First edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth with a gilt illustration and border to the upper board and titles in gilt to the spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with line drawings by E. H. Shepard throughout. A very good copy, the binding firm with a little rubbing and bumping to the extremities, the spine a little rolled. slight lean to the spine. The cloth with a few tiny marks is bright, the gilt illustration a little rubbed. The contents, with faint creasing to the flyleaf, some spotting to the endpapers, prelims, closed text-block edge, and occasionally the blank margins, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps.
The first book of Pooh stories (followed by The House At Pooh Corner). An indisputable highlight of children's literature.
Stock code: 28383
£700