CHILDREN & ILLUSTRATED 88 Milne’s “Pooh Quartet,” First American Editions Splendidly Bound, Signed By Milne In The First Volume 102 MILNE, A. A. When We Were Very Young. WITH: Winnie-the-Pooh. WITH: Now We Are Six. WITH: The House at Pooh Corner. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. New York, 192428. Four volumes. 12mo, modern full blue morocco gilt, custom slipcase. $19,500 First American editions of Milne’s beloved “Pooh quartet”—including the signed limited first American edition of When We Were Very Young, one of 100 copies signed by Milne—elegantly bound in full morocco-gilt. A beautiful set. “One would have to search far and wide to find fictional characters as beloved to so many readers… Although Alan Alexander Milne wrote novels, short stories, poetry and many plays for adults… it is his writings for children that have captured the hearts of millions of people worldwide and granted Milne everlasting fame” (Silvey, 461). Each title published in the same year as its first, London edition. Only light fading to edges of silk free endpapers, interiors fine, bindings fine with gilt bright. A splendid set in fine condition. “All Grown-Ups Were Once Children Although Few Of Them Remember It” 103 SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine de. The Little Prince. Translated from the French by Katherine Woods. New York, 1943. Small quarto,modern full brown morocco. $17,500 Signed limited first edition, one of only 525 copies signed by Saint-Exupery, bound in full morocco replicating the original dust jacket design. The name of Saint-Exupery endures “because of a rather strange little book he wrote just before he died. Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince)… has something of Hans Christian Andersen in it, something of Lewis Carroll and even, it may perhaps be said, a bit of John Bunyan. It is often lyrical… sometimes profound… However it is classified, The Little Prince has entered children’s literature, in the manner of quite a few other such hard-to-define works in the preceding centuries” (Pierpont Morgan Library 224). Because the author disappeared in a reconnaissance flight over the Mediterranean in 1944, signed copies of this, the last work published during his lifetime, are most desirable. Occasional inoffensive soiling, foxing and creasing to text. A beautifully bound copy in wonderful condition.
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