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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by CARROLL Lewis [ie DODGSON Charles Lutwidge] 1832-1898
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1932. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. TENNIEL John 1820-1914. (ROLLITZ Bruno - engraver). Limited Editions Club, 1932, signed by both Frederic Warde (publisher) & Alice Hargreaves (the original Alice). Near Fine, in the original red morocco, decorative gilt panelling to boards, spine with pictorial motifs after Tenniel & gilt titles, light rubbing to spine ends, otherwise fine. Internally, half title, frontis, title with vignette, [4], (v-xi), [1], [2] contents, [3], 4-182 pp, [1], [1], [1] limitation leaf, an edition limited to 1500 copies, small mark to lower cover (not detracting), a.e.g., signed by Frederic Warde (Typographer & binder) to limitation & Alice to leaf after half title. In the publishers printed red cloth slip case. (220*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 the river, he wore white flannel trousers and a hard white straw hat (A. and C. Hargreaves, Alice's recollections). He ate frugally when he ate at all, disliked tea but enjoyed a glass of wine. He had a pleasant speaking voice, but left no recording of it, and a tolerably good singing voice which he did not mind using. He sometimes talked to himself! See ODNB.
Synopsis
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There , tell the story of a young girl in a fantasy world filled with peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The classic tale of literary nonsense takes the reader on an exploration of logic and absurdities. The Alice books — sometimes combined or referred to with the abbreviated title Alice in Wonderland — have been translated into at least 97 languages with over a hundred different editions. The books have also been adapted numerous times into films (both live-action and cartoon), plays, and musicals.
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- Bookseller
- Madoc Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008122
- Title
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Author
- CARROLL Lewis [ie DODGSON Charles Lutwidge] 1832-1898
- Illustrator
- TENNIEL John 1820-1914. (ROLLITZ Bruno - engraver)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- The Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1932
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 1.32 lbs
- Keywords
- juvenile children fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Juvenile;
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Slip Case
- A protective sleeve, often made of decorative cardboard or leather which houses a book. It is open on one end, so as to allow...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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