Search Results: the lure of limerick an by baring gould william s

Panther Publications. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

New York: Clarkson N Potter, 1975. Hardcover. Good. Oblong 12mo. Hardcover bound in brown paper covered boards. Binding is moderately rubbed. Some damping on rear board. Some pages show damping. Otherwise text is sound.

UK: Wordsworth Editions Ltd., 1989. Usual age toning along the edges, else textblock is clean and tight. All page edges are straight and sound. Light bumping to the head and foot of spine. Unclipped dust jacket, illustrated and mylar sleeved. 246p., including sources.. Green Cloth. Very Good+/Near Fine (in mylar). Illus. by William S. Baring-Gould. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

USA: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5?" - 6?" tall. Type: Hardback Fourth Printing Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition, without Jacket. 8.5"w"x 5.5"h. . 246 pp. Over five hundred examples, British and American, from many sources, wth delightful illustrations on almost all pages. Brown cloth gilt lettered on spine. Boards are clean, lightly scuffed along hinge and brown has been rubbed off a little on the upper and lower edges. Lightly scuffed at corners. Binding tight, book solid. Endpapers bright green. Upper and lower edges are foxed. Print is bsepia on cream paper with very clever sepia illustrations. 1967, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc./Publisher, 1968. First Edition, Sixth Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Perhaps best known for his fictional biographies of Sherlock Holmes ("Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street") and Nero Wolfe ("Nero Wolfe of 35th Street, The World's Largest Private Detective"), the late Time Magazine editor, was also author of a history of nursery rhymes and this delightful, sometimes bawdy history of limericks, illustrated with black & white reproductions of drawings by Aubrey Beardsley, Edward Lear, and Andre Domin. 5 5/8" tall x 8 3/8" wide; brown paper-covered boards with gold lettering; 246 pages, including a bibliography. A tiny tear on the fold at the top of the spine, o/w boards show only mild edgewear and lightly-bumped spine ends. The text is very slightly age-tanned at the edges with pages 57 and 75 showing small marginal tears. As is common with books with a "wider than tall" format, the dustjacket is missing. A… Read More

Clarkson Potter, 1967-01-01. (5th printing). Hardcover. Very Good.

Clarkson N. Potter, (1972).. Good with no dust jacket. 1972. Tenth Printing. Hardcover. Spine slightly shaken, minor wear to spine. .

NY: Clarkson N. Potter, 1972. Tenth printing. Horizontal 12mo, pp. 246. .Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, Andre Domin, and others. Brown paper over boards. Spine little scuffed at ends, o/w a VG tight copy.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1969. 7th Printing. [viii] 246ip., b/w drawings, oblong format, dj.

London: Panther, 1970 Book. Very Good +. Soft cover. Reprint. Hilarious survey and collection of funny and witty and naughty limericks."The Lore of the Limerick", "The Limerick from A to Z" and "The Literature of the Limerick". Including nearly 500 examples and a bibliography of 19th and 20th centur sources. 204p.bibliography. Crisp, tight, vintage paperback. Paper age-toned .else near fine.

London: Panther / Granada Publishing, 1975. 5th Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Creasing to the spine, shelf wear to the extremities. Text is clean. 204 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1967. Third printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Slight bow to front board, else fine in near fine, toned dust jacket with small closed tear to spine tail, in mylar cover..

Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1967. very good hardcover, no dustjacket , Inscription on endpaper. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket.

London: Panther Books, 1970. -----Tight and square, flat spine, 204 pages, no names, minor edge wear. "The core of this bestselling, superbly entertaining book is a collection of nearly five hundred examples of the limerick form, arranged for easy reference in alphabetical order of subject." Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo . 1st Panther Books Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Uncredited Cover Artist.

New York: Potter, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12th. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Former owner's inscription inside cover. Dustwrapper price clipped. Dustwrapper browned. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

London, England: Panther Books, 1970. Soft cover. Good. Good condition. Moderate wear. Binding fairly tight, pages clean. Pictures available upon request.

New York.: Clarkson N. Potter. , 1979.. Reprint. . Soft cover. . Fine copy. . Octavo. . Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.

New York: Clarkson Potter, 1967 Book. Very Good. Pbk. 1st US Edition.. Hilarious survey and collection of funny and witty and naughty limericks."The Lore of the Limerick", "The Limerick from A to Z" and "The Literature of the Limerick". Includes nearly 500 examples, plus a bibliography of 19th and 20th century sources, as well as illustrative material drawn by the likes of Aubrey Beardsley, Andre Domin, Edward Lear, and others. 246p. illus. biblliography .

London: Wordsworth, 1989. rep.1968 ed. . Green Cloth. Fine/VG-Fine. 24.5 x 21.5 cms. Aubrey Beardsley, Andre Domain, Edward Lear. unpag.prelims+246; virtually pristine bar small nick bottom back joint of covers. Quite heavy in landscape format Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Lond. Rupert Hart-Davis., 1969.. (rep) Or.bds. Dustjacket. 143pp. Some foxing to foredge. Name on half-title page. b/w decorations. Good copy. A limerick is a humorous & frequently rude form of verse in five line anapestic trimeter with a strict rhyme scheme of AABBA. The limerick first appeared in the early years of the 18th century.