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The hunting of the snark: an agony in eight fits
by CARROLL, Lewis
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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About This Item
1876 1st/1st Hunting of the Snark Lewis Carroll Illustrated Fantasy Alice Holiday
"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't."
– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll was the author of numerous children's and fantasy stories in the 19th-century, and none were more famous than 'Alice.' However, Carroll published others such as 'The Hunting of the Snark' – a nonsense poem using words such as 'Jabberwocky', jubjub, and Bandersnatch!
This rare first edition is complete with the nine illustrations by Henry Holiday and features the expected first edition points (noted below).
Item number: #17904
Price: $750
CARROLL, Lewis
The hunting of the snark: an agony in eight fits
London: MacMillan, 1876. First edition 1st printing
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o xi, [3], 83, [3]
o 9 illustrations
· Edition points:
o No statement of printing
o p.83 – "Baker" instead of "Butcher"
· Provenance: Handwritten – J. J. Churton, 1876
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
o Pictorial cloth
· Size: ~7.25in X 5in (18.5cm x 13cm)
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Synopsis
If-and the thing is wildly possible-the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief but instructive poem, it would be based, I feel convinced, on the line (in p.4)
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- Bookseller
- Schilb Antiquarian Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17904
- Title
- The hunting of the snark: an agony in eight fits
- Author
- CARROLL, Lewis
- Illustrator
- Henry Holiday
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover; tight and secure
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- MacMillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1876
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1876 1st/1st Hunting of the Snark Lewis Carroll Illustrated Fantasy Alice Holidayrare, antique, old, first edition, 1st state, provenance, signed, inscribed, dust jacket, vellum, manuscript, engravings, illustrations, leather, plates, maps, antiquarian
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