MILNE (A. A.) - SHEPARD (Ernst). Milne’s first two children’s poetry collections in desirable editions:

1) When I Was Very Young. New York and London, The Fountainhead Press and Methuen and Company, 1930. 8vo., original publisher’s pictorial cloth and its original slipcase with printed spine label. Illustrated by Ernest Shepard. Limited and numered edition signed by Milnes at the limitation page. Very fresh copy

2) Now We Are Six. London, Methuen, 1927. 8vo., bound in pictorial red cloth gilt, original illustrated dust jacket. First edition of the second poems collection for children by Milne illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Very good copy, dust jacket's spine darkened and some small chips to head