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Nursery Alice
by Carroll, Lewis
- Used
- Good
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Torrington, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Mayflower Books, 1979 Pictorial boards, bumping to extremities, a number of pages with tiny corner crease to bottom edge; matching dust jacket with a few tears at top of spine. A facsimile reprint of The Nursery Alice.. First Edition of Reprint. Pictorial Boards. Good/Very Good. Illus. by John Tenniel (Cover By E. Gertrude Thomson. 4to.
Synopsis
The Nursery "Alice" is a shortened version of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, adapted by the author himself for children "from nought to five" with twenty of Tenniel's illustrations from the original book coloured and enlarged. It was first published in 1890 by Macmillan, 25 years after the original Alice, and featured a new cover illustrated by E. Gertrude Thomson, who was a good friend of Dodgson.
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Details
- Bookseller
- E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008906
- Title
- Nursery Alice
- Author
- Carroll, Lewis
- Illustrator
- John Tenniel (Cover By E. Gertrude Thomson
- Format/Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition of Reprint
- Publisher
- Mayflower Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- alice in wonderland, Alice's adventures in Wonderland
- Size
- 4to
Terms of Sale
E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA
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About the Seller
E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA
Biblio member since 2004
Torrington, Connecticut
About E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA
Established in 2003, E M Maurice Books has been selling rare, collectible, out-of-print and obscure children's and illustrated books by catalog, online and at trade shows around the Northeast. We have high standards for condition and make every effort to describe condition and edition accurately. We rarely sell ex-library copies and on the rare occasion we do, it will be stated clearly in the description. Our quarterly digital catalogs include items which are offered to established customers before being offered online, please inquire if you would like to be added to our digital mailing list. We never sell our mailing list and save all customer information in a safe digital environment.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- 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....
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
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