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A First Edition, [First Printing] of 'The House at Pooh Corner' by A. A. Milne et al. in Very Good+ condition in a Very Good+ condition dust jacket published by Methuen and Co. Limited in 1928

The House at Pooh Corner [Winnie-The-Pooh Series Number Four] by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard, First Edition with Dust Jacket

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  • The House at Pooh Corner [Winnie-The-Pooh Series Number Four] by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard, First Edition with Dust Jacket

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Condition Summary: (Very Good+/Very Good+) A sound book with clean boards and pages, in a very tidy dust jacket. All notable faults: Book has light lean of the spine, light offsetting on endpapers and early pages, contemporary previous owner's name on the half title page and a few other marks. Dust jacket has two tears, up to 10 mm (3/8 of an inch) long at the head of the spine and very light wear on the corners. Dust jacket conservation: Tears have been stabilised with Japanese paper, using Methyl Cellulose conservation adhesive [fully reversible]

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Book Number B0013803
Title The House at Pooh Corner
Author(s) Author: Milne, A. A. [Alan Alexander] Illustrator: E. H. [Ernest Howard] Shepard

A. A. [Alan Alexander] Milne (1882 to 1956)—English author, born in London, best known for his books about Winnie-the-Pooh ('Winnie-the-Pooh' and 'The House at Pooh Corner') and a series of children's poems (best known are 'When We Were Very Young' and 'Now We Are Six') and E. H. [Ernest Howard] Shepard (1879 to 1976)—English artist and book illustrator, best known for his animal illustrations for The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
Edition and Format First Edition, [First Printing] —Book edition identified by: Publisher's imprint information states 'First Published in 1928 ' and no later editions or printings stated in the publisher's imprint information. Dust jacket edition identified by: A list of three books starting with 'When we were Very Young, 179th thousand' on the rear flap and priced '7/6' on the spine

Hardcover, Octavo (20-25 cm high). Xii, 179 and [i (colophon)] printed pages in publisher's original pink cloth with gilt 'The House at Pooh Corner', 'A. A. Milne', Methuen and Co. Limited logo on the spine and illustration of Christopher Robin and Pooh on the upper board, in dust jacket. Contains frontispiece and 108 black and white illustrations by E. H. Shepard
Publisher(s) Methuen and Co. Limited, London, 1928

Methuen and Co Limited—(Founded in 1889) A British publishing house founded by Sir Algernon Methuen and headed by. E. V. Lucas from 1924, which published works by Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, A. A. Milne, Kenneth Grahame, Ruth Manning-Sanders as well as The Arden Shakespeare series and The Adventures of Tintin. [McBride page 69] [Zempel and Verkler page 284] .

Series Winnie-The-Pooh Series Number Four

Winnie-The-Pooh Series—A collection of stories about the adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Christopher Robin, Rabbit, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo and Owl: Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six. The series contains 4 books. The first book was originally published in 1924 and the last book was originally published in 1928
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The fourth Pooh book in which Tigger makes his appearance, Poohsticks is invented and Tigger's bounce saves the day.

There are ten chapters: 1—'In Which a House is Built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore', 2—'In Which Tigger Comes to the Forest and Has Breakfast', 3—'In Which a Search is Organdized, And Piglet Nearly Meets the Heffalump Again', 4—'In Which it is Shown That Tiggers Don't Climb Trees', 5—'In Which Rabbit Has a Busy Day, And We Learn What Christopher Robin Does in the Mornings', 6—'In Which Pooh Invents a New Game and Eeyore Joins In', 7—'In Which Tigger is Unbounced', 8—'In Which Piglet Does a Very Grand Thing', 9—'In Which Eeyore Finds the Wolery and Owl Moves Into It' and 10—'In Which Christopher Robin and Pooh Come to an Enchanted Place, And We Leave Them There'.

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