After graduating from the Ontario Veterinary College in 1911, Colebourn settled in the prairie boomtown of Winnipeg to take a job with the Department of Agriculture. At the age of 18, he emigrated to Canada to study veterinary surgery. Born in Birmingham, England, Colebourn had always loved animals. In the 27-year-old Canadian soldier, the trapper found the perfect customer. In need of fresh air and a stretch of his legs after a long day on the rails, Lieutenant Harry Colebourn descended the steps of his railcar onto the station platform when an unusual sight caught his eye-a black bear cub no more than seven months old at the end of a leash held by a trapper seeking to attract the attention of a willing buyer. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.With bells ringing and brakes squealing, a trainload of men in crisp military uniforms pulled into the small lumber town of White River, Ontario, on August 24, 1914. The author : Alan Alexander Milne (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Shepard.(Hyphens in the character's name were dropped by Disney when the company adapted the Pooh stories into a series of features that became one of its most successful franchises.)The Pooh stories have been translated into many languages, including Alexander Lenard's Latin translation, Winnie ille Pu, which was first published in 1958, and, in 1960, became the only Latin book ever to have been featured on The New York Times Best Seller list.In popular film adaptations, Pooh Bear has been voiced by actors Sterling Holloway, Hal Smith, and Jim Cummings in English and Yevgeny Leonov in Russian. 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). 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). The book : Rare and very nice First American edition of Winnie-the-Pooh, also called Pooh Bear, - a fictional anthropomorphic bear created by A. Illustrations : Profusely illustrated by Ernest H.

First Edition, First Printing, with the copyright page dated 1926, with no subsequent printings listed.īinding : Attractive and very good full cloth binding (hinges fine, slightly worn and scuffed, gilt on spine faded - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.Ĭontent : Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare foxing or staining).

First edition winnie the pooh