Winnie the Pooh, A.A Milne. First Edition, 1926. Peter Harrington Rare Books

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Winnie the Pooh, A.A Milne. First Edition, Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1926

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First edition, first impression, With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard.

Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, gilt rules, vignette to front board gilt, top edge gilt, yellow map endpapers. With the pi dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Ernest H. Shepard. Extremities a little rubbed, tail of spine lightly crumpled, faint spotting to endpapers and fore edge of prelims. An exceptionally bright copy in a jacket with minor chipping at extremities; spine panel mildly toned and with first word of title slightly rubbed.

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