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FIRST CANADIAN EDITION, FIRST PRINT; hardcover with partial dust jacket, octavo (20 x 13 x 2 cm), pp. ix, [1], 158. English text, numerous illustrations throughout by Ernest H. Shepard. Bound in publisher's original decorative covers, illustrated endpapers. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure with the joints and hinges perfectly intact. Trivial bumping to spine ends, the points and edges remaining sharp. Covers with some very faint mottling and edge fading. Interior very well-preserved and without previous ownership markings. The original dust jacket is present, however, it is somewhat worn and broken in four parts with much of the spine missing. Notes: Rare first Canadian edition, first printing, published one year before the UK edition.

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.