Apr 02, 2009 - Sale 2175

Sale 2175 - Lot 79

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(MILNE, A. A.) Fraser-Simson, H. The Hums of Pooh. Introduction by A. A. Milne and decorations by E.H. Shepard. Music by H. Fraser-Simson; additional lyric by Eeyore. Small folio, publisher's 1/4 navy cloth spine over grey boards with printed paper cover label, spine ends and tips bumped with some loss, few bumps to fore edge and scattered light soiling including a bit of white paint on spine; endpapers toned from binding glue, light foxing to preliminaries, some internal creasing (binding flaw) and gentle splits between several signatures. London: Methuen, (1929)

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number 63 of 100 copies of this desirable limited edition signed by milne, fraser-simson, and ernest h. shepard. Along with When We Were Very Young, it is the smallest of the Winnie-the-Pooh limited editions.