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Through the Looking-Glass
by Carroll, Lewis
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Rosemont, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: Macmillan, 1872. A beautiful crushed red morocco signed binding over marbled paper and matching end papers by Zaennsdorf. Spine gilt on leather within 5 raised bands; title and author in panels 2 and 3 with date 1872 at tail. Some slight bumping of corners. AEG. On p. 21, 3 up "wade" instead of "wabe". . First Edition, First Printing. Three Quarter Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by John Tenniel. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade.
Synopsis
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a work of children's literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), generally categorized as literary nonsense. It is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Title Page ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WN3161
- Title
- Through the Looking-Glass
- Author
- Carroll, Lewis
- Illustrator
- John Tenniel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1872
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
The Title Page ABAA
Accept returns with satisfactory reason and state of book as mailed.
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Rosemont, Pennsylvania
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About The Title Page ABAA
Approximately 60,000 books displayed in our storefront with another 50,000 in an available storage facility. It is a general, out of print, and antiquarian book store. A gem in the heart of Rosemont, we believe in personal service to the customer. We also search for books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
- 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....
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
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