Elder Books and Collectables

Description

Winnie The Pooh

By

A. A. Milne


Published By Methuen & Co, London 1926

First Edition, First Printing

Hardback In The Original Publisher's Cloth Binding, Original First Edition Dust Jacket, Second State With 129th Thousand Instead Of 117th Thousand For The Advert Of When We Were Very Young To Rear Inner Flap, This Being The Only Difference Between First & Second State Jackets, Priced At 7/6 To Spine, Original Illustrated Endpapers, Numerous Illustrations By Ernest H. Shepard That Are Full Page Or Among Text

Book Measures Approx 8 X 5 Inches With 159 Pages

Some Surface Abrasions To Top Front Left Corner Of Dust Jacket With A Faint Ring Abrasion Underneath [see Image] Very Slight Browning To Spine Of Jacket, Corners Lightly Bumped, An Indentation Of Approx 1 Inch To Cloth Spine With Cloth Spine Slightly Darkened To Blue, Front Hinge Cocked Very Slightly Forward, Very Slight Browning To Endpapers Matching Up To The Inner Flaps To Jacket Suggesting That This Jacket Is Original To This Copy, Two Small Names Written To Half Title With Date Of Nov 27-26.

Overall A Lovely Copy With No Loss To Jacket, Pages Very Clean & With No Restoration To Jacket Or Book

Please Note That The Jacket Has A Clear Removable Cover That May Show Some Reflections Or Wrinkles In Images

A Collectable First Edition With The Original Jacket & Scarce In This Condition