?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) MILNE, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh. Decorations by E.H. Shepard. 8vo, publisher's diagonally ribbed lavendar 1/4 cloth over salmon printed boards, printed paper spine label, bottom edges uncut; original matching salmon pictorial dust jacket (one small thumb smudge on rear flap) and original glassine over-wrapper (flap edges wrinkled, short tear with small chip on upper front panel); contents clean, 5mm remnant of ticket on rear pastedown; housed in original printed card box with top, overall fading, lid showing wear but intact but for one vertical lip absent. [New York:] E.P. Dutton & Company, (1926)
entirely unrestored and remarkably fine copy of the first american edition of the large paper issue. Number 104 of 200 copies, signed by both Milne and Shepard. Rarely found in this condition.
