The House at Pooh Corner

First edition, first printing.  178pp, with drawings by Ernest H Shepard.  Peach cloth-covered boards with gilt stamped illustration on upper panel, gilt lettering on spine.  Illustrated endpapers.  12mo.  Cloth is worn and a little soiled and stained, gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, lightly creased along a dried spine, with small nick in cloth on front joint. Rear hinge cracked as well as some gutters, loosening signatures..  Internally some markings and toning, with a previous owner's name on the front paste down.  Text block edges rough and darkened with dust and light. A fair only first edition trade copy of the second Winnie the Pooh novel.  Full patina of age yet still evocative and, with some gentle care and cleaning would be a nice vintage copy of this children's classic.