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Price: US$17.97 + shipping
Description: Hardbound, 31 x 24pp. 10 songs with piano accompaniment. Melody in treble clef. Boards clean and binding tight. Top open corner bumped. Dustjacket has been damaged and repaired, leaving leaving it reaonable only. For non-UK mailings extra postage may be needed Hardbound, 31 x 24pp. 10 songs with piano accompaniment. Melody in treble clef. Boards clean and binding tight. Top open corner bumped. Dustjacket has been damaged and repaired, leaving leaving it reaonable only.
Seller: Mogul Diamonds, nr. Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
Price: US$20.08 + shipping
Description: Large 4to, 40pp, black & white illustrations. A good copy in papered boards and cloth spine. Generally worn extremities with bumped corners. Tanned fore edges. Endpapers and prelims tanned and slightly foxed. Split to pages 10 and 11 but no separation. Binding still firm.
Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia
Milne, A. A.. More Very Young Songs. Methuen, London, 1928.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Bound in oversized quarter cloth over boards. The jacket is almost complete but browned and with some losses to the extremities.
Seller: Gaabooks, West New York, NJ, U.S.A.
MILNE A A. More "Very Young" Songs. Methuen, London, 1928.
Price: US$25.67 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition. Words by A.A. Milne; Music by H. Fraser-Simson; and decorations by E.H. Shepard. Publishers original chocolate-brown boards with an orange ochre binding strip for the spine. Cream-coloured paper label to the front board lettered in dark blue showing Pooh Bear doing his sums at a white-board and Christopher Robin sitting on a stool reading a book. Offsetting to both sets of end-papers overall a VG+ copy. The good D/W is priced seven and sixpence net to the front cover as called for and has a medium-sized piece missing from the bottom right hand corner of the back panel and has several short edge tears.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$28.23 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: FIRST EDITION 1928, 4to, 310 x 250 mm, 12¼ x 9¾ inches, cloth backed brown boards, white paper title label with 2 vignettes, 40 pages. Decorations and illustrations in black and white by Ernest Shepard from the original books. Neat old inscription on front endpaper, otherwise a near Fine lovely copy in very good pink DUSTWRAPPER (dw: 5 mm (¼") chip at head of spine and half way down, tail and corners very slightly worn, couple of very short closed edge tears, spine slightly darkened and slightly rubbed). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
Seller: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Milne A A. More "Very Young" Songs. Methuen, London, 1928.
Price: US$30.80 + shipping
Description: The condition is remarkable! A Fine copy. 25 x 31 cms. 40 pages Hard Bound in stiff grey boards. Title Lable laid on front cover. Foredge corners very slightly bumped. Inscribed "Valerie A Perry". Music by H Fraser-Simson.
Seller: The Sanctuary Bookshop., Lyme Regis, United Kingdom
E. V. Lucas. Mr Punch's County Songs. Methuen & Co., London, 1928.
Price: US$38.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: MR PUNCH'S COUNTY SONGS E. V. Lucas. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. Methuen & Co, London 1928 First Edition. 92pp Illustrated Hardback. A dustwrapper is not present. This copy is in very good unmarked condition. bound in half linen to grey paper covered boards with a white title panel to the front which has some spotting. There is some offsetting to the endpapers typical in a book of this antiquity but the text block is bright, tight and clean. a lovely copy of a scarce book. The verses and pictures in this book first appeared in 'Punch' magazine. Edward Verrall Lucas, CH (11/12 June 1868 – 26 June 1938) was an English humourist, essayist, playwright, biographer and publisher. Born to a Quaker family on the fringes of London, Lucas began work at the age of sixteen, apprenticed to a bookseller. After that he turned to journalism, and worked on a local paper in Brighton and then on a London evening paper. He was commissioned to write a biography of Bernard Barton, the Quaker poet. This led to further commissions, including the editing of the works of Charles Lamb. Lucas joined the staff of the humorous magazine Punch in 1904, and remained there for the rest of his life. He was a prolific writer, most celebrated for his short essays, but he also produced verses, novels and plays. From 1908 to 1924 Lucas combined his work as a writer with that of publisher's reader for Methuen and Co. In 1924 he was appointed chairman of the company. In 1904, while in the middle of his work on Lamb, he joined the staff of Punch, remaining there for more than thirty years. Lucas introduced his Punch colleague A A Milne to the illustrator E H Shepard with whom Milne collaborated on two collections of verse and the two Winnie-the-Pooh books. It is little wonder therefore that Lucas should combine his talents with Shepard's on several books for children and this satirical look at the counties and people of the English counties. This book reinforces the fact that Shepard was one of our finest draughtsmen when it came to pen and ink illustration. Ref Z1
Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Music by H. Fraser-Simson. 40 pp. Decorations by E. H. Shepard. Folio, publisher's cloth-backed boards with printed paper label on front panel. First edition. Slight use to boards; slight bumping at corners.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover with red cloth over boards, gilt lettering and illustration across cover and spine. Very faded around edges of covers and along spine, much paler red. Faint black spotting at center of back cover. Corners heavily bumped. Lettering on spine fainter but still visible, front cover illustration still clear and intact. No date on title page but states "Second Edition". Copyright page states "Second Edition. 1928", dates first publication to October 11, 1928. xi + 178 pages. Missing three pages: 3-4, 71-72, and 77-78. Includes "Contradiction" by A. A. Milne, black and white illustrations throughout, and beautifully illustrated endpapers. Pages very lightly, evenly toned. Inscription on back of front free endpaper reading "To Mrs. V---, wishing her a very happy Xmas from the L--- family." Pages otherwise clean. Binding cracked along hinges, faintly visible at title page and more visible between back endpapers. About an inch long glimpse of backing linen visible at back hinge, matching flap of paper lifted in closed tear from back attached endpaper where it used to cover that section of the backing linen. Binding still neat, secured at crown and foot of spine. Please email us with questions or to request photos.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
[MILNE, A.A.]. A prospectus and order form for A.A. Milne's books. Methuen & Co. Ltd, London, 1928.
Price: US$167.30 + shipping
Description: London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1928]. Octavo (184 × 118 mm), a bifolium printed in red and black with red borders, with 8 vignette illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard; in fine condition. 'More "Very Young" Songs' is listed as a 'new collection'; 'When We Were Very Young' is in its 189th thousand; 'The House at Pooh Corner' is in its 105th thousand (and its three deluxe editions are still available, including the 'edition on vellum, signed and limited to 20 copies' at 10 guineas).
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Price: US$205.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. pp. [vi], 40. Illustrations. Song Book with music. Original publisher's green cloth-backed boards with illustrated label on upper cover lettered black. Illustrated cream dust jacket lettered dark blue. Bookseller label of Verity Hewitt Canberra on front pastedown endpaper. Presentation copy: 'Prince William Many happy returns of your birthday. Jennifer. Canberra December 18th 1946.' Written in pencil to Prince William of Gloucester who would have been five years old at the time. Prince William of Gloucester (1941-1972), cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and at his birth, fourth in line to the throne, died in a plane crash. His father, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900-1974) was the third son of King George V and Queen Mary. He served as Governor-General of Australia from 1945 to 1947. Some wear and fading to dust jacket a small piece neatly cut out on lower edge, otherwise very good. Slight wear, otherwise very good.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shephard. Folio. Quarter cloth and paper covered boards with printed paper label. Faint toning on the label else fine in very good or better dustwrapper with modest toning and small chips and tears.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Milne A A. More 'Very Young Songs'. UK Methuen, London, 1928.
Price: US$250.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: FIRST EDITION of these poems by A A Milne set to music by H Fraser-Simson and decorated by E H Shepard.A Good Book in a Good DW which has three closed tears.
Seller: barnoble-books, Boston, LINCS, United Kingdom
MILNE, AA. THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER. Methuen, London, 1928.
Price: US$1090.78 + shipping
Description: First Edition with the unclipped dust-jacket showing original price of 7/6 Net towards bottom of the spine. Publisher's pink cloth boards, outer portions very slightly sunned, with gilt vignette of Christopher Robin and Pooh bear embossed on front board, bright and sharp, gilt titles lettering to spine Top edge of the pages gilt. Dust-jacket complete, slightly soiled and rubbed on the spine, tips of corners worn, with two illustrations on the front and one on the back. Strip of offsetting to the front pastedown caused by the front flap of the jacket. Pictorial endpapers, with some embrowning. Frontispiece of Christopher Robin and Pooh playing "Pooh sticks" from the bridge over the stream, and many more of EH Shepard's charming drawings throughout the text. No old inscriptions or owners' name. The sequel to Winnie-the-Pooh and the first appearance of Tigger in chapter II, when he arrives on Pooh's doorstep in the middle of the night and announces himself with a fearsome "Worraworraworraworraworra".
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom
Milne, A.A. (Alan Alexander: 1882-1956). The House at Pooh Corner. Methuen & Co. Ltd, London, 1928.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Crown 8vo, 7 1/2 x 5 in (192 x 127 mm), pp. 178, full-page and text illustrations. Original pink cloth cloth, gilt ruling and stamping on the front board with an illustration of Christopher Robin and Pooh, gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt, rest uncut; illustrated pink endpapers with panorama and characters in silhouette, with light offset from dust jacket; dust jacket with very slight dust smudging at top edge and spine panel somewhat sunned, else fine. [Haring-Smith C108; Cutler-Stiles p. 116]. The third of A. A. Milne's charming books for children, The House at Pooh Corner begins with "One day with Pooh Bear had nothing else to do, he thought he would do something, so he went round to Piglet's house to see what Piglet was doing." Some of the chapters had appeared -as early as December 1926- in publications like the Evening News (London), The New York Evening Post and The Charleston (SC). This copy is the FIRST EDITION, with a scarce, near fine dust jacket. It is illustrated with the enchanting drawings of Ernest H. Shepard, whom Milne had met as they both were contributors to Punch. Their collaboration spanned many projects and was fundamental to the success of the series. On November 28, 1928 the New York Times wrote "The characters could easily come from adult fiction; the world of the forest is a miniature version of the real world." And London's Times Literary Supplement stated "In deciding to close out the Pooh saga, Milne has wisely avoided the temptation to repeat this successful formula mechanically. His books succeed because of their fresh illogic and simplicity. Yet it is sad to see the stories end. The world of 'House at Pooh Corner' is self-contained and so its problems seem more real that those of 'Winnie-the-Pooh'." (13 Dec. 1928, p. 985).
Seller: Rob Zanger Rare Books LLC, Middletown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Description: First Editions. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard. 4 vols. Sm 8vo. The Four Pooh Books in First Editions. First editions of Milne's wonderful "Pooh Quartet,". "Although Alan Alexander Milne wrote novels, short stories, poetry and many plays for adults, in addition to his work as assistant editor for Punch from 1906 to 1914, it is his writings for children that have captured the hearts of millions of people worldwide and granted Milne everlasting fame" (Silvey, 461). Milne wrote most of these poems at the request of friend and fellow poet Rose Fyleman, who was planning a new children's magazine. "On a rain-blighted holiday in Wales, [Milne] escaped from the crowd of fellow guests to the summerhouse, and for 11 days wrote a set of children's verses, one each day. 'There on the other side of the lawn was a child with whom I had lived for three years [his son, Christopher Robin]. and here within me were unforgettable memories of my own childhood.' He added more verses when he got home, enough for a book, and allowed some to be published in advance in Punch" (Carpenter & Prichard, 351). Shepard, a Punch staff artist at the time, provided delightful line vignettes, resulting in "a wonderful marriage of verse and vision. His delicately precise and fresh drawings had an instant appeal" (DNB). When We Were Very Young first edition, second issue as usual, with page ix numbered (any first edition copy is exceedingly scarce). With vintage advertisements-testaments to Pooh's perennial merchandising appeal-laid in to The House at Pooh Corner. A most desirable first edition set of four cherished childhood classics. Original cloth, t.e.g. Very Good. Housed in a custom cloth slipcase and chemise Illustrated by E.H. Shepard. 4 vols. Sm 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$5200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HBDJ ,TRUE 1ST UK EDITION, STATED 1ST PUBLISHED IN 1928, VG-/VG- , Lite Staining at Fold DJ & Back & Front TINY CHIPS AT DJ SPINE ENDS ALL TITLES PRESENT, , PINKCLOTH HARDBACK WITH GOLD GILT FIGURES ON FRONT LITE FADE ,HAS STAIN SPOT FADE ON FRONT & BACK CVR CORNERS , BEIGE ILLUSTRATED DJ HAS LITE STAIN ON FRONT & BACK CORNER BTM, DJ IS SALMON ILLUSTRATED WITH ON DJ SPINE 7/6 NET WITH METHEUMN AT BTM SPINE DJ & BACK DJ WINNIE HOLDING CANDLE & TIGGER, Main issue is fading to bottom corners of the front and rear boards fr. Otherwise, a very tight, clean copy.Dustjacket in VG- condition with edgewear and staining to the bottom corners of front and rear panels. BACK 10 PGS OR SO HAVE BLANK MARGIN EDGE STAIN , first British edition and precedes all others, being the earliest and most desirable printing of this book. This British edition precedes the American Edition,once more we meet Christopher robin & his friends in the forest
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$5200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HBDJ ,TRUE 1ST UK EDITION, STATED 1ST PUBLISHED IN 1928, VG-/VG- , Lite Staining at Fold DJ & Back & Front TINY CHIPS AT DJ SPINE ENDS ALL TITLES PRESENT, , PINKCLOTH HARDBACK WITH GOLD GILT FIGURES ON FRONT LITE FADE ,HAS STAIN SPOT FADE ON FRONT & BACK CVR CORNERS , BEIGE ILLUSTRATED DJ HAS LITE STAIN ON FRONT & BACK CORNER BTM, DJ IS SALMON ILLUSTRATED WITH ON DJ SPINE 7/6 NET WITH METHEUMN AT BTM SPINE DJ & BACK DJ WINNIE HOLDING CANDLE & TIGGER, Main issue is fading to bottom corners of the front and rear boards fr. Otherwise, a very tight, clean copy.Dustjacket in VG- condition with edgewear and staining to the bottom corners of front and rear panels. BACK 10 PGS OR SO HAVE BLANK MARGIN EDGE STAIN , first British edition and precedes all others, being the earliest and most desirable printing of this book. This British edition precedes the American Edition,once more we meet Christopher robin & his friends in the forest
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Description: A beautiful collection of first editions of the Pooh Books, all in original dust jackets. In 1933 Compton Mackenzie described the publication of the first Pooh Book, WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG as marking "an epoch as positively as any children's book has ever marked one. It is not extravagant to surmise that a distant posterity may find in that volume of children's verse a key with which to unlock the present more easily than with any contemporary novel, poem, or play" (quoted in Thwaite). The series is an evocative reflection of English childhood in the 1920s, yet transcends the time and place of its making for each new generation to discover and fall for. 4 volumes, 7.5'' x 5'' each. Blue, green, red and pink cloths. In original color printed dust jackets. Top edges gilt. WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG has page ix, not the very rare first state. Housed in custom cloth covers with leather spine labels (VERY YOUNG label misdated 1926). Books solidly near-fine or better, with some offsetting around the firm hinges; ink gift inscription in VERY YOUNG, POOH CORNER with slight lean. Jacket of VERY YOUNG with light chipping at spine extremities, touch of expert repair to head, and faint stain around upper joint; jackets of WINNIE and SIX are sunned on spines with a bit of wear to heads of spines (barely visible repair on SIX); POOH CORNER jacket stunning. Overall near fine in very good to near-fine jackets.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$27000.00 + shipping
Description: Complete set of first editions of the Pooh Books, all in original dust jackets, with WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG signed by Milne and Shepard. In 1933 Compton Mackenzie described the publication of the first Pooh Book, WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG as marking "an epoch as positively as any children's book has ever marked one. It is not extravagant to surmise that a distant posterity may find in that volume of children's verse a key with which to unlock the present more easily than with any contemporary novel, poem, or play" (quoted in Thwaite). The series is an evocative reflection of English childhood in the 1920s, yet transcends the time and place of its making for each new generation to discover - and fall for. As the first book in the series, WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG is the most difficult to find signed, making this an especially desirable set. 4 volumes, 7.5'' x 5'' each. Original blue, green, red and pink cloths. In original color printed dust jackets. Top edges gilt. WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG has page ix, not the very rare first state. Signed by Milne and Shepard on title page of WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG. Contemporary Methuen ad laid into SIX. Housed in beautiful blue goatskin box with in-laid Pooh design on front board. Books all fine, with only a bit of the typical offsetting in the gutter: Firm hinges, fresh cloth, clean text, no inscriptions. Jackets range fine (WINNIE-THE-POOH) to very good (HOUSE, with some small chips to spine ends not affecting text and a long closed tear to front joint); WWVY and SIX solidly near fine with only a bit of shallow chipping and touch of toning to spine of SIX: else little soil or sunning. Overall fine in near-fine jackets.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.