MILNE, A. A.

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Now We Are Six. First edition, signed limited issue, number 64 of 200 large paper copies signed by both the author and the illustrator. Milne's collection of verse is also notable for including many illustrations of Pooh, Piglet, and the other characters. Milne noted "Pooh... thought it was a different book... he walked through it one day... and sat down on some of the pages by mistake".Following the success of When We Were Very Young, Milne began planning a second book of poetry for children. In a letter to his brother Ken dated January 1926 he included it as number one in a list of "things which ought to be done": "A book of verses (about 15 done to date) to appear in 1927 or 1928" (Thwaite, p. 293). By the time that Winnie-the-Pooh was published in late 1926 half the poems for this third book were already complete. Published on 13 October 1927, it took only two months for Now We Are Six to eclipse the sales records of the previous two books.

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