NOW WE ARE SIX Publisher's Dummy

by A. A. Milne, E. H Shepard

$1,000 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition

London: Methuen, 1927 . Original sales sample for the third Pooh Book, bound like the first edition, but with most of the leaves blank, used as a tool to sell the book in advance of publication. Very good. Item #7804 Dummies were commonly created by publishers in the 19th and early 20th century to drum up advance sales for books that had not yet come out. In the 19th century, they were the popular tool of door-to-door

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