WINNIE-THE-POOH BY A. A. MILNE 1926 FIRST EDITION

[MILNE, A. A.]. Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen & Co., 1926.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINT. Cloth-bound, hardcover, octavo (19.5cm x 12.5cm x 1.5cm), pp. xi, [1], [2], 158, [2]. English text, illustrations throughout by Ernest H. Shepard. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles and decoration, top edge gilt, other edges uneven, illustrated endpapers with map design. Printed by Jarrolds and sons Ltd. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure with the joints and hinges perfectly intact. Trivial bumping to spine ends. Faint mark to front board. Contents well-preserved with some light browning to endpapers and previous owner details inked to front blank leaf. Lacking dust jacket.

Notes: First printing, with "First published in 1926" on the copyright page.