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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954, 1955 & 1956, 1954. 1st Edition Clamshell Collecor's Case. No Binding. Clamshell As New/No Jacket. 1st Edition Clamshell Collecor's Case. No Binding. First Edition Slipcase. Exclusive Custom Clamshell Leather Slipcase. Red Morocco with 'Sculpted' Winnie embossed on the side with red, yellow & black onlay. A comical rendition of Winnie & his Butterfly. A delightful custom slipcase for the four volume Pooh books to live in: When We Were Very Young, Winnie-the-Pooh, Now We Are Six & The House at Pooh Corner.

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 2001. Revised Edition. Full leather. No Jacket as Issued. Still in the original shrinkwrap! A handsome turquoise blue full leather edition with Ernest Shepard's illustrations on almost every page in full color, several of them full page size. All four original classics are here: "Winnie-the-Pooh," " The House at Pooh Corner," "When We Were Very Young," and "Now We Are Six." This beautiful edition features complete, unabridged text and all of Shepard's original illustrations, each hand painted in watercolors by the artist prior to publication--this is a true collector's gem. With gold gilt cover designs and page edges, moire silk endpapers and bound-in silk bookmark. On quality paper that makes the book surprisingly heavy (4 lb. 13 oz) The book measures 7 3/4" x 10 1/8" high. A beautiful quality edition.

London: Methuen. Illustrations by E. H, Sheprd. These books are all 1934 reprints, come from a single source, are contemporary with one-another, and are new to the market. They each have the same name written neatly on the front free endpapers. Minor wear and ageing; the original dust jackets have the price on the spines; some rubbing at the spine ends, protected by clear, removable covers. Weysprings Books is a Member of: the IOBA and PBFA, and subscribes to the Associations' Codes of Ethics. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1934.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1926. First American Edition. Near Fine. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt stamping, lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light wear and soiling to cloth; darkened spine with dulled gilt lettering. Small crayon mark to verso of dedication page. A bright and lovely copy of the beloved children's book.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1926. First American edition. First American edition, first printing. xiv, 159 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt stamping. Very Good with dulled and rubbed gilt, a few finger smudges to rear board, former owner's inscription to paste down, two fairly small stains to bottom margins intruding slightly onto bottom margin of text block. The classic children's book.

New York: Stephen Slesinger, 1935. Near fine.. First edition of this remarkably intact large-format WINNIE THE POOH paper doll set, depicting the characters from the stories in a style much closer to the original stuffed animals that inspired the stories. The characters of the Hundred Acre Wood have a long and fascinating merchandising history, even before the brand-conscious Disney adaptation. A. A. Milne sold the US trade rights for the characters to literary agent and licensing pioneer Stephen Slesinger in 1930. With Slesinger's marketing prowess, "Pooh [became] an industry in the thirties," writes Ann Thwaite; by that time, "Eeyore, Tigger, Piglet and the rest were on their way to being lodged permanently... in the folk-memories of the English-speaking people, part of our common language and frame of reference." (Slesinger's widow in turn licensed Pooh to Disney in 1961.) This paper doll book is an excellent example of Slesinger's merchandising prowess: Christopher Robin's design reflects the style and stance of a boy from the thirties. Exceedingly rare complete in this original edition, put into perspective by the much later facsimile more commonly seen. 17'' x 9.75''. Original color pictorial wrappers with perforated punch-outs. [6] leaves of doll outfits to cut out, printed one side only. A touch of toning to front; a bit of rubbing to spine. Sharp, bright, and intact.

(London), 29 September 1926. Letter. Crease from mailing otherwise Fine. A two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) on both sides of 5-1/2" x 7-3/8" personal stationery to "My dear Sir" [Vincent Seligman]. Written just weeks before the publication of Milne's most famous work, WINNIE-THE-POOH. This fine letter offers insight into Milne's sharp sense of humor and includes indirect references to his most famous book. Milne refers to a person in his letter as a "cygnet" (a young swan), a reference which may have been in mind as Winnie The Pooh was a blended name created by Milne, being a combination of the name "Pooh," after a cygnet swan they met on holiday, and "Winnie," a black bear cub he often saw at the London Zoo. There is also a lighthearted poke at his publisher, Methuen. In part: "I have arrived safely at the house to which you sent me, and think that I shall like the situation. I wanted to begin a serial story for the DAILY MAIL at once, but the man here said 'No, there's a letter we must write first,' and I said 'Oh, I see,' and began writing 'Dear Methuen,' but he snatched me away from the paper, and said it wasn't that sort of letter at all, which disappointed me rather because I thought I had got a literary situation. But he promised me we should do some poetry afterwards, and I said 'All right.' And of course when he began 'Dear Vincent,' I said 'Oh, know that man well; let me write the letter, while you get the ink off your hands.' He was terribly pleased with me, and I'm to keep on saying 'Thank you' until I run out of ink.... But I really am to say 'Thank you very much.... Assuring you, Sir, of my respects, and again thanking you for obtaining me this literary situation which I have always wanted from a cygnet so to speak. Yours faithfull [sic] The Pen. P.S. It was his fault about the ink, not mine. T.P. P.P.P. Now we are going to practise his signature: A. A. Milne. P.P.P.S. He says that's the best he's ever done." A delightful letter. Vincent Seligman was a banker who ran the London bank Seligman Brothers. He and his wife Barbara were close friends of the Milnes. Seligman dedicated his book, OXFORD ODDITIES, to Milne.

HBDJ, 1977, 1ST EDITION THUS, REPRINT, VG-/VG+ ,Small brown cloth with 2 Gilt Figures on front, 5 X 7 1/2 IN ,159 PGS , Signed and dedicated during a book signing visit to The Harbour Bookshop (which Milne owned with his wife since 1951) in 1979, B/W Illustrated Endpapers & FRONTISPIECE ,Adventure in Forest OF WINNIE THE POOH TOGETHER WITH SOME OF THE SONGS WHICH PooH BEAR made Up & Sang to Himself as he went Along, Christopher Robin is Here & THEIR MANY FRIENDS WHO ARE INTRODUCED for the 1st Time, Piglet, Rabbit & Owl, Kanga & Roo, & Not forgetting for he would be very Upset, Eeyore

,HBDJ, 1956 on Copyright pg, EARLY BRITISH ISSUE, 606TH THOUSAND, VG+, AS-IS, INNER DJ FLAP 8 S. 6D. NET, CATALOGUE # 3418/U. The signature is in blue ink., B/ W DECORATIONS BY E. H. SHEPARD , , with illustrations on the front of Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh. BACK DJ FLAP MENTIONS WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG, WINNIE POOH & NOW WE ARE 6, SMALL GREEN Illustrated Boards NEAR excellent with Good gilt FIGURES ON FRONT. , Dust Jacket, Illustrated, Inscribed ,Clean, no significant bumps or rubs .7 1/2 X 5 IN, APPROX . GREEN ILLUSTRATED CLOTH CVR Binding tight WITH BRIGHT GOLD GILT FIGURES , no loose or missing pages. Feels only lightly read. Page block clean and bright with no marks. Light age tone to text block edge as you would expect in a book of this age. Top of text block coloured green and has retained its colour. The dustwrapper is NEAR excellent. GREEN TOPSTAIN. 4mm closed tears to top and bottom of front cover/ flap, The spine is only very lightly sunned.

HB NODJ, 1973, STATED 1ST PUBLISHED this EDITION THUS, LIMITED EDITION #77/300 COPIES ,NEAR FINE, SLIPCASE, BLUE LEATHER CVR WITH CHRISTOPHER ROBIN & WINNIE THE POOH IN GOLD GILT, Blue leather bound with gilt stamp to front cover and gilt lettering & RAISED BANDS along spine, which shows light sunning, otherwise in Near Fine condition. goldGilt page edges. In original BLUE Slipcase, which is in Very Good condition, shows light shelf wear and rubbing to edges .NO JACKET.