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Price: US$206.75 + 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$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$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.