![]() 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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