With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard
LIMITED EDITION OF 20 ON VELLUM SIGNED BY MILNE AND SHEPARD
Now We Are Six With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard
Methuen & Co., 1927.
First edition. Number 5 of 20 copies of a special deluxe, large paper edition, printed on japon and bound in vellum with yapp edges, signed by both Milne and Shepard. Lettered in gilt on the upper cover. Illustrated throughout by Ernest H. Shepard. A near fine copy, with just a touch of dustiness to the spine and edges. Internally very fresh and mainly unopened. Housed in a custom yellow cloth slipcase.
The most luxurious and exclusive format in which Milne's Pooh books were issued. Following the success of When We Were Very Young, Milne began planning a second book of poetry for children. In a January 1926 letter to his brother Ken he included it as number one in a list of "things which ought to be done": "A book of verses (about 15 done to date) to appear in 1927 or 1928" (Thwaite p. 293). By the time that Winnie-the-Pooh was published in late 1926 half the poems for this third book were already complete. Published on 13 October 1927, it took only two months for Now We Are Six to eclipse the sales records of the previous two books.
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