[Rarebooks] FS: Beautifully bound true First Printing of WINNIE-THE-POOH

[Charles Agvent]

One of 150 interesting items included in our HOLIDAY 2008 Catalogue now 
posted on our web site.  Included are beautifully bound classics, signed 
books, fine press titles, poetry, illustrated books, and the unusual.

MILNE,  A. A. WINNIE-THE-POOH. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd.  (1926).
First  Edition.  The  true first printing of this  children's  classic
with  illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, this appearing to be one  of
a  small number of the more luxurious deluxe edition produced in  soft
leather  and  printed on coated stock. This copy has been  rebound  in
full  blue morocco with the same gilt depiction on the front cover  of
Christopher  Robin  and  Pooh  that appeared on  the  original  deluxe
edition  and with gilt depictions of Pooh on the spine, with all edges
gilt.  Clean  copy  with a sticker "Jane Austen Prize" pasted  to  the
recto of the first blank. Fine copy, handsomely bound.        $1750.00

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