* * * C H I L D R E N' S B O O K S * 2 0 2 4 B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S 15 "…A LITTLE BOY AND HIS BEAR WILL ALWAYS BE PLAYING": FIRST EDITION OF THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER 15. MILNE, A.A. The House at Pooh Corner. London, 1928. Small octavo, original gilt-stamped pictorial pink cloth, dust jacket. $5000 First edition of Milne’s final Winnie-the-Pooh book, delightfully illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. A lovely copy. “Even as Milne celebrates childhood” in this, the final book of his Pooh quartet, “he subtly prepares both characters and readers for the inevitable need to forge ahead” (Silvey, 462). The stories in this volume—the de- and reconstruction of Eeyore’s house, Tigger’s arrival in the Forest, Christopher Robin’s attempted farewell in an Enchanted Place—bring to a close tales that are “more successful as works written for children than anything else produced during children’s literature’s Golden Age” (Carpenter, 205). Payne IVA. Cutler & Stiles, 116. Faint offsetting to endpapers, text clean, cloth fine; dust jacket with very minor rubbing and faint wrinkling, evidence of adhesive to verso only. A lovely, nearfine copy.
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