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MILNE, A. A.
When We Were Very Young.
With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard.
First deluxe issue (seventh edition overall). The first of the books to be bound in deluxe leather by Methuen, this is an extremely rare edition. No deluxe edition was planned when the book was originally published; it was only later, when Winnie-the-Pooh appeared, that Methuen decided to publish deluxe editions of all the Pooh books, including When We Were Very Young. For this reason it is the only one of the deluxe editions that is not also a first edition. This copy is signed by both the author and illustrator on the title page, and no other signed copy has appeared at auction in the past 35 years. Provenance: from the collection of Pat McInally.
Octavo. Publisher's deluxe red calf, titles to spine and pictorial design to upper board gilt, pictorial endpapers, all edges gilt. With the publisher's box. Housed in a blue quarter morocco solander case. Illustrated throughout by E. H. Shepard. Lightly rubbed at the spine ends. An excellent copy.
