ONCE ON A TIME

First edition with Charles Robinson illustrations. Original blue cloth with titles and decorations to the spine in gilt and black and an illustration on the upper board in gilt and black. Without the dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers. With a colour frontispiece and black and white illustrations throughout by Charles Robinson. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm with some bumping at the spine tips, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with faint offsetting to the endpapers and half title and some very light spotting to the prelims and very infrequently throughout, are otherwise clean and without inscriptions or stamps.

A. A. Milne's first children's book, a quirky fairy tale written for the entertainment of his wife between 1915 and 1917, before the birth of Christopher Robin Milne in 1920 and the literary debut of Winnie the Pooh.