Three Men on the Bummel
by Jerome, Jerome K
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good, wartime reprint in 1940 of Arrowsmith's original (1900), 27th impression; no d/j, green clothbound boards, spine fade
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1940. 27th imp. h/b. Very good, wartime reprint in 1940 of Arrowsmith's original (1900), 27th impression; no d/j, green clothbound boards, spine faded, gilt spine titling; text block firm, browned pages crisp and unmarked.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Three Men on the Bummel (also known as Three Men on Wheels) is a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome. It was published in 1900, 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 #
- IYC132979
- Title
- Three Men on the Bummel
- Author
- Jerome, Jerome K
- Format/Binding
- H/b
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, wartime reprint in 1940 of Arrowsmith's original (1900), 27th impression; no d/j, green clothbound boards, spine fade
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 27th imp
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J. W. Arrowsmith
- Place of Publication
- Bristol
- Date Published
- 1940
- Pages
- 259
- Size
- 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5"")
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fiction, comedy, humour, Jerome
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand 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.
- 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...
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....