTLY BUMPED, AN INDENTATION OF APPROX 1 INCH TO CLOTH SPINE, FRONT HINGE COCKED VERY SLIGHTLY FORWARD, VERY SLIGHT BROWNING TO ENDPAPERS MATCHING UP TO THE INNER FLAPS TO JACKET SUGGESTING THAT THIS JACKET IS ORIGINAL TO THIS COPY, TWO SMALL NAMES WRITTEN TO HALF TITLE WITH DATE OF NOV 27-26. OVERALL A SUPERB COPY WITH NO LOSS TO JACKET, PAGES VERY CLEAN & WITH NO RESTORATION TO JACKET OR BOOK. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JACKET HAS A CLEAR REMOVABLE COVER THAT MAY SHOW SOME REFLECTIONS OR WRINKLES IN IMAGES. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.

First edition; 8vo; illustrations and map endpapers by Ernest Shepard, a very few, minor, peripheral marks, the only two of note at base of p. 131 but even these are light and small, otherwise near fine; publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt, light bumping to spine tips and upper right-hand corner, illustrated dust-jacket, spine slightly faded, light soiling, minor chipping to head of spine and corners, otherwise, again, near fine. 'How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard?' A lovely copy of this perennial children's classic, decidedly uncommon in such condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by A.A. Milne on a laid in signature. An attractive dustjacket that is vibrant in color with slight wear to the spine ends and panels. The book is in nice shape. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are exceptionally clean, with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy of this true first edition SIGNED by the author. We buy A.A.Milne First Editions. Signed by Author(s).

First edition, first impression, of the first collection of stories to feature the famous bear. "At Christmas 1925 Milne was asked to write a story for the London Evening News. He decided to write down a bedtime story he had told his son about his bear, which had now acquired the name Winnie-the-Pooh, Winnie after a black Canadian bear in the zoo and Pooh for more mysterious reasons. The story became the first chapter of Winnie-the-Pooh" (ODNB). Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, compartments and front cover stamped with gilt blocks of the characters, board edges and turn-ins ruled in gilt, floral endpapers, original map endpapers bound in at front, edges gilt. Illustrated by E. H. Shepard. A fine copy.

[Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; [4] 158 [2]. Profusely illustrated in-text by Ernest Shepard. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to upper. Top edge gilt; pictorial endpapers. Black ink ownership to first blank, and some light toning to endpapers. A lovely clean copy internally otherwise. Light general wear to cloth with a few marks. Very good. The classic first collection of Winnie the Pooh stories, set around Milne's home near '100 Aker Wood' in Ashdown Forest, East Sussex. Children's Modern Firsts [p206], Shorter Cambridge English Lit. [1387-1389]. 'Winnie the Pooh' listed in Modern Library's Top 100 Novels [1998].

A first edition, first printing published by Methuen in 1926. A fine book without inscriptions in a fine dust wrapper with a narrow patch of rubbing to the spine and one very narrow nick to the bottom edge. The book and wrapper were protected in the 1920s and this has protected them from any wear. The result is the most sublime example of this landmark children's book we have ever seen. Now housed in a custom made solander box.

First Edition. First edition, first printing. xvi, 159 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good+, bottom corner bumped, offsetting to endpapers, some finger oiling and a few tiny stains to text, former owner's name on first blank page. A very nice copy of the classic children's book that inspired the animated film.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. pp XVI, 158. 1st owner bookplate to FEP, end papers grubby, rebacked, otherwise very good. Lower board marked.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Cecile Walton (illustrator). Milne's classic, stated 'First Published in 1926'; the first edition, first impression in third edition jacket (139th Thousand to top of rear inner-flap instead of 117th, otherwise identical), illustrated throughout by Ernest Shepard. Gilt vignette, borders & titles to front board & spine. Minor edge-wear, corners lightly bumped. Minor surface-marks to base of front board, reflecting portion of loss to corresponding area of dust-jacket. Jacket with further chip of loss to top, & to head of spine, creased. Maps to end-papers a little browned, with faint ghosts of erased pencil-marks. Neat pen Christmas 1926 gift inscription to first free page. Thumbing & browning-marks scattered throughout, mostly to margins, with 1.8cm closed tear to edge of pp5/6. Very slight lean to binding, top edge gilt. Well-read, but bright, eminently readable, structurally sound & in scarce early jacket. 19.6cm tall, xvi, 158pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ernest H. Shepard (illustrator). Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

158 p. Bound in the publisher's green cloth with gilt title spine, gilt decorated front cover depicting Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin and pictorial endpapers with a map of the Hundred Acre Wood, top-edge-gilt (Spine-ends and corner-tips of the binding rubbed, text-block loosening from the front hinge and with light waterstains throughout the bottom-margins, otherwise in good condition.).

A first edition, first printing published by Methuen in 1926 - illustrations by E.H. Shepard, map endpapers, original publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt, t.e.g., dust jacket with '7/6 Net' to spine and '117th Thousand' at the head of the rear flap. A fine book without inscriptions - the usual off-setting to the endpapers. Spine tips a little pushed. In a fine first issue dust wrapper with some miniscule pushing to the spine tips and corners. A magnificently crisp, fine example of this fragile dust wrapper.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Ernest H Shepard (illustrator). A very smart second edition copy of A A Milne's noted children's novel 'Winnie The Pooh'. Milne was a prolific author and is now best-remembered for his creation of Winnie-The-Pooh and his many friends. This is the first collection of stories containing Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Owl, Rabbit, Kanga and Roo. Tigger did not appear until 'The House at Pooh Corner'.?This copy is without the original dustwrapper.A charming collection of ten children's stories featuring this famous character. To this collection there are classic tales such as when Winnie gets stuck in Rabbit's door, Piglet meeting a Heffalump, and Pooh-bear encountering some bees. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of spine as well as several marks to the extremities. A few marks to the boards. Former owner's inscriptions to the recto of front endpaper, 'Armitage' and 'Ruth'. Gift inscription to the recto of front endpaper, 'Ruth A Lee Christmas 1926'. With a bookplate to the front endpaper, 'My Book, Ruth Lee'. Internally, generally firmly bound. Slightly strained in places. Pages are very bright. Occasional light spots. Very Good Indeed. book.

Fine Binding. Condition: Very Good. Ernest H Shepard (illustrator). A beautifully bound set of A A Milne's classic children's works featuring his anthropomorphic bear Winnie the Pooh. From the library of Julian's Park, which was once home to the Socialite Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. Comprising early editions of these works. 'Winnie The Pooh' is a second edition of 1926;? 'House at Pooh Corner' is a third edition of 1929; 'When We Were Very Young' is a Nineteenth Edition of 1929,? 'Now We Are Six' is a fifth edition of 1929.?Milne was a prolific author and is now best-remembered for his creation of Winnie-The-Pooh and his many friends. This set of best selling works comprises of the first volume of stories solely regarding Pooh, 'Winnie-The-Pooh', and two poetry collections, 'Now We Are Six' and 'When We Were Very Young'. 'Now We are Six' contains thirty-five verses, eleven of which are accompanied by illustrations featuring Winnie-The-Pooh. 'When We Were Very Young' contains forty-four poems, including 'Teddy Bear' which, upon its initial publication in 'Punch' magazine, was the first literary appearance of Winnie-The-Pooh. The introduction to 'When We Were Very Young' implies that the narrator may be Christopher Robin.These works are illustrated by E H Shepard, a popular twentieth century illustrator whose pen and ink drawings were featured in all of Milne's works.Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, with their binder's stamp to the front pastedown. All volumes are in a half calf binding, with gilt tooled silhouettes of the characters Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore, Owl, Rabbit and Piglet to the spines.? The boards are covered in charming paper which has a repeated animal motif. This same paper is used for the endpapers.? Pleydell-Bouverie was a close friend of Stanley Bray, who worked at the firm for over 60 years. He often bound books for her as gifts.?From the library at Julians Park, the former home of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie (Audrey Evelyn James Coats, and Audrey Evelyn James Field). Pleydell-Bouverie was the youngest daughter of an Anglo-American lumber and steel millionaire. Audrey was also alleged to be the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII, although she was also rumoured to be his daugher, or the lover of King Edward VIII.? She bought Julians Park in 1940 following her third marriage to the Hon Peter Pleydell-Bouverie. Audrey was a patron of the arts and it is believed that she bound several books herself, as many books from her library were stamped with her name and she owned a group of bookbinding tools. Her circle of friends included Winston Churchill, Coco Chanel and Nancy Mitford. She was featured in Cecil Beaton's 'Book of Beauty' and was regarded as one of the Bright Young Things. In a half calf binding with paper covered boards. Externally, very smart with light rubbing to the spines and extremities. Fading to the spine of 'When We Were Very Young'. Binder's stamp to the verso of front endpaper, 'Sangorski and Sutcliffe'. Internally, all volumes are firmly bound. Pages are bright with occasional light spots. Very Good. book.

Hard Cover. First Edition. First UK Edition. Full page and in text black & white illustrations throughout, publisher's original green pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt, Spine tips slightly pushed and a couple of minor bumps to the boards. No names or inscriptions and very clean internally and externally. No fading to the gilt spine lettering or to the gilt vignette to the front board. Light foxing to the fore-edge. Boards really bright and clean. A very nice VG++ copy. Lacking the D/W. Photographs/scans available upon request.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First British edition, first printing. Publisher's green cloth decorated in gilt on upper board and spine. Near Fine with small scratch to rear board, endsheets offset from jacket flaps. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with "117th Thousand" on rear flap, with darkening to spine and lighter so to edges, light edge wear, small chips to corners and top of spine. A lovely copy of this classic children's book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. Ernest H. Shepard (illustrator). Large Paper Edition. 8vo (22 x 17 cm). 158 pp. 136/350. Signed by Milne and Shepard. Quarter bound with light blue paper covers and dark blue cloth spine. Paper label to upper cover. Spine lightly sunned with several small stains to upper cover. Corners bumped with 1cm nick to upper right corner . PO name to paste-down endpaper, rest of text block tight and unmarked. Folding map of Hundred Aker Wood at back. Custom clamshell box with blue leather spine and marbled covers.

10th edition 1st printing. Poor copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth; elevated motif to the front board. Lacks free endpapers. Plates completely colored, owner's inscription. Shadow staining. Lacks preface and contents pages. Worn spine. Physical description: xi, 158 p.: ill.; 19 cm. Subject: Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character). Children's stories. Bee culture. FictionChildren's stories in English 1900- Texts. Genre: Illustrated. Children's stories. Fiction. 1 Kg.

10th edition 1st printing. Poor copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth; elevated motif to the front board. Lacks free endpapers. Plates completely colored, owner's inscription. Shadow staining. Lacks preface and contents pages. Worn spine. Physical description: xi, 158 p.: ill.; 19 cm. Subject: Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character). Children's stories. Bee culture. FictionChildren's stories in English 1900- Texts. Genre: Illustrated. Children's stories. Fiction. 1 Kg.

Condition: New. Ernest H. Shepard (illustrator). New. In shrink wrap.

First edition, de luxe issue. Octavo. pp xvi, 158. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. Publisher's de luxe binding of full red leather decorated in gilt, all edges gilt.Contemporary (1927) gift inscription on first blank. Slight rubbing to bottom edges of covers. Very small snag to head of spine. Very good.

Condition: Near fine in near fine jacket. First edition. Signed limited large paper copy, one of only 350 numbered copies signed by Milne and Shepard, of the first book of Pooh prose stories. In Milne's first book of children's verse, WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG (1924), the silly old bear appears in only a couple poems and does not yet have a name. After that book's smashing success, Milne was encouraged by his wife to write down some of the bedtime stories he made up for his son about his favorite toys. Here we get many of the best loved stories from the Hundred Acre Wood: Piglet meets a Heffalump, Eeyore has a birthday, and Pooh runs out of honey. This is a beautiful copy of the deluxe signed edition. 8.75'' x 7''. Original quarter blue cloth, light blue paper boards. In original blue printed dust jacket. Illustrated by Shepard in black and white throughout; folding map at rear. Printed on handmade paper. xvi, 158, [2] pages. Signed by Milne and Shepard on limitation page. Small bump and rub on lower corner, expected offsetting to endpapers, else beautiful. Jacket with toning to spine and some light soil and wear.

Green Cloth. Condition: Good. Shepard, E. H. (illustrator). First. A very sound copy of the first printing of this classic. Gift inscription for 1926 on 2nd ffep. No other inscriptions or markings. Boards quite bright and clean. Jacket incomplete, as can be seen in images. teg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. "Winnie the Pooh" by A.A. Milne and illustrated by Ernest Shepard. Methuen, London. 1926 first deluxe edition first printing, issued in the same year as the first trade edition. Book in good condition, with some wear and rubbing to spine and edges as usual. Bookplate to front endpaper, and owner's name on one of the white blank pages. Complete. Rare first deluxe edition of Milne's classic children's book.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. Ernest H. Shepard (illustrator). Second Edition, 1926 (same year as first edition). Green cloth cover with bright Gilt picture of Christopher Robin and Pooh bear and Gilt linear border on the front. Gilt Lettering to Spine. Top page edges Gilt. Endpapers illustrated with Maps (Drawn by me and Mr Shepard Helpd). 158 Pages with many B&W Pen Illustrations. Very slight edge wear. Penciled gift inscription on fly leaf, dated 1926 and an inked name above. No other inscriptions. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.