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"Lewis Carroll". The Hunting of the Snark

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first edition, illustrations by Henry Holiday, 1p. advertisements, light dust-soiling to title, a few minor marginal marks, original red gilt-pictorial cloth, gilt, shelf-lean, rubbed at edges, frayed at spine ends, splitting slightly at lower joint, g.e., 1876.

***"...the other colours seem to have been bound specially for Dodgson, who wrote to Macmillan on 21 Mar. 1876 ordering; '100 in red and gold, 20 in dark blue and gold, 20 in white vellum and gold". The Lewis Carroll Handbook, by Williams, Madan, Green, edited by Crutch..

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