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Three men in a Boat
by JEROME Jerome K
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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About This Item
Bristol: J W Arrowsmith, 1889 Later but early corrected impression of the first edition, with '11 Quay Street, Bristol' address, slate blue grey cloth cover in black with border title author and vignette of a punt. Spine gilt title / author/ device. corners and edges rubbed, 5mm hole lower joint. Top part of front paste down has been removed showing the book board beneath. Facing page is half title with a bookseller stamp. 315 pp + 3pp adverts including rear paste down. One leaf has edge faults due to careless opening. Throughout there may be some soiling and fingermarks etc to the pages but this is usually superficial, have noticed one or two light pencil lines. Line vignettes etc in the text. . reprint. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by A Frederics. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
Synopsis
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel.
Reviews
On Sep 4 2019, a reader said:
Laugh out loud hysterical! Every other line is hilarious! I made the mistake of reading this in public not realizing how funny it is! My advice is not to do that! You will not be able to stop the guffaws, snickers, chuckles from bursting forth. Mr. Jerome certainly knew how to write a witty and fantastic story. I'm happy that I found this masterpiece.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000439
- Title
- Three men in a Boat
- Author
- JEROME Jerome K
- Illustrator
- A Frederics
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- reprint
- Publisher
- J W Arrowsmith
- Place of Publication
- Bristol
- Date Published
- 1889
- Keywords
- british humour classic narrow boat canal
- Bookseller catalogs
- HUMOUR & CARTOONS;
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About Fortuna Books
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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