Fantasmagorie

by Lewis Carroll, Henri Parisot, tr

$650 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Paris: 1939. 8vo. 29, 2 pp. Original printed wrappers, preserved in glassine. Presentation inscription from the translator on note card laid in. In very good condition. Item #19916 First edition of the first French translation of Carroll’s longest poem, one of an edition of only 155 copies. The text is divided into 7 cantos of discussion between a human narrator and a ghost. Each canto is comprised of 5-line verses with a variable rhyme scheme. For

• Binding: Wrappers

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