(Association Copy) Useful and Instructive Poetry

Carroll, Lewis

Published by Geoffrey Bles, London, 1954

About this Item

SIGNED AND INSCRIBED at front end page -"Enid Shawyer from N. & V. Dodgson June 1954". Presented by descendants of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, to Carroll's friend Enid Stevens nee Shawyer, who he first met February 21, 1891, and they were friends until his death in 1898. Carroll wrote Useful and Instructive Poetry in 1845 when he was 13 years old for his younger brother and sister. Bound in pictorial cream cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, red and light green in publisher's original acetate dust jacket, Very Good, boards somewhat toned and soiled, in a Very Good acetate and paper dust wrapper, chips to the acetate at the edges. A marvelous Association Copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 010081

Bibliographic Details

• Title: (Association Copy) Useful and Instructive Poetry
• Publisher: Geoffrey Bles, London
• Publication Date: 1954
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Poetry