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The Christopher Robin Verse Book
Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, signed book, 1st Edition 1967. SIGNED by the illustrator to the frontispiece, "E.H. Shepard August 1969. In April of the same year, he donated 300 of his preliminary sketches of Winnie the Pooh to the Victoria and Albert Museum, and celebrated his 90th birthday with a luncheon at Methuen, publisher of the original Pooh books and the volume in hand. Signed Shepard items are relatively rare and of high value, even when lot signed as with limited editions. No other copies of this edition can be found which are signed, so this appears an ad hoc spontaneous signing and thus of more interest. This copy is square 8vo, unpaginated and profusely illustrated in with many of the original drawings and the new coloured illustrations. Light sporadic foxing to front free end-paper, title-page and tiny spot to lower edge of frontis. not intruding or detracting, othrwise clean tight sound square, no bookplate or inscriptions, firmly held in joints and hinges. In gilt lettered and embossed brick coloured cloth featuring Christopher Robin and Pooh to upper, with original unclipped (25s = £1.25) illustrated dustwrapper rubbed to head, torn and reinforced to spine with clear tape, short closed tear to foot of upper. Photos on request.
- GenresPoetry
64 pages, Hardcover
First published September 22, 1932
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A.A. Milne
1,848 books3,713 followersAlan Alexander Milne (pronounced /ˈmɪln/) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems.
A. A. Milne was born in Kilburn, London, to parents Vince Milne and Sarah Marie Milne (née Heginbotham) and grew up at Henley House School, 6/7 Mortimer Road (now Crescent), Kilburn, a small public school run by his father. One of his teachers was H. G. Wells who taught there in 1889–90. Milne attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied on a mathematics scholarship. While there, he edited and wrote for Granta, a student magazine. He collaborated with his brother Kenneth and their articles appeared over the initials AKM. Milne's work came to the attention of the leading British humour magazine Punch, where Milne was to become a contributor and later an assistant editor.
Milne joined the British Army in World War I and served as an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and later, after a debilitating illness, the Royal Corps of Signals. He was discharged on February 14, 1919.
After the war, he wrote a denunciation of war titled Peace with Honour (1934), which he retracted somewhat with 1940's War with Honour. During World War II, Milne was one of the most prominent critics of English writer P. G. Wodehouse, who was captured at his country home in France by the Nazis and imprisoned for a year. Wodehouse made radio broadcasts about his internment, which were broadcast from Berlin. Although the light-hearted broadcasts made fun of the Germans, Milne accused Wodehouse of committing an act of near treason by cooperating with his country's enemy. Wodehouse got some revenge on his former friend by creating fatuous parodies of the Christopher Robin poems in some of his later stories, and claiming that Milne "was probably jealous of all other writers.... But I loved his stuff."
He married Dorothy "Daphne" de Sélincourt in 1913, and their only son, Christopher Robin Milne, was born in 1920. In 1925, A. A. Milne bought a country home, Cotchford Farm, in Hartfield, East Sussex. During World War II, A. A. Milne was Captain of the Home Guard in Hartfield & Forest Row, insisting on being plain 'Mr. Milne' to the members of his platoon. He retired to the farm after a stroke and brain surgery in 1952 left him an invalid and by August 1953 "he seemed very old and disenchanted".
He was 74 years old when he passed away in 1956.
A. A. Milne was born in Kilburn, London, to parents Vince Milne and Sarah Marie Milne (née Heginbotham) and grew up at Henley House School, 6/7 Mortimer Road (now Crescent), Kilburn, a small public school run by his father. One of his teachers was H. G. Wells who taught there in 1889–90. Milne attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied on a mathematics scholarship. While there, he edited and wrote for Granta, a student magazine. He collaborated with his brother Kenneth and their articles appeared over the initials AKM. Milne's work came to the attention of the leading British humour magazine Punch, where Milne was to become a contributor and later an assistant editor.
Milne joined the British Army in World War I and served as an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and later, after a debilitating illness, the Royal Corps of Signals. He was discharged on February 14, 1919.
After the war, he wrote a denunciation of war titled Peace with Honour (1934), which he retracted somewhat with 1940's War with Honour. During World War II, Milne was one of the most prominent critics of English writer P. G. Wodehouse, who was captured at his country home in France by the Nazis and imprisoned for a year. Wodehouse made radio broadcasts about his internment, which were broadcast from Berlin. Although the light-hearted broadcasts made fun of the Germans, Milne accused Wodehouse of committing an act of near treason by cooperating with his country's enemy. Wodehouse got some revenge on his former friend by creating fatuous parodies of the Christopher Robin poems in some of his later stories, and claiming that Milne "was probably jealous of all other writers.... But I loved his stuff."
He married Dorothy "Daphne" de Sélincourt in 1913, and their only son, Christopher Robin Milne, was born in 1920. In 1925, A. A. Milne bought a country home, Cotchford Farm, in Hartfield, East Sussex. During World War II, A. A. Milne was Captain of the Home Guard in Hartfield & Forest Row, insisting on being plain 'Mr. Milne' to the members of his platoon. He retired to the farm after a stroke and brain surgery in 1952 left him an invalid and by August 1953 "he seemed very old and disenchanted".
He was 74 years old when he passed away in 1956.
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June 5, 2023Generous selection of Greatest Hits from When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six, with colored illustrations.
It's ever so portant how you walk.
It's ever so portant how you walk.
November 18, 2019
Just a quick A.A.Milne interlude of my childhood coot from 1975.
April 2, 2022
From a time long gone, this collection of poetry reminded me of my childhood and made me reflect on how differently children are treated today. Some poems were familiar to me; a few were not.
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August 9, 2015Poems taken from "When we were very Young" and "Now We are Six". I didn't like the color pictures as well as the black and white ones, for the most part.
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