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MILNE, Alan Alexander (1882-1956). Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen & Co., 1926. -- Now We are Six. London: Methuen & Co., 1927. -- The House at Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & Co., 1928.
Together 3 volumes, 8vo. Illustrated by Ernest Shephard. Original gilt-decorated cloth, top edges gilt (Now We are Six spine slightly skewed; The House at Pooh Corner with some light sunning to extremities); each in original pictorial dust jacket (Winnie-the-Pooh jacket with some restoration at ends and fore-corners, spine and wraps sunned, some soiling; Now We are Six jacket with chipping at extreme ends and corners, spine and wraps sunned, some soiling; The House at Pooh Corner jacket some restoration at ends and fore-corners, spine and wraps sunned, some soiling, few dampstain spots).
FIRST EDITIONS OF THREE OF THE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN BOOKS. Winnie-the-Pooh is in a first issue dust jacket with “117th Thousand” designation for When We Were Very Young on rear flap. Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in Children’s Literature 71.