Home / Browse / Autographs & Signed Books / Now We Are Six.
MILNE, A. A.
Now We Are Six.
With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard.
Signed limited edition, number 4 of 20 large-paper copies printed on Japanese vellum and signed by the author and illustrator on the limitation leaf. The most luxurious and exclusive issue of the various formats done for the first editions of Milne's Pooh books. Following the success of When We Were Very Young Milne began planning a second book of poetry for children. In a January 1926 letter to his brother Ken he included it as number one in a list of "things which ought to be done": "A book of verses (about 15 done to date) to appear in 1927 or 1928" (Thwaite p. 293). By the time that Winnie-the-Pooh was published in late 1926 half the poems for this third book were already complete. Published on the 13th of October, 1927, it took only two months for Now We Are Six to eclipse the sales records of the previous two books. Full of Milne's charming verse, this collection is also notable for including many illustrations of Pooh, Piglet, and the other nursery toys, even when uncalled for by the poems. Provenance: from the collection of Pat McInally.
Octavo. Original full stiff vellum with yapp edges, front cover lettered in gilt. Housed in a blue cloth slipcase with chemise. Illustrated throughout by Ernest H. Shepard. A fine copy.
