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Lewis Carroll. The Hunting Of The Snark. Chatto & Windus, 1941.
Price: US$16.11 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A little light shelf and reading wear. Blacked out name on the inside of the front cover. Lightly tanned pages.
Seller: SGOIS, Bungay, United Kingdom
Price: US$19.32 + shipping
Description: Illustrated by Mervyn Peake. Decorated boards. Lacks 75% of spine. Generally Good.
Seller: Black Cat Bookshop P.B.F.A, Leicester, United Kingdom
Lewis Carroll. The Hunting Of The Snark, an agony in eight parts. Chatto and Windus, London, 1941.
Price: US$20.61 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Red fabric on board covers with gilt title to spine, Light wear and fading. 46 numbered pages, b/w illustrated, unmarked but some light foxing, pages lightly but evenly yellowed, Binding secure but crack between p16/17. Size 13.5 x 21.3 cm
Seller: Buybyebooks, Honiton, United Kingdom
CARROLL Lewis, PEAKE Mervyn. THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK An Agony In Eight Fits. Chatto & Windus, 1941.
Price: US$30.92 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1964 sixth impression on yellow cloth
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Lewis Carroll & Mervyn Peake. The Hunting of The Snark. Chatto & Windus, 1941.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Hardbound, no dust jacket. 1st edition thus with Mervyn Peake illustrations. Part of backstrip missing. Wear & soiling to edges & corners of dust jacket, offsetting to end pages, otherwise good.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$44.34 + shipping
Description: 48pp. 8vo. Original pictorial papered boards, Black & white illustrations. A very good copy. First Mervyn Peake edition.
Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
Price: US$48.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Impression, Regular Issue. Near Fine in mustard coloured illustrated paper covered thin boards, as issued. 46pp. with one leaf of publisher's ads at end. Seventeen drawings including frontispiece and cover by Peake. Cvers a little rubbed.
Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom
Lewis Carroll. The Hunting Of The Snark An Agony in Eight Fits. London Chatto & Windus 1941, 1941.
Price: US$64.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Zodiac edition. Yellow pictorial boards and numerous black and white illustrations throughout by Mervyn Peake. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Previous owner's signature dated December 1941 on fep. A very nice copy.
Seller: Reader's Books, Petworth, United Kingdom
Price: US$83.74 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo: ix, 46pp. 15 b/w illustrations plus title page. Rubbed red cloth, without dust wrapper. Former owner's book plate on front fixed endpaper.
Seller: Westwood Books Sedbergh, Sedbergh, United Kingdom
Price: US$86.58 + shipping
Description: Deluxe edition. This edition bound in pink cloth with slightly rubbed and browned dust wrapper splitting on the spine. 1400 copies of this edition were printed, fewer than the Zodiac edition. PiP B2c
Seller: Michael S. Kemp, Bookseller, Sheerness, KENT, United Kingdom
Carroll, Lewis. The Hunting of the Snark : An Agony in Eight Fits. Chatto and Windus, London, 1941.
Price: US$96.62 + shipping
Description: 46 pages, illustrated in black and white. Decorated title-page and fifteen other illustrations, five full-page. Dedication on front free endpaper ' To Brian Fothergill, in token of a firm friendship,/ from Stephen Jenkins.' This is followed by a verse from The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace imitated by Mr. A. Pope - see the second picture for complete inscription. Brian Fothergill (1921 - 1990) was a biographer who had a particular empathy for those on the margins of history. Hb, no dw, in original soft red cloth, gilt titling to spine, now darkened to a point where it not easy to read. Small fragment of cloth at top of spine is partially detached, otherwise a very nice copy.
Seller: Trinders' Fine Tools, Clare, Sudbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$109.50 + shipping
Description: 208 x 130mm, greyish red cloth lettered in gilt on spine, pp.48. Decorated title-page & 15 illustrations in text (5 full-page). Armorial bookplate & neat contemporary ownership inscription on front pastedown. Small discoloration at head of lower cover, slightly affecting spine. Only 1,400 copies were issued in this format. Scarce.I specialise in Mervyn Peake. Enquiries welcome.
Seller: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: ix, [1], 11-44, [2] p. 22 cm. B&w illustrations. Pink cloth in mylar-covered pictorial dustjacket. Some soiling and chips to jacket. Also some soiling to inside, especially to p. 17, the last page of text, and rear endpapers. Tiny tear in bottom of p. 37. First published in 1876, this fanciful eight-canto poem describes the sea voyage of a bellman, boots, bonnet maker, barrister, broker, billiard marker, banker, beaver, baker, and butcher on a search for the elusive snark. Here the epic is illustrated by Mervyn Peake, who is said to have been paid only £ 5 for his work. If so, it seems a pity, for Peake's goofy pictures are the perfect accompaniment to Carroll's nonsense. First Edition with illustrations by Peake.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Carroll, Lewis.. The Hunting Of The Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits.. Chatto & Windus., London., 1941.
Price: US$161.03 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 46pp, illustrated by Mervyn Peake. DW is unclipped, lightly marked, with a little edge wear & a closed tear to the front panel. Internally, faint spotting to the page edges, else clean & unmarked. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: N. G. Lawrie Books, sheffield, United Kingdom