Those Were the Days. The Day's Play; The Holiday Round; Once A Week; The Sunny Side.

First edition, signed limited issue, number 226 of 250 copies, signed by the author. This volume comprises the first collected edition of four of Milne's works: The Day's Play, The Holiday Round, Once a Week, and The Sunny Side. Milne introduces the book in his "Prelude" stating "Here, within one volume, are collected the writings of a certain A.A.M.; who enjoyed himself weekly in the pages of Punch. If from 1916 to 1920, more particularly from 1906 to 1914, he wrote nothing worth preserving, then this book shall be testimony of it". Milne became assistant editor of Punch in 1906, aged just 24. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, single filet border with tudor-style rose cornerpieces and facsimile signature to front board in gilt, top edge gilt. With dust jacket. Minor rubbing to extremities; jacket unclipped, chipping to spine ends and corners, spine browned, panels slightly soiled. A near-fine copy in very good jacket.