[Poetry] Carroll, Lewis. The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems and Verses. New York, Harper & Bros, 1903. First American Edition. 8vo. xiii, 248 pp. Illustrated with 40 plates by Peter Newell, including color frontispiece with tissue-guard; decorations by Robert Murray Wright. Original cream colored paper covered boards with gilt lettering and decoration to upper cover and gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Dust wrapper has browned spine with ink title and author on spine along with wrapper gilt title, wrapper with upper joint separated down 2/3 of spine. Book in fine condition.

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