When We Were Very Young [1925]

$95

By A.A. Milne

Early reprint of the first book of Christopher Robin poems

Out of stock

Description

  • Eighth Edition [Methuen & Co, London, 1925]; xi, 100pp; blue cloth boards with gold embossed decorations to front & rear, titling to spine, a little bumped at spine ends, cloth bubbling on rear [as often], top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers, name in ink on ffep, seperations between some signatures, a very good copy
  • Iconic illustrations by Ernest Shepard
  • First of the four Winnie-The-Pooh books, where we are introduced to Christopher Robin’s tubby Teddy Bear
  • This copy printed six months after the First Edition & the year before Winnie-The-Pooh
  • Book of poems dedicated to Milne’s son Christopher