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When We Were Very Young. Very Were We When even London, 1924-28. Four volumes. Large, square octavo, original half cloth and stiff paper boards, boards, paper stiff and cloth half original octavo, square Large, volumes. Four 1924-28. London, . . Without scarce original boxes. Books about-fine, with light Now We Are Six Are We Now is 125 of 350 copies. Thelatter threevolumes withoutoriginal dust with original dust jacket; each volume in custom half morocco clamshell box. clamshell morocco half custom in volume each jacket; dust original with When We Very Young Very When We MILNE, A.A. books, is number 75 of only 100 copies; copies; 100 only of 75 number is books, “One would have to search far and wide to find fictional characters as beloved to so many readers… Although Alan Alexander Alexander Alan Although readers… many so to beloved as characters hearts fictional the find to captured wide and far have search that to children have would for writings “One his is it adults… for plays many and the poetry arguably stories, only short not novels, are wrote Milne adventures Winnie-the-Pooh’s fame… everlasting Milne granted and Shepard’s worldwide people 461-63). of millions (Silvey, of literature” great undeniably, and simply also, are they children, for written ever fantasies toy greatest endearing illustrations enhance Milne’s whimsical verse and prose; they “show vignettes, character which add and so much to the movement in books that most them simple people consider to line be inseparable from the 462). texts” (Silvey, Winnie-the-Pooh Large-paper signed limited first editions on handmade paper of A.A. Milne’s wonderful “Pooh Quartet,” each book signed by signed book each Quartet,” “Pooh wonderful Milne’s A.A. of paper handmade on editions first limited signed Large-paper copies. 300 to 200 from others the copies, 100 only to limited volume first rare exceptionally the Shepard; and Milne both Wood Wood and its environs. rubbing to corners and edges of boards; boards; of edges and corners to rubbing We We Are Six soiling to boards. Dust jacket of 14. Pooh Corner. Pooh Young copies; copies; into into An excellent panel. rear to chip minor edges, and head spine to rubbing light classics. childhood these of set desirable and Corner for advertisement jackets. Publisher’s hildren s

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38. JOHNSON, Crockett. Harold and the Purple Crayon. New York, 1955. 12mo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $6500.

Very rare first edition of the first book in ’s beloved Harold series.

Crockett Johnson—a pen name for David Johnson Liesk—was “a cartoonist whose simplest, sparest and boldest outlines produced unforgettable, gently humorous and always endearing caricatures… His natural gift for drawing and writing from a young child’s viewpoint enabled him to craft more than 20 juvenile books,” including this, his most popular one. “With the fewest of lines, Johnson depicts Harold as a toddler clad in sleepers, his chubby hand gripping a fat plum-colored crayon. From page to page, the thick, firm, purple mark delineates Harold’s actions against the stark white background so effectively and ingeniously that the crayon is as much a character as Harold. The same economy that informs Johnson’s art permeates his text; he writes so concisely of Harold’s moonlight stroll that his style perfectly echoes the clarity of his boldly outlined cartoon illustrations” (Silvey, 355). Gift inscription. Book with one minor faint rub to rear board. Bright dust jacket with light wear to spine and edges. Near-fine.

“But Frederick, You Are A Poet!”

39. LIONNI, Leo. Frederick. New York, 1967. Quarto, original ivory cloth, dust jacket. $450.

First edition, written and illustrated in collage by Leo Lionni.

One of four Caldecott-winning books by Lionni, a writer of “unconventional picture books” (Carpenter & Prichard, 313). “In Frederick, as in his other picture books, Lionni uses evocative words and expressive art to kindle the imagination so that the reader, too, can dream” (Silvey, 408). Book fine, price- clipped dust jacket with only mild soiling and wear. Near-fine. Children's 31

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