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Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: [139] pp. With One Hundred and Fifty Illustrations. 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed printed boards. First American edition. Rubbing and wear at the edges of the binding; boards stained; rear board (advertising "In the Press" Book of Nonsense is abraded, affecting just a few letters of the printing. Contents clean and fine except for a small tan stain at the marginal corner of four leaves.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Lear, Edward. Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets. James R. Osgood, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition. Illustrated. Stereotyped and Printed by Reed, Avery & Frye. 4to (210 x 163 mm). The American edition is much scarcer than the first English of the same year. Original cloth-backed printed boards (some rubbing at extremities, some pale staining). Provenance: Augustus Davies with his contemporary signature on title-page Illustrated. Stereotyped and Printed by Reed, Avery & Frye. 4to (210 x 163 mm)
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.