Winnie-the-Pooh Interest - Signed and Dedicated Presentation...

Hammer

£260

Winnie-the-Pooh Interest - Signed and Dedicated Presentation Copy, Milne (A.A.), The Christopher Robin Verse: Being 'When We Were Very Young' and 'Now We Are Six', With a Preface for Parents, With Twelve Plates in Colour and Text Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard, Methuen & Co. Ltd., London 1932, xi, [iii], 211pp, publisher's gilt pictorial blue buckram boards, the front endpaper inscribed in ink MS with two stanzas of eight line verse by A.A Milne, signed and dated October 23rd 1935 by the author, above a later presentation inscription in a different hand: Given to Janet Margaret Whitehead on the first anniversary of her birth, May 27. 1940 by Herbert Masters, short 8vo; When We Were Very Young, second edition, 12mo; Fourteen Songs From ''When We Were Very Young'', Words by A.A. Milne, Music by H. Fraser-Simson, Decorations by E.H. Shepard, 16th edition, Methuen & Co. Ltd., London 1938, h/b, d/j, front endpaper with ink MS presentation inscription: To my little friend Janet Whitehead on the 2nd anniversary of her birth, May 27th 1941, With much love from Herbert Masters, small folio, [3]