USEFUL AND INSTRUCTIVE POETRY
by Carroll, Lewis
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Middletown, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
London: Geoffrey Bles, (1954). First edition. Composed in 1845 when Carroll was thirteen for his younger brother and sister. Includes a few facsimile pages of text and reproductions of seven of the original illustrations. Light damp staining to boards and page top edges, otherwise very good in the original acetate dust jacket with printed paper front flap (small piece missing from head of spine and large piece missing from rear panel of acetate).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quill & Brush (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48546
- Title
- USEFUL AND INSTRUCTIVE POETRY
- Author
- Carroll, Lewis
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Geoffrey Bles
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1954)
Terms of Sale
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Edges
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- Jacket
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- Facsimile
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