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A Gallery of Children
By
A. A. Milne
Illustrator
Henriette Willebeek Le Mair.
3rd edition, 1925, Stanley Paul.
Quarto.
Blue embossed cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers and spine.
Picture onlay to front cover.
106 pages.
Covers heavily worn and scuffed.
Some marks to back cover.
Faint damp mark at lower edge of covers and pages.
Corners and spine ends bumped.
Damage to lower 5cm of spine strip.
Neat dedication on front endpaper.
Contents good, but pages lightly tanned and some occasional foxing to page edges.
Reading condition.
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Now we are six
By
A. A. Milne
Illustrator
Ernest Howard Shepard.
3rd edition, 1927, Methuen.
Maroon embossed cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Gilt decoration on covers.
13cm x 19cm.
103 pages.
Pink endpapers decorated with blue line illustrations.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Corners a little bumped.
Gilt on covers and spine bright and undimmed.
A small patch of foxing on front pastedown adjacent to the hinge, no other foxing apparent.
Half-title and reverse of final page tanned.
Contents otherwise clean and bright.
Very good condition.
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The Christopher Robin Story Book
By
A. A. Milne
Illustrator
Ernest Howard Shepard.
11th edition, 1942, Methuen.
Light blue cloth-covered boards.
Red lettering on covers.
Red decoration on covers.
Light wear and soiling to dustwrapper, and some chipping at spine ends and on lower back panel.
Covers clean and with only minor wear.
Pages very slightly tanned.
Very good condition with dust-wrapper.
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The Holiday Round
By
A. A. Milne
7th edition, 1925, Methuen.
These essays and sketches previously appeared in Punch magazine.
Small octavo, blue cloth binding, gilt titling.
Good condition.
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The House at Pooh Corner
By
A. A. Milne
Illustrator
Ernest Howard Shepard.
1st edition, 1928, Methuen.
Pink cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Gilt decoration on covers.
Top edge gilt.
13cm x 19cm.
178 pages.
Pink pictorial endpapers.
Covers and spine slightly worn and faded at edges.
Gilt decoration on front cover appears to have been traced-over in black ink.
Fore edge slightly soiled.
Name written faintly on front pastedown.
Some darkening and staining to endpapers and prelims.
Some occasional faint fingermarking to page edges.
Good condition.
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The House at Pooh Corner
By
A. A. Milne
Illustrator
Ernest Howard Shepard.
6th edition, 1934, Methuen.
Blue cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on spine.
Black decoration on covers.
Covers worn at edges.
Corners bumped.
Spine faded and marked.
Some ligh foxing to fore edge.
Name on front endpaper.
A number of illustrations neatly coloured-in with watercolour paint.
Good condition.
12.
When we were very young
By
A. A. Milne
Illustrator
Ernest Howard Shepard.
Reprint, 1946, Methuen.
Blue cloth-covered boards.
Dark blue decoration on covers.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Names and address on front pastedown and front endpaper.
Generally VG in other respects.
Good condition.
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When we were very young
By
A. A. Milne
Illustrator
Ernest Howard Shepard.
10th edition, 1925, Methuen.
Dark blue cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Gilt decoration on covers.
Top edge gilt.
Light wear to covers.
Gilt faded.
A few small marks on front cover.
Namr on half-title.
Contents slightly shaken.
Some intermittent finger-marking to page edges.
Tear on p51/52 was neatly repaired on both sides with Sellotape, which has subsequently browned.
Good condition.
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Winnie-the-Pooh
By
A. A. Milne
Illustrator
Ernest Howard Shepard.
Reprint, 2006, Egmont.
ISBN: 9781405223980.
Octavo.
Pictorial boards.
147 pages.
Illustrated with colourised drawings by E. H. Shepard.
Pictorial endpapers.
Gift dedication on reverse of front endpaper.
Fine in other respects.
Very good condition with dust-wrapper.
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Winnie-the-Pooh
By
A. A. Milne
Illustrator
Ernest H. Shepard.
1st Thus edition, 1999, Methuen.
ISBN: 0416196683.
Dark green cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Gilt decoration on covers.
Top edge gilt.
Facsimile reproduction of the text and illustrations from an original first edition of 1926.
The binding has been recreated in the style of the first edition.
Complete with original sleeve.
Sleeve has a small tear at the lower right rear edge, which has been neatly taped.
Lover right corner of boards bumped.
Near-fine in other respects.
Very good condition.
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