The Hunting of the Snark and Other Nonsense Verse
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Overview:
- Title: The Hunting of the Snark and Other Nonsense Verse
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Year: 1952
- Publisher: Peter Pauper Press
- Price: $2.00
- Pages: 91
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The Hunting of the Snark and Other Nonsense Verse
- Notes:
- 1st ed., 1st printing apparently
- Year not stated --inferred from library records (LCCN and OCLC, below) as "[1952]"
- Contents by Carroll, with page numbers, copied from the verified record of apparent reprint (see).
- Price from listing in publisher advertisement "For Christmas" NY Times 1952-10-26 pBR13, one of more than 100 listings. This one and most others are under the heading "Collectors' and Gift Editions", "... comes with a slipcase ...", all at $2.00: 11. Carroll: Hunting of the Snark and Others. Illus. by Watson. $2.00 Listed 1953-54-55 in three updated versions of the same advertisement, under "Collectors' and Gift Editions, $2.50 each", as number 14. No earlier hit found 2018-04-05 in automated search ('peter pauper' snark) of multiple newspapers. This does not confirm but does support year 1952.