i) Milne, A.A. Three Plays. Chatto and Windus, 1929, reprint, presentation copy inscribed by the author “Lesley | with love from | Blue | 6.v.48”; ii) Milne, A.A. First Plays. Chatto and Windus, 1928, reprint, presentation copy inscribed by the author “Lesley | with love from | Blue | 6.v.48”, loss to head and foot of spine; iii) Milne, A.A. The Red House Mystery. Methuen, 1943, twentieth edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author “Lesley | with love from | Blue | 6.v.48”; iv) Milne, C. The Path Through the Trees. Eyre Methuen, 1979, THE JOINT DEDICATION COPY (“For his Two Heroines | From their Author | with love | 6 August. 1979”) on front free endpaper, dust-jacket; v) Milne, C. The Enchanted Places. Eyre Methuen, 1974, presentation copy inscribed by the author “This is our copy. | It may be lent… | but it may not be | reproduced on microfiche | (whatever that may mean), | nor must it be sat on | by too many wet cats…” on front free endpaper, dust-jacket; vi) Milne, C. The Windfall. Methuen, 1985, THE DEDICATION COPY (“…So this is to you, but for whom | this book might have been | what it set out to be…”) on half-title, dust-jacket; vii) Milne, C. The Open Garden. Methuen, 1988, THE DEDICATION COPY (“Here, at long last and | before I give it away | to someone else, is our | own copy. It is | presented by the author | to his wife and cats. | Christopher | 23rd February 1989” on half-title; viii) Thwaite, Ann. A.A. Milne – His Life. Faber and Faber, 1990, presentation copy inscribed by the author “for Christopher Milne | from Ann Thwaite | with thanks - | 2 May 1990”, dust-jacket; all 8vo, original bindings, some spotting and browning, bindings worn and soiled (8)

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Christopher Milne married his first cousin, Lesley de Sélincourt, on 24 July 1948. The gift of three books from A.A. Milne to his future daughter-in-law on 6 May 1948, signing himself as “Blue”, does not betray the author’s distaste of Lesley. As Ann Thwaite notes in her biography of Milne, “…‘He would dislike his daughter-in-law’, Milne had written prophetically in Chloe Marr. He could not help comparing Lesley with Anne Darlington…”