MILNE, A.A. Shepard, Ernest | Winnie-the-Pooh [Together with:] Now We Are Six [And:] The House at Pooh Corner First American Signed Limited Editions ofìWinnie-the-Pooh,î ìThe House at Pooh Corner,î and ìNow We Are SixîMILNE, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. [New York]. E.P. Dutton & Company, [1926].First American edition on large paper. Limited to 200 numbered copies (this copy being No. 108), signed by the author and the illustrator. Small quarto (8 13/16 x 7 inches; 224 x 178 mm.). [2, limitation leaf], ix, [1, blank], [4], 158, [1], [3, blank] pp. Original quarter lavender diagonally-ribbed cloth over salmon-colored boards. Front cover pictorially stamped and lettered in black and back cover pictorially stamped in black. Salmon-colored paper spine label printed in black. Top and fore-edge trimmed, bottom edge uncut. Very slight indentation to top edge of rear board. Small booksellerís ticket on front pastedown. Pages 46 and [47] very slightly browned from an inserted booksellerís postcard. A remarkably fine copy. In the original salmon-colored pictorial dust jacket. Housed in the publisherís matching salmon-colored pictorial cardboard box (box lid with edges very slightly browned, tiny split at lower left corner, and small indentation on left side).[Together with:]MILNE, A.A. Now We Are Six. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, [1927].First American edition on large paper. Limited to 200 numbered copies (this copy being No. 133), signed by the author and the illustrator. Small quarto (8 13/16 x 7 inches; 224 x 178 mm.). [ii], [2, frontispiece], [iii]-iv, [2, limitation leaf], v-ix, [1, blank], [2], 103, [3, blank] pp. Printed on Japon vellum. Text illustrations. Original half pink linen over light blue pictorial boards. Light blue printed paper spine label. Blue laid paper endpapers. Top edge trimmed, others uncut. Paper very slightly browned at the edges. Bookplate of Eugene A. Clauss on front pastedown. A spectacular copy. In the original light blue printed jacket. Housed in the publisherís light blue pictorial cardboard box (slight browning to box edges).[And:]MILNE, A.A. The House at Pooh Corner. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., [1928].First American edition on large paper. Limited to 250 numbered copies (this copy being No. 141), signed by the author and the illustrator. Small quarto (8 13/16 x 7 inches; 224 x 178 mm.). xi, [1, blank], 178, [1], [1, blank] pp. With signed limitation leaf between pp. [vi] and [vii]. Text illustrations. Original quarter light green buckram over yellow pictorial boards printed in dark green. Yellow paper spine label printed in dark green. Lime green laid paper endpapers. Top edge trimmed, others uncut. Paper very slightly browned at the edges. Faint ink (?) smudge in the lower blank margin of pp. 137 and 138. Bookplate of Eugene A. Clauss on front pastedown. A fine copy. In the original glassine (not issued in a dust jacket) and publisherís yellow pictorial box printed in dark green. A spectacular set of the three first American signed limited edition ìPoohî books. The first American edition of When We Were Very Young was only issued in a smaller octavo trade formatólimited to 500 copies, 100 of which were signed. After it was published in 1924, the decision was made to issue the signed limited editions of the remaining titles on large paper like the English signed limited editions.Fewer copies of the American signed limited editions were printed than of the English signed limited editions (200, 200, and 250 copies of the American editions, respectively, as opposed to 350, 200, and 350 copies of the English editions) and, as a result, they are rarer than the English signed limited editions. 1926 first edition dust jacket signed Price: USD 15,000.00 other currencies   order no. 00062    inquire

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