1926 WINNIE THE POOH SET House at Corner AA MILNE stuffed TEDDY BEAR toy METHUEN

Description: WINNIE - THE - POOH"THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER""NOW WE ARE SIX""WHEN WE WERE YOUNG" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sale is for an original 1924 - 1929COMPLETE SET of the "WINNIE-THE-POOH"books byA. A. Milne. All are delightfully illustrated byErnest H. Shepard. All four books are RARE! FIRST EDITION FORMAT PRINTINGS! YOU'LL LOVE THIS SET OF BOOKS !!! Winnie-the-Pooh, commonly shortened to Pooh Bear and once referred to as Edward Bear, is a fictional bear created by A. A. Milne. The character first appeared in book form in Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Milne also included several poems about Winnie-the-Pooh in the children's poetry books When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six. All four volumes were illustrated by E. H. Shepard. The hyphens in the character's name were later dropped when The Walt Disney Company adapted the Pooh stories into a series of Winnie the Pooh featurettes that became one of the company's most successful franchises worldwide. All four books are in GOOD CONDITION! for their age and especially to be, on average, 97 YEARS OLD!!! ALL PAGES ARE PRESENT!!! and bound with no overly destructive markings or tears. The most notable imperfection is the cover of Pooh Corner is mottled, as pictured. This is a RARE!!! set of books so...GET IT WHILE YOU CAN!!! THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER NOW WEARES I X WHEN WEWEREVERY YOUNG HISTORY OF POOH BEAR During the first World War troops from Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada) were being transported to eastern Canada, on their way overseas to Europe where they should join the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade. When the train stopped at White River, Ontario, a lieutenant called Harry Colebourn bought a small female black bear cub for $20 from a hunter who had killed its mother. He named her "Winnipeg," after his hometown of Winnipeg, or "Winnie" for short. Winnie became the mascot of the Brigade and went to Britain with the unit. When the Brigade was posted to the battlefields of France, Lt. Colebourn took Winnie to the London Zoo for a long loan. Formally Colebourn presented the London Zoo with Winnie in December 1919 where it became a popular attraction and lived until 1934. The bear was also very popular by Christopher Robin, son of author A.A. Milne. It was his favorite at the zoo, and he often spent time inside the cage with it. The bear was Christopher Robin's inspiration for calling his own teddy bear Winnie....Winnie the Pooh (this teddy bear started out with the name of Edward Bear). The name of Pooh originally belonged to a swan, as can be seen in a poem from Milne's When We Were Very Young. A. A. Milne started to write a series of books about Winnie the Pooh, his son Christopher Robin, and their friends at 100-Aker-Wood. These other characters, such as Eeyore, Piglet, Tigger, Kanga and Roo were also based on stuffed animals belonging to Christopher Robin. Other characters as Rabbit and Owl were based on animals that lived, just like the swan Pooh, in the surrounding area of Milne's country home Cotchford Farm in Ashdown Forest, Sussex, on which 100-Aker-wood was based. Please see our other books too!

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