The Limerick. 1700 Examples, with Notes, Variants and Index

by Gershon Legman

$75 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

Paris: Les Hautes Êtudes, 1953. 4to, xiii, 3 , 517, 3 pp. Original cream wrappers printed in red and black, in the original glassine; light foxing to the untrimmed edges of the text block, rear panel of glassine toned, otherwise a fine unopened copy. § Only edition of Legman's meticulous collection of limericks, most obscene. 'The largest collection of Limericks ever published, erotic or otherwise. Less than two thirds of these seventeen hundred examples

• Binding: Wrappers

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