MILNE, ALAN ALEXANDER. 1882-1956.
MILNE, ALAN ALEXANDER.
WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY SHEPARD.
Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen, [1926]. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard. Original cloth-backed boards, paper label on upper cover, dust jacket, unopened. Dust jacket spine very slightly faded and bumped at head, else fine.

Limited edition, no 134 of 350 copies signed by the author and artist. This copy has a fine full-page ink drawing by Shepard dated January 1931 on an initial blank. The drawing shows Christopher Robin in the bath with Pooh nearby, together with a version of one of the vignettes showing Pooh contemplating an upside-down bathmat.
See illustration.
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