TWO LAUGHABLE LYRICS : The Pobble Who Has No Toes & The Quangle Wangle's Hat

Edward Lear

Published by G.P. Putnam's, New York, NY, 1966

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EX-LIB. Text/Very Good w/light soiling. Illustrated boards/Good; Strong & sound with library reinforced spine, rubs to edges, pushed corner tips, surface rubs & light soiling. Two nonsense tales in verse by Edward Lear (1812 - 1888): 1, The Pobble (who had no toes/had once as many as we) lost the piece of flannel that kept his nose warm & toes on his feet, and wound up toe-less (just how, we do not know); and, 2, the tale of the Quangle Wangle Quee who sits quite alone on the Crompetty Tree with a hat so large (two hundred & forty feet wide!), with ribbons, bibbons, bells, buttons, loops & lace so profuse that none every saw his face .delightfully whimsical, wonderfully humorous, and distinctly Lear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: TWO LAUGHABLE LYRICS : The Pobble Who Has No Toes & The Quangle Wangle's Hat
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1966
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Paul Galdone (Illustrator)
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Humor/Wit
  • Poetry/Verse