The Hunting of the Snark
[Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, pseud. Lewis Carroll]
Publication Date: 1876
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Hardcover
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London: Macmillan, 1876. 8vo, xi, (2), 83, (3)pp, with a frontispiece and 8 full-page b/w wood-engraved illustrations after Henry Holiday and an "ocean chart" (actually blank) at p. 17. Original pictorial tan cloth, covers decoratively stamped in black with illustrations by Holiday, backstrip lettered in black, invisibly repaired, some wear to front hinge with abrasions to the black coated endpapers. § First edition, a pleasant copy of this great nonsense poem, which contains some of Carroll s best loved lines and Holiday s best illustrations. There was also a red cloth binding, issued as a special presentation binding: 100 were bound thus, 80 of which Dodgson inscribed at one go in the publishers' offices according to Maggs. Williams, Madan, and Green, 115. Seller Inventory # 106023
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Title: The Hunting of the Snark
Publication Date: 1876
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
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THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK - An Aghony in Eight Fits
Published by
Zodiac / Chatto & Windus, London, 1942
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Hardcover
Seller: Portman Rare Books, Tonbridge, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. PEAKE, Mervyn (illustrator). Very good condition, octavo, printed light card covers, some sun toning to covers, internally clean and bright, haunting illustrated on covers and throughout by Mervy Peake, 45 pages plus page of other books in the Zodiac series. [QP]. Seller Inventory # 013308
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The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony, in Eight Fits.
Published by
London Macmillan and Co, 1876
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
First edition, first impression; 8vo; 9 illustrations by Henry Holiday, including frontispiece, light toning and spotting to prelims, previous owner's signature to verso front free endpaper; publisher's cream pictorial cloth, spine and extremities slightly darkened, all edges gilt, An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves "Alice" tipped in, short split to inner hinge, lightly soiled, a good copy. First edition of Carroll's dark poem, describing 'with infinite humor the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature'. Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 115. Seller Inventory # 109288
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [and] Through the Looking Glass [and] The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems and Verses.
Published by
New York and London Harper & Brothers Publishers ; 1903, 1902
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Hardcover
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
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3 vols, 8vo (227 x 160 mm); First vol: frontispiece photogravure of Lewis Carroll, 40 black & white illustrations by Peter Newell, further text decoration by Robert Mary Wright; Second vol: frontispiece photogravure of Peter Newell, also with 40 illustrations; Third vol: colour frontispiece and 39 further illustrations, slight age toning to paper but clean; publisher's cream paper-covered boards, each with a gilt vignette to upper cover, top edge gilt, other pages untrimmed, browning and light dust-soiling, offsetting to free endpapers, ink ownership to second upper blank endpaper of first, dated 1906, corresponding green dust-jackets, spines and edges browned, the first with abrasion to front panel, the first and third reinforced on spine-folds, the third with a short tear to upper spine-fold, otherwise very good and internally near-fine. Seller Inventory # 111819
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