Four Days Wonder by Milne a a (37 results)

Paperback. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 'Four Days' Wonder' by A. A. Milne. Methuen and Co Ltd 1933 second edition. The book sits a little off square and the spine is ver lightly sunned. VG. No dust jacket.

Paperback. Condition: New. Jenny Windell is obsessed with murder mysteries, so when she discovers her estranged aunt dead at her country home, the stage is set for her own investigation.Worried that being the first at the scene of the crime will make her a suspect and ruin her inquiry, she flees. On the run, she befriends Derek Fenton, the dashing younger brother of acclaimed crime writer Archibald Fenton, and persuades him to join her in her attempts to solve the crime and outsmart dim-witted Inspector Marigold.An affectionate send-up of the classic Golden Age murder mystery, this charming comedy is A. A. Milne at his most delightful.

Condition: Fair. 1940. 319 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Orange cloth. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with moderate foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Boards are notably bowed. Book has a prominent forward lean. Moderate water marks to boards and spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Signed by the previous owner. There is gilt on the spine of the book. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and uncut edges. The cloth on the spine of the book is slightly frayed and chipped. Internally, there are no markings or inscriptions, and the pages are immaculately clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

7.5" X 5", orange cloth, double gilt border to upper board, gilt bands and titles to spine, pp. {i - vi} vii - viii, {1 - 2} 3 - 319 1933 first edition, very good, minor stains to upper boards, minor glue spot on ffep, previous owner's signature on title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Original orange/tan cloth boards with double rule gilt border on front cover, a very good copy lacking a dustjacket. Postage will be reduced for this book. ; 190 x 125mm; viii, 320 pages.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. The Albatross 205, orange softcover, edges darkened, some rubbing, all VG.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing, London,1933. A fine book in the original cloth binding. Clean with contents excellent. In a near fine original dust jacket that is price clipped. Very attractive book and jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition. Original, orange cloth with gilt-letters and decor, 319pp. Author's first mystery. Faint toning to spine and page margins, else book and dust jacket in fine condition. A lovely copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Gilt ruled orange cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Nice bookseller label affixed on rear pastedown, spine tanned, cloth with small stains, else a very good or better copy lacking the dustwrapper.

319 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Very slight browning to endsheets; pencil name to front free endpaper; else a nice copy in a bright jacket with some light wear to the edges, particularly at the bottom. Quite attractive.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition, with "First Published in 1933" on copyright page and "7/6 net" price intact on front dj flap; Near Fine gilt-stamped orange cloth boards in a Near Fine unclipped brown paper dust jacket; very minor shelf stress to edges and extrems; very slight softening to spine ends and corners; top edge lightly dust dulled; very light tanning to margins of endpapers; else a pristine and very tight copy; dust jacket has very minor edge stress to panels and spine ends, with very light creasing to top edges; else a pristine, bright, and crisp dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Publisher's gilt-titled yellow-orange cloth. First edition "first published in 1933." Endpages slightly toned, top block edge lightly stained. Tight and unmarked. The DJ in mylar has interior tape to spine head, tiny hole to joint. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Four Days Wonder by A. A. Milne (First Edition) A tight square copy. Unread. Minor edge wear. Clear protective dust jacket. First published in 1933, stated. An amusing mystery by the acclaimed author of Winnie the Pooh. Orange cloth in plain brown lettered-in-black dust jacket. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. 1933 second edition hardback in good condition. SIGNED BY A A MILNE on the title page. A little foxing to page edges. Front free end paper is missing. No other marks, clean and bright, tight binding. The red cloth boards with gilt spine are in very good condition, some sunning to spine. In its original, unclipped dust wrapper with chipping to edges and general shelf wear, but quite serviceable. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day. Please note our excellent customer feedback. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition 1933. Signed by the author to the title page. From the library of Hugh Walpole with His Bookplate. First Impression of this murder mystery by the author of Winnie-the-Pooh. Book is very good++ with quite bright boards. Contents good. The wrapper is very good and bright. Edges rubbed and nicked. Very small loss to spine tips. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 17866. Signed by Author(s).

First printing. Inscribed first edition of this meta murder mystery novel by the author of the Pooh books, with a wonderful 10-line original poem by Milne to a close friend about how little he is paid as the author of the book. This copy is inscribed to Vincent Seligman, a close friend of Milne's with whom he carried on a decades-long correspondence, as well as regular visits for tea or playing golf. An author himself, Seligman dedicated his book OXFORD ODDITIES to Milne in 1923, one year before Milne was launched to fame as the author of WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG, the first Pooh book. The inscription reads: "When I ponder / On the beauties of Four Days Wonder / And realize / That this copy, which may cost him 7/6 (net). is his / Out of which, God willing, / I may get as much as a whole shilling, / Then I see that a murder / Has been made about Four Days Wonder, / And that in the case of a first-class book like this / the real sin is / In not offering it as a couple of guineas." The poem accurately reflects the price of the book upon publication (the original dust jacket price here shows "7/6 net"), and it also plays upon the subject matter of the novel: a murder mystery. An amusing inscription, of interest to book historians as well as Milne collectors. 7.5'' x 5''. Original orange cloth double-ruled in gilt, gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped (7/6 net) brown typographic dust jacket. viii, 319, [1] pages. Inscribed by Milne with 10-line original poem on fly leaf; a pencil notation facing the inscription reads "[inscribed for Vincent Seligman]." Jacket with a few short closed tears repaired with tape on verso, touch of sunning to spine. Book with spine lean, faint spotting primarily to text block edges. Cloth fresh. Very good plus in very good jacket.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., [1933]. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 288pp. Moderate soil and wear to jacket and cloth margins, jacket spine panel a bit sunned, endpapers quite browned, else Very Good and sound. The creator of Winnie-the-Pooh turns his hand once again to crime fiction which Alexander Woollcott judged "generally satisfactory.".

First Edition. Ownership inscription; nearly fine in dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.

London: Methuen & Co.1933. 8vo. Original publisher's orange cloth with gilt lettering; brown dust jacket with black lettering; pp. [viii], 319, [3]; foxing to all edges and some minimal spotting to preliminaries, faint markings to top of front board, otherwise very good. First edition with a loosely inserted invitation for review from Methuen & Co Ltd. PublishersFrom the author of the much loved childrens classic, Winnie The Pooh, comes this rather different comedy murder mystery explained in the blurb through opposites, "It is not a detective story, although there is a body in it; nor is it a humourus book, although there is a laugh on every page; nor a romance, although there is a hero and heroine.The book revovles around teenage Jenny who, with her head always in the clouds, discovers the body of her Aunt Jane and realises that she has, as witness, become an obvious suspect to the crimeâ¦.

First American edition, 8vo, pp. 288; original green cloth stamped in gilt and black; binding soiled and spine a little sunned; original printed dust jacket (supplied?) with a few minor breaks and chips at extremities, spine sunned. This copy with a warm inscription from Milne, "For Bob (?) / with my love / specially bound in green to make the owner of the English edition jealous / Blue / Christmas 1933." 'Blue' was Milne's nickname, possibly for his blue eyes, and possibly because he was inclined to dress in blue.