Pooh's Letters from the Hundred Acre Wood.

UK,slim landscape 12mo HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn thus. [Complete number line 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2,so 1st edn,2nd imp. Incomplete,game board+counter game - missing 5 character counters.Extracts from both original,first appearances/publication of 'Winnie-the- Pooh' and 'The House at Pooh Corner' by Methuen,in 1926 and 1928 respectively.This edition first published in 1998 for The Book People Ltd.,by Methuen Children's Books. The 1998 true UK 1st by Methuen alone,with a simultaneous US publication by Dutton Children's Books.] FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price removal to rear bd - no dw/dj - as issued.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork - to a pale blue background,by E.H. Shepard,illustrated glazed boards, with black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or bumping present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread - apart from my own collation.UK,slim rectangular 12mo HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn thus,40pp [unpaginated] includes the title page and also the double-paged envelopes.Original,but now coloured, E.H. Shepard illustrations throughout the text and the book.1st envelope has Christopher Robin's folded A4,colour illustrated map,2nd envelope has Kanga's coloured 8pp favourite magazine, 3rd envelope has a folded A4 facsimile newspaper,4th envelope has a Christopher Robin's pressed out folded,coloured,card game-board game - with a spinner,character game pieces and only 19 of the 24 character coloured tokens present (missing two of the green and one each of the pink,the blue and the yellow coloured tokens),5th envelope has a stapled 8pp facsimile magazine with colour illustrations,for Owl to read whilst solving mysteries,6th envelope has a folded colour illustrated poem Eeyore wrote for Christopher Robin and signed by all residents of Hundred Acre Wood,7th and last envelope has a presentation certificate of knighthood for Pooh. CONTAINS SMALL PARTS.NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN UNDER 3 YEARS. Open up the pockets of letters and post in this entertaining storybook and discover the news from the Hundred Acre Wood. Pooh's daily newspaper,Kanga'a housekeeping magazine,a game for Piglet,are just part of the Special Deliveries to the Forest. Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976),worked as E.H. Shepard. Born St. John's Wood,London,son of an architect.Educated at St Paul's School.Studied at Heatherley's Art School (1896-97) and at the Royal Academy Schools (1897-1902) where he won two scholarships.In 1907,the acceptance of two drawings by Punch marked the beginning of a nearly 50-year association with the magazine; he was elected to the table in 1921,becoming second cartoonist in 1935 and principal cartoonist, 1945-49. During WWI he served in France,Belgium and Italy.A highly successful and prolific book illustrator,mainly in b/w,his collaboration with A.A. Milne resulted in a series of children's classics; in the words of his obituary in The Times 'the Pooh drawings were his greatest triumph,and perhaps because his own human and unassuming genius was so much in harmony with the tender facetiousness of his fellow contributor to Punch. . .' He was perhaps,the best-loved illustrator of children's books since Sir John Tenniel. Shepard was an inveterate sketcher,and although his finished drawings were usually the outcome of numerous pencil sketches,they always retained an appearance of spontaneity.He used pen and ink with exceptional flexibility,varying the weight and quality of his line for emphasis and expression.He excelled at depicting movement,and had a fine instinct for characterisation.Although best-known for his association with A.A. Milne,Shepard successfully illustrated a wide range of books. His drawings for 'The Wind in the Willows' were the only ones that the author, Kenneth Grahame,ever liked,while his illustrations for 'Everybody's Pepys' and 'Everybody's Boswell' demonstrated that he could handle adult historical subjects with aplomb.Late in life he illustrated his own autobiographical reminiscences 'Drawn from Memory' (1957) and 'Drawn from Life' (1961) with undiminished liveliness and humour. Bevis Hillier described Shepard as 'the perfect illustrator. . . He never allows his personality to obtrude. He translates,never transmutes'.He was awarded an OBE in 1972. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!