"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 158 [2]. Profusely illustrated in-text by Ernest Shepard. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to upper. Top edge gilt, with pictorial map endpapers. Black ink ownership to first blank. Minor blue ink doodle to half-title. Archival repairs to tears on p.63/64 and p.89/90. Some toning to endpapers, with a Calcutta bookseller's label to rear pastedown. Moderate general wear to cloth. Good. The classic first collection of Winnie the Pooh stories, set around Milne's home near '100 Aker Wood' in Ashdown Forest, East Sussex. Item #74480
Price: £975.00
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