Nov 18, 2014 - Sale 2366

Sale 2366 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 6,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) MILNE, A.A. Complete set of the Christopher Robin Books. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. 4 volumes. 8vo, original gilt-pictorial cloth of differing colors; top edges gilt; original dust jackets; condition excellent overall with notes below. London: Methuen, vd

Additional Details

first editions, first issues of the famous quartet comprising: When We were Very Young. Light moisture stains to front cover; jacket with price excised from spine panel and adjacent closed tear and crease, supplied with another example, Second Edition printed on rear flap. (1924) Winnie-the-Pooh. Few small tape repairs on jacket verso, overall smudging. (1926) Now We are Six. Slight lean; tape repairs to jacket verso. (1927) The House at Pooh Corner. Pen mark to rear cover; spine panel and edges toned on jacket, verso showing areas of red dye transfer from rear cover. (1928).