1876 1st/1st Hunting of the Snark Lewis Carroll Illustrated Fantasy Alice Holiday

1876 1^st/1^st 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 19^th-century, and none were more famous than ‘Alice.’ However, Carroll published others such as ‘The Hunting of the Snark’ – a nonsense poem using words such as ‘Jabberwocky’, jubjub, and Bandersnatch!

 

This rare first edition is complete with the nine illustrations by Henry Holiday and features the expected first edition points (noted below).

 

Item number: #17904

Price: $750

 

CARROLL, Lewis

 

The hunting of the snark: an agony in eight fits

 

London: MacMillan, 1876. First edition 1^st printing

 

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • xi, [3], 83, [3]
  • 9 illustrations
• Edition points:
  • No statement of printing
  • 83 – “Baker” instead of “Butcher”
• Provenance: Handwritten – J. Churton, 1876
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
  • Pictorial cloth
• Size: ~7.25in X 5in (18.5cm x 13cm)

 

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