Milne—Shepard | Winnie-the-Pooh, 1926, first edition, dust-jacket, presentation copy inscribed by Milne and Shepard

A.A. Milne—E.H. Shepard

Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen & Co., 1926

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, 4to (225 x 178mm.), illustrations by E.H. Shepard, folding map at end, original cloth-backed boards, leaves uncut, dust-jacket, bespoke light brown and marbled clamshell box, prelims slightly browned, dust-jacket browned and frayed at extremities with some loss at head and tail of spine

Inscribed by A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepard: "This is a presentation copy for Michael Joseph, Esq.", plausibly the writer and publisher Michael Joseph (1897-1958).