Navy cloth binding with gilt title on the spine and front board.

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Still a very rare rendition

Is Tommy a boy or a girl? Tommy doesn’t know and Mr Peter Hope, hack journalist, can’t be sure since the waif standing before him is wearing both skirt and trousers

A profound book, but the ending is confusing A little girl is a daughter of Dick Danver and his ex-lover, right? If so, why they are coming to Tommy at the end, and why the little girl is so excited about meeting Tommy… if her mother died and Dick came back to Tommy or what?

Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 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 success. He died in 1927 and his body was cremated.