International auctioneers Bonhams will offer collectors achance to take home original depictions of Pooh at their New York City sale of Books and Manuscripts, set to take place on December 15, 2008.

To be offered at this New York sale are copies of author A.A. Milne’s four most popular books, each including hand drawings by illustrator E.H. Shepard featuring the character Christopher Robin.
Of these lots are a limited edition copy of Winnie-the-Pooh signed by the author and artist dated January 1931, showing Christopher Robin in the bath with Pooh nearby, together with a version of one of the vignettes showing Pooh
contemplating an upside-down bathmat (est. $10/12,000). A first edition of When We Were Very Young signed by Milne with numbered illustrations and a signed ink drawing by Shepard (est. $8/9,000) is on offer, as is a limited edition of Now We Are Six, also signed by Milne with a signed ink drawing by Shepard (est. $5/7,000). A limited edition of House at Pooh Corner signed by Milne with a signed ink drawing by Shepard could bring $6/8,000.

For more information visit www.bonhams.com/usbooks.

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Posted: 12|15|08 at 10:48 am. Filed under: US Auction News.