Description
Very Good+ dust jacket, a Highsmith dust jacket protector has been added, price clipped, Jacket photographs, Front: Courtesy Mrs. Olive Brockwell, Back: Courtesy Mr. Andrew Holmes. The Very Good+ binding is gold cloth over boards with black lettering on the spine. The binding is tight and pages are clean. E.H. Shepard illustrations and photographs can be found in the book.
About the book:
“A memoir of the real Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh” illustrated with photographs and E. H. Shepard line drawings.
Millions of readers throughout the world have grown up with the stories and verses of A A. Milne about his son, Christopher Robin; Winnie-the-Pooh, the classic toy bear; and the Forest where Pooh and the other animals had their being.
What was it like to be that small boy in the smock and Wellington boots who watched the Changing of the Guard with his nanny, Alice? Now in his fifties, Christopher Milne looks back at the child forever enshrined in “that enchanted place on the top of the Forest” and at the boy growing up for whom that child became a burden.
In a gracefully written memoir, touching and humorous in turn. he not only answers the questions Pooh fans have asked for years, but also evokes an era and a way of life in London and the Sussex country- side that has its own nostalgic charm. A perceptive author himself, Mr. Milne has created a book whose appeal will not be confined to lovers of his father’s work.
About the author:
CHRISTOPHER MILNE was born in 1920. He went to Stowe School with a scholarship in 1934, and to Trinity College, Cambridge, with a scholarship in mathematics in 1939. He was defending the village of Hartfield in Sussex with the Local Defense Volunteers in 1940, then joined the Royal Engineers and served in the Middle East and Italy with 56 Division from 1942-46. He returned to Cambridge after the war and took a degree in English in 1947. After a series of unsatisfactory jobs in London, he opened the Harbour Bookshop in Dartmouth with his wife in 1951, and they have been bookselling happily ever since.
About the illustrator:
Ernest Howard Shepard OBE MC (December 10, 1879 – March 24, 1976) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is known especially for illustrations of the anthropomorphic animal and soft toy characters in The Wind in the Willows and Winnie-the-Pooh.
