Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

VERY GOOD condition — BOARDS: Shelf rubbing to foredge and foot, primarily the former. A couple of small bumps to top right edge, back, and bottom left edge. front. Top outside corners scuffed, primarily back. BOOK: Blemish to textblock foot gilt near spine (moisture?). Faint staining (horizontal) to endpapers, front and back. Minor fraying of bookmarker tail. Please see photos for condition details. If any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

This text was featured in the Franklin Library series The 100 Greatest Books of All Time. Published in 1975, bound in handsome Tan leather, and beautifully illustrated by John Tenniel, this edition would be a worthy addendum to your collectables library.

All Franklin Library full leather editions feature:

• High quality paper.
  Pages that are sewn not glued into the binding.
  Gold gilded page edges on all three sides.
  Raised spine bands that give each book that distinctive antique look
• Full genuine leather binding.
• 22k. gold lettering and stampings on the spine and covers.
  Attached silk page marker.

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"In the most renowned novel by English author Lewis Carroll, restless young Alice literally stumbles into adventure when she follows the hurried, time-obsessed White Rabbit down a hole and into a fantastical realm where animals are quite verbose, logic is in short supply, and royalty tends to be exceedingly unpleasant. Each playfully engaging chapter presents absurd scenarios involving an unforgettable cast of characters, including the grinning Cheshire Cat and the short-tempered Queen of Hearts, and every stop on Alice's peculiar journey is marked by sharp social satire and wondrously witty wordplay."

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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet and mathematician. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871). He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. His poems Jabberwocky (1871) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) are classified in the genre of literary nonsense.

Carroll came from a family of high-church Anglicans, and developed a long relationship with Christ Church, Oxford, where he lived for most of his life as a scholar and teacher. Alice Liddell – a daughter of Henry Liddell, the Dean of Christ Church – is widely identified as the original inspiration for Alice in Wonderland, though Carroll always denied this.

An avid puzzler, Carroll created the word ladder puzzle (which he then called "Doublets"), which he published in his weekly column for Vanity Fair magazine between 1879 and 1881. In 1982 a memorial stone to Carroll was unveiled at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. There are societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works.

The above text was taken from, respectively, W. B. Conkey publishers (via Google Books) and Wikipedia.