Limerick 1700 Examples Notes Variants by Legman Gershon (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Price clipped. Chipping on top of spine, otherwise in very good condition. Clean text and tight binding. DJ has fading and some chipping at top of spine.…

The Famous Paris Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Date is suggested/cannot be verified. Subjects; Limericks. limericks in english, to 1952 anthologies. 1 Kg.

Very good cloth copy in a poor, somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: lxxvii, 517 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Limericks. Bawdy poetry. 1 Kg.

Reprint. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; lxxvii, 517 pages ; 24 cm. Subjects; Limericks. Bawdy poetry. 1 Kg.

The Famous Paris Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Date is suggested/cannot be verified. Subjects; Limericks. limericks in english, to 1952 anthologies. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: VG+. 1st Edition. Ivory wraps, in ivory dust wrapper, both lettered in red, wrapper additionally lettered in black, deckled edges. Thick 8vo. 1st ptg. (12 Nov. 1953). xiii,517,[2] pp. Binding lightly stressed but tight, interior unmarked, with the expected minor tanning to wrapper. Lacks original glassine outer dust jacket. Anthology of mostly sexually-oriented limericks compiled by but not credited to Gershon Legman. Scarce original edition of this classic, later reissued in hardcover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Very good cloth copy in a poor, somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: lxxvii, 517 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Limericks. Bawdy poetry. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Folding Creme printed wrappers, DW, xiii, 517, (1) pages, partially unopened. Private bookplate. A clean, very good copy in the torn but present original acetate DW, in archival mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. fine, 5th printing.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the wraps, in gate-fold and protected further in onion-skin. From the library of Gershon Legman, as transmitted from his widow, the fabulous Judith Legman. 1700 limericks, all scurrilous. French language texts. Comprised of an anthology of sexually explicit limericks compiled by but not credited to the bibliopole, book scout, bibliographer and literary sleuth extraordinaire, Gershon Legman. 517 pp. and including full index. Plentiful unopened top and some fore-edges.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Ivory wraps, in ivory dust wrapper, both lettered in red, wrapper additionally lettered in black, deckled edges. Thick 8vo. 1st ptg. (12 Nov. 1953). xiii,517,[2] pp. About as issued, with the expected tanning to original glassine outer dust jacket. Text block still unopened along top edges. Anthology of mostly sexually-oriented limericks compiled by but not credited to Gershon Legman. Scarce original edition of this classic, later reissued in hardcover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Wraps. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 8vo. viii, [3], 517 [1], pp. Short closed tear of upper spine wraps. Otherwise, tight, clean, a few leaves still uncut. Glassine torn along the spine, toned by well-preserved elsewhere.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. xiii, 519 pp. Original printed French paper wraps. Short tear at spine's tail and slight crease to spine. Pages uncut and clean. A collection of rude limericks compiled by the American cultural critic and folklorist Gershon Legman. 23cms tall. Large 8vo.…

Paris: Les Hautes Êtudes, 1953. 4to, xiii, [3], 517, [3]pp. Original cream wrappers printed in red and black, in the original glassine; light foxing to the untrimmed edges of the text block, rear panel of glassine toned, otherwise a fine unopened copy. § Only edition of Legman's meticulous collection of limericks, most obscene. 'The largest collection of Limericks ever published, erotic or otherwise. Less than two thirds of these seventeen hundred examples had ever before appeared in print, as they were gathered from oral sources. Gershon Legman, the anonymous editor, provides variant lines, couplets and conclusions, with variants cited for geographical and personal names, and a full index of names and rhymes. Gershon's notes are scholarly, as opposed to Norman Douglas's mock-scholarly one, but the latter are quoted." (Norman).…

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Large Octavo. 517 pages. Bound in original cream wrappers. Contains every 5 line dirty verse you have ever heard. Minor soiling and toning to wrappers. Marginal note on page 1. Very scarce.

Wraps. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Included. Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover Octavo. full leather, gilt lettering and design,top edge gilt, rebound with original endpapers, 517 pp, cover lightly scratched Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.