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MP3 Audio CD. A Holiday in Bed (in Princess Mary's Gift Book ) PEOPLE have tried a holiday in bed before now, and found it a failure, but that was because they were ignorant of the rules. They went to bed with the open intention of staying there, say, three days, and found to their surprise that each morning they wanted to get up. This was a novel experience to them; they flung about restlessly, and probably shortened their holiday. The proper thing is to take your holiday in bed with a vague intention of getting up in another quarter of an hour. The real pleasure of lying in bed after you are awake is largely due to the feeling that you ought to get up. To take another quarter of an hour then becomes a luxury. You are, in short, in the position of the man who dined on larks. Had he seen the hundreds that were ready for him, all set out on one monster dish, they would have alarmed him; but getting them two at a time, he went on eating till all the larks were gone. His feeling of uncertainty as to… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. A Holiday in Bed (in Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 026 ) PEOPLE have tried a holiday in bed before now, and found it a failure, but that was because they were ignorant of the rules. They went to bed with the open intention of staying there, say, three days, and found to their surprise that each morning they wanted to get up. This was a novel experience to them; they flung about restlessly, and probably shortened their holiday. The proper thing is to take your holiday in bed with a vague intention of getting up in another quarter of an hour. The real pleasure of lying in bed after you are awake is largely due to the feeling that you ought to get up. To take another quarter of an hour then becomes a luxury. You are, in short, in the position of the man who dined on larks. Had he seen the hundreds that were ready for him, all set out on one monster dish, they would have alarmed him; but getting them two at a time, he went on eating till all the larks were gone. His feeling of… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. A Holiday in Bed (in Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 026 ) PEOPLE have tried a holiday in bed before now, and found it a failure, but that was because they were ignorant of the rules. They went to bed with the open intention of staying there, say, three days, and found to their surprise that each morning they wanted to get up. This was a novel experience to them; they flung about restlessly, and probably shortened their holiday. The proper thing is to take your holiday in bed with a vague intention of getting up in another quarter of an hour. The real pleasure of lying in bed after you are awake is largely due to the feeling that you ought to get up. To take another quarter of an hour then becomes a luxury. You are, in short, in the position of the man who dined on larks. Had he seen the hundreds that were ready for him, all set out on one monster dish, they would have alarmed him; but getting them two at a time, he went on eating till all the larks were gone. His feeling of… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. A Holiday in Bed (in Princess Mary's Gift Book ) PEOPLE have tried a holiday in bed before now, and found it a failure, but that was because they were ignorant of the rules. They went to bed with the open intention of staying there, say, three days, and found to their surprise that each morning they wanted to get up. This was a novel experience to them; they flung about restlessly, and probably shortened their holiday. The proper thing is to take your holiday in bed with a vague intention of getting up in another quarter of an hour. The real pleasure of lying in bed after you are awake is largely due to the feeling that you ought to get up. To take another quarter of an hour then becomes a luxury. You are, in short, in the position of the man who dined on larks. Had he seen the hundreds that were ready for him, all set out on one monster dish, they would have alarmed him; but getting them two at a time, he went on eating till all the larks were gone. His feeling of uncertainty as to… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. A Holiday in Bed (in Short Story Collection Vol. 055 ) PEOPLE have tried a holiday in bed before now, and found it a failure, but that was because they were ignorant of the rules. They went to bed with the open intention of staying there, say, three days, and found to their surprise that each morning they wanted to get up. This was a novel experience to them; they flung about restlessly, and probably shortened their holiday. The proper thing is to take your holiday in bed with a vague intention of getting up in another quarter of an hour. The real pleasure of lying in bed after you are awake is largely due to the feeling that you ought to get up. To take another quarter of an hour then becomes a luxury. You are, in short, in the position of the man who dined on larks. Had he seen the hundreds that were ready for him, all set out on one monster dish, they would have alarmed him; but getting them two at a time, he went on eating till all the larks were gone. His feeling of uncertainty as… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. A Holiday in Bed (in Short Story Collection Vol. 055 ) PEOPLE have tried a holiday in bed before now, and found it a failure, but that was because they were ignorant of the rules. They went to bed with the open intention of staying there, say, three days, and found to their surprise that each morning they wanted to get up. This was a novel experience to them; they flung about restlessly, and probably shortened their holiday. The proper thing is to take your holiday in bed with a vague intention of getting up in another quarter of an hour. The real pleasure of lying in bed after you are awake is largely due to the feeling that you ought to get up. To take another quarter of an hour then becomes a luxury. You are, in short, in the position of the man who dined on larks. Had he seen the hundreds that were ready for him, all set out on one monster dish, they would have alarmed him; but getting them two at a time, he went on eating till all the larks were gone. His feeling of uncertainty as… Read More

HardPress Publishing, 2012-08-01. Paperback. Good.

Books for Libraries, 1971-06. Hardcover. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Chicago: Neely's Tourist Library No. 22, 1898. Solid with a crease and a light roll on the spine, creases on the covers and the covers show light wear and some soiling. A manufacturing flaw has part of the printed text on one page missing. The previous owner's name is on the inside front cover in pencil.. 1st Printing. Paperback. Good +. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York Publishing Company, 1892. Hard Cover -- Good -- Other than light cover wear, pages clean and tight binding -- Blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering and beveled edges, no dust jacket if issued -- J. M. Barrie frontispiece -- First Edition as no prior printing noted. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

New York: New York Publishing Company, 1892. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. 12mo. 180pp., illustrated with a frontispiece portrait plate. Publisher's blue cloth over beveled boards, gilt spine, top edge gilt. The covers are moderately rubbed with light wear to the corner tips and right edge of front cover, a near fine, bright copy. Issued simultaneously in cloth and wrappers. *Block*, p. 11; *Cutler* 29.

NY: New York Publishing Company. VG/NO DUSTJACKET. 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. With a Short Biographical Sketch of the author. [In Addition] Enclosed is a 2 page letter from Thomas W. Schreiner Sept. 27, 1930 discussing this book and its rarity with ? Frederick Welty of Philadelphia. . Sm 8vo., 180 pp., Blue cloth. .

Philadelphia: New York Publishing Company, 1892. First Edition. Near fine. Small 8vo., 7 3/8 x 5 inches (188 x 127 mm), pp. 180, printed on heavy laid paper and illustrated with a frontispiece portrait plate Red calf binding by Root & Son with gold fillets and rosettes on boards, 5 raised bands, gilt decoration and titles in compartments, turn-ins decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, one original dark navy buckram cover and the dark navy spine with gilt title bound in, t.e.g., spine slightly sunned, interior lightly and uniformly toned, firmly bound. [Cutler 29]. This unauthorized collection of stories first appeared in several Scottish and British magazines between January 1886 and August 1990 and was never published in England. Sir James Matthew BARRIE, 1st Baronet, OM (1860 - 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of PETER PAN.