Milne, A.A.. The Sunny Side. E. P. Dutton, New York, 1922.

Price: US$48.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: New York: E. P. Dutton, 1922 325 pp A collection of A.A. Milne's essays for Punch designed for American readers, first published in 1915. A New York reviewer endeed his remarks on the collection with, "Mr. Milne is at present in the trenches facing German bullets, so this will probably be his last book." No marks for prescience. Text is clean, tight nd unmarked. There is a stamp from "Editorial and News Department, Brooklyn Daily Eagle" on the front endpaper, no further library marks. A chip is missing from the bottom of page." x", in the introduction. Red boards are faded and stained. Pasted-on Title on spine is mostly gone. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition of 1500 Copies. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library.

Seller: Catron Grant Books, Rio Rancho, NM, U.S.A.

Milne, A.A.. THE RED HOUSE MYSTERY. E.P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1922.

Price: US$6500.00 + shipping

Description: First Printing. Octavo (20cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [x],277,[1]pp. Base of spine gently nudged, with a very faint $2.00 price rubber-stamped at upper rear endpaper, else clean throughout; very Near Fine, with the gilt bright and unrubbed. In the original dustjacket, showing light dust-soil, moderate wear, shallow loss to crown and rear flap fold, with a 1.5" x 2" triangular loss at lower rear panel, and numerous tears with attendant creases (eight of them neatly tape-mended on verso); withal, a presentable, unrestored, Very Good example. Milne's major contribution to the mystery genre, a novel both criticized (in print) by Raymond Chandler, and praised by Alexander Woollcott as "one of the three best mystery stories of all time." "This book is important because it was the first to inject such levity into investigation and to present the story as a humorous game. In the story, the master of the Red House is expecting his long-lost ne'er-do-well brother to return bringing a cloud of menace after fifteen years in Australia. The brother appears, is admitted to the house, and a shot rings out. Antony Gillingham arrives in time to hear the shot and decides to turn sleuth when it develops that the master of the house has disappeared. He teams up with his friend and fellow houseguest Bill Beverly, and they look into the lake, sift the library, survey timetables, and interview witnesses to the absolutely classic conclusion" (Pronzini & Muller, pp.577-578). One of the great "locked room" mysteries and a classic of the genre, continuously in print for a century. Scarce in dustjacket. Hubin, p.294; Barzun & Taylor 1599.

Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.