THE LIMERICK 1700 Examples, with Notes, Variants and Index by Legman, G. , editor - 1991

NY: Wings Books. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1991. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 0517139111; Binding is clean, sound and unworn. Moderate-to-very minor edge foxing. Contents are almost as new. 5" taped tear on DJ's front panel's top edge, otherwise very minor wear and soil on the complete DJ. ; First Printing of the First Wings Book edition, published in 1991 with copyright dates of 1964 & 1969.9-1/8" Tall. LXXVII + 511pp. Dark brown boards, bright gold spine lettering. Bibliography. Index of rhymes. Index of names. HUMOR. "This is the largest collection of limericks ever published, erotic or otherwise. Of the 1700 printed here, none are otherwise...The limerick is the dirtiest thing to happen to an ancient literary form since graffiti was found in Pompeii. Clean limericks were a fad in the mid-1800s - and lasted only five years. So, finally in one volume, here are the seven-line stanzas in spondaic hexameter that G. B. Shaw called 'entirely unfit for publication. ' " .