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Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There

by Carroll, Lewis

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  • Hardcover
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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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Bookseller
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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

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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
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
12mo
A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Sunned
Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
Cracked
In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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....
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...

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