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Through The Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
by CARROLL Lewis (ie DODGSON Charles Lutwidge) 1832-1898
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
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Llandudno, Conwy, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. TENNIEL John 1820-1914. (WARDE Frederic 1894-1939).. The Limited Editions Club, 1935, signed by Alice Hargreaves (the original Alice). Full blue morocco, decorative gilt tooling & titles, spine rubbed slightly at head. Internally, half title, frontis (chess board to verso), [7], (viii-xii), [1], [1], [6], [3], 4-211 pp, [3], [1] limitation leaf. Spine with vertical crack, almost invisibly repaired, Text Block is in Fine condition, a.e.g., signed by Alice to the limitation leaf, an edition limited to 1500 copies. Housed in its publishers pale blue slip case. (219*146 mm). Dodgson, was about 6 feet tall, slender, had either grey or blue eyes, wore his hair long, and 'carried himself upright, almost more than upright, as if he had swallowed a poker'. He dressed customarily in clerical black and wore a tall silk hat, but when he took Alice and her sisters out on the river, he wore white flannel trousers and a hard white straw hat (A. and C. Hargreaves, Alice's recollections). He ate frugally when he ate at all, disliked tea but enjoyed a glass of wine. He had a pleasant speaking voice, but left no recording of it, and a tolerably good singing voice which he did not mind using. He sometimes talked to himself! See ODNB.
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
- Madoc Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008121
- Title
- Through The Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
- Author
- CARROLL Lewis (ie DODGSON Charles Lutwidge) 1832-1898
- Illustrator
- TENNIEL John 1820-1914. (WARDE Frederic 1894-1939).
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- The Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 1.76 lbs
- Keywords
- Juvenile fiction children
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Juvenile;
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
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- 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...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Slip Case
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