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Three Men in a Boat [1st Ed Second State]
by Jerome K. Jerome
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
J. W. Arrowsmith, 1889. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1889. 315 pages. No dust jacket. First Edition Second State, with the publisher's full address on title page only 8 titles on front paste down catalogue. Green cloth with black & gilt lettering. Illustrated by A. Frederics. B&W illustrations throughout. Mild brown stains (approx. 2cm) and finger smudging to pages on occasion. Notable tanning to endpapers and page edges. Moderate wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with small splits (approx. 1cm) and loss to spine ends. Distinct tanning to spine and board edges, with soiling, large and spotted stains, and other marks across the boards. Book has a forward lean.
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
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1670935648IEV
- Title
- Three Men in a Boat [1st Ed Second State]
- Author
- Jerome K. Jerome
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J. W. Arrowsmith
- Date Published
- 1889
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- Spine
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- Edges
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- Cloth
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- Acceptable
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- First Edition
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
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