The Pooh Books

Lot 296
19.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 6 300
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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Lot 296 | The Pooh Books
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$ 6 000 – 8 000
MILNE, A.A. (1882-1956). When We Were Very Young. 1924. * Winnie-the-Pooh. 1926. * Now We Are Six. 1927. * The House at Pooh Corner. 1928. Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co., 1924-1928.

Complete set of first edition Pooh books in original dust jackets.

Together, four volumes, octavo. Half-titles. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. Original blue, green, red and salmon cloth respectively, pictorially stamped in gilt, plain endpapers in the first title, pictorial endpapers in the rest (few small stains to endpapers, salmon cloth spine lightly sunned, last title with neat contemporary ownership inscription); pictorial dust jackets (light soiling, 3 spine panels rubbed affecting lettering and with wear to ends, first spine panel reinforced on verso, wear to extremities).
Address of auction CHRISTIE'S
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