TITLE: Winnie-the-Pooh
AUTHOR: A A Milne with illustrations throughout by Ernest H Shepard
PUBLISHER: Methuen and Co. Ltd
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1926
EDITION: First
NO.OF PAGES: xvi + 158 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout along with 100 Aker Wood illustrated endpapers
BINDING: Original publisher's green cloth covers, gilt lettering on the spine, two gilt vignettes of Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh and gilt border on the upper panel, top edge gilt with offwhite map endpapers
SIZE:
Height: 19.5 cm
Width: 13 cm
Depth: 1.3 cm
After the huge success of "When We Were Very Young," first published on 6 November 1924, Milne was asked to contribute a story to the London Evening News. "The Wrong Sort of Bees", published on Christmas Eve 1925, was based on a bedtime story that Milne had told his son Christopher. It starred Christopher's stuffed bear, who had made his first public appearance in the poem "Teddy Bear", published in Punch in 1924, and later in "When We Were Very Young." The original toy was a top-of-the-range Alpha Farnell bought at Harrods for Christopher Milne's first birthday, known initially as Edward or Edward Bear, and later rechristened Winnie-the-Pooh (after a favourite bear cub at London Zoo). "Winnie-the-Pooh" was an immediate success and garnered even more enthusiastic reviews than its predecessor, with one critic writing that "When the real Christopher Robin is a little old man, children will find him waiting for them. It is the child's book of the season that seems certain to stay." (Thwaite, p. 317). The book was first published in London on 14 October 1926 in an edition of 30,000 regular trade copies.
CONDITION:
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