“On a rain-blighted holiday in Wales, escaped from the crowd of fellow guests to the summerhouse, and for 11 days wrote a set of children’s verses, one each day… ‘There on the other side of the lawn was a child with whom I had lived for three years … and here within me were unforgettable memories of my own childhood.’ He added more verses when he got home, enough for a book, and allowed some to be published in advance in Punch” (Carpenter & Prichard, 351). Milne wrote most of these poems at the request of friend and fellow poet Rose Fyleman, who was planning a new children’s magazine. “Although Alan Alexander Milne wrote novels, short stories, poetry and many plays for adults, in addition to his work as assistant editor for Punch from 1906 to 1914, it is his writings for children that have captured the hearts of millions of people worldwide and granted Milne everlasting fame” (Silvey, 461). An exceptional set, most rare and desirable with Winnie the Pooh signed by Milne. Each are fine in very good dust jackets with some loss and wear to the extremities and light toning. When We Were Very Young if a first edition, second issue as usual with page ix numbered. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. $20,000.00 Item Number: 95227įirst editions of each work in Milne’s wonderful Pooh quartet. The Four Pooh Books: When We Were Very Young Winnie-The-Pooh Now We Are Six The House At Pooh Corner.
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