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FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. CHRISTOPHER ROBIN'S OWN COPY. SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO THE TITLE PAGE, WITH A HANDWRITTEN POSTSCRIPT ON THE DEDICATION PAGE ADDRESSED TO CHRISTOPHER ROBIN, C R MILNE. ADDITIONALLY SIGNED BY BEULAH CAMPBELL. BEULAH CAMPBELL WAS A COLLEGE LECTURER AND LEFT A COLLECTION OF CHILDREN'S BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS TO APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY. MIRIAM E MASON BASED A CHARACTER, A SCHOOL TEACHER, ON BEULAH CAMPBELL IN HER BOOK KATIE KITTENHEART. C R MILNE RAN A BOOKSHOP IN DARTMOUTH (HARBOUR BOOKS) BUT WAS NORMALLY RETICENT TO DISCUSS HIS CHILDHOOD WITH CUSTOMERS BUT PERHAPS CHRISTOPHER MILNE AND BEULAH CAMPBELL STRUCK UP A RAPPORT ON THE BASIS THAT THEY HAD BOTH BEEN FICTIONALISED. THE BOOK IS WORN TO THE BASE OF THE SPINE, WITH SOME EDGEWEAR EXTERNALLY BUT IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION WITHIN. PLEASE SEE PHOTOGRAPHS. Seller Inventory # 000812
Title: GRANDFATHER TALES (CHRISTOPHER ROBIN ...
Publisher: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN, USA
Publication Date: 1948
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: BERKELEY WILLIAMS
Condition: Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
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