The Hunting of the Snark an Agony in Eight Fits
by Carroll, Lewis
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket; Cloth; The Macmillan Co; 1898
- Seller
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Bangor, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
NY. Good with no dust jacket; Cloth; The Macmillan Co; 1898. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Good, spine and edges rubbed, slight spotting to boards, small tear to front free end paper. Nine black and white illustrations by Henry Holiday, 53 pages. Printed on the recto only. The poem borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from Carroll's earlier poem "Jabberwocky" in his children's novel Through the Looking Glass; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall .
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
- Bluestocking Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7530
- Title
- The Hunting of the Snark an Agony in Eight Fits
- Author
- Carroll, Lewis
- Illustrator
- Holiday, Henry
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket; Cloth; The Macmillan Co; 1898
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- NY
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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