Three Men on Wheels
by Jerome, Jerome K. (illus. Harrison Fisher)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good, 1st USA edition; no d/j, grey clothbound boards, black pressed spine & cover titling; text block firm, browned pages
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1899. 1st USA. h/b. Very good, 1st USA edition; no d/j, grey clothbound boards, black pressed spine & cover titling; text block firm, browned pages crisp and unmarked; neat owner's inscription on title.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Three Men on Wheels is the US title of Three Men on the Bummel, a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome. It was published in 1899, eleven years after his most famous work, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog). The sequel brings back the three companions who figured in Three Men in a Boat, this time on a bicycle tour through the German Black Forest. D. C. Browning's introduction to the 1957 Everyman's edition says ""Like most sequels, it has been compared unfavourably with its parent story, but it was only a little less celebrated than Three Men in a Boat and was for long used as a school book in Germany."" Jeremy Nicholas of the Jerome K. Jerome Society regards it as a ""comic masterpiece"" containing ""set pieces"" as funny or funnier than those in its predecessor, but, taken as a whole, not as satisfying due to the lack of as strong a unifying thread.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC132984
- Title
- Three Men on Wheels
- Author
- Jerome, Jerome K. (illus. Harrison Fisher)
- Format/Binding
- H/b
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, 1st USA edition; no d/j, grey clothbound boards, black pressed spine & cover titling; text block firm, browned pages
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st USA
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1899
- Pages
- 301
- Size
- 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5"")
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, comedy, humour, Jerome
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
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