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Through the Looking-Glass Lewis Carroll Limited Editions Club
Fantasy
Children's Literature
Literary Nonsense
Hardcover
USD$3,125

Description

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. Hardcover. Light wear to spine. Near Fine in a Fine red cloth slipcase, uncommon thus. John Tenniel. In original full blue morocco binding with heavy gilt decorations, neatly rebacked retaining the original spine. Copy #867 of 1500 copies with typography and binding by Frederick Warde and with the original John Tenniel illustrations. This is one of less than 1000 copies SIGNED by Alice Hargreaves, "the original Alice," on the colophon page. Alice refused to sign other editions of the Alice books in her lifetime, written by Carroll for her when she was young Alice Liddell, but she was convinced with the help of monetary compensation and an advanced age to sign here.

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.