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LEWIS CARROLL
by Lennon, Florence Becker
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Korumburra, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Cassell and Co., 1947. 358pp. Six, unpaginated, b/white halftone plates (all called-for plates extant and attached), plus several intext sketch-drawings. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over minimally bumped spine. Plain blue cloth boards bumped on foredge corners of upper board. Endpapers lightly foxed, else textblock edges minimally flecked. No dustjacket. Florence Becker Lennon (b.1895-d.1984) has produced an interesting biography of Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, b. 1832-d.1898), whose 'Alice' books have remained best sellers for more than a century. But there was much more to Lewis Carroll . . . Contents include: Prelims., Time-Table of Dodgson's Life. 19 chapters. Appendix. Bibliography (works by Lewis Carroll and works by Charles L. Dodgson). Author's Acks., Index. Book weight approx. 625g. . First U.K.. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good+. 8vo - (approx. 22cm x 14.5cm).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Diversity Books, IOBA
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014072
- Title
- LEWIS CARROLL
- Author
- Lennon, Florence Becker
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- First U.K.
- Publisher
- Cassell and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1947
- Size
- 8vo - (approx. 22cm x 14.5cm)
- Keywords
- Biography, British 19th Century Authors, Illustrators (British), Poets, Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge (1832-1898), Carroll, Lewis (pseudonym), Lennon, Florence Becker (1895-1984)
Terms of Sale
Diversity Books, IOBA
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About the Seller
Diversity Books, IOBA
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Korumburra, Victoria
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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