No-No Nse-Nse. Limericks (invented in Ireland c.1765), Meta-Fours (invented during the non-summer of 1985 in Lower Stodgedale) and Clerihews (invented in 1890 by Edmund Clerihew Bently) by a perdurable true descendant of Aristophanes and Catullus. With seventeen apropos illustrations by Henrik Drescher

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  • Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1993
By WILLIAMS, Jonathan
Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1993. First edition. One of 150 copies on Sekishu in Shadwell hand-made paper wrappers. JW's own copy as noted by Walter Hamady, the publisher, who wrote on the colophon page: "Copy No. 55 for the Author, Walter Hamady 17 vi 93". Underneath that, further inscribed by JW: "and Jonathan Williams gives it to James Jaffe [JW's bibliographer]. Mint copy. With 2 pp. photocopied article by JW: "The Lord Fern-Evil. DRESCHER, Henrik. 12mo, wrappers, dust jacket. Mint copy. With 2 pp. photocopied article by JW: "The Lord Fern-Evil

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No-No Nse-Nse. Limericks (invented in Ireland c.1765), Meta-Fours (invented during the non-summer of 1985 in Lower Stodgedale) and Clerihews (invented in 1890 by Edmund Clerihew Bently) by a perdurable true descendant of Aristophanes and Catullus. With seventeen apropos illustrations by Henrik Drescher

Author

WILLIAMS, Jonathan

Condition

Fine

Publisher

Perishable Press: Mt. Horeb, WI

Date

1993

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First edition. One of 150 copies on Sekishu in Shadwell hand-mad


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