Spot the first: Illustrations: All plates are black and white; there are no colour plates (first impression)
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Spot the first: Binding: Red cloth with the spine lettered in gilt (Heinemann first edition)
- 1st Heinemann1938 Hardback Not yet valued Log in to want this
Spot the first: Front cover: Gilt vignette of Christopher Robin, Pooh and Piglet on pink cloth (Methuen trade binding)
- 1st Methuen1928 Hardback Not yet valued Log in to want this
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Spot the first: Imprint: Dated May 1945, three months before actual publication (first impression)
- 1st Secker & Warburg1945 Hardback Not yet valued Log in to want this
Spot the first: Jacket: Pictorial design by Eileen Soper (original jacket)
- 1st Hodder & Stoughton1942 Hardback Not yet valued Log in to want this
Spot the first: Title page: Describes two hundred British species with 220 illustrations, 100 in colour (1937 text)
Spot the first: Front cover: Gilt vignette of Christopher Robin and Pooh on green cloth (Methuen trade binding)
- 1st Methuen1926 Hardback Not yet valued Log in to want this
- 1st Methuen1926 Hardback Not yet valued Log in to want this
Spot the first: Title page: Titled The Observer's Book of British Birds (early edition, before the title was shortened)
Spot the first: Jacket: Red or green background; both were issued with the first impression (first issue jacket)
- 1st Secker & Warburg1949 Hardback Not yet valued Log in to want this
- The Folio Society2001 Hardback · Folio Society Not yet valued Log in to want this
Spot the first: Binding: Black cloth with a red heart on the upper board (first edition)
- 1st Jonathan Cape1953 Hardback Not yet valued Log in to want this
Spot the first: Copyright page: The words First Edition appear below the printer and typesetter credits (first impression)
- 1st Bloomsbury2000 Hardback Not yet valued Log in to want this
- Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic Press2000 Hardback Not yet valued Log in to want this
- 1st Thorndike Press2007 Hardback Not yet valued Log in to want this
Spot the first: Copyright page: Number line runs the full sequence from 10 down to 1 (first impression)
- 1st Bloomsbury1998 Hardback Not yet valued Log in to want this
- Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic Press1999 Hardback Not yet valued Log in to want this
- Bloomsbury2018Bloomsbury Hufflepuff House Edition · Sprayed edges Hardback Not yet valued Log in to want this
Spot the first: Copyright page: States First published in Great Britain in 2003 and First edition (first impression)
- 1st Bloomsbury2003 Hardback Not yet valued Log in to want this
- Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic Press2003 Hardback Not yet valued Log in to want this
Spot the first: Copyright page: The copyright line credits Joanne Rowling, not J.K. Rowling (first state)
- 1st Bloomsbury1999 Hardback Not yet valued Log in to want this
- Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic Press1999 Hardback Not yet valued Log in to want this
- Bloomsbury2019Bloomsbury Slytherin House Edition · Sprayed edges · Foiled Hardback Not yet valued Log in to want this