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First edition. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering and vignettes of Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh on the upper cover. Top edge gilt. A very near fine copy, with a bump to one corner. The pictorial endpapers show a map of "100 Aker Wood" and the book is illustrated throughout with the unmistakable line drawings of E.H. Shepard. On its publication in 1926 Winnie the Pooh was met with enthusiastic reviews. The Herald Tribune wrote, "There are not so many books that, sitting reading them alone, you find yourself laughing aloud over. This is one of them." Other rave reviews described the book as, "the perfect book for children" and "a children's book of the season that seems certain to stay.".

Winnie-the-Pooh, also called Pooh Bear, is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A.A. Milne. The first collection of stories about the character was the book 'Winnie-the-Pooh' (1926), and this was followed by 'The House at Pooh Corner' (1928). Milne also included a poem about the bear in the children's verse book 'When We Were Very Young' (1924) and many more in 'Now We Are Six' (1927). All four volumes were illustrated by E.H. Shepard.