Winnie-the-Pooh. With Drawings by Ernest H. Shepard.

MILNE, A.A.; Drawings by Ernest Shephard.

Item Number: 69002

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1926.

First American edition of the second volume of Milne’s classic tales featuring young Christopher Robin and his friends. Octavo, original green cloth, pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a few small closed tears. An exceptional example, rare in this condition.

“Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh has been considered a classic of children’s literature almost since its publication” (Cooper & Cooper). In 1925, A.A. Milne purchased “a Sussex farmhouse for use as a weekend and holiday alternative to the family’s London home… [that would] provide the setting for the stories he now started to write about [his son] Christopher’s toys… Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner [its companion volume, published 1928] are, on their own terms, more successful as works written for children than anything else produced during children’s literature’s Golden Age” (Carpenter). “Ernest H. Shepard’s illustrations, modeled after the actual toys, show character and movement in simple line vignettes, which add so much to the books that most people consider them to be inseparable from the texts” (Silvey).