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“But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way,
in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest,
a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.”
- A.A. Milne

Trapped indoors during a rainy holiday in Wales, writer and editor A.A. Milne turned his hand to a series of short verses for children, inspired by his young son Christopher Robin: “There on the side of the lawn was a child with whom I had lived for three years….and here within me were unforgettable memories of my own childhood.”

Accompanied by Ernest Shepard’s whimsical line drawings, Milne’s verses were published in 1924 as When We Were Very Young. The success of that book, which introduced the character of “Mr. Edward Bear,” prepared the way for the following three volumes of Milne’s “Pooh Quartet”: Winnie the Pooh, Now We Are Six, and The House at Pooh Corner. We offer a lovely first edition set of all four Pooh books in scarce original dust jackets.