Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, signed book, 1st Edition 1967. SIGNED by the illustrator to the frontispiece, "E.H. Shepard August 1969. In April of the same year, he donated 300 of his preliminary sketches of Winnie the Pooh to the Victoria and Albert Museum, and celebrated his 90th birthday with a luncheon at Methuen, publisher of the original Pooh books and the volume in hand. Signed Shepard items are relatively rare and of high value, even when lot signed as with limited editions. No other copies of this edition can be found which are signed, so this appears an ad hoc spontaneous signing and thus of more interest. This copy is square 8vo, unpaginated and profusely illustrated in with many of the original drawings and the new coloured illustrations. Light sporadic foxing to front free end-paper, title-page and tiny spot to lower edge of frontis. not intruding or detracting, othrwise clean tight sound square, no bookplate or inscriptions, firmly held in joints and hinges. In gilt lettered and embossed brick coloured cloth featuring Christopher Robin and Pooh to upper, with original unclipped (25s = £1.25) illustrated dustwrapper rubbed to head, torn and reinforced to spine with clear tape, short closed tear to foot of upper. Photos on request.
