Alice's Adventures in Oxford
by Batey, Mavis
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Lake Huntington, New York, United States
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About This Item
Andover, UK: Pitkin Pictorials, 1980. 32 pp. A rub to the rear wrap, and a price sticker. Many unusual photographs and illustrations. ''Mavis Batey tells the story of Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, and the immortal friendship with 'Lewis Carroll', the mathematics don, which inspired the Alice books. Mrs Batey, who is married to the Treasurer of Christ Church, has made a special study of the Oxford background to the famous Alice stories, which throws a new and refreshing light on Lewis Carroll as child-lover and gifted story-teller.''. Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Veery Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000561
- Title
- Alice's Adventures in Oxford
- Author
- Batey, Mavis
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Pitkin Pictorials
- Place of Publication
- Andover, UK
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- children's books, history, Lewis Carroll, Dodgson
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Children's Books;
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