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MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956). Now We Are Six, London, 1927, 8vo, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, original buckram (without the jacket). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. With A. A. Milne's Two People (London, 1931, 8vo, buckram, jacket, FIRST EDITION). (2)

Estimate: £100 - £150
Hammer price: £100
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MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956).  Now We Are Six. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. 8vo (188 x125mm). Half title, illustrations by E. H. Shepard (some light browning to the half title and final blank). Original red pictorial buckram gilt, top edges gilt, pink pictorial endpapers (without the dust-jacket). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. The author's introduction ends with the following post scriptum: "Pooh wants us to say that he thought it was a different book; and he hopes you won't mind, but he walked through it one day, looking for his friend Piglet, and sat down on some of the pages by mistake." With the same author's Two People (London, 1931, 8vo, original grey buckram with green cloth labels on the upper cover and the spine, pale green dust-jacket with price of 7/6 on the backstrip). FIRST EDITION of the author's semi-autobiographical novel. (2)

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