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Milne, A. A.,. When We Were Very Young. E. P. Dutton & Company/New York, 1924, 1924.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: hard ocver, ex library, special holiday edition, some pages parted and edge tears on some, 100 pages, 6 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches, Special Holiday Edition-October, 1925, November 1925 reprinting, good book condition, no dust jacket, fiction,
Seller: Alf Books, Menomonie, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: American second printing (per publisher's statement upon copyright page; preceded by the initial printing issued in November 1924). xiv, 100 pages. Hardcover: H 19.75cm x L 13.75cm. Lacks dust jacket. Red cloth soiled with some faint staining, slight fraying at bumped spine heel, gilt stamping to front board and spine dulled but legible. Black top edge; toning to deckle fore-edge and deckle bottom edge. Past owner's pencil signature and date at front free endpaper's top right corner; some scattered spots of light soiling to interior pages, small brown stains at upper fore-edge margins of two rear flyleaves; interior leaves overall remain clean. Binding is firm. A very good- copy.
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, cloth, 100pp., ills. First edition, second printing, U.S. issue. A VG copy: covers lightly rubbed, spine lightly faded, corners mildly bumped; hinges & joints sound; no names or internal marks save for two small red lines placed against "The King's Breakfast" (p.55) and "Halfway Down" (p.81) at the contents pages; lightly toned pages with a tiny nick to the head of the leaf bearing pp.97-98 (see our last image), some pages remain unopened at their bottom edge. A very appealing copy.
Seller: Atlantic Bookshop, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
A. A. Milne. When We Were Very Young. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1924.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 12mo. Pp. xiv, 100. Second printing of the first American edition. The first printing was in November, 1924, the second in December 1924. With E. H. SHepard's illustrations. A good copy in red cloth, with the following flaws: light soil to covers; wear to extremities, with half-inch tear to foot of spine; presentation inscription (1924) to early blank; gilt titling dull.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Milne, A. A.. When We Were Very Young. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1924.
Price: US$139.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1924. Third printing, 1924, same year as the first. Red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, no dustjacket. Light rubbing to the extremities, just a touch of barely noticeable finger soil to the cover, gilt somewhat dulled but very clearly legible, good hinges, sound text block, slightly age-toned but clean pages, no names or other markings. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.
MILNE, A. A.. When We Were Very Young.. E. P. Dutton & Co., [New York], 1924.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: xii, 100 pp. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed boards illustrated in color. Special Edition limited to 500 copies. 1924 ink gift inscription on the illustrated front free endpaper; neat repair to a tear in the title page; two preliminary leaves roughly opened. Light dust-soiling to boards; gold lettering on spine dimmed.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Milne, A. A.. When We Were Very Young. E.P. Dutton & Co, New York, 1924.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: E.H. Shepard. First American edition, one of 500 copies of Special edition. Illustrations by E.H. Shepard. 100 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth-backed pictorial boards. Some minor soiling to boards, rubbing to spine and board edges, else very good Illustrations by E.H. Shepard. 100 pp. 1 vols. 8vo First American edition, one of 500 copies of Special edition.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Milne, A.A.. WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG. E. P. Dutton & Co, New York, 1924.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st American edition. A Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket. Red cloth in white, illustrated dust jacket. Top edge of text block coated grey. The dust jacket has very light edge wear, and a very small loss at the spine's foot. The text signatures remain largely unopened. A handsome copy in scarce, surprisingly intact and fresh dust jacket. This title marks the first appearance of Winnie The Pooh, in the poem on page 85, The Teddy Bear (albeit unnamed).
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
MILNE, A. A.. When We Were Very Young.. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1924, 1924.
Price: US$4810.36 + shipping
Description: First US edition, deluxe limited issue, number 54 of 100 copies signed by the author, printed on large paper, and bound in pictorial boards. A further 400 deluxe copies were issued unsigned and unnumbered; the trade issue was in red cloth on smaller paper. When We Were Very Young was first published in London 14 days before the US edition. When We Were Very Young was the first of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, introducing Christopher Robin and Pooh. Milne had no particular ambition to write for children, but in 1922 a glimpse of his two-year-old son Christopher being taught to pray by his nanny inspired him to compose the verse "Vespers", a gently ironic take on the innocence of childhood intended for an adult readership, which was published in Vanity Fair in January 1923. The verse proved popular, and Milne was asked to contribute to The Merry-Go-Round, a new periodical for children. The success of these pieces led him to consider writing further verses for children, and he composed most of When We Were Very Young as entertainment during a dreary holiday in Wales. Many of the poems first ran as weekly instalments in Punch, charmingly illustrated by fellow contributor E. H. Shepard. When We Were Very Young was first published in Britain to immediate and immense acclaim, and the first printing sold out in one day. By the end of the year more than 53,000 copies had been printed of what The Times called "the greatest children's book since Alice" (Thwaite, p. 286). Ann Thwaite, A. A. Milne: His Life, 1990. Octavo. Original green cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge blue, others uncut. Illustrated throughout by E. H. Shepard. Bookplate to front pastedown. Extremities worn, some soiling to front cover and spine, slight browning throughout but clean; a good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
SHEPARD Ernest H. MILNE A. A.. Four Pooh Books. , 1924.
Price: US$19500.00 + shipping
Description: "MILNE, A. A. When We Were Very Young. WITH: Winnie-the-Pooh. WITH: Now We Are Six. WITH: The House at Pooh Corner. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. New York: E.P. Dutton, (1924-28). Four volumes. 2mo, modern full blue morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines and covers, raised bands, gilt dentelles, watered silk endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom slipcase. $19,500.First American editions of Milnes beloved "Pooh quartet"including the signed limited first American edition of When We Were Very Young, number 24 of 100 copies signed by Milneelegantly bound in full morocco-gilt. A beautiful set."One would have to search far and wide to find fictional characters as beloved to so many readers Although Alan Alexander Milne wrote novels, short stories, poetry and many plays for adults it is his writings for children that have captured the hearts of millions of people worldwide and granted Milne everlasting fame" (Silvey, 461). Each title published in the same year as its first, London edition. Only light fading to edges of silk free endpapers, interiors fine, bindings fine with gilt bright. A splendid set in fine condition."
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.