London; Nonesuch Library, 1939., 1939. Hard Cover. FIRST THUS. Octavo, pp. xiv, [2], 1165. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" with many of Tenniel's original illustrations. Publishers' bevelled red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt crest of the Institution of Electrical Engineers to upper board. Unclipped red pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth a little rubbed at spine tips. Printed Award Plate of the Institution of Electrical Engineers to front paste-down, completed tidily in ink and dated 1956-57; no annotation or inscriptions, contents clean and crisp. Jacket a little rubbed to extremities, with nick & associated creasing top edge. A Very Good copy in like jacket. Complete works including verses and short stories, with Introduction by Alexander Woollcott. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.

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Bookseller: Keel Row Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 7684
Title: The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll.
Author: Carroll, Lewis
Format/Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London; Nonesuch Library, 1939.
Date Published: 1939
Keywords: Fiction

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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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Paste-down: The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Crisp: A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...