"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway
London: Methuen and Co., 1932. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST COMBINED EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.xii; 210; [2]. With Shepard's famous illustrations in-text, and twelve plates in colour, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board, top edge light blue, colour-illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 8/6. Contents clean, some spotting to edges of text block, neat gift inscriptions to endpaper, jacket is crisp and fresh with two small chips at crown. Near fine. Charming rhymes collected from the adventures of Milne's loveable bear Winnie-the-Pooh. Item #72481
Price: £375.00
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