[MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (“Lewis Carroll”) (1832-1898). The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony, in Eight Fits. [West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press for]: University of California Press, 1983.
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[MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (“Lewis Carroll”) (1832-1898). The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony, in Eight Fits. [West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press for]: University of California Press, 1983.
Folio. Illustrated by Barry Moser. Original stiff plain wrappers; in original blind-embossed blue dust jacket.
LIMITED PENNYROYAL ISSUE, one of 100 copies, SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page, accompanied by an additional suite of five wood-engravings for the work, EACH SIGNED BY MOSER. “The University of California Press commissioned the design and illustration of the Snark to be used as a companion piece for their deluxe edition of Through the Looking-Glass. By the terms of our agreement with the University of California Press, Pennyroyal Press issued its own edition with a suite of the original prints laid in”—Pennyroyal Checklist 28.
Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser
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