A.A.Milne: His Life

HARDBACK "WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date: 1990.* Pub: Faber & Faber.* Binding and cover condition: Dark blue-grey cloth covered boards with silver title to spine strip and none to face. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: B/w photo-illustrated dust wrapper showing Milne with a pipe in his mouth. Not price clipped showing a shelf price of £17.50. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top edges. FINE.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Printed end papers showing advertisements of the time. Clean, crisp, and tight with no reading wear, no marks to text, some age colouration to page margins & edges. VG* Illustrations: Two x 8pp. blocks of b/w photos and a few b/w l/dwgs within text.* Pages: 486 pp. text. lxxi pp. bibliography, abbreviations, notes, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: A study of the life of A.A.Milne, from his childhood, when he was educated at his father's school Henley House and taught by H.G.Wells, through his early days on "Granta" and "Punch", to the flowering of his careeer in the 1920s and 1930s. Milne wrote a series of West End plays but it was for his son, born in 1920, that Milne wrote the four great children's books of his maturity: "When We Were Very Young", "Now We are Six", "Winnie the Pooh" and "The House at Pooh Corner". Revealing Milne's complexity, this biography tells of his strong political feelings, his often difficult personal relationships, and how his successful children's books became an almost intolerable burden. Ann Thwaite was awarded the 1990 Whitbread Biography of The Year for this book.* A NEAR VG+ copy of the 1st./1st. with NO wear but some paper colouration reducing it to VG. Dust jacket now in clear un-attached protective wrapper.*