JEROME, Jerome K. Three Men in a Boat. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith. 1889.
8vo. Original green cloth with titles in gilt to spine and black to upper; pp. [6], 315, [1] [2 (ads)]; extremities lightly rubbed, off-setting to endpapers, creasing to front board, but internally clean; a good copy; contemporary ownership signature in ink to ffep.
First edition of Three Men in a Boat.
"Jerome's reputation as a humorist was firmly established with the publication of the classic Three Men in a Boat (1889), subtitled (to say nothing of the dog), which depicts a series of comic episodes on a riverboat trip up the Thames. It has been translated into many languages and filmed three times, with a television production in 1979. Its combination of light-hearted satire, sharp dialogue, and slapstick has made it perennially popular, and it is the book for which Jerome is remembered" (ODNB).
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