Alice in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by A. L. Bowley
Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, [No Date] circa 1930
A volume in Tuck’s ‘Golden Treasury Library’ series. Published in the 1920s/30s, titles originally came with a dustwrapper and bound in red, green or blue cloth. Printings are difficult to date accurately without a helpful contemporary ownership inscription.
Note: The Golden Treasury edition of Alice with illustrations by A. L. Bowley was first published in 1927*.
Hardback. Publisher’s red cloth with inlay label/plate to front board; gilt title to spine. pp 222, [2] publisher’s catalogue, including b/w illustrations plus six colour plates. 7.75 x 5.25 inches approx. (196mm x 134mm).
Covers showing some wear and rubbing, with sunning to spine and rear board; cloth to head of spine pulled with short split to rear joint; crushing to head and tail of spine; corners to boards a little bumped and with some wear to cloth; plate to front rubbed and marked. Pages foxed throughout, heavy in places; edges of page-block foxed with some encroachment on to margins, dusty to top edge.
Overall, showing wear but otherwise remaining a reasonably nice copy – not the best I’ve seen or handled however far from the worst.
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References
*[331] The Lewis Carroll Handbook (Dawson, revised edition 1979)
