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First edition, first impression, of the final Pooh book, which introduces both Tigger and the game of Poohsticks. Milne had bought his son a stuffed tiger, "Tigger", and told Shepard that he was longing to see the illustrations for this new character, who would become one of the author's most popular creations. Published on 11 October 1928, the work was received by critics with a delight tinged by sadness. "The Times Literary Supplement congratulated Milne on avoiding 'the temptation to repeat his successful formula mechanically', though it was 'sad to see the stories end'" (Thwaite, Life, p. 336). The House at Pooh Corner "is probably now the most loved and popular of all" in the series (ibid., Career, p. 109). Provenance: Colonel Thomas Gayer Gayer-Anderson CMG, DSO (1881–1960), an Irish soldier, draughtsman, and art collector, with his ownership inscription at the head of the front free endpaper: "Colonel Gayer-Anderson, 12.2.29". Anderson served in the Boer War in South Africa (1900-2) and in Europe during the First World War, later spending some time in Constantinople. In 1929, he retired to Little Hall, Lavenham, Suffolk, and turned to painting, exhibiting at the Royal Academy in the 1930s. With his brother Robert, he later bequeathed the house to the Surrey County Council as a hostel for art students. This copy was in the hostel's library, with the armorial bookplate and manuscript shelfmark on the front pastedown, stamp on the rear pastedown, and First edition, first impression, of the final Pooh book, which introduces both Tigger and the game of Poohsticks. Milne had bought his son a stuffed tiger, "Tigger", and told Shepard that he was longing to see the illustrations for this new character, who would become one of the author's most popular creations. Published on 11 October 1928, the work was received by critics with a delight tinged by sadness. "The Times Literary Supplement congratulated Milne on avoiding 'the temptation to repeat his successful formula mechanically', though it was 'sad to see the stories end'" (Thwaite, Life, p. 336). The House at Pooh Corner "is probably now the most loved and popular of all" in the series (ibid., Career, p. 109). Provenance: Colonel Thomas Gayer Gayer-Anderson CMG, DSO (1881–1960), an Irish soldier, draughtsman, and art collector, with his ownership inscription at the head of the front free endpaper: "Colonel Gayer-Anderson, 12.2.29". Anderson served in the Boer War in South Africa (1900-2) and in Europe during the First World War, later spending some time in Constantinople. In 1929, he retired to Little Hall, Lavenham, Suffolk, and turned to painting, exhibiting at the Royal Academy in the 1930s. With his brother Robert, he later bequeathed the house to the Surrey County Council as a hostel for art students. This copy was in the hostel's library, with the armorial bookplate and manuscript shelfmark on the front pastedown, stamp on the rear pastedown, and shelf marks pencilled on the jacket flaps. READ MORE Octavo. Original pink cloth, spine lettered in gilt, vignette of Christopher Robin, Pooh, and Piglet on front cover within gilt border, cream illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt. With dust jacket. Line drawings by E. H. Shepard. Spine cocked and slightly faded, couple of bumps at extremities, a little browning and bubbling to endpapers, a few spots of foxing to edges; jacket rubbed and toned, spine ends and corners chipped, partial loss of two letters at head of spine panel, without price as issued: a very good copy in like jacket. Payne IVa. Ann Thwaite, A. A. Milne: His Life, 1990; Thwaite, The Brilliant Career of Winnie-the-Pooh, 1992.

The House at Pooh Corner is a children's book by A.A. Milne, featuring Christopher Robin and his friends, including Winnie-the-Pooh and Tigger. This book introduces the character Tigger.