The Hunting Of the Snark

London: Macmillan & Co, 1876. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo. Frontispiece, 83pp., (1)pp. ad. Illustrated by Henry Holiday with nine full page wood engravings. Bound in pictorial buff cloth also designed by Holiday, binding signed with his initials; all edges gilt, black endpapers; small loss at spine ends, light toning to spine. A very good… Saber más sobre este artículo

1876 1st/1st Hunting of the Snark Lewis Carroll Illustrated Fantasy Alice Holiday "If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't." – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll was the author of numerous children's and fantasy stories in the 19th-century, and none were… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Macmillan and Co.,, 1876. First edition. The poem "describes with infinite humour the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature. It has been called the 'Odyssey of the Nonsensical'... The poem is marked off from the two Alice books by not being written primarily for children" (The Lewis Carroll Handbook). Octavo. Original buff cloth,… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. First edition of Carroll's whimsical nonsense poem. Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth, all edges gilt, with nine illustrations by Henry Holiday. Near fine in the scarce original dust jacket. The jacket is complete with the top third of the front panel bent behind, hence the different shade of color. Copies of the first edition… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Macmillan and Co, 1891. Hardcover. Near Fine. Reprint. Decorated red cloth. Very attractive bookplate of Alice V. Clapp on the front paste down, a lovely near fine copy.

London: Macmillan, 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition first printing 1993, of this trade printing of the previous limited edition letter and block press edition. Hardback back book is tight clean and square. Boards sharp and clean. Title gilt perfect. Spine ends and board corners sharp.… Saber más sobre este artículo

London : Macmillan and Co., 1876. 1st edition, 1st issue. Hardback. Bookplate of Laura Joseph. Finely bound in full, contemporary aniline calf. Raised bands with contrasting gilt-blocked labels. Inner gilt dentelles. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. An exceptional copy.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 83 pages; Final page of publisher's advertisements. Physical desc.: xi, [3], [3]-83 p.… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Macmillan and Co, 1876. First Edition in Presentation Bi. Hardcover. Good. First edition in variant presentation binding of scarlet cloth (intended to match Alice in Wonderland) stamped in gilt, all edges gilt. Though typically found in buff cloth with black stamping, Lewis Carroll wrote to his publisher ordering copies in various colors stamped in gilt, intended for… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Macmillan and Co., 1876 Illustrated by Henry Holiday. First edition, first printing, with "baker" on p. 83 and a single leaf of publisher's advertisements. Publisher's decorative light tan boards with illustrations by Holiday in black, lettered in black, all edges gilt, black endpapers. Near fine, with a touch of soiling to front board, moderate toning to spine, a touch… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Michael Dempsey 1975. 4to. 71 pp, illustrated in black and white, lacking half of title page, a presentation copy from Ralph Steadman to Reginald Bosanquet the ITN news reader, from Ralph to Reggie with a sketch drawn on the half title page remaining, some creasing and fading to dustwrapper. 0904518086 . Very Good. Hardcover. 1975.

London : The Whittington Press, 1975. Cloth. Fine. 12" by 8". Harold Jones. A limited edition copy of this poem by Lewis Carroll, which has been signed by the illustrator. With many illustrations throughout by Harold Jones, who has signed the book to the rear. Numbered 5 of 750 limited copies. Containing… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Macmillan and Co, 1876. First edition. Near Fine. One of approximately 100 copies in the publisher's deluxe binding of red cloth. Full gilt illustration on the front cover, all page edges gilt, dark blue end papers, Burn bindery ticket on the rear paste-down. A Near Fine copy overall with just slight signs of use, and completely unrestored. … Saber más sobre este artículo

London, Macmillan and Co., 1876. . First edition, first impression; 8vo; 9 illustrations by Henry Holiday, including frontispiece, light toning and spotting to prelims, previous owner's signature to half-title; publisher's cream pictorial cloth, all edges gilt, spine and extremities slightly darkened, quite pronounce cockling to cloth, more evident on upper board; first issue of An Easter Greeting to Every… Saber más sobre este artículo

London : MacMillan and Co., 1876. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Spine worn with some wear and tear. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xi, 83 p. : front., ill. ; 19 cm. Notes; 'Baker', not Butcher on p. 83. Subjects; Lew Carroll (1832-1898). 19th century… Saber más sobre este artículo

1876. With Nine Illustrations by Henry Holiday. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. 1 page undated ads. Original deep red cloth pictorially decorated in black, all page edges gilt. First Edition, special dark-red binding, which consisted of 100 copies. This is a poetical nonsense tale, both funny and subtle, that "describes with infinite humour the impossible voyage of an… Saber más sobre este artículo

London : Macmillan, 1876 Bound in red cloth with gilt borders, decorations and titles, aeg, 83 pp plus 1 pp ads, eighteenth thousand. Early printing published the same year as the first edition. This copy with some spotting , a nick at front gutter and wear to fore edge to the front cover. Tissue guard is present between the title… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1903. First Edition. Pictorial cloth. Very Good Plus/None [clear plastic sleeve added]. Peter Newell. 8vo (6" x 9"), decorative red cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover with gold caricature of "The Bellman" by Peter Newell on front cover, Illustrated by Newell with colored frontispiece (with tissue guard)… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Macmillan and Co, 1876. First Edition. Discreet blindstamp of a London bookshop on front endpaper; 1876 gift inscription; title page faintly offset from frontispiece tissue, as usual; covers a bit soiled and rubbed at extremities.. 8vo, 83pp; original pictorial cream cloth, a.e.g., coated black endpapers. A presentable copy of Carroll's great nonsense poem, distinguished by the presence… Saber más sobre este artículo

London:: Macmillan and Co.,, 1931.. Later edition.. full green polished calf, gilt vignette on front panel; gilt spine; a.e.g, by Riviere; in a custom cloth slipcase. . Spine slightly sunned; otherwise fine. Handsomely bound.. 16mo,. With nine illustrations by Henry Holiday..

London: Macmillan, 1924. Red boards have minor marks to back and no wear. Internally there is age toning to endpapers else a very clean, tight and unmarked copy. 83 pages + 9 illustrations by the original illustrator Henry Holiday. The classic nonsense poem by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson which follows a crew of ten trying to hunt the Snark, a… Saber más sobre este artículo