DELUXE FIRST EDITION: Now We Are Six

First deluxe edition. In good condition. Now We Are Six was printed in an edition of 50,000 copies of which 5,000 were bound in leather by the Ship Binding Company and 1,500 of those bound and published in this special blue deluxe sheep binding. A charming book which has been looked after and read. Boards and spine lettered and decorated in gilt with a Christopher Robin vignette on front cover within a gilt border. Boards are a little shelf worn, very modestly bumped to corners, a little nicked to tail of front board. Spine sunned, gilt remains fresh, a little frayed to top. Endearing decorations throughout by Ernest H Shepard. Charming pink pictorial endpapers clean and unmarked. Rather tender over front and rear gutters, title page loose from spine to bottom but otherwise text block sound. An inscription to title page reads ‘With love to my [....]. from [...] Christmas 1927’. A further previous owner has inscribed ‘A Windle, Ainthorpe House, Apperly Rd, Apperley Bridge, Bfd’. 103 pp.