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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; [With] Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There; Illustrations by John Tenniel

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; [With] Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There; Illustrations by John Tenniel

Name: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; [With] Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There; Illustrations by John Tenniel
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Author: Carroll, Lewis

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London: Macmillan and Company, 1872. Early Edition. Cloth. Very good. Uniformly bound in red morocco, an early edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with the first edition of Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.. Twelvemo, [two volumes], xii, 192pp; xii, 224pp, [2]. Finely bound in full red morocco. Five raised bands, title in gilt with gilt devices on spines. Top stained with marbled endpapers. Both with half-titles. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is the third edition, with "Seventh Thousand" stated on title page and "backs" for "back" on Page 116. Solid text block, occasional foxing to leaves. Complete with forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel, including frontispiece. (Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch, 42) Through the Looking-Glass is a first edition, early impression, with the corrected "wabe" on page 21. Solid text block, touch of foxing to front and rear leaves. Complete with fifty illustrations by John Tenniel, including frontispiece and chess diagram at front of volume. (Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch, 84) A beautiful set of children's literature classics.

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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: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 14554
Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; [With] Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There; Illustrations by John Tenniel
Author: Carroll, Lewis
Illustrator: Uniformly bound in red morocco, an early edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with the first edition of Through the Looki
Format/Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Used - Very good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Early Edition
Publisher: Macmillan and Company
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1872
Keywords: first edition Alice in Wonderland, first edition Lewis Carroll, first edition Peter Newell, Through the Looking Glass Carroll, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson first edition
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Raised Band(s): Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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...
First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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...
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...