The Hunting of the Snark: an Agony in Eight Fits (Illustrated by Henry Holiday)
New York: Macmillan, 1898. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 53 pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on spine. Illustrations throughout by Henry Holiday. Some sunning on spine, bumping on top and bottom of spine. The initials H.S. in front end paper, otherwise book is in Very Good condition. vg. Item #17822
Work is a classic 8 piece "Literary Nonsensical" poem by the famous author and mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who's pen name was "Caroll Lewis." He was also the author of , "A Tangled Tale," "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," it's sequel "Through the Looking Glass" and "Jabberwocky."
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