winnie-the-pooh

i really want this book... volume... set? i have a version of this treasury. but it's horribly beat up, and in the far away future i'd like to share these stories with my children. my version is really just too dead already; i can't imagine how awful it will be in even 5 years time. and since i can't afford the first edition (and really who would let a child read a $8600 set of four books?!?!?) i would like a replacement of my exact version. i know i'm crazy. i might relent and buy a different printing, but it has to be in this format. i like that it's separated into individual books, exactly as it was originally printed. and i like that the set contains both volumes of a. a. miline's children's poetry. i don't think that poetry versus short story are presented well to children. they never realize that their books all rhyme. when they advance in reading levels they leave poetry behind and move onto the short story, never to return again, but they should. and i think that miline's poetry is a perfect stepping stone. still for children but more literary than 'dick and jane' books.

anyways back to the books themselves. my versions are missing their covers. i've never seen them actually. except for in the pictures online. i'm scared that if i really read them, they'll just fall apart. mine look almost as bad as the ones in the picture. i'll remain on the hunt.


http://www.librarything.com/work/2810262