Winnie the Pooh
Methuen, 1926.
First edition. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering and vignettes of Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh on the upper cover. Top edge gilt. In the original pictorial dustwrapper. The pictorial endpapers show a map of "100 Aker Wood" and the book is illustrated throughout with the unmistakable line drawings of E.H. Shepard. A very good copy indeed, bright, crisp cloth, pages somewhat tanned, in a very good pictorial dustwrapper, with minor wear to the top of the spine and some tanning.
On its publication in 1926 Winnie the Pooh met with enthusiastic reviews. The Herald Tribune wrote, "There are not so many books that, sitting reading them alone, you find yourself laughing aloud over. This is one of them." Other rave reviews described the book as, "the perfect book for children" and "a children's book of the season that seems certain to stay."
Grolier Childrens 71
Stock ID: 45609
£3,500.00
