A limited edition of Now We Are Six, signed by Christopher Milne.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English, 1882-1956).</li><li>Illustrated by E. H. Shepard.</li><li>London: Methuen Children's Books, 1977.</li><li>With pictorial pastedowns and endpapers.</li><li>Limited to 300 copies, this being number 32.</li><li>Includes the signed limitation correction slip and letter from the publisher.</li><li>Bound in full maroon morocco, gilt decorated spine and covers, all edges gilt, housed in the original card open-ended slipcase.</li></ul>

Now We Are Six

First-edition presentation copy of Milne's play with a 50-line manuscript poem.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>London: Chatto &amp; Windus, 1930.</li><li>Inscribed on the front blank endleaf "For my Darling from her Blue. I suppose you do know— May 28th, 1930." The following two pages Milne has neatly penned and signed nine original verses, comprising a total of fifty lines, each relating to nine of the characters in his play and the actors who created the roles on the London stage.</li><li>Bound in the publisher's tan/grey cloth, original printed paper spine label.</li></ul> The affectionate inscription from Milne to his wife can be explained by the close of Michael and Mary; in the play, the character of Michael turns to Mary, mother of their son, David, and proclaims "I suppose you do know, Mary, that, much as I love him, I love your little finger - your funny little finger, more than all of David?" Mary gently replying, "I think I did know, Michael. You've got a funny little finger too."&nbsp;Michael and Mary is considered to be one of Milne's most successful light comedic dramas and is a play about marriage, raising issues regarding law, religion, morality and illegitimacy. The play was originally staged in New York before moving to London, where it opened at the St. James's Theatre on 1st February 1930 and starred Herbert Marshall and Edna Best (themselves married from 1928–40, and also the couple to whom Milne dedicated the present book) in the title roles. A year later, Michael Balcon produced a film version of the play, retaining the stage cast in their roles. It was the first of Marshall and Best's co-starring talkies and was voted the third best British movie of 1932. The poem reads in part:"Michael - Rowe played nightly by a BartSteers his way into the heartOnly Michael's Marshall carriagePulls him through that risky marriage"(the role of Michael created by Herbert Marshall)"Mary - When I hear your 'Don't you dare toTouch me' I can hardly bear toSit in silence. I am dyingTo burst in upon you, cryingThank you, Edna, very much. YouAngel, nobody can touch you"(the role of Mary created by Edna Best)"David — When all of us are dead and goneAnd even Frankie Lawton's oldIf actors still come 'off' and 'on'And tickets still are bought and sold'How good'…thee…will say'That fellow — can't remember nameses —Did — you know — in that rotten playBy what's-it at the old St. James's'"(the role of David created by Frank Lawton)"Inspector — The burglar, whether British born or foreignNever escapes Inspector Thatcher (Torin)If she's a female crook, Inspector ThatcherCan always be relied upon to catch her"(the role of the Inspector created by Torin Thatcher)"Price — A horrible villain was Price, I'm afraidWith his record of marriages hastily madeAt a registry office, and vice-lessAnd, though it sounds odd, I am bound to confessThat in voice and department, in manners and dressThe way that you played him was priceless"(the role of Harry Price created by D. A. Clarke Smith)

Michael and Mary with Manuscript Poem by Milne (First Edition Presentation Copy)

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first printing of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Winnie+The+Pooh&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Winnie The Pooh</a> by A.A. Milne.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>Illustrated by E.H. Shepard (English).</li><li>London: Methuen, 1926.</li><li>Illustrated, map endpapers.</li><li>Bound in the original publisher’s green pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt, in dust jacket with ‘7/6 Net’ to spine and ‘117th Thousand’ at the head of the rear flap.</li></ul> A timeless children’s classic about the gentle adventures of a loveable bear, Pooh, and his friends—Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore, and Christopher Robin—in the Hundred Acre Wood. Through simple stories and quiet humor, Milne captures themes of friendship, imagination, and kindness. Inspired by his son’s toys, the book’s charm and Ernest H. Shepard’s illustrations made it an enduring favourite, celebrating innocence, curiosity, and the joy of everyday life.

Winnie The Pooh | First Edition, First Printing

A first limited edition of Winnie the Pooh, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> by the illustrator, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=E.H.+Shepard&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">E.H. Shepard</a>.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>Illustrated by E.H. Shepard (English).</li><li>London: Methuen Children's Books, 1973.</li><li>Limited to 300 numbered and signed copies by Shepard this being copy #269.</li><li>Bound in full blue morocco, raised bands, gilt lettered spine, gilt Pooh and Christopher Robin to front cover, pictorial pastedowns and endpapers, housed in the original matching blue cloth open ended slipcase, by Zaehnsdorf.</li></ul>

Winnie The Pooh Signed First Limited Edition

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first United Kingdom edition</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Winnie%20The%20Pooh&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Winnie The Pooh</a>.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>Illustrated by E.H. Shepard.</li><li>United Kingdom: Methuen, 1926.</li><li>Map endpapers, original publisher’s green pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt, dust jacket with ‘7/6 Net’ to spine and ‘117th Thousand’ at the head of the rear flap.</li></ul>

Winnie The Pooh

A Deluxe copy of Toad of Toad Hall by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=A.A.+Milne&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A.A. Milne</a> on Japanese vellum, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> by Milne and <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Kenneth+Grahame&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kenneth Grahame</a>.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>After Kenneth Grahame.</li><li>London:&nbsp;Methuen,&nbsp;(1929). </li><li>xvi, 167, [1] pages.&nbsp;</li><li>Signed by Milne and Grahame on limitation page.&nbsp;</li><li>Original blue quarter cloth, cream paper boards, printed paper label on front board, in original printed dust jacket, text block uncut and unopened, printed on Japanese vellum paper, housed in custom quarter goatskin clamshell box. </li></ul> Signed limited edition of Milne's theatrical adaptation of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, one of only 200 numbered copies signed by both Milne and Grahame.

Toad Of Toad Hall Signed Limited Edition

A limited edition of The House At Pooh Corner by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=A.A.%20Milne&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A.A. Milne</a>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> by Christopher Milne.<ul><li>A. A. Milne (English).</li><li>Illustrated by E. H. Shephard.&nbsp;</li><li>London: Methuen Children's Books, 1978.</li><li>Limited to 300 numbered and signed copies signed by Christopher Milne, this copy being #37.</li><li>Bound in the original full gilt stamped pink morocco, pictorial pastedowns and endpapers, all edges gilt.</li></ul>

The House At Pooh Corner (Signed by Christopher Milne)

First-edition set of the four volumes of Milne's plays, inscribed to his brother.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 4.</li><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>First Plays; Second Plays; Three Plays; and Four Plays.</li><li>London: Chatto &amp; Windus, 1919, 1921, 1923, 1926.</li><li>Each signed and inscribed to his brother Ken on front free endpapers.</li><li>Includes a 32-page publisher's catalogue at end of volume one.</li><li>Bound in original tan cloth and printed paper spine, replacement labels tipped in the rear of vols. 2-3-4.</li></ul> The inscriptions vary from the brief "To K.J.M. from A.A.M. Sep. 1st 1919" in the first work, to "K.J.M. once again, and always affectionately from A.A.M. April 19th '26." Milne was very close to his brother Ken (1880–1929), who was the middle of three boys. The two occasionally collaborated on articles, using the combined initials "AKM." In his autobiography It's Too Late Now, 1939, Milne dedicated the book: "1880–1929 to the memory of Kenneth John Milne who bore the worst of me and made the best of me."

Collected Plays

Inscribed first-edition dedication copy of Milne's A Birthday Party and Other Stories.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>London: Methuen &amp; Co. Ltd., 1949.</li><li>Inscribed by Milne on the front blank end leaf, "My darling's own copy of her own book. A. A. M. April, 1949."</li><li>The printed dedication page reads "To Daphne Whose party it is With my love."</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original green cloth.</li></ul>

A Birthday Party and Other Stories

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First Deluxe Edition</a>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> by both the author and illustrator.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>E.H. Shepard (English).</li><li>London: Methuen &amp; Co. Ltd., 1928.</li><li>Limited to 350 numbered and signed copies by Milne &amp; Shepard, this being copy #224.</li><li>Bound in the publisher’s original blue cloth backed boards, entirely uncut and unopened, with the original dust jacket.</li></ul>

The House At Pooh Corner

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Signed</a> limited <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first US edition</a> of this selection of stories from the Pooh Books, one of only 350 numbered copies signed by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=aa+Milne&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Milne</a> and <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=eh+Shepard&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shepard</a> and printed on Japanese vellum.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>Illustrated by E.H. Shepard.</li><li>New York: Dutton, (1929).</li><li>[2], xvi, 171, [1] pages.</li><li>Illustrated by Shepard throughout in black and white.</li><li>Printed on Japanese vellum.</li><li>Signed by Milne and Shepard on limitation page.&nbsp;</li><li>Original half green cloth, pink pictorial paper boards, with original mylar jacket, in publisher's original pictorial box, green endpapers, fore-edge and bottom edge uncut.</li></ul> "Once upon a time, a very long time ago now, about last Friday, Winnie-the-Pooh lived in a forest all by himself under the name of Sanders."

Christopher Robin Story Book Signed Limited First Edition

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of Now We Are Six, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> by the illustrator.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>Illustrated by E.H. Shephard.</li><li>London: Methuen &amp; Co. Ltd., 1927.</li><li>Signed by the illustrator E. H. Shepard on the title page.</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped red cloth, pictorial pastedowns and endpapers, top edge gilt, with the original dust jacket.</li></ul> 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.

When We Were Very Young by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=A.A.+Milne&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A.A. Milne</a>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">inscribed</a> by the real life Christopher Robin.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>Illustrated by E. H. Shepard.</li><li>London: Methuen &amp; Co., 1954.</li><li>Inscribed on the front pictorial endleaf, "Love to Anita (Finch) from Christopher Robin Milne, Dartmouth, 11th June 1955."</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped blue cloth.</li></ul> Acquired by direct decent. Christopher Robin Milne (1920-96), the only son of author A. A. Milne and the subject of his Winnie-the-Pooh stories, opened 'The Harbour Bookshop' on 25th August 1951 in Dartmouth. The dedicatee of this copy was a family friend of a resident of Dartmouth who obtained the inscription before gifting the book.

When We Were Very Young | Inscribed By Christopher Robin Milne

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> edition of Winnie The Pooh by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=A.A.+Milne&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A.A. Milne</a>.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>Illustrated by E. H. Shephard (English).</li><li>London: Methuen &amp; Co. Ltd., 1967.</li><li>Bound in full polished green calf, ribbed gilt decorated spine, panels tooled with images of Pooh, covers ruled in gilt, front cover tooled with title and author and 6 images reproducing illustrations from text, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, by Bayntun-Rivere.</li></ul>

First edition signed limited large paper copy of Winnie the Pooh.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>Illustrated by E.H. Shepard (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Methuen,&nbsp;(1926).</li><li>xvi, 158, [2] pages.</li><li>Folding map at rear. </li><li>Signed by Milne and Shepard on limitation page.</li><li>Limited edition of 350 numbered copies.</li><li>Printed on handmade paper and bound in original quarter blue cloth, light blue paper boards in blue printed dust jacket.</li></ul>

Winnie the Pooh

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first deluxe edition</a> of Toad of Toad Hall.<ul><li>A. A. Milne (English).</li><li>After Kenneth Grahame (English).</li><li>Toad Of Toad Hall. A Play From Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind In The Willows".</li><li>London: Methuen &amp; Co. Ltd., 1929.</li><li>Limited to 200 numbered and signed copies by Kenneth Grahame &amp; Milne this being copy #55.</li><li>Bound in the publisher’s original blue cloth backed boards, entirely uncut and unopened, with the original dust jacket.</li></ul>

 Toad Of Toad Hall: A Play From The Wind In The Willows

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, deluxe issue of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The%20House%20At%20Pooh%20Corner&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The House At Pooh Corner</a>.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>Illustrated by E.H. Shepard.</li><li>London:&nbsp;Methuen,&nbsp;(1928).</li><li>178 pages.</li><li>Black and white illustrations throughout.</li><li>Publisher's full blue goatskin with double gilt rules, gilt-floral cornerpieces and gilt center vignette, gilt pictorial spine, all edges gilt.</li></ul> Rare first edition, deluxe gilt-leather issue, of the second book of short stories about Christopher Robin's forest friends, including the Hundred Acre Wood's newest resident, Tigger. In this collection, we learn that the "house" of the title is Eeyore's, which is (re)built by Piglet and Pooh; that Tigger does not like honey; and that while young Christopher Robin must go off to boarding school, the enchanted place of Pooh and his friends will always be waiting for him. The last of the four books in the Pooh series, this deluxe edition was issued in a beautiful leather binding and on higher quality paper.

Set of Milne's Pooh series, inscribed by Christopher Milne, the author's son and inspiration for Christopher Robin.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 4.</li><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>Illustrated by E.H. Shepard (English).</li><li>London: Methuen Children's Books, 1977.</li><li>Inscribed by Christopher Milne on the half-title of each volume "For Emma and Feona with all good wishes Christopher Milne Dartmouth 14. January 1978."</li><li>Hardbound in publisher's original gilt-stamped brown paper boards, pictorial pastedowns and endpapers, with the original pictorial dust jackets.</li></ul> Milne began the poems in When We Were Very Young for his son Christopher Robin. They had originally appeared in Punch magazine and, to the shock of Milne and Methuen, the book sold out on publication day. It was an unqualified success, quoted, recited and parodied everywhere. Milne based the stories of his second major book Winnie-the-Pooh on a set of stuffed animals Christopher Robin (called "Billy Moon" in the family) owned. Methuen published Milne's third children's book just two months after Winnie-the-Pooh. The House at Pooh Corner would be the last of the Pooh books. Milne wanted both to stop while the books were selling well — "I have had my thrill out of children's books, and know that I shall never recapture it" — and to protect his growing son: "I feel that the legal Christopher Robin has already had more publicity than I want for him. Moreover, since he is growing up, he will soon feel that he has had more publicity than he wants for himself. We all, young and old, hope to make some sort of name, but we want to make it in our own chosen way, and, if possible, by our own exertions" (Thwaite pages 338–39).

When We Were Very Young, Winnie The Pooh, The House At Pooh Corner, Now We Are Six

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of The House At Pooh Corner, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> by the illustrator.<ul><li>A.A. Milne (English).</li><li>Illustrated by E.H. Shephard.</li><li>London: Methuen &amp; Co. Ltd., 1928.</li><li>Signed by the illustrator E. H. Shepard on the title page.</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped pink cloth, pictorial pastedowns and endpapers, top edge gilt, with the original dust jacket.</li></ul>

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