THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK
by CARROLL, LEWIS
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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PASADENA, California, United States
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About This Item
WHITE INK, 1975. Book. Illus. by RALPH STEADMAN. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). FIRST. Title page, limitation page, and 6 etched plates interleaved with archival tissue in black cloth portfolio. 32x47 cm (12x18"). No. 17 of 65 copies. First Edition. Title page and each plate signed and numbered in pencil by the artist. Superb limited edition suite of Steadman's etchings, which were reproduced as illustrations in the 1975 Studio Vista edition of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark. Etchings printed on 140 lbs. J. Green Mould made rag paper..
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
- VAGABOND BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- P4
- Title
- THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK
- Author
- CARROLL, LEWIS
- Illustrator
- RALPH STEADMAN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- FIRST
- Publisher
- WHITE INK
- Date Published
- 1975
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