Estimate: | £200 - £300 |
Hammer price: | £150 |
MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956). Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926. 8vo (190 x 125mm). Half title, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, some full-page (occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Original green pictorial cloth gilt, top edges gilt, other uncut, map endpapers (some light staining and damp-blistering, slightly faded, extremities rubbed, corners bumped, some chips to the head and foot of spine, without the dust-jacket). Provenance: Jean [?]Revel (signature on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION. With Henry Williamson's Tarka the Otter. His Joyful Water-Life & Death in the Country of the Two Rivers ... With an Introduction by the Hon. Sir John Fortescue (London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927, large 8vo, original tan buckram-backed cloth boards gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, some staining, without the dust-jacket, FIRST TRADE EDITION, LIMITED TO 1,100 [unsigned] COPIES, with a monochrome photograph of the author standing at the door of a log cabin loosely-inserted). (2)