Jun 21, 2012 - Sale 2282

Sale 2282 - Lot 59

Price Realized: $ 3,840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) Milne, A. A. The Christopher Robin Books. Together, 4 volumes [complete]. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. 8vo, publisher's gilt-pictorial cloth bindings; all but When We Were Very Young with dust jackets; top edges gilt; all with custom protective gilt-lettered blue buckram chemises; laid into plain matching blue cloth slipcase marked simply A. A. Milne in gilt at top of spine. London: Methuen, 1924-28
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first editions of milne's famous quartet of the beloved "winnie-the-pooh and christopher robin too" series. Comprising: When We Were Very Young. Bright copy; slightly cocked; endpapers toned near gutter; page ix unnumbered; lacks dust jacket. (1924) Winnie-the-Pooh. Scattered mild soiling, upper outer corner of first two signatures creased, few pencil notations on endpapers, split before final leaf; dust jacket, light soiling, rubbing, and edgewear. (1926) Now We Are Six. Some toning near gutters on endpapers and half-title, bottom edges bumped; dust jacket lightly soiled and rubbed. (1927) The House at Pooh Corner. Some faded spotting along joints; usual toning to endpapers from jacket; bright dust jacket with only slight rubbing and light finger soiling. contains inserted slip for "the christopher robin calendar, 1929 / `when we were very young' notepaper" and an advertising slip for shepard's exhibition "The Original Drawings of Ernest H. Shepard illustrating The House at Pooh Corner," November-December 1928 at The Sporting Gallery, Covent Garden.