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Lear, Edward. A Book of Nonsense. First American Edition
Sale 2107 - Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller
Dec 5, 2024 10:00AM ET
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Lear, Edward. A Book of Nonsense

Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, (1863). First American edition. Oblong 24mo. 112 pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations, each with three-line letterpress limerick. Publisher's quarter blue cloth over yellow pictorial boards, boards soiled and moderately worn, cocked; all edges trimmed; scattered spotting and soiling.

Scarce first American edition, published simultaneously with an edition in New York by M. Doolady.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.

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From the collection of Justin G. Schiller
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