the Pooh Books --Very Young, Winnie the Pooh, Now We Are Six and the House at Pooh Corner by Milne, A. A - 1924

K-tel International MN, 1998 4 full-Length CDs, USED CD, Nice Condtion, CD compact Disc, Digital Audio, Audio Books, 1998, 1st Edition THUS, NF+ CONDITION, In specially Designed Green Leatherette Case with Gold gilt titles & Decoration on front, Case measures 6 1/4 X 11 in light Scuff. Contains 4 full-Length CDs & 24 page Illustrated booklet, the Case comes with a box to hold it . Audio Recordings are dedicated to memory of Christopher Robin Milne August 21st , 1920 to April 20th 1996, Approx 4 Hours of pure enjoyment, Winnie-the-Pooh is 10 stories & When we were Very Young is 44 poems, Recapture the Child within you. . First Thus. Unbound.

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. (Cheap Form) 1941 32nd ed.; 1938 12th ed.; 1936 8th ed.; & 1939 13th ed. (In Title order). 4 Volumes; hardbacks, All blue cloth covers, gilt lettering to spines, black pictorial vignette illustrations to front and rear boards. Plain endpapers. In dustwrappers/jackets. In very good conditions with very good dustwrappers. Cloths clean and bright. (DW’s; some minor rubbing to corners/ends of spines. Some minor rubbing to heads of spines else jackets very clean and bright. In protective sleeves.) Neat inscriptions to front endpapers of 3 volumes. A couple of very minor handling marks else pages all exceptionally clean and tight throughout. An excellent collection of Milne’s 4 Best “Pooh & Christopher Robin” Books. 100 / 158 / 178 & 103pp. B&W illustrations throughout.

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1926 2nd; 1928 1st; 1926 13th; & 1927 2nd. (In Title order). 4 Volumes; hardbacks, 7.5 x 5 inches. In green, maroon, pink and blue cloth covers, gilt lettering to spines, gilt pictorial vignette illustrations to front and rear boards. Gilt line edging. Top page edges all gilt. Illustrated endpapers. In generally good condition. Some minor rubbing to edges and corners. “House At Pooh Corner.” has some minor fading to spine and edges of cover, endpaper tanned, small faint mark verso of frontis, slight gap between gathering before rear endpaper. “Winnie the Pooh” two small nicks lower spine, endpapers a little foxed, inscription on half title page, a little marked on fore edge. “Now We Are Six” has some fading to spine and edges of cover, three faint pencil crosses on front board, endpapers slightly foxed, & half title tanned. “When We Were Very Young” Endpaper a little tanned, front endpaper with pen inscription… Read More

London: Methuen. Illustrations by E. H, Sheprd. These books are all 1934 reprints, come from a single source, are contemporary with one-another, and are new to the market. They each have the same name written neatly on the front free endpapers. Minor wear and ageing; the original dust jackets have the price on the spines; some rubbing at the spine ends, protected by clear, removable covers. Weysprings Books is a Member of: the IOBA and PBFA, and subscribes to the Associations' Codes of Ethics. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1934.

London: Methuen & Co., Ltd, 1924. Finely bound example of each work in Milne's wonderful Pooh quartet. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear boards, gilt onlay to the front panel, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated by Ernest Shepard. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, , 1924-28. Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump... First editions, first impressions, of these timeless classics of children's literature. When We Were Very Young is in the second state of the first impression with the page number "ix" present, as usual, in the preliminaries. After the huge success of When We Were Very Young, published in 1924, Milne was asked to contribute a story to the London Evening News. "The Wrong Sort of Bees", published on Christmas Eve 1925, was based on a bedtime story that Milne had told his son Christopher. It starred Christopher's teddy bear, bought at Harrods for Christopher's first birthday, known initially as Edward or Edward Bear and later renamed Winnie-the-Pooh (after a favourite bear cub at London zoo). Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) was an immediate success and garnered even more enthusiastic reviews than its predecessor. Now We Are Six followed in 1927 and took just two months to eclipse the sales records of the… Read More

London: Methuen & Co, 1928. First Edition. Very Good. A complete set of all four Winnie the Pooh books, all first British trade editions, all first printings, with a card signed by A. A. Milne adhered to the front paste down of When We Were Young. All four volumes are in publisher's original cloth (royal blue, dark green, maroon and pink) and stamped in gilt, with top edges gilt, lacking the dust jackets; housed in a custom cloth slipcase. Volumes average Very Good, with light wear and soiling, uneven sunning to two volumes, former owner names to front, foxing to textblock edge and toning to pages, endsheets browned. Strip of adhesive remnant to front paste down above where Milne's signature is adhered. A lovely set.

London: Methuen & Co., 1924-1928. First trade editions of all four titles. Very Good. 20 cm; four separate volumes as issued, in original dust jackets. Top edges gilt. Sound copies, without significant blemishes (some discoloration to endleaves, some ownership incriptions on endleaves or blanks). Dust jackets good only, spines darkened, with loss at crown, heel, and upper panel on Now We Are Six and When We Were Very Young; at crown on the House at Pooh Corner and Winnie the Pooh. Dust jacket edges variously frayed, with bit of stain along top edge of Winnie the Pooh. Protected from deterioration in Brodart. Please see images. The beloved set of four, all in first editions: When We Were Very Young (1924) in blue cloth, plain end papers, with no pagination on p. ix; Winnie the Pooh (1926) in green cloth, with map end papers, in orange (ish) dust jacket; Now We Are Six (1927) in red-rose cloth, with pink end papers illustrated in blue and light green dust jacket; and the House at Pooh Corners… Read More

London: Methuen & Co., Ltd, 1924-1928. First editions of each work in Milne's wonderful Pooh quartet. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. Illustrated by Ernest Shepard. Each book is fine in a very good dust jacket with some loss and wear to the crown and foot of the spine, as is typically seen. Housed in a custom slipcase. Small ownership name to When We Were Very Young, bookplate to The House At Pooh Corner.

London: Methuen, 1928. Overall near fine in very good to near-fine jackets.. A beautiful collection of first editions of the Pooh Books, all in original dust jackets. In 1933 Compton Mackenzie described the publication of the first Pooh Book, WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG as marking "an epoch as positively as any children's book has ever marked one. It is not extravagant to surmise that a distant posterity may find in that volume of children's verse a key with which to unlock the present more easily than with any contemporary novel, poem, or play" (quoted in Thwaite). The series is an evocative reflection of English childhood in the 1920s, yet transcends the time and place of its making for each new generation to discover and fall for. 4 volumes, 7.5'' x 5'' each. Blue, green, red and pink cloths. In original color printed dust jackets. Top edges gilt. WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG has page ix, not the very rare first state. Housed in custom cloth covers with leather spine labels (VERY YOUNG label misdated… Read More