Limerick Books with many editions and multiple publishers
               

             The Complete Limerick Book       Multiple Editions

             Immortalia                                       Multiple Editions    

             The Limerick                                    Multiple Publishers

             Limerick Lyrics                                Multiple Publishers

             The Little Limerick Book                Multiple Editions

             The New Limerick                            Multiple Publishers

             Peter Pauper's Limerick Book        Multiple Editions
   
             Some Limericks                              Multiple Editions

        Rare Limerick Books - Recent Bookseller asking prices (actual value may be less)

          
           Lear, Edward          A Book of Nonsense.   The 1996 Justin G.Schiller catelog lists “a generally attractive copy”
                                           of the 1846 edition at $35,000 and an 1855 edition at $12,500

           Lardner, Ring.        Regular Fellows I Have Met.  Chicago: Wilmot, 1919.      $8,500  
        
           Dulac, Edmund.     Lyrics Pathetic and Humorous from A to Z.  London and New York: Fredrick Warne & Co., 1908. 
                                          Deluxe Portfolio Issue  $8500

            Douglas, Norman.  Some Limericks: Collected for the use of Students, & ensplendour’d with Introduction,
                                            Geographical Index, and with Notes Explanatory and Critical.  Unique edition overprinted
                                            on 66 pen-ink and crayon erotic drawings.   $3,750 
   
            Lear, Edward          Lear's Shilling Book of Nonsense.  London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1865.  $2,500
 
   
             Dulac, Edmund.     Lyrics Pathetic and Humorous from A to Z.  London and New York: Fredrick Warne & Co., 1908. 
                                            $1640 

                                           Rummical Rhymes with Pictures to Match Set Forth in Fayre Prospect. London: Dean & Son, 1863.
                                            $1320
           
             Snyder, Charles     Snap Shots. Philadelphia: Edward Stern & Co., 1907.   $1,120
   
             Douglas, Norman.  Some Limericks: Collected for the use of Students, & ensplendour’d with Introduction,
                                            Geographical Index, and with Notes Explanatory and Critical.  Privately printed Florence:
                                            Pino Orioli,1928.    $1,050

                                            The Book of Bubbles: A Contribution to the New York Fair in aid of the Sanitary Commission. 
                                            New York: Endicotte & Co., 1864.  $650 

             Dickson, S. B.        Coded Limericks.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1925.  $650 

             Benson,  J. P          The Woozlebeasts: Pictures and Rhymes.  New York: Moffat, Yard & Co., 1905.  $550 

             [Legman, G.]          The Limerick: 1700 Examples, with Notes, Variants and Index.  Paris: Les Hautes Etudes, 1953.
                                              $530 

             Jackson, J. J.          Nonsense for Girls.  New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1875.  $495

             Weaver, Danny       Mother Goose-Step and other Nertzery Rhymes.  Los Angeles: Lymanhouse, 1940.  $375 


             nb   Some extremely rare limerick books  never come on the market and are virtually priceless
            


       Limerick Books on the Endangered Species List

          G.L.P.  Limerick Prayer Book.  Cited in Langford's The Complete Limerick Book.  Existence doubtful.

          A Peep at the Geography of Europe.  London: E. Marshall. c1824.  One known copy in Backe-Hansen Collection,
          one copy in Williams College Library.  (Photocopy  )

          The Bawd's Book: Being a Collection of Crass and Curious Limericks and Linoleum, the Former Borrowed,
          the Latter Original.  San Marino CA: Leaping Jesus Press & Pickle Works, 1965.  One known copy at Newberry Library,
          Chicago.  (Photocopy  )

          To Solace the Blind.  Frankfurt-am-Main: Universitats-Buchhandlung, 1945.  No known copy.

          The Gardener's Tool - a Reader for Rakes.   No known copy.

          To Solace the Blind: The Lecher's Legacy, being a lusty anthology of lewd limericks and otherwise. 
          Napoli: Lascivius  and Salacius, 1944.  One known copy at Pittsburg State University Axe Library, KS.  (Photocopy  )

      
         
               


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