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London: The Leadenhall Press Ltd, 1893. First. Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927) was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889) Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat; and several other novels Jerome was born in Walsall, England, and, although he was able to attend grammar school, his family suffered from poverty at times, as did he as a young man trying to earn a living in various occupations In his twenties, he was able to publish some work, and success followed He married in 1888, and the honeymoon was spent on a boat on the Thames; he published Three Men in a Boat soon afterwards He continued to write fiction, non-fiction and plays over the next few decades, though never with the same level of successIn tan cloth with black titles on spine and front cover Minor bumping and soiling to covers, but overall the binding is quite sound Very slight random foxing inside, but the text has no marks or damage at all 292 + ( p ads pp.