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Lewis Carroll. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935....
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Signed by Alice Hargreaves
Lewis Carroll. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935.Special edition limited to 1,500 copies, of which this is number 1,385, signed by Alice Hargreaves (nee Alice Liddell, "the original Alice"). Octavo. xxi, 211 pages. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. Original illustrations by John Tenniel, re-engraved in metal by Frederic Warde. Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club by the printing house of William Edwin Rudge, Mount Vernon, New York.
Full blue morocco with gilt-stamped fleuron on covers. Titles and portraits of the book's characters stamped in gilt on spine. All edges gilt. Spine is lightly faded. A near fine copy in a custom quarter leather and marbled paper drop-back box.
Auction Info
2008 October Grand Format Rare Books Auction #684 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
October, 2008
16th-18th
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