MILNE, A. A. "Now We Are Six" [E. P. Dutton & Company, 1927] 1st Edition

MILNE, A. A. Now We Are Six.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1927. First American edition. 7.75" x 5.25", 103pp. Publisher’s orange cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in black with pictorial vignette to upper cover; illustrated throughout by Ernest H. Shepard. Light fraying at spine ends and corners with a small snag to cloth at mid-spine; some rubbing and mild fading to spine. Hines uncracked but binding with some play. Good+.

The second of Milne’s beloved Christopher Robin poetry collections, published the same year as the London edition and containing Shepard’s iconic illustrations that helped define the visual world of Winnie-the-Pooh. Early American printings in this vivid cloth binding display beautifully, particularly when the color remains this fresh.