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Now We Are Six
by Milne, A. A
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Good+ dust jacket
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About This Item
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. Fine in Good+ dust jacket. 1927. First Edition. Cloth. A lovely, just about Fine first edition, limited to 200 numbered copies, printed on handmade paper, signed by both author Milne and and illustrator Shepard. This particular copy is an unnumbered presentation copy for the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. Bound in salmon paper covered boards with printed paper label on front board, beige buckram spine, edges uncut, many pages still unopened. Minor offsetting to endpapers, overall just about Fine condition in rather Good+ dust-wrapper, chipping to ends of tanned spine; Milne's a book of thirty-five children's verses including poems such as "King John's Christmas", "Binker" and "Pinkle Purr". Eleven of the poems in the collection are accompanied by illustrations featuring Winnie-the-Pooh. Milne dedicated this publication to Anne Darlington, childhood friend of his son, Christopher Robin, "because she is so speshal" [sic]. ; B & W Illustrations; 8vo; [2], xii, 103, [3] pages; Signed by Author & Illustrator .
Synopsis
More entertaining verses and delightful pictures in the style of When We Were Very Young . "Gay verses about all manner of things, which with their original rhythm dance their way into memory."-- Four to Fourteen, 1927
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Details
- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26666
- Title
- Now We Are Six
- Author
- Milne, A. A
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co. Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Children Juvenile
- Bookseller catalogs
- By Year Of Issue / 1920s; ABAA-VBF;
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- Edges
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- Good+
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- A.N.
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- Unopened
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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