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Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There
by CARROLL, Lewis
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co, 1872. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Illustrated by John Tenniel. 12mo. 224pp. Handsomely rebound in polished red leather elaborately gilt by Bartlett & Co., Boston, with their signature on the verso of the front flyleaf (a tiny chip causing a bit of loss to the name). All edges gilt. Boards separated with the corners worn through, small dampstain on the lower board with corresponding staining (and a tiny chip) on the rear flyleaf, spine toned and with loss, a good only copy; the text is fine. From the noted Lewis Carroll collection of Philip Conklin Blackburn, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Blackburn was an editor of the 1934 anthology *Logical Nonsense*, considered by Carroll scholar Charlie Lovett to be the first serious attempt to anthologize Lewis Carroll's works. Blackburn also cataloged the important Carroll collection of Morris L. Parrish, now at Princeton. An excellent association.
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
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 547651
- Title
- Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There
- Author
- CARROLL, Lewis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1872
- Keywords
- EnglishLiterature, AssociationCopy, Art/Illustration, Children'sBook
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
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