Winnie The Pooh Treasure - Rare 1920s Winnie The Pooh Book!

This is another of my old treasures from around here. It was once my grandmother's and now it's mine. It's an old 1920's copy of Winnie The Pooh.

Considering the age this book is in great shape. Pages are yellowed, no tears, no marks. The back cover has a bit of a rip on the map page in the binding seam. Otherwise in perfect shape.

Closer scrutiny did show some damage, but it's still fairly minimal for it's age.

The book is illustrated throughout with these adorable pen and ink drawings.

Here's the front cover. It's rather plain with a gold image and gold writing.


Here's a closer look at the front cover without the flash reflected on it.


The back cover is just plain green.


The binding apparently does have words and a picture, but I could not see it until the flash picked up on it in this shot.


The pages are roughly cut and uneven.

The inside cover - both front and back - is this adorable map.


Just look at this. The copyright page. Aside from the light and dark ink tones the last date listed is August 1929! It appears this is the date from my edition. Wow!

The full copyright page:


This is in the front of the book. A name in pencil and a discard stamp. There's also a tear on the bottom.


Another page in the front with a tear along with the introduction letter by A.A. Milne.

One more page in the beginning with a tear. This is the rest of A.A. Milne's letter/introduction.

The following are random pages with some cute drawings on them.




This is the back map. There's a bit of tearing on the top layer of the map and a bit of damage to the center.

This is the overleaf of the back map.

There you have it. An old, adorable treasure from the Winnie The Pooh collection. All flaws have been presented here. The rest of the book appears flawless.

I tried to locate some like mine online, and see they are hard to find. However, I came up with this as a search result. The description matches mine on the cover details.

This is something else I found at this site: Milne, A.A.. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard. WINNIE-THE-POOH
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1927 A book in almost very good condition with no wrapper.3rd Green cloth, gilt title to spine and vignettes to front cover. Green pictorial endpapers. B/w text illustrations. 158 pages, top edge gilt. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. A few small ink marks to front cover. Name in ink to front fly-leaf. Some light page browning to fly-leaves. Grubby fingermarks to page margins of contents. (Book ref. 738006)   £70.00