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Three (3) Winnie the Pooh books, including one (1) First Edition. 1st item: Winnie the Pooh, First Edition, by Alan Alexander Milne with illustrations by Ernest Howard Shepard, published by Methuen and Company, Ltd. London, 1926. Hardcover octavo, 158 top edge gilt pages with illustrations, hardbound in green cloth with stamped gilt pictorial front cover and gilt lettering to spine, pictorial off white paper pastedowns and endpapers. Ex libris plate and black ink stamp to front matter page. 7 3/4" H x 5 1/4" W x 3/4" D. 2nd item: Winnie the Pooh, by Alan Alexander Milne with illustrations by Ernest Howard Shepard, published by E. P. Dutton and Company, Boston, 1926. Octavo, 158 pages with illustrations, hardbound in green cloth with stamped gilt pictorial front cover, pictorial off white paper pastedowns and endpapers. 7 7/8" H x 5 1/2" W x 3/4" D. 3rd item: NOW WE ARE SIX, by Alan Alexander Milne with illustrations by Ernest Howard Shepard, published by E. P. Dutton and Company, Boston, 1927. Octavo, 103 pages with illustrations, hardbound in orange cloth with stamped gilt pictorial front cover and gilt lettering to spine, pictorial off white paper pastedowns and endpapers. 7 3/4" H x 5 1/2" W x 5/8" D.
CONDITION: Books do not include dust jackets. 1st item: Overall good condition with normal shelf wear, areas of loss/rubbing, largest 7/8", to edges of covers, corners bumped. Pages with light toning, scattered minute foxing spots, few minor areas of dampstaining, scuffs, few pencil inscriptions to end papers, handling wear. Small sections of middle pages, primarily to page 65, are starting to become separated from spine. 2nd-3rd items: Both with wear/fraying/losses to spines and covers, corners bumped. 2nd item with front cover and first few pages loose from binding, toning, general handling wear to pages. 3rd item with majority of pages separated from binding, tears, pencil inscriptions, areas of loss to pages, front end paper is not present, majority of page 63 and 64 is not present.