LEATHER WINNIE THE POOH! (FIRST EDITION/FIRST PRINTING! 1926!) Methuen London

This is the most desirable form of this book. This book is bound in antiquarian leather. This book was custom bound in leather by the Zaensdorf Bindery.

Winnie The Pooh is difficult to find in contemporary leather. This book was originally issued in cloth.

Exceedingly well preserved for such a beloved children's book. The True First Edition/First Printing! Printed by by Methuen & Company, London. FIRST EDITION/FIRST PRINTING of Winnie the Pooh.

This book is almost 100 years old. The highest quality Morocco leather binding. This book was custom bound in the highest quality leather binding by the prestigious Zhaensdorf bindery. It is difficult to find Winnie The Pooh bound in fine leather.

In giftable and presentable condition. This is the more desirable British Edition, printed by Methuen.

The True First Edition/First Printing. CONDITION: This is the rare and highly desirable First Edition/First Printing. This book is complete In exceptional condition for such a beloved children's book. With some generalized usage wear from use, but still very presentable.

Some very light external wear to the binding, some of which is visible in the pictures, Stain on fore edge as visible in the pictures. Custom bound by the prestigious Zaensdorf bindery. With the original end papers bound in. In exceptional condition compared to other copies, and fairly clean. A gorgeous copy, of a highly desirable First Edition.

Winnie-the-PoohFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to navigationJump to search"Pooh" redirects here. For other uses, see Pooh (disambiguation). This article is about the original version of Winnie-the-Pooh. For the Disney version of this character, see Winnie the Pooh (Disney character).

For the songwriter, see Poo Bear. For other uses, see Winnie-the-Pooh (disambiguation). Winnie-the-PoohPooh in an illustration by E. ShepardFirst appearance When We Were Very Young (1924) (As Edward Bear) Winnie-the-Pooh (As Winnie-the-Pooh)Created byA.

Winnie-the-Pooh , also called Pooh Bear , is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A. The first collection of stories about the character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), and this was followed by The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Milne also included a poem about the bear in the children's verse book When We Were Very Young (1924) and many more in Now We Are Six (1927). All four volumes were illustrated by E. Hyphens in the character's name were omitted by Disney when the company adapted the Pooh stories into a series of features that would eventually become one of its most successful franchises.

In popular film adaptations, Pooh has been voiced by actors Sterling Holloway, Hal Smith, and Jim Cummingsin English, and Yevgeny Leonov in Russian. 1.2Ashdown Forest: the setting for the stories. 1.8Disney ownership era (1966present). 2.6.2Theatrical feature films. 2.6.4Holiday TV specials.

Clockwise from bottom left: Tigger, Kanga, Edward Bear ("Winnie-the-Pooh"), Eeyore, and Piglet. Roo was lost long ago; the other characters were made up for the stories. Milne named the character Winnie-the-Pooh after a teddy bear owned by his son, Christopher Robin Milne, on whom the character Christopher Robin was based.

The rest of Christopher Robin Milne's toys Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, and Tigger were incorporated into Milne's stories. [2][3] Two more characters, Owl and Rabbit, were created by Milne's imagination, while Gopher was added to the Disney version. Christopher Robin's toy bear is on display at the Main Branch of the New York Public Library in New York City. Harry Colebourn and Winnie, 1914. Christopher Milne had named his toy bear after Winnie, a Canadian black bear he often saw at London Zoo, and "Pooh", a swan they had met while on holiday.

[5] He named the bear "Winnie" after his adopted hometown in Winnipeg, Manitoba. "Winnie" was surreptitiously brought to England with her owner, and gained unofficial recognition as The Fort Garry Horse regimental mascot. Colebourn left Winnie at the London Zoo while he and his unit were in France; after the war she was officially donated to the zoo, as she had become a much-loved attraction there.

[6] Pooh the swan appears as a character in its own right in When We Were Very Young. Statue in Winnipeg of Harry Colebourn and Winnie. In the first chapter of Winnie-the-Pooh , Milne offers this explanation of why Winnie-the-Pooh is often called simply "Pooh". The American writer William Safire surmised that the Milnes' invention of the name "Winnie the Pooh" may have also been influenced by the haughty character Pooh-Bah in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado (1885). The Winnie-the-Pooh stories are set in Ashdown Forest, East Sussex, England. The forest is an area of tranquil open heathland on the highest sandy ridges of the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty situated 30 miles (50 km) south-east of London. In 1925 Milne, a Londoner, bought a country home a mile to the north of the forest at Cotchford Farm, near Hartfield. According to Christopher Milne, while his father continued to live in London... The four of us he, his wife, his son and his son's nanny would pile into a large blue, chauffeur-driven Fiat and travel down every Saturday morning and back again every Monday afternoon. And we would spend a whole glorious month there in the spring and two months in the summer. "[8] From the front lawn the family had a view across a meadow to a line of alders that fringed the River Medway, beyond which the ground rose through more trees until finally "above them, in the faraway distance, crowning the view, was a bare hilltop. In the centre of this hilltop was a clump of pines. " Most of his father's visits to the forest at that time were, he noted, family expeditions on foot "to make yet another attempt to count the pine trees on Gill's Lap or to search for the marsh gentian. Christopher added that, inspired by Ashdown Forest, his father had made it "the setting for two of his books, finishing the second little over three years after his arrival". Many locations in the stories can be associated with real places in and around the forest. As Christopher Milne wrote in his autobiography: "Poohs forest and Ashdown Forest are identical". For example, the fictional "Hundred Acre Wood" was in reality Five Hundred Acre Wood; Galleon's Leap was inspired by the prominent hilltop of Gill's Lap, while a clump of trees just north of Gill's Lap became Christopher Robin's The Enchanted Place , because no-one had ever been able to count whether there were 63 or 64 trees in the circle. The landscapes depicted in E.

Shepard's illustrations for the Winnie-the-Pooh books were directly inspired by the distinctive landscape of Ashdown Forest, with its high, open heathlands of heather, gorse, bracken and silver birch, punctuated by hilltop clumps of pine trees. Many of Shepard's illustrations can be matched to actual views, allowing for a degree of artistic licence.

Shepard's sketches of pine trees and other forest scenes are held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The game of Poohsticks was originally played by Christopher Milne on a footbridge across a tributary of the River Medway in Posingford Wood, close to Cotchford Farm. The wooden bridge is now a tourist attraction, and it has become traditional to play the game there using sticks gathered in the nearby woodland.

[12][13] When the footbridge had to be replaced in 1999, the engineer designed a new structure based closely on the drawings of the bridge by Shepard in the books, which were somewhat different from the original structure. Winnie-the-Pooh's debut in the 24 December 1925 London Evening News. Christopher Robin's teddy bear, Edward, made his character début in A. Milne's poem, "Teddy Bear", in the edition of 13 February 1924 of Punch , and the same poem was published in Milne's book of children's verse When We Were Very Young (6 November 1924). [14] Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared by name on 24 December 1925, in a Christmas story commissioned and published by the London newspaper The Evening News.

It was illustrated by J. The first collection of Pooh stories appeared in the book Winnie-the-Pooh. The Evening News Christmas story reappeared as the first chapter of the book. At the beginning, it explained that Pooh was in fact Christopher Robin's Edward Bear, who had been renamed by the boy. He was renamed after an American black bear at London Zoo called Winnie who got her name from the fact that her owner had come from Winnipeg, Canada.

The book was published in October 1926 by the publisher of Milne's earlier children's work, Methuen, in England, E. Dutton in the United States, and McClelland & Stewart in Canada.

In the Milne books, Pooh is naive and slow-witted, but he is also friendly, thoughtful and steadfast. Although he and his friends agree that he "has no Brain", Pooh is occasionally acknowledged to have a clever idea, usually driven by common sense. These include riding in Christopher Robin's umbrella to rescue Piglet from a flood, discovering "the North Pole" by picking it up to help fish Roo out of the river, inventing the game of Poohsticks, and getting Eeyore out of the river by dropping a large rock on one side of him to wash him towards the bank.

Pooh is also a talented poet and the stories are frequently punctuated by his poems and "hums". Although he is humble about his slow-wittedness, he is comfortable with his creative gifts. When Owl's house blows down in a windstorm, trapping Pooh, Piglet and Owl inside, Pooh encourages Piglet (the only one small enough to do so) to escape and rescue them all by promising that "a respectful Pooh song" will be written about Piglet's feat. Later, Pooh muses about the creative process as he composes the song. Pooh is very fond of food, particularly "hunny", but also condensed milk and other items. When he visits friends, his desire to be offered a snack is in conflict with the impoliteness of asking too directly. Though intent on giving Eeyore a pot of honey for his birthday, Pooh could not resist eating it on his way to deliver the present and so instead gives Eeyore "a useful pot to put things in". When he and Piglet are lost in the forest during Rabbit's attempt to "unbounce" Tigger, Pooh finds his way home by following the "call" of the honeypots from his house. Pooh makes it a habit to have "a little something" around 11:00 in the morning. As the clock in his house "stopped at five minutes to eleven some weeks ago, " any time can be Pooh's snack time. After Christopher Robin, his closest friend is Piglet, and he most often chooses to spend his time with one or both of them. But he also habitually visits the other animals, often looking for a snack or an audience for his poetry as much as for companionship. His kind-heartedness means he goes out of his way to be friendly to Eeyore, visiting him and bringing him a birthday present and building him a house, despite receiving mostly disdain from Eeyore in return. An authorised sequel Return to the Hundred Acre Wood was published on 5 October 2009. The author, David Benedictus, has developed, but not changed, Milne's characterisations. The illustrations, by Mark Burgess, are in the style of Shepard. Another authorised sequel, Winnie-the-Pooh: The Best Bear in All the World , was published by Egmont in 2016. The sequel consists of four short stories by four leading children's authors, Kate Saunders, Brian Sibley, Paul Bright and Jeanne Willis. Illustrations are by Mark Burgess.

[18] The Best Bear in All The World sees the introduction of a new character, a Penguin, which was inspired by a long-lost photograph of Milne and his son Christopher with a toy penguin. [19] A further special story, Winnie-the-Pooh Meets the Queen , was published in 2016 to mark the 90th anniversary of Milne's creation and the 90th birthday of Elizabeth II.

It sees Winnie the Pooh meet the Queen at Buckingham Palace. [21] Slesinger marketed Pooh and his friends for more than 30 years, creating the first Pooh doll, record, board game, puzzle, U.

Radio broadcast (NBC), animation and motion picture film. The first time Pooh and his friends appeared in colour was 1932, when he was drawn by Slesinger in his now-familiar red shirt and featured on an RCA Victorpicture record. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh Game in 1933, again with Pooh in his red shirt. In the 1940s, Agnes Brush created the first plush dolls with Pooh in his red shirt.

Shepard had drawn Pooh with a shirt as early as the first Winnie-The-Pooh book, which was subsequently coloured red in later coloured editions. Main articles: Winnie the Pooh (franchise) and Winnie the Pooh (Disney character).

After Slesinger's death in 1953, his wife, Shirley Slesinger Lasswell, continued developing the character herself. [23] The same year, A. Milne's widow, Daphne Milne, also licensed certain rights, including motion picture rights, to Disney. Since 1966, Disney has released numerous animated productions starring Winnie the Pooh and related characters, starting with the theatrical featurette Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree. This was followed by Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968) and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974).

These three featurettes were combined into a feature-length movie, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh , in 1977. A fourth featurette, Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore , was released in 1983. A new series of Winnie the Pooh theatrical feature-length films launched in the 2000s, with The Tigger Movie (2000), Piglet's Big Movie (2003), Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005), and Winnie the Pooh (2011).

Disney has also produced television series based on the franchise, including Welcome to Pooh Corner (Disney Channel, 19831986), The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (ABC, 19881991), The Book of Pooh (Playhouse Disney, 20012003), and My Friends Tigger & Pooh (Playhouse Disney, 20072010). Pooh videos, soft toys and other merchandise generate substantial annual revenues for Disney.

The size of Pooh stuffed toys ranges from Beanie and miniature to human-sized. In addition to the stylised Disney Pooh, Disney markets Classic Pooh merchandise which more closely resembles E. In 1991, Stephen Slesinger, Inc.

Filed a lawsuit against Disney which alleged that Disney had breached their 1983 agreement by again failing to accurately report revenue from Winnie the Pooh sales. Under this agreement, Disney was to retain approximately 98% of gross worldwide revenues while the remaining 2% was to be paid to Slesinger. In addition, the suit alleged that Disney had failed to pay required royalties on all commercial exploitation of the product name. [24] Though the Disney corporation was sanctioned by a judge for destroying forty boxes of evidential documents, [25] the suit was later terminated by another judge when it was discovered that Slesinger's investigator had rummaged through Disney's garbage to retrieve the discarded evidence.

[26] Slesinger appealed the termination and, on 26 September 2007, a three-judge panel upheld the lawsuit dismissal. Copyrights for Stephen Slesinger, Inc. [28] After a series of legal hearings, Judge Florence-Marie Cooper of the U.

District Court in California found in favour of Stephen Slesinger, Inc. As did the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

On 26 June 2006, the U. Supreme Court refused to hear the case, sustaining the ruling and ensuring the defeat of the suit. On 19 February 2007 Disney lost a court case in Los Angeles which ruled their "misguided claims" to dispute the licensing agreements with Slesinger, Inc. Were unjustified, [30] but a federal ruling of 28 September 2009, again from Judge Florence-Marie Cooper, determined that the Slesinger family had granted all trademarks and copyrights to Disney, although Disney must pay royalties for all future use of the characters.

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Winnie-the-Pooh , a play in three acts, dramatized by Kristin Sergel, Dramatic Publishing Company, 1957. Winnie-the-Pooh , a musical comedy in two acts, lyrics by A.

Milne and Kristin Sergel, music by Allan Jay Friedman, book by Kristin Sergel, Dramatic Publishing Company, 1964. A Winnie-the-Pooh Christmas Tail , In Which Winnie-the-Pooh and His Friends Help Eeyore Have a Very Merry Christmas (Or a Very Happy Birthday), book, music and lyrics by James W. Rogers, Dramatic Publishing Company, 1977. The Brain of Pooh, Peter Dennis, 1986. Winnie-the-Pooh , small cast musical version, dramatized by le Clanché du Rand, music by Allan Jay Friedman, lyrics by A.

Milne and Kristin Sergel, additional lyrics by le Clanché du Rand, Dramatic Publishing Company, 1992. The item "LEATHER WINNIE THE POOH!) Methuen London" is in sale since Friday, April 24, 2020. This item is in the category "Books\Antiquarian & Collectible".

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Publisher: Methuen & Co.
Modified Item: No
Subject: Children's
Place of Publication: London
Topic: Winnie The Pooh
Author: A. Milne
Year Printed: 1926
Language: English
Special Attributes: First Edition
Original/Facsimile: Original
Binding: Leather