Estimate: | £500 - £800 |
Hammer price: | £650 |
MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956). The House at Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928. 8vo. Half title, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations by E. H. Shepard, some full-page. Original pink pictorial cloth gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, pictorial endpapers, dust-jacket with the price of 7/6 on the backstrip (small faint stain to jacket, some very minor fraying at the head and upper corners of the backstrip, small pencil number at the upper edge of the front free endpaper, repeated at the upper edge of the half title). Provenance: The Property of a Collector. AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION.