signed first edition
1929 · New York
by Milne, A.A.; Shepard, Ernest H.
New York: Dutton, 1929. Near fine in a very good minus box.. Signed limited first US edition of this selection of stories from the Pooh Books, one of only 350 numbered copies signed by Milne and Shepard and printed on Japanese vellum. Includes selections from all of the best-known and must beloved Pooh books: WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG, WINNIE THE POOH, NOW WE ARE SIX, and THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER. An uncommonly complete and attractive example. 8.75'' x 7''. Original half green cloth, pink pictorial paper boards. With original mylar jacket. In publisher's original pictorial box. Green endpapers, fore-edge and bottom edge uncut. Illustrated by Shepard throughout (truncated)