Winnie-The-Pooh AA Milne vintage 1927 2nd ed

Winnie-The-Pooh AA Milne vintage 1927 2^nd ed

Winnie-The-Pooh

A.A. Milne

Illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard.

McClelland & Stewart, Toronto    (Printed in Canada)

1927 -  2nd printing

Hardcover - dark green cloth with gilt border and illustrations (no dust jacket).

5 3/8” x 8”

158 pp.

Illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard.

Edition (Canadian):  2^nd Printing, July 1927 (1^st was October, 1926). 

No reference to The House at Pooh Corner which was published in 1928.

Condition: 

Overall condition is a mixed bag…  recall that this is an 85 year old children’s book… (often subject to hard use)…

Binding is relaxed yet secure.  Corners softened and showing wear.  Cover has become moist at some time and has lost some of the color. Cloth at top of spine is worn/chipped.

The book interior is quite clean… with modest/expected tanning. Original owners name on inside cover.  No other marks or underlining.  Missing 1 rear page of map (left) now restored.

No DJ.  Not ex-library.

In all, a well-read, somewhat dull copy, yet still a scarce early printing of the Canadian edition of an enduring children’s classic.

A. A. Milne - from Wikipedia

Alan Alexander Milne (pronounced /ˈmɪln/) (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 children's poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.

1926 - 1928 (Winnie-the-Pooh)

Milne is most famous for his two Pooh books about a boy named Christopher Robin, after his son, and various characters inspired by his son's stuffed animals, most notably the bear named Winnie-the-Pooh. Christopher Robin's bear, originally named "Edward", was renamed "Winnie-the-Pooh" after a Canadian black bear named Winnie (after Winnipeg), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war. "The pooh" comes from a swan called "Pooh". E. H. Shepard illustrated the original Pooh books, using his own son's teddy, Growler ("a magnificent bear"), as the model. Christopher Robin Milne's own toys are now under glass in New York.

Winnie-the-Pooh was published in 1926, followed by The House at Pooh Corner in 1928. A second collection of nursery rhymes, Now We Are Six, was published in 1927. All three books were illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Milne also published four plays in this period. He also "gallantly stepped forward" to contribute a quarter of the costs of dramatizing P. G. Wodehouse's A Damsel in Distress.

E. H. Shepard - from Wikipedia

Ernest Howard Shepard (10 December 1879 – 24 March 1976) was an English artist and book illustrator. He was known especially for his human-like animals in illustrations for The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne.