The Snark Puzzle Book

1973, Martin Gardner's Snarkteasers with the original poem

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Printing Details

First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 24.5 × 17.5cm, 124pp.

While walking on a hillside, an unusual line occurred to Lewis Carroll: "For the Snark was a Boojum, you see." Carroll later incorporated the phrase into a complete work that became the best-known nonsense poem of all time: "The Hunting of the Snark." Here in one book is Carroll's famed poem with its original illustrations by Henry Holliday, side by side with Martin Gardner's "Snarkteasers", delightfully puzzling questions like these: Can you rearrange the letters of OCEAN to spell something in which one can spend days in the ocean? Seven is certainly an odd number of coats to be wearing. Can you make the number even by crossing out one letter? Also included is the text of another famous Carroll poem, "Jabberwocky," complete with Sir John Tenniel's famous drawings.

Condition

The book is in very good condition, the dustwrapper with light wear but complete.