WINNIE THE POOH vtg FIRST PRINTING toy COLOR EDITION Child A MILNE Disney RARE For Sale

This sale is for an original

FIRST PRINTING

1974FIRST"COLOR"EDITION

of

"WINNIE-THE-POOH"

by A. A. Milne,

delightfully illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.

YOU'LL LOVE THIS BOOK !!!

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.

Published in 1974, this delightful, illustrated book is in GOOD+

CONDITIONfor its age andespecially to be 52 YEARS OLD!!! ALL PAGES ARE

PRESENT!!! andtightly bound withNO TEARS! or stray markings. Even the

endpapers and hinges are in like-new condition! This is a RARE!!! First Color

printing so...GET IT WHILE YOU CAN!!!

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.

GOOD LUCK!!!

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