The Christopher Robin Story Book. From When We were very young; Now We Are Six; Winnie-The-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner. Illustrated by Ernest H Shepard. London: Methuen, 1945. Thirteenth Edition. Pp, 171. A good copy in red cloth covers with gilt illustration to front board, with original pictorial dust jacket. .

Selections by Milne from the four “Pooh” books. The text profusely illustrated with line drawings by Ernest H. Shepard.

Alan Alexander Milne (1882-1956) was the author of popular plays, three novels, and numerous essays, but he is remembered almost exclusively as the creator of some of the best-loved characters in all of children’s literature: Winnie the Pooh, Christopher Robin, Eeyore, and Piglet.