TWO LAUGHABLE LYRICS : The Pobble Who Has No Toes & The Quangle Wangle's Hat
by Edward Lear
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- Hardcover
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- Good/No Jacket
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New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's, 1966. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Paul Galdone (Illustrator). EX-LIB. Text/Very Good w/light soiling. Illustrated boards/Good; Strong & sound with library reinforced spine, rubs to edges, pushed corner tips, surface rubs & light soiling. Two nonsense tales in verse by Edward Lear (1812 - 1888): 1, The Pobble (who had no toes/had once as many as we) lost the piece of flannel that kept his nose warm & toes on his feet, and wound up toe-less (just how, we do not know); and, 2, the tale of the Quangle Wangle Quee who sits quite alone on the Crompetty Tree with a hat so large (two hundred & forty feet wide!), with ribbons, bibbons, bells, buttons, loops & lace so profuse that none every saw his face ...delightfully whimsical, wonderfully humorous, and distinctly Lear.
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- Seller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 001297
- Title
- TWO LAUGHABLE LYRICS : The Pobble Who Has No Toes & The Quangle Wangle's Hat
- Author
- Edward Lear
- Illustrator
- Paul Galdone (Illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- Humor/Poetry/Verse/Vintage/Nonsense Stories
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor/Wit; Poetry/Verse;
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