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MILNE (A.A.)
When We Were Very Young, Macmillan (4)

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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MILNE (A.A.)

When We Were Very Young, seventeenth edition, thin short tear to spine, 1928; Winnie-The-Pooh, sixth edition,1928; Now We Are Six, fourth edition, 1928; The House of Pooh Corner, FIRST EDITION, 1928, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, coloured pictorial endpapers, PUBLISHER'S SPECIAL DE LUXE BINDING of brown morocco gilt, covers with outer double-ruled border in brown and gilt, central hexagonal motif in brown with AAM stamped in gilt at centre, spines gilt tooled with images of the major figures from the books, g.e., housed in original box (lid split at joints, but holding), 8vo, Macmillan (4)

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The first appearance of the so-called "Monogram edition", issued to celebrate the publication of the fourth and final book in the Winnie-the-Pooh series.

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