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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…

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.