When We Were Very Young
Methuen, 1925.
First Deluxe Edition. 8vo. Full blue leather with gilt titles and vignettes. All the page edges are gilt and the silk page marker is present. In the publisher's original glassine wrapper and box. Almost every page of the book, including endpapers, is decorated with line drawings by E.H. Shepard. A fine, bright copy, with only very light browning to the endpapers, in a very good box indeed.
In 1925 Methuen decided to celebrate the success of Milne's first book of children's verses When We Were Very Young which was just going into its tenth edition. To do this they introduced these deluxe roan editions, producing them in beautiful bindings and with a better quality finish. Whilst the price of the standard editions was 7/6- these deluxe editions were sold at 10/6-.
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