Jerone Jerome (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by Wright. Illustrations by G. G. Frazer (illustrator). Reprint. First published in 1891, this is an umpteenth edition of 1955. Ex library with usual stamps and defects. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed, some overall browning and slight time staining to jacket, price clipped, no personal inscriptions, internally tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age and ex library. 214pp, illustrated. The book tells of a trip undertaken by Jerome and his friend 'B' to see the Oberammergau Passion Play in Germany. They travel by train from London Victoria to Dover and have a rough overnight crossing of the English Channel to Ostend and thence by train to Cologne where they spend a night in a hotel. The following day they visit Cologne Cathedral before catching the train to Munich, travelling alongside the Rhine. They spend Sunday in Munich where Jerome practices his German before catching a train to Oberau and then a carriage to Oberammergau to see the play. They return via Heidelberg. Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927), was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat. Quite a scarce book.

Cloth. Condition: fine. The signed limited edition of Three Men in a Boat, To Say Nothing of the Dog! by Jerome K. Jerome. (illustrator). Limited Edition. Oblong quarto, xv, [1], 174, [2]pp. Three-piece binding, with linen sides printed in scarlet, slate, and yellow vertical stripes, ochre buckram, title stamped in gilt on spine. Introduction by Stella Gibbons, with drawings by John Griffiths. Designed by John Lewis and printed by W.S. Cowell Ltd. Housed in the publisher's slipcase, a fine example. Limited to 2000 numbered copies, signed by Griffiths on the colophon page, this being number 85. (LEC 480) (Newman, 487) A fine copy. First published in 1889, Jerome's comic novel follows three London friends and the dog, Montmorency, on a boating holiday along the Thames. Signed.