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Through the Looking-Glass Lewis Carroll Macmillan & Co.
Fantasy
Children's Literature
Literary Nonsense
1872
Hardcover
USD$2,500

Description

New York and London: MacMillan, 1872. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition. Original decorative cloth, red gilt queen on the front board, no illustration on the rear. With the typo "Wade" for "wabe" on pg. 21/ Wear at edges, rubbing and light soiling to cloth, old signatures to half title. Macmillan reportedly only sent a small number for the first American edition because domestic demand was so strong. Most of the original sheets with the typo went for the Lea & Shepard edition in Boston. A seldom seen state of the first American edition. In a custom morocco backed slipcase with cloth che,ise. This is the first US edition. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; Inventory No: 048439.

About Through the Looking-Glass

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a novel by Lewis Carroll, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It describes Alice's further adventures as she moves through a mirror into another fantastical world where she meets more peculiar characters and experiences a series of whimsical events.

Identifying the First Edition of Through the Looking-Glass

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