Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 313

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Milne, A.A. (1882-1956)
The House at Pooh Corner with an A.L.S.

London: Methuen & Co, Ltd, [1928].

Limited first edition, small quarto; this is copy number 290 of 350 printed on handmade paper and signed by Milne and Ernest H. Shepard on the limitation page; most gatherings partially or completely unopened; rebound to style with the original printed label to front board preserved, all edges uncut; with a newly supplied dust jacket preserving the original jacket's spine, lower panel, and title (significant repairs to the lower margin of the first six leaves, light dampstaining and spots to lower margin throughout; areas of bio-predation to the lower edge; 8 3/4 x 7 in.

[Together with]

Autograph letter signed, on his Mallord Street stationery dated April 25 [no year], single page inscribed on one side; Milne invites a Miss Merrill to come to his home for an interview.