The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems and Verses
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Overview:
- Title: The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems and Verses
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Year: 1903
- Publisher: Harper & Brothers
- Price: $3.00
- Pages: xiii+248+[40]
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits
- Notes:
- 1st ed.
- Price from advertisement by the publisher, The Sun (Baltimore) 1903-10-27 p9.
- HDL (catalog record, one more) provides full view of four copies with plain cloth covers (original?). The latter alone, from Library of Congress, is digitized in color: -- copyright page shows LC copyright deposit stamp, as received 1903-10-16 "Published October, 1903." -- Contents, p.iii-v -- "Illustrations", vii-xiii, lists 40 (col. frontispiece plus 39 b/w plates not included in the pagination), closes "Decorations by Robert Murray Wright" There is a border decoration on every printed page except the title leaf.
- Contents listed below (2019-10-23) are the two longest poems in the collection, both from the first of its four parts. See the collection record.