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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.
See below our stock of A. A. Milne First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
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contribute to 'The Evening Standard Detective Book' and 'The Evening Standard Detective Book Second Series'.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1950, 1951. [Crime Omnibus series- British writers]. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes complete, octavo (19 x 13cm). Pp.286; 286. Publisher's hardback cloth bindings in typographical dust-jackets. No inscriptions, contents mildly toned, jackets gently used, first title with small chips at foot of spine. First edition in book form..... More
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, deckle edge a little spotted, no inscriptions, jacket is clrisp and..... 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
When We Were Very Young.
London: Methuen and Co., 1925. [Childrens classic] SEVENTEENTH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.x; 100. Publisher's dark blue cloth, with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to boards. Illustrated endpapers, and top edge gilt. Bookseller's label of Henry Walker, Leeds, to front pastedown. A touch of browning and spotting..... More
Winnie-the-Pooh; The House At Pooh Corner; The Wind in the Willows. [uniform set of first colour editions].
London: Methuen Children's Books, 1971, 1973, 1974. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST COLOUR SHEPARD ILLUSTRATIONS, first impressions. Three volumes, octavo (24 x 17cm). With colour illustrations by Shepard to almost every page, and colour illustrated maps as endpapers. In publisher's blue, red and brown cloth bindings pictorially blocked in gilt, uniform pictorial..... More
The Christopher Robin Verses. Being 'When We Were Very Young' and 'Now We Are Six' With a Preface for Parents. With Twelve Plates in Colour and Text Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard.
London: Methuen and Co., 1932. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST COMBINED EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.xii; 210; [2]. With Shepard's famous illustrations in-text, and twelve plates in colour, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board, top edge light blue, colour-illustrated..... More
Now We Are Six. With decorations by Ernest Shepard.
London: Methuen and Co, 1929. [Children's Illustrated] FIFTH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.x; [2] 103 [1]. Small in-text illustrations throughout. Publisher's red cloth with gilt illustrations to boards and gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt, with pink illustrated endpapers. Illustrated bookplate with attendant glue-stains to fly-leaf, stamped and..... More
Winnie the Pooh.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 158 [2]. Profusely illustrated in-text by Ernest Shepard. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to upper. Top edge gilt, with pictorial map endpapers. Black ink ownership to first..... More
Knights of Madness. Further Comic Tales of Fantasy.
London: Souvenir Press, 1998. [Fantasy Satire Anthology] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.252 [4]. INSCRIBED by Terry Pratchett in black ink to the title page: 'To Robert | Esteemed company, indeed! | Best wishes.' Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated..... More
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