The Annotated Snark; the Full Text of Lewis Carroll's Great Nonsense Epic The Hunting of the Snark and the Original Illustrations Henry Holiday
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. First Edition. Octavo. Item #023655
111 pp. with bibliography and appendix, introduction and notes by Martin Gardner. The author's introduction takes you back to a July afternoon in 1874 when Lewis Carroll was strolling on a hillside and there suddenly came into his head the line of verse, "For the Snark was a Boojum, you see." "I knew not what it meant then, and I know not what it means now". As years passed, people have felt that they knew exactly what The Hunting of the Snark meant. Gardner gives some of their extraordinary theories and more. A near fine copy bound in 1/4 beige cloth over brown paper covered boards stamped in copper, spine lettering in dark brown, top edge red, pictorial endpapers, light wear to corners, in a near fine clipped dust jacket.
Price: $75.00