Author: Lewis Carroll
Title: Phantasmagoria and Other Poems
Description: London, Macmillan and Co. 1869. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first issue, of this early anthology of poems by Lewis Carroll. The first edition, first issue, without any mention of 'Alice in Wonderland' to the title page.'Phantasmagoria' is the longest poem by Lewis Carroll, a fantastical nonsense tale told in seven cantos. The poem is a narrative discussion between a ghost and a man named Tibbets.The other poems in this collection are 'Ye Carpette Knyghte', 'Hiawatha's Photographing', 'Melancholetta', 'The Valley of the Shadow of Death', 'Beatrice', 'The Path of Roses', 'Only a Woman's Hair', and more.This is one of the early works of Carroll, published a few years after his seminal first 'Wonderland' book. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, the rear board is detached but present. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities, resulting in a small amount of loss. Light rubbing to the spine, which is a little faded. A few minor marks to the cloth. Front hinge is starting but firm. Sticker to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very lightly age-toned and clean. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .

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