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The Hunting of the Snark
by Carroll, Lewis
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Warsaw, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
London : Macmillan, 1876 Bound in red cloth with gilt borders, decorations and titles, aeg, 83 pp plus 1 pp ads, eighteenth thousand. Early printing published the same year as the first edition. This copy with some spotting , a nick at front gutter and wear to fore edge to the front cover. Tissue guard is present between the title page and frontis and causing some offsetting. Otherwise a clean, tight sharp very good copy.
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
- Kerkhoff Books Div KSI
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002900
- Title
- The Hunting of the Snark
- Author
- Carroll, Lewis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1876
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children;
Terms of Sale
Kerkhoff Books Div KSI
Books returnable if not as described and returned in same condition as sent.
About the Seller
Kerkhoff Books Div KSI
Biblio member since 2006
Warsaw, Indiana
About Kerkhoff Books Div KSI
Primarily online seller with emphasis on better quality books.In the book business since the mid 1980s.
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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