MILNE, A.A. | When We Were Very Young. London, Methuen, (1925, tenth edition) 

Property from the Family of Elliott B. Macrae

MILNE, A.A.

When We Were Very Young. London, Methuen, (1925, tenth edition) 

8vo (7 1/4 x 5 in.; 185 x 127 mm). Publisher's pictorial blue calf, gilt edges; worn at extremities, a bit musty. Half blue morocco slipcase, chemise.

Presentation copy, inscribed with a poem and signed by Milne to his American publisher, 12 February 1926, on the half-title: "To John Macrae | For the noble way | He sells this book in the U.S.A. | So now I say to myself, I say: | In the years to come, when I'm old and grey, | And such skill as I have shall have passed away, | I shall still be living on John Macrae!"