A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard
Now We Are Six
Methuen & Co. Ltd.
1927
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A first edition of Now We Are Six, signed by the illustrator.
- A.A. Milne (English).
- Illustrated by E.H. Shephard.
- London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927.
- Signed by the illustrator E. H. Shepard on the title page.
- Bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped red cloth, pictorial pastedowns and endpapers, top edge gilt, with the original dust jacket.
E.H. Shepard use to refer to himself as "Kip" - his nickname and a shortened version of "Giddy-Kipper". At St. Paul's School, he was fond of jokes and tricks and in the schoolboy slang of that day, was known as “a giddy kipper.” The nickname “Kipper” clung to him all his life.
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Very GoodDust jacket quite worn and chipped but in an unknown hand written on the front inside flap "This is a 1st edition ask Uncle Kip to autograph it."
Some signs of age and handling.
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