Milne, A.A.

When We Were Very Young. London: Methuen, 1924. 8vo, half-title, publisher's blue gold-stamped pictorial cloth, title gold-stamped on spine, plain white endpapers, top edge gilt; extremities rubbed. Publisher's cream wove printed pictorial dust jacket; a few tiny edge tears at folds, soiled. — Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen, 1926. 8vo, half-title, publisher's green gold-stamped pictorial cloth, title gold-stamped on spine, decorated endpapers, top edge gilt. Publisher's orange wove printed pictorial dust jacket listing 117th thousand of When We Were Very Young; a few soil marks. Typed letter signed by a father as gift to daughter, along with clipping, laid in. — Now We Are Six.  London: Methuen, 1927. 8vo, half-title, publisher's red gold-stamped pictorial cloth, decorated endpapers, top edge gilt; very slight rubbing to extremities. Publisher's green wove printed pictorial dust jacket; slightly soiled. — The House at Pooh Corner. London: Methuen, 1928. 8vo, half-title, publisher's salmon gold-stamped pictorial cloth, decorated endpapers, top edge gilt. Publisher's peach wove printed pictorial dust jacket; a few tiny inkspots on upper cover.

J.R. Payne, "Four Children's Books by A. A. Milne," Studies in Bibliography 23 (1979), pp. 127-139

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