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Through the Looking-Glass Lewis Carroll
Fantasy
Children's Literature
Literary Nonsense
USD$5,722

Description

A finely bound copy, comprising the ninth edition, second impression ("eighty-seventh thousand") of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and the fourth edition, second impression ("sixty-second thousand") of Through the Looking-Glass. Both volumes are, therefore, from the last editions revised by Carroll and present the author's final version of the texts. Two volumes in 1, octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in red morocco, spine lettered and decorated with pictorial centre tools in gilt, raised bands, single gilt rule to covers, onlay of Alice to front cover, roll to turn-ins gilt, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. The occasional minor blemish, an excellent copy. .

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.