Now We Are Six
Methuen, 1927.
First edition. 8vo. Original maroon cloth with gilt lettering and vignette, in pictorial dustwrapper. Top edge gilt. Housed in a custom slipcase. Pictorial endpapers and line drawings by E.H. Shepard. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, the spine only a little toned. Bookplate to front pastedown.
The second of Milne's books of children's verse, poems include: Us Two, King John's Christmas, Sneezles and Twice Times. Pooh features occasionally, but as the introduction explains, "Pooh... thought this was a different book; and he hopes that you won't mind, but he walked through it one day, looking for his friend Piglet, and sat down on some of the page by mistake."
Stock ID: 43861
£1,250.00