FOURTEEN SONGS FROM WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG by A.A. Milne, H. Fraser-Simson - 1925

Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1927. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1927. 11th Edition. 34 pages. No dust jacket. Brown boards with black lettering. Illustrated by E. H. Shepard. B&W illustrations throughout. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Some pages loose but not detached. Moderate wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with small splits (approx. 1cm) and chipping to spine ends and corners. Minor scuffing, foxing and marking to boards.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1926. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 12.5" by 9". E. H. Shepard. A lovely work containing a selection of Milne's children's poems, set to music by the composer Harold Fraser-Simson, with illustrations to each page of sheet music. Eighth impression from 1926. Illustrated with decorations to each of the musical notations by E. H. Shepard (1879-1976), the English book illustrator who is best known for illustrating both 'The Wind in the Willows' and 'Winnie-the-Pooh'. This is a selection of verses from 'When We Were Very Young, the best-selling work of children's poetry by A. A. Milne, set to music by Harold Fraser-Simson. Contents include verses from poems such as 'Happiness', 'Missing', 'Hoppity', 'Growing Up', 'The Three Foxes', and 'Market Square', with charming relevant illustrations to most pages. Harold Fraser-Simson (1872-1944) was an English composer of 'light music', whose most famous musical was 'The Maid of the Mountains'. He set various children's verses to music,… Read More

London: Methuen & Co LTD; Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew LTD, 1927. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 12.5" by 9.5". E. H. Shepard. A smart reprint of this volume of songs by A. A. Milne, extracted from his work 'When We Were Very Young', and put to music, illustrated throughout by E. H. Shepard. The eleventh edition.In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Fourteen songs from A. A. Milne's work 'When We Were Very Young', put here to music by H. Fraser-Simson. Illustrated with in-text illustrations throughout by E. H. Shepard.Songs include 'Happiness', 'In the Fashion', 'Halfway Down', 'Buckingham Palace', 'The Christening', and more. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding with paper to the boards, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Only a few small marks to the boards. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Dust wrapper is a little edge worn, with two closed tears to the head of the front wrap, and a few smaller tears and chips. Spine is a… Read More