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A. A. Milne (Alan Alexander Milne) | First Editions
1882 - 1956
Alan Alexander "A. A." Milne (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. Milne served in both World Wars, joining the British Army in World War I, and was a captain of the British Home Guard in World War II. Milne's famous Pooh books follow a boy named Christopher Robin (named after Milne's son, Christopher Robin Milne) and various animal characters inspired by his son's stuffed toys - most notably, the bear named Winnie-the-Pooh. E. H. Shepard illustrated the original Pooh books, using his own son's teddy, Growler ("a magnificent bear"), as the model. The rest of Christopher Robin Milne's toys, Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo and Tigger, were incorporated into A. A. Milne's stories, and two more characters – Rabbit and Owl – were created by Milne's imagination. Christopher Robin Milne's own toys are now under glass in New York, where 750,000 people visit them every year.
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By Way of Introduction.
London: Methuen and Co. 1929. [Sherlockiana] FIRST EDITION, First Issue. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii, 208; [8]. In publisher's pink cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, lower edges untrimmed, printed dust-wrapper priced at 6s. Contents clean, jacket toned to spine, lightly rubbed at joints. Very good indeed..... More
Road through Kurdistan. The Narrative of an Engineer in Iraq.
London: Faber and Faber, 1937. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.331; [1]. Publisher's grey cloth, gilt titles on red square to spine, pictorial dust-jacket. With twenty-eight half tone illustrations and two folding maps. Neat ownership to fly-leaf, some light spotting to preliminaries and to the folding maps at the..... More
Winnie the Pooh.
London: Methuen and Co., 1926. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xi [5]; 158; [2]. Profusely illustrated by Ernest Shepard. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt; pictorial endpapers. With the dust-jacket, also illustrated by Shepard, priced at 7/6. Owner's small, vintage address label..... More
The House At Pooh Corner.
London: Methuen and Co., 1928. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[xii]; 178; [2] blank. Publisher's pink cloth titled in gilt to spine, gilt vignette to upper board, top edge gilt, pink illustrated endpapers. Illustrative frontispiece and numerous in-text line drawings by Ernest H. Shepard. Owner's small, vintage..... More
Now We Are Six. With decorations by Ernest Shepard.
London: Methuen and Co., 1927. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 103 [1]. With in-text engravings by Shepard throughout. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt illustration stamped in gilt to upper. Top edge gilt, and illustrated salmon pink endpapers. Owner's small, vintage address..... More
Now We Are Six. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. Collection of British and American Authors. Tauchnitz Edition. Vol. 5171.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1934. COPYRIGHT EDITION (TAUCHNITZ). Octavo, pp. 116. Bound in publisher's soft paper covers with publishing details, titles, etc. printed to front. Stamp to cover reads 'IMPRIME EN ALLEMAGNE' under notice 'Not to be introduced into the British Empire and USA'. In excellent condition, very clean internally, with..... More
When We Were Very Young. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. Collection of British and American Authors. Tauchnitz Edition. Vol. 5153.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1934. COPYRIGHT EDITION (TAUCHNITZ). Octavo, pp. 123. Bound in publisher's soft paper covers with publishing details, titles, etc. printed to front. Notice to cover reads 'Not to be introduced into the British Empire and USA'. In very good condition, age toned to covers, very clean internally. Advertisements..... More
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