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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. Early edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, uniformly bound in red morocco.. Twelvemo, [two volumes], [xii], 192pp; xii, 224pp, [2]. Finely bound in three-quarter red morocco, marbled paper boards. Five raised bands, title in gilt with gilt devices on spines. All edges gilt, new endpapers. Both with half-titles. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an early edition, with "Fourteenth Thousand" stated on title page. Solid text block, faint and occasional foxing to leaves, complete with forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel, including frontispiece. Through the Looking-Glass is a first edition, first impression, with "wade" in the place of "wabe" on page 21. Solid text block, touch of foxing to front and rear leaves. Preface incorrectly bound after page two. Previous ownership inscription on half-title. With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel, including frontispiece. (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 #: 14027
Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; [With] Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There; Illustrations by John Tenniel
Author: Carroll, Lewis
Illustrator: Early edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, uniformly bound in red moroc
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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