£80 - £120
A. A Milne - Now We Are Six - First Edition 1927. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo. Beautifully illustrated with Shepard's wonderful line drawings. Publishers original burgundy cloth binding with gilt stamped illustration showing Christopher Robin playing with a toy train on front board, within a gilt ruled border, and Pooh and Piglet at a tikit office on the rear. Top edge gilt. Areas of bleaching to front board edge and also back board. Corners bumped and scuffed.Edges and spine ends scuffed. Spine is complete with rubbing and gilt lettering starting to fade. Book is tight. Pictorial endpapers ageing. Pencil inscription (name/address) to end blanks. Pages all clean and tight with light ageing.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo. Beautifully illustrated with Shepard's wonderful line drawings. Publishers original burgundy cloth binding with gilt stamped illustration showing Christopher Robin playing with a toy train on front board, within a gilt ruled border, and Pooh and Piglet at a tikit office on the rear. Top edge gilt. Areas of bleaching to front board edge and also back board. Corners bumped and scuffed.Edges and spine ends scuffed. Spine is complete with rubbing and gilt lettering starting to fade. Book is tight. Pictorial endpapers ageing. Pencil inscription (name/address) to end blanks. Pages all clean and tight with light ageing.
This lot is part of the collection that came from one of the oldest aristocratic families in British history.
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