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Lot 111
Sale 6417 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Sep 10, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$500 -
800
Price Realized
$320
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Lot Description
[Children's & Illustrated] Carroll, Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). The Hunting of the Snark an Agony, in Eight fits
London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. First edition, fist issue (with "Baker" on p. 83, line six). 8vo. xi, (iii), 83, (3) pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and eight engraved plates by Henry Holiday. Full crimson morocco, stamped in gilt, with the Banker stamped in gilt on front board, lightly soiled; all edges gilt; gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers; by Bayntun (Riviere); light scattered spotting to text; original buff cloth bound in at rear. Williams 31; William, Madan & Green 115
A finely bound copy of Lewis Carroll's highly amusing nonsense poem, that "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'" (Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch).
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