The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits
by LEWIS CARROLL
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Potomac, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Fine in original pictorial cloth in slipcase with slight stain. Illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. A fine copy. First Folio Society First edition thus.
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
- Grinning Cat Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31533
- Title
- The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits
- Author
- LEWIS CARROLL
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1976
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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