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London: Methuen. Illustrations by E. H, Sheprd. These books are all 1934 reprints, come from a single source, are contemporary with one-another, and are new to the market. They each have the same name written neatly on the front free endpapers. Minor wear and ageing; the original dust jackets have the price on the spines; some rubbing at the spine ends, protected by clear, removable covers. Weysprings Books is a Member of: the IOBA and PBFA, and subscribes to the Associations' Codes of Ethics. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1934.

A COMPLETE SET OF POOH TITLES WITH NOW WE ARE SIX & THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER BEING FIRST EDITIONS & THE FIRST PRINTINGS, WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG IS THE SIXTEENTH EDITION FROM 1927 & WINNIE THE POOH BEING A THIRD EDITION FROM 1927. ALL HARDBACKS IN THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHERS CLOTH BINDINGS, ALL WITH THE ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATED ENDPAPERS, NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS TO BOOKS BY ERNEST H. SHEPARD. EACH BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES. FEW MINOR MARKS TO CLOTH COVERS MOSTLY ON NOW WE ARE SIX & HOUSE AT POOH CORNER WITH MINOR WEAR & RUBBING AT TOP & BOTTOM OF SPINES AGAIN MOSTLY TO THE TWO TITLES MENTIONED ABOVE, MOST CORNERS BUMPED, XMAS INSCRIPTION FROM 1927 ALONG WITH TWO NAMES & ADDRESSES TO HALF TITLE OF WHEN WE WERE YOUNG, NAME & A 1927 XMAS INSCRIPTION TO FRONT ENDPAPER & HALF TITLE OF NOW WE ARE SIX, NAME TO REVERSE OF FRONTIS ON HOUSE AT POOH CORNER, ENDPAPERS BROWNED TO HOUSE AT POOH CORNER, COUPLE OF HALF TITLES BROWNED, OCCASIONAL MINOR MARKS, MINOR MARGINAL CHIP OR CREASE TO PAGES. OVERALL THE SET IS… Leer más

London: Methuen & Co, 1924. All first editions, all in original cloth and dust jackets, t.e.g., decorated throughout by E.H. Shepard; 4 volumes, 8vo, in a custom-made fleece-lined brown cloth clamshell box lettered in gilt; 1) When We Were Very Young, second state as usual, without pagination on p. ix; ; the dust jacket with several short breaks at the spine ends; slight wear and small breaks at the top of the spine 2) Winnie-the Pooh, jacket a bit soiled, with small breaks at the spine extremities; 3) Now We Are Six, spine of jacket a little toned and with short breaks at the top; 4) The House at Pooh Corner, small pinhole on back panel of the dust jacket. All are quite bright in original cloth. In all, a very good to near fine set.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, , 1924-8. Attractively bound with pictorial morocco onlays First editions, first impressions, of these timeless classics of children's literature. When We Were Very Young is in the second state of the first impression with the page number ix present in the preliminaries. These four volumes comprise a full set of the Pooh books and are presented in beautiful bindings by Bayntun (Riviere) of Bath. The illustrations rendered in coloured onlays comprise: Christopher Robin on the stairs ("Halfway Down") (see p. 80 of When We Were Very Young), Winnie-the-Pooh outside his home ("under the name of Sanders") (see p. 3 of Winnie-the-Pooh), Christopher Robin in his garden ("Solitude") (see p. 1 of When We Were Very Young), and Christopher Robin eating an apple ("what does Christopher Robin think about it?") (see p. 105 of The House at Pooh Corner). 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.… Leer más