USS Wasp CV-7 Stinger, February 1, 1985 Quarterly by The Wasp - 1985

Smith, Elder, 1850. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This is a pamphlet. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Water stain along vertical edge of spine. Gold paper edges. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,150grams, ISBN:

New York. 1977. Potter. 1st American Trade Edition . Very Good in Dustjacket. 0517532662. 68 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Hermann Strohbach. keywords: Children Literature England. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Frontispiece after Tenniel with two additional black-and-white illustrations by Ralph Steadman. Now more than one hundred years after Lewis Carroll's immortal Through the Looking-Glass was published, lovers of the Alice books have a new episode written by Carroll in which Alice meets an aged, bad-tempered wasp who wears a yellow wig. ‘Don't think me brutal,' John Tenniel, illustrator of Through the Looking-Glass, wrote to Carroll on June 1, 1870, ‘but I am bound to say that the 'wasp' chapter doesn't interest me in the least, and I can't see my way to a picture.' A wasp in a wig, he said, is ‘altogether beyond the appliances of art.' Following Tenniel's letter Carroll dropped the episode, and little more was known about it until 1974. Although… Read More

San Francisco:: The Book Club of California, 1967., 1967. 370 x 270 mm. Tall folio. 15 pp. Title-page in red and black, illus., 20 color plates. Gilt-stamped gray cloth. Fine. Political & satirical cartoons from the truculent early San Francisco Weekly, with an introduction & comments by Kenneth M Johnson.