Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There
by Carroll, Lewis
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: MacMillan and Co., 1880. Red and gilt decorated boards with gilt stamp of the Red Queen to centre of boards, fifty illustrations by John Tenniel, corners bumped, spine heavily worn, spine cloth detached at rear joint, spine sunned and rubbed with some loss to head and foot, gilt closed edges, Forty-Eighth Thousand, binding slanted, black endpapers, internal gutters cracked exposing binding, booksellers blind stamp to corner of fep, ink inscription to fep, newspaper article dated May 4, 1952 entitled, 'The Centenary of a girl called Alice' enclosed to front of book, pp clean and unmarked, text and illustrations clear, some staining to centre of pages 82/83 at head, closed tear to head of page 85 - 3cms, small stain to head of pages 200/201, very light spotting to edges of some pages, spotting to rep, list of publisher's books to rear of book, binding loose but pp secure.. Hard. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Tenniel, John. 12mo.
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
- Bookcase (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 70394
- Title
- Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There
- Author
- Carroll, Lewis
- Illustrator
- Tenniel, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- MacMillan and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1880
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens; Fiction;
- Size
- 12mo
Terms of Sale
Bookcase
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About the Seller
Bookcase
Biblio member since 2009
Carlisle, Cumbria
About Bookcase
A Georgian four-floor antiquarian bookshop in Carlisle's historic quarter specialising in Cumbria, Scotland, Mountaineering and rare finds. We are a friendly business, which was started by a local family and is run by friendly and experienced team members.
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- Cloth
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- 12mo
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- Sunned
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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- Cracked
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- Spine
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- Edges
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