Titanic.- Milne (A.A.) [The Set of Pooh Books], 4 vol., comprising: When We Were Very Young, eighth edition, 1925; Winnie-the-Pooh, 1926; Now We Are Six, 1927; The House at Pooh Corner, 1928, all but the first mentioned first editions, illustrations and pictorial endpapers by Ernest H. Shepard, loosely inserted in the first a 1p. A.L.s. by the author to an unknown recipient thanking them for a charitable donation and wishing them a Happy New Year (undated), second with some ink/dirty water splatters to first few leaves, dust-jacket darkened to spine and chipped at ends, third with dust-jacket likewise darkened to spine and with ends chipped, last with dust-jacket chipped at spine ends and with piece missing from lower panel, spine a little darkened, t.e.g., 8vo, 1925-28.

⁂ All but the last with pencil ownership inscription of H.C. Candee on half-title. Helen Churchill Candee (1858-1949) was an American author, journalist, interior decorator, feminist and geographer, who was a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. She managed to board lifeboat 6; she and another woman, Margaret Brown (aka "the unsinkable Molly Brown"), rowed the lifeboat. Candee gave a short interview about the events to the Washington Herald and then wrote a long article herself for Collier's Weekly, one of the first detailed eye-witness accounts of the disaster in a major magazine. She was a nurse for the Italian Red Cross in WW1 and one of her patients was Ernest Hemingway. After the war she travelled extensively in the Far East and was a successful travel writer, her most famous work, Angkor the Magnificent (1924) being the first major English-language study of the Khmer temple Angkor Wat.