Once on a Time

Milne, A. A.

Published by Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1917

About this Item

1917 First Edition. Size octavo, 316 pages. Blue cloth covered boards with illustrated paper title label to the front cover, red titles to the spine. Conditon very good, corners and spine edges rubbed, cloth split along rear hinge, spine sunned, hinges cracked, end-papers toned, gift inscription to front end-paper, a couple of spots to first and last few pages, pages slightly toned, light marks to margins of a couple of pages, else contents clean. With illustrations by H. M. Brock; black and white line illustration chapter headings and full page plates on glossy paper including colour frontispiece. Written by A. A. Milne, before any of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, during the First World War, his first Children's book. Though as his dedication to his wife states it is not his book, but theirs, his wife had first suggested he "write a little play for yourself and the Colonel's children to act" and that she had written down the ideas that came in to his head during the evenings after his day's work with the 4th Royal Warwickshire Regiment was over, and he goes on to dedicate the book to the Officers and Men of the Regiment.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Once on a Time
• Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton, London
• Publication Date: 1917
• Language: English
• Binding: Cloth Bound Boards
• Illustrator: H. M. Brock
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good