91 “Madeline, Madeline, Where Have You Been? We’ve Been To London To See The Queen” 133SEUSS, Dr. You’re Only Old Once! New York, 1986. Quarto, original green cloth, slipcase. $1250 First edition, one of only 500 copies signed by Dr. Seuss. “In You’re Only Old Once! Ted was less a storyteller or narrator than a memoirist. The book was his unexpected lamentation about the infirmities of age and the indignities of the health-care system, written when he was ‘fed up with a social life consisting entirely of doctors’” (Morgan, 261). About-fine. 134BEMELMANS, Ludwig. Madeline in London. New York, 1961. Slim folio, original pictorial red cloth, dust jacket. $950 First edition of the fifth book in Bemelmans’ beloved series. “Of all Bemelmans’ books for children, [the Madeline stories] are the ones that have stayed in print and won the loyalty of countless readers” (Silvey, 55). This fifth adventure finds our irrepressible heroine on the other side of the Channel amidst “tea and crumpets” and “the sound of trumpets.” Near-fine. Author-Corrected Advance Rough Proof Of A. A. Milne’s Collection Of Short Stories 135MILNE, A.A. Birthday Party and Other Stories. London, 1949. Small octavo, original pre-publication brown wrappers lettered “Rough Proof.” $4200 Advance page proofs of the first English edition, with extensive corrections in Milne’s hand, initialed by him. In 1948 Milne prepared a collection of 15 short stories intended for the adult audience. In his edits, he rewrites several sentences for clarity, and adds a poem not previously published.In total he adds or changes 39 words, and deletes 27 words. Fine. “A Bear, However Hard He Tries, Grows Tubby Without Exercise…” 136MILNE, A.A. SHEPARD, Ernest. When We Were Very Young. London, 1924. Small octavo, original pictorial blue cloth gilt. $3000 First edition of Milne’s first children’s book, the scarcest of the “Pooh Quartet.” Milne wrote most of these poems at the request of friend and fellow poet Rose Fyleman, who was planning a new children’s magazine. Shepard, a Punch staff artist at the time, provided delightful line vignettes, resulting in “a wonderful marriage of verse and vision” (DNB). Without original dust jacket. First edition, second issue as usual, with page ix numbered. Near-fine. One of Only 500 Signed By Dr. Seuss
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