Legman, Gershon, ed. — The Limerick

New York, Bell Publishing Company, 1969. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A monumental study of poetry-in-erotica. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Dark green leatherette covers with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Slight age-toning to text, else clean and unmarked. Dust jacket present, protected, and inner flaps stuck. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of limericks, erotic and otherwise. The "o" printing of this edition. lxxvii + 517 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Near Fine,