[Rarebooks] FS: Signed Limited First Edition of THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER

[Charles Agvent]

One of 150 interesting items included in our HOLIDAY 2008 Catalogue now 
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MILNE,  A. A. THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER. New York: E.  P.  Dutton &
Company  (1928).  First Edition. First American Edition,  Large  Paper
Edition,  being  copy #233 of 250 copies SIGNED by the author and  the
illustrator.   Quarto  (7"  x  9")   in  original  green  cloth-backed
illustrated  yellow  paper  boards with a printed paper  spine  label.
Illustrated  by  Ernest Shepard. This copy has definite signs of  use,
including  a child practicing writing her name on the front  pastedown
and  endpaper,  a  few roughly opened pages, several pages  with  some
light  pencil coloring, and one page with a few dark stains. Still, it
is  complete,  generally  clean, and an excellent value.  Good,  solid
copy, lacking the dustwrapper and box.                        $1500.00

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