1926 First US Edition - A. A. Milne & Ernest H. Shepard - WINNIE-THE-POOH with dust jacket!

Author : A. A. Milne with decorations by Ernest H. Shepard.
Title : Winnie-the-Pooh
Publisher : (New York), E.P Dutton & Company, 1926. First US Edition, First Printing.
Language : Text in English
Size : 8 "X 5.5 "
Pages : 158 pages
Binding : Attractive and very good full cloth binding (hinges fine, slightly worn and scuffed, gilt decoration bright - as shown).
Dust jacket : Rare dustjacket (chips and tears - as shown, First edition, first printing, first state dust jacket) under a protective removable mylar cover. - A rare find in any condition!
Content : Very good content (bright and tight, some foxing and staining - as shown, nice exlibris of a previous owner (W.S. Adamson) on first endpaper map - as shown). 
Illustrations : Profusely illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.

Estimate: ( USD 1200 - USD 2,000)

The book : Rare and Attractive First US edition with first state dust jacket of Winnie-the-Pooh, also called Pooh Bear, - a fictional anthropomorphic bear created by A. A. Milne. The first collection of stories about the character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), and this was followed by The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Milne also included a poem about the bear in the children’s verse book When We Were Very Young (1924) and many more in Now We Are Six (1927). All four volumes were illustrated by E. H. Shepard.(Hyphens in the character's name were dropped by Disney when the company adapted the Pooh stories into a series of features that became one of its most successful franchises.)The Pooh stories have been translated into many languages, including Alexander Lenard's Latin translation, Winnie ille Pu, which was first published in 1958, and, in 1960, became the only Latin book ever to have been featured on The New York Times Best Seller list.In popular film adaptations, Pooh Bear has been voiced by actors Sterling Holloway, Hal Smith, and Jim Cummings in English and Yevgeny Leonov in Russian.

The author : Alan Alexander Milne (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.