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Author: Milne, A.A.
Title: The House at Pooh Corner [with] autograph letter signed by illustrator Ernest H. Shepard and addressed to an American admirer
Place Published: London
Publisher:Methuen
Date Published: [1929]
Description:

xi, [1], 178, [2] pp. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. (8vo) original rose cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, jacket, presented in custom peach morocco-backed clamshell box lettered in gilt on spine, raised bands. First Edition.

Signed by A.A. Milne in ink on title page. With a 2 pp. ALS from Shepard to Miss Margaret B. Austin of Delaware concerning fresco painting and why he has never visited America, among other subjects: "Thank you for your letter and for sending me the record of your fresco painting...The only fresco that I ever worked on was when I was engaged to my first wife. We were fellow students at the Royal Academy School and she was commissioned to paint a fresco in the nurse's dining hall of Guy's Hospital in London...I have never been to the United States - My American friend John Fleming, who visits me when he comes to England - advised me not to do so 'You will be killed by kindness' he said..." A lovely chatty letter written in ink on letterhead and dated 6th November 1970, in fine condition in the original stamped envelope. The House at Pooh Corner is the fourth and final volume in the Winnie-the-Pooh series. Ownership signature of Mary Keeling Pearson on half-title page.

Minuscule bump at lower corner of rear board, else fine in fine jacket.