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Item Details
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| Author: |
Carroll, Lewis |
| Title: |
The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony, in Eight Fits |
| Place: |
London |
| Publisher: |
Macmillan & Co. |
| Date: |
1876 |
| Item # : |
192152 |
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| Sale Number |
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377 |
| Lot Number |
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18 |
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| Fine Literature; Beats, Bukowski & the Counter Culture; Sci-Fi & Detective Fiction |
| Sale Date |
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04/03/2008 |
| Price realized |
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$ 720 |
| includes 20% buyer's premium |
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| Description: |
| xi, [3], 83, [2] + 1 ad pp. Illustrated with frontispiece (included in pagination) & 8 full-page wood-engravings by Shain after Henry Holiday. 7¼x4¾, original pictorial buff cloth, all edges gilt. First Edition. |
| The pictorial cloth covers depict Bellman on the yard-arm of a ship, and a storm-tossed buoy, after the fanciful drawings of Holiday. Bookplate of Josephine Sullivan. |
| Condition: |
| Light edge wear and rubbing, slight lean; occasional finger-soiling; still a near fine copy. |
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