When We Were Very Young by: Milne, A. A. and E. H. Shepard
Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co., 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 100 pages, b&w drawings throughout by Ernest H. Shepard. Dark blue cloth with gilt image to front board of three characters after Shepard's drawings and gilt image to back cover of girl peeking through curtain. Also gilt edge rulings, gilt titles to spine & gilt to top leaf edge. Tight binding with only minimal wear to edges. Blank endpapers, front & back, with light tanning and ripples from publisher's glue. Dust jacket has darkening to spine and chipping to corners, larger chip to top of spine. Front and rear panels with Shepard's drawings, two spots of soil to front around type of title. This is the first of the four Pooh books and scarcest with a print run of about 4,000. Second state of the true first with ix on contents page.