Now We are Six
Price: $400.00
Shepard, Ernest H. Hard Cover. London: Methuen & Co., 1927. First Edition. Near Fine.
With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. First edition, first printing. Publisher's red cloth, with an illustration of Christopher Robin in gilt to the front board, illustration of Pooh and Piglet to the rear board, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, and pictorial pale pink endpapers with illustrations of Christopher Robin and Pooh in blue; lacking the original dust jacket. Near fine, with light sunning to spine, a hint of rubbing to spine ends and corners of boards, a crack to pp. 20-21, binding sturdy otherwise, and offsetting to half-title page and colophon page. Overall, a bright and lovely copy. The third of four volumes in A. A. Milne's Pooh Books series, Now We are Six is a collection of thirty-five children's poems and verses. Like the rest of the books in the series, Milne wrote Now We are Six for Anne Darlington, the daughter of family friends whom both families hoped would marry Milne's son Christopher Robin; while the first Pooh book When We Were Very Young was dedicated to Christopher Robin, Now We Are Six is dedicated to Darlington. Milne writes in his introduction, "We have been writing this book for three years. We began it when we were very young...and now we are six." Although only a few of the poems feature Winnie the Pooh, the lovable bear frequently appears in Shepard's decorations. As Milne explains, Pooh "thought it was a different book; and he hopes you won't mind, but he walked through it one day, looking for his friend Piglet, and sat down on some of the pages by mistake." Item #AAM085
