Alan Alexander (aa) Milne
Male : Humorist, Novelist
and Poet. Married Daphne de Selincourt in 1913. Their son, Christopher
Robin, became the character in Milne's books
Nationality : English
Place of Birth : London
Date of Birth : 1882 Date of Death : 1956 Age : 74
Other Work : Freelance Journalist
Education : Westminster School & Trinity College, Cambridge
1905-1910
Lovers in London (1905 Alston Rivers)
The Day's Play (1910 Methuen)
- sketches
1911-1915
The Holiday Round (1912 Methuen)
- sketches
Once a Week (1914 Methuen)
Happy Days (1915 Doran US)
1916-1920
Once Upon a Time : A Fairy Story (1917 Hodder & Stoughton)
- H M Brock
(1925 Hodder & Stoughton)
- Charles Robinson
Not that it Matters (1919 Methuen)
First Plays (1919 Chatto & Windus)
Contains : Wurzel-Flummery, The Lucky One, The Boy Comes Home, Belinda, & The Red Feathers
If I May (1920)
1921-1922
The Sunny Side (1921)
Second Plays (1921 C & W)
Contains : Make Believe, Mr Pim Passes By, The Camberley Triangle, The Romantic Age
& The Stepmother
Mr Pim (1921 H & S)
The Red House Mystery (1922 Methuen)
(1922 Dutton, US)
Three Plays (1922 Putnam)
(1923 C & W)
Contains : The Dover Road, The Truth about Blayds & The Great Broxopp
[The Dover Road filmed in 1934 as "Where Sinners Meet"]
1923-1924
Success (1923 C & W)
The Man in the Bowler Hat : A Terribly Exciting Affair (1923 French UK & US)
When We Were Very Young (1924 Methuen)
(1924 Dutton)
- [1st Pooh Book.] Ernest H Shepard
+ 100 numbered & signed by Milne & Shepard copies (1924 Methuen)
When We Were Very Young (1924 Methuen - 2nd Ed)
Vespers : A Poem (1924 Methuen)
- Music by H Fraser-Simson. Ernest H Shepard
Fourteen Songs (1924 Methuen)
- Music by H Fraser-Simson. Ernest H Shepard
1925
Make-Believe : A Children's Play (1925 Methuen)
- lyrics by C E Burton
A Gallery of Children (1925 Stanley Paul)
+ 500 numbered & signed - H Willebeek le Mair
Signed Edition offered in 1991 for £250 & 1995 for £485
A Gallery of Children (1925 David McKay, NY)
- H Willebeek le Mair
For the Luncheon Interval : Cricket & other Verses (1925 Methuen)
The King's Breakfast (1925 Methuen)
- Music by H Fraser-Simson. Ernest H Shepard
Once Upon a Time : A Fairy Story (1925 Hodder & stoughton)
- Charles Robinson
1926
Winnie the Pooh (1926 Methuen)
(1926 Dutton)
- Ernest H Shepard
+ De Luxe Edition in slipcase + 350 signed by Shepard & Milne
Signed Edition offered in 1995 for £2500
[By 2003 total UK sales of this book had reached over 50 million copies]
Winnie the Pooh (1926 Methuen 2nd Ed)
- Ernest H Shepard
Teddy Bear and Other Songs (1926 Methuen)
- Music by H Fraser-Simson. Ernest H Shepard
+ 100 numbered & signed by all three
Four Plays (1926 Chatto & Windus)
Contains : To Have the Honour, Meet the Prince, Ariadne, Portrait of a Gentleman
in Slippers & Success
Miss Marlowe at Play (1926 French, US & UK)
The Ivory Door (1926 C & W)
1927-1928
Now We Are Six (1927 Methuen)
(1927 Dutton)
- verse. + 200 signed by Author & Ernest H Shepard
+ De Luxe Edition in slipcase
Songs from Now We are Six (1927 Methuen)
- Music by H Fraser-Simson. Ernest H Shepard
+ 100 numbered and signed by all three
More Very Young Songs (1928 Methuen)
- Music by H Fraser-Simson. Ernest H Shepard
+ 100 signed by all three
The House at Pooh Corner (1928 Methuen)
(1928 Dutton)
+ 350 signed by Author & Artist.
Ernest H Shepard
UK First offered in 1995 for £250 & £450
+ de Luxe Edition in slipcase + 350 signed by Milne and Shepard
The Christopher Robin Calendar (1928 Methuen)
- verse. Ernest H Shepard
The Ascent of Man (Affirmations)
(1928 Ernest Benn)
1929-1930
By Way of Introduction (1929 Methuen)
(1929 Dutton, NY)
+ 166 Large paper numbered and signed
Those Were the Days (1929 Methuen)
The Christopher Robin Story Book (1929 Methuen)
- Ernest H Shepard
+ 350 Numbered & Signed by Author & Artist (1929 NY)
The Secret & Other Stories (1929 Methuen / Fountain Press, US)
- 742 signed
The Hums of Pooh (1929 Methuen)
- Music by H Fraser-Simson. Ernest H Shepard
+ 100 signed by all three
Toad of Toad Hall : A Play taken from K G's the Wind in the Willows (1929 Methuen)
+ 200 numbered/signed by Milne & Ernest H Shepard
Signed Edition offered in 1995 for £1800
Tales of Pooh (1930 Methuen)
- Ernest H Shepard
The Pooh Calendar (1930 Methuen)
- Ernest H Shepard
The Fourth Wall, or The Perfect Alibi (1930 French, UK & US)
Michael and Mary (1930 C & W)
- 260 signed
When I Was Very Young (1930 Fountain Press, NY)
- 842 signed. Ernest H Shepard
The Christopher Robin Birthday Book (1930 Methuen)
- Ernest H Shepard
1931-1935
Two People (1931 Methuen)
Four Plays (1932 Putnam US)
Contains : Michael & Mary, Meet the Prince, The Fourth Wall & Portrait of a Gentleman in Slippers
The Christopher Robin Verses (1932 Methuen)
- Ernest H Shepard
Four Days' Wonder (1933 Methuen)
(1933 Dutton)
Sarah Simple (1933)
Peace With Honour (1934 Methuen)
- a plea against war
More Plays (1935 C & W)
Contains : The Ivory Door, The Fourth Wall & Other People's Lives
1936-1950
Miss Elizabeth Bennett (1936 C & W)
It's Too Late Now : The Autobiography of a Writer (1939 Methuen)
Four Plays (1939 Penguin)
Contains : To Have the Honour, Belinda, The Dover Road, & Mr Pim Passes By
Behind the Lines (1940 Methuen)
War with Honour (1940 Macmillan)
War Aims Unlimited (1941 Methuen)
- pamphlet
The Ugly Duckling (1941 French)
The Pocket Milne (1941 Dutton)
(1942 Methuen)
Chloe Marr (1946 Methuen)
Introducing Winnie the Pooh (1947 Methuen)
(1947 US)
Birthday Party & Other Stories (1948 Dutton, US)
(1949 Methuen)
The Norman Church (1948 Methuen)
A Table Near the Band & Other Stories (1950 Methuen)
1951 Onwards
Before the Flood (1951 French, UK & US)
Year In, Year Out (1952 Methuen)
Winnie the Pooh and Eeyore's Tail (1953 Methuen)
- a pop-up picture book
Winnie the Pooh and the Bees (1953 Methuen)
- a pop-up picture book
The World of Pooh (1958 Methuen)
- Ernest H Shepard
The World of Christopher Robin (1959 Methuen)
- Ernest H Shepard
The Pooh Story Book (1965 Dutton)
(1967 Methuen)
- Ernest H Shepard
Prince Rabbit and The Princess who Could Not Laugh (1966 Ward Lock)
- Mary Shepard
The Christopher Robin Verse Book (1969 Methuen)
- Ernest H Shepard
Winnie the Pooh (1971 Methuen)
- repro of the orig MS in slipcase
Winnie the Pooh (1973 Methuen)
- first colour illustrated edition by Ernest H Shepard
When we Were Very Young (1974 Methuen)
- Shepard.
300 numbered & signed by Christopher Milne
The House at Pooh Corner (1974 Methuen)
- first colour illustrated edition by Ernest H Shepard
Winnie the Pooh Stories (1976 Methuen)
- 300 numbered & signed by Christopher Milne
Now We Are Six (1976 Methuen)
- 300 numbered & signed by Christopher Milne
Winnie the Pooh : Complete Collection of Stories & Poems
(1994 Methuen £29.99)
- Ernest H Shepard
READING
Frederick C Crews : The Pooh Perplex - A Freshman Casebook (1964 Dutton NY)
Christopher Milne : The Enchanted Places (1974 Eyre Methuen)
(1975 Dutton)
Christopher Milne : The Path Through the Trees (1974 Eyre Methuen)
Brian Sibley : A A Milne - A Hand List of His Writings for Children (1976 Henry Pootle Press)
(Ed)
Rawle Knox : The Work of E H Shepard (1979 Methuen)
Christopher Milne : The Hollow on the Hill (1982 Eyre Methuen)
(Ed)
Brian Sibley : The Pooh Sketch Book (1982 Methuen)
Tori Haring-Smith : A A Milne - A Critical Bibliography (1982 Garland, NY)
Ann Thwaite : A A Milne - His Life (1990 Faber £17.50)
Ann Thwaite : The Brilliant Career of Winnie-the-Pooh (1992 Methuen £14.99)
Jackie Wullschlarger : Inventing Wonderland (1995 Methuen £25)