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Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: Macmillan and C...
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Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: Macmillan and Co., 1872.8vo. With 50 illustrations by John Tenniel. Original red cloth, gilt-stamped, spine gilt-lettered, edges gilt; quarter morocco folding case.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE with the misprint "wade" for "wabe" in the second line of the poem "Jabberwocky" on page 21; without the foliation for page 95, but present on page 98 (no priority known).
Condition: Very minor wear to joints and extremities; spine slightly leaned; minor blistering on rear cover; text block cracked after first quire; one quire slightly sprung. A few small pencil annotations.
References: Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 84.
Provenance: Albert Giles (signature on front free endpaper, dated "14th Dec 1871"); the Norman and Cynthia Armour Collection (sold, Christie's New York, 27 April 2005, lot 45). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
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2025 December 15 Rare Books Signature® Auction #6323 (go to Auction Home page)
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