![]() ![]() It starred Christopher's teddy bear, bought at Harrods for Christopher's first birthday, known initially as Edward or Edward Bear, and later renamed Winnie-the-Pooh (after a favourite bear cub at London zoo). "The Wrong Sort of Bees", published on Christmas Eve 1925, was based on a bedtime story that Milne had told his son Christopher. After the huge success of When We Were Very Young, published in 1924, Milne was asked to contribute a story to the London Evening News. The dust jacket for Winnie-the-Pooh is in the first state with "117th Thousand" on the rear flap. When We Were Very Young is in the second state of the first impression with the page number ix present, as usual, in the preliminaries. These four volumes comprise a full set of the Pooh books. The first volume is signed by the author on the title page. First editions, first impressions, of these timeless classics of children's literature. ![]()
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