Some Limericks Collected for the Use of Students Ensplendour'd with Introduction Geographical Index and with Notes Explanatory and Critical by Norman Douglas (28 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.3.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Clean and firmly bound with no writing inside, creases on the top corner of the back cover also slightly affecting the last page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is clean. DJ has light edge rubbing, light overall shelf wear. Geographical index not included. Many limericks, most with erotic, bawdy, sexual tone, with commentary by British novelist Norman Douglas (1868-1952). Originally published in 1928. 8.5" (18.5 cm) tall; 87 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American edition thus, by this publisher. Octavo. 94pp. A fine copy in fine dust jacket; jacket has small price sticker on front flap (obscuring original printed price), else fresh and bright. Issued by Grove Press as a "Black Circle Book" GP-409.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Not for sale, issued for subscribers only. One of 750 copies signed by the author. Large 8vo, brown buckram. Covers worn, spine faded, front free endpaper wanting. Signed by Author(s).

Taschenbuch. Condition: Befriedigend. 117 Seiten Nicholson 1942 : Norman Douglas - Perfect tb 7J-4YUU-553K Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 27.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine price clipped dust jacket. First Printing stated.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited edition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Limited to 750 copies. Minor wear to the boards. Sound binding. Clean inteiror pages, Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.3.

Hardcover. First Edition. Tall octavo (6-1/2" x 9-7/8") bound in publisher's brown cloth; 97 pages. A compilation of choice, often bawdy limericks. One of 750 copies, this not numbered. Small, neat owner name on front pastedown. Light rubbing to spine. Near Fine.

First edition thus. 12mo. 116 pp. No. 96 of 1000 copies. Hardcover binding, light wear along spine, else very good condition. (43198).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Hardcover Octavo. half leather, papered boards, gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 116 pp bound with the original covers boards lightly worn Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

First edition. 8vo. 92 pp. No. 365 of 750 numbered copies. Cloth binding, black lettering cover and spine, light surface wear, else very good condition. (87707).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Unrecorded variant of the second American edition-- not noted by Woolf (see Woolf A27g, differing from Woolf A27g as follows: front cover and spine stamped in gilt (Woolf calls for black stamping), leaves measure 9 inches (instead of 9 1/16), page 96 is numbered, otherwise paginated as A27g, and also printed on "yellow-tinted glazed laid paper"). Tall octavo. 96pp. Orange cloth, stamped in gilt. Hinges cracked, spine lightly sunned, very good.

First Edition. Very Good condition. Limited to 750 numbered copies, this being #457. Very Good condition. Later re-issued by Grove Press.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Second edition, printed in Germany, 98 pages, near fine condition in canvas covered boards, titled on front board and spine, text in fine, clean condition, boards slightly warped with fair condition plain paper wrapper (dust marked, edges and corners worn with some loss, heaviest at the top and bottom of the spine, now protected in a removable plastic cover)\z. |Oner of an edition of 1000 unnumbered copies.

Condition: Good. 1928 1st Privately Printed. Limited to 750 copies. Sm.4to., 97pp., hardcover. Good, leaves a bit browned, cover browned and lightly worn. In new clear glassine protective jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Second Continental edition, and first edition printed in Germany. Tall octavo. Gray coarse cloth, spine and front cover lettered in red, publisher's yellow top edge stain. Boards slightly splayed, else a fine copy issued without dust jacket. Limited to 1000 numbered copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Issued in a LIMITED EDITION of 750 copies. A bawdy, satirical compilation of choice limericks by the fabled Gay writer Bound in golden rough linen (first state, according to Woolf) with gilt titles. A clean, tight, unmarked copy. Extremely scarce in this fine condition.

1 vols. Lg. 8vo. First American edition, limited to 750 copies for subscribers, preceded by the very limited Florence edition. 1 vols. Lg. 8vo. NCBEL 4:564 Originl brown cloth. Some light rubbing of cloth, light browning of text. A good copy First American edition, limited to 750 copies for subscribers, preceded by the very limited Florence edition.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback Octavo. blue wraps, 97 pp #628 of 1000 covers are lightly worn Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. First This Edition. 97 pp, buff/light beige cloth (almost like a buckram), title & author stamped in black on spine; this edition is not numbered, inscription (from 1945) on the front fep signed by the noted Washington attorney Prew Savoy; minor soiling to boards, toning to endpapers & pastedowns. [07].

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition, unrecorded piracy not noted by *Woolf* A27a* (differing in a number of ways from *Woolf* A27 including: binding is stamped on spine only, stamped in black, front cover plain, leaves measure 9 1/2 by 6 3/16 inches, verso of half-title blank. Large octavo. 98pp. Rough tan linen (*Woolf* calls for "golden rough linen"), flat spine stamped in black, lettered (up): "Norman Douglas: Some Limericks". Cloth is tanned on spine and extremities, covers moderately foxed, a number of pages of text have two small indentations in fore-edge margin, else a very good copy, with the text fresh and clean. An unrecorded piracy of *Some Limericks,* with 1928 publication date. "The bibliography of 'Some Limericks' is as tangled as an old sewing-basket, and it is not surprising. that patient research has failed to penetrate the shady sponsorship of the later editions." - *Woolf* p. 93.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition thus. Orange cloth gilt. Very slight soiling, and barely noticeable fading to the spine, about fine. One of 750 numbered copies for subscribers, none of which were for sale. This particular copy has been designated by Douglas as copy number (Roman Numeral) I and Inscribed: "For S.A. / N.D. 4-1928.".

8vo. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Privately Printed for Subscribers only. Limited edition of 750 copies of which this is numbered 162. Original cloth with lettering to the front and to spine. Some age toning and light rubbing to the cloth mostly to the spine. Binding is strong and square and contents are clean. Small previous owner's bookplate to the front free endpaper.

Limited edition, no. 194 of 1,000 copies, large 8vo, 97, (1) pp. Original linen boards, plain d.w. with the limitation number stamped to the upper wrapper, some mild marks and a few small tears.

1 vols. Lg. 8vo. Condition: Originl brown cloth. Fine. First American edition, Limited to 750 copies for Subscribers, preceded by the very Limited Florence edition. 1 vols. Lg. 8vo. NCBEL 4:564 First American edition, Limited to 750 copies for Subscribers, preceded by the very Limited Florence edition.

97 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First American edition, no. 350 of an edition of 750 copes. 97 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Issued by David Moss of the Gotham Bookmart, there were several imitations of this edition (see Woolf, pp. 98-9). With the gallows bookplate of American popular author and Fortean Tiffany Thayer (1902-1959), who was born in Illinois and became a copyboy on a Chicago newspaper at age 15 and worked for a time a an actor and reporter before moving to New York in 1926. He landed in advertising and soon began to write Thirteen Men, which became a best selelr when published in 1930. Thayer had a long connection with Charles Fort, writing the introduction to Lo! (1931) and founding the Fortean Scoiety with Theodore Dreiser that same year. Woolf A27f Original rough brown linen. Some toning to spine, light rubbing. Bookplate of Tiffany Thayer First American edition, no. 350 of an edition of 750 copes.

N.P. Privately printed, 1928. Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth. (98pp.). Ed. lim. to 750 copies, this being No. 392. Uncut.