The Westminster Alice

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus, collected edition.* Imp: 1st. Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1930 (1927)* Publisher: John Lane, The Bodley Head.* Binding and cover condition: Dark blue cloth, gilt title & decoration to spine with gilt simulated signature to face. Very slight bumps to lower corners, minor rubs, minimal shelf wear. Some slight marks to boards. Spine somewhat faded. GOOD* Jacket condition: No jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with some reading wear, very light pencil annotations to text, slight offsetting marks to end-papers, otherwise no visible faults. GD++* Illustrations: A number of b/w line drawings throughout by F. Carruthers Gould.* Pages: 143 pp. text. iv pp. advertisements & blank pages at rear.* Description: Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916), better known by his pen name Saki, was a British writer, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. The Westminster Alice is the name of a collection of vignettes written by Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) in 1902 and published by the Westminster Gazette of London. It is a political parody of Lewis Carroll's two books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The book features 48 drawings after the originals by John Tenniel which were drawn by Francis Carruthers Gould. It is critical of the politics of the day, of which Alice tries to make sense. A number of notable British politicians are identified in the book. Joseph Chamberlain is the Queen of Hearts, the Red Queen, and the Mad Hatter; Arthur Balfour is the White Queen and the March Hare; Robert Cecil is the King of Hearts and the Dormouse; Archbishop of Canterbury Frederick Temple is the Duchess; and Redvers Buller is Humpty Dumpty.* A NEAR VG copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS. No dust jacket.*