Through the Looking Glass, And What Alice Found There
London & New York: Macmillan and Co., 1891.
Hardcover.
Early Edition of the Carroll's classic sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland first published in 1871. With Fifty Illustrations by John Tenniel.
Alice enters into another fantastical world - this time by climbing through a mirror into the world beyond - where she discovers the poem "Jabberwocky" (written in mirror image), Tweedledee recites "The Walrus and the Carpenter," and she encounters Humpty Dumpty and the Red Queen.
Item #9018325 x 7-3/8", gilt and black decorated red cloth, gilt titles, leaf-patterned endpapers, (vi), 224pp, 14pp publisher's ads, frontis. illustration, fully illus.
Contemporary ink owner's presentation inscription first blank, a bit of bumping and wear to corners and spine ends, sunning to spine, bit of soilng and staining to cloth, tight, square, a very good copy overall of a very delightful book.
Price: $250.00