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WITH A SIGNED "SIX" MILNE, A. A. Complete set of the Christopher Robin Books. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. 4 volumes. 8vo, original

WITH A SIGNED "SIX" MILNE, A. A. Complete set of the Christopher Robin Books. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. 4 volumes. 8vo, original gilt-pictorial cloth of differing colors, light dampsoiling and mildew to covers and endpapers of When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six; dust jackets, spines browned and chipped but for House at Pooh Corner, tape repairs to verso of When We Were Six, which also bears two ink inscriptions on front endpaper; scattered light internal soiling; beautiful felt-lined custom slipcase of colored morocco matching the original cloth bindings, with gilt Pooh bears and lettering along mock spines, Christopher and Eeyore on front panel, Emmeline on rear. London: Methuen, 1924-28

  • Notes: first editions. now we are six signed by milne and shepard on title-page. The famous quartet contains: When We Were Very Young. (1924) * Winnie-the-Pooh. (1926) * Now We are Six. (1927) * The House at Pooh Corner. (1928).

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