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Samuel Robert Scargill-Bird - One and a Half in Norway, a Chronicle of Small Beer

Title: One and a Half in Norway, a Chronicle of Small Beer
Description: London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1885 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent copy of the scarce first edition of Samuel Robert Scargill-Bird's humorous travelogue, in the publisher's original cloth binding.  A charming account of the voyage and travels of 'One and a Half' from England to Norway, and the various people they encounter and sites they visit on the way.The introduction prepares the reader for the 'novel and interesting' journey that will be relayed.Following in the vein of the 1882 work 'Three in Norway', an amusing travelogue that was said to inspire Jerome K. Jerome's 'Three Men in a Boat', referred to in the preface as 'a most charming book&apos. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally excellent, with shelf wear to back strip head and tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

Keywords: Three in Norway three men in a boat norway three men in a boat None

Price: GBP 250.00 = appr. US$ 357.00 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 827F36

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