Through the Looking-Glass – And What Alice Found There
by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Sir John Tenniel
Macmillan and Co. Limited, reprint 1940
Never as popular as Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland but still worthy of being a children’s classic. Originally published in 1872 [1871], this copy being a 1940 reprint of the 1908 Miniature Edition.
Hardback. Publisher’s plain red cloth with gilt title to spine. In a white dustwrapper with illustration in red to spine and front panel; 2/6 price label to spine. pp xi, 228, [1], [2] author’s works, including b/w illustrations. Size: 6 x 4 inches approx. (156mm x 104mm).
Dustwrapper showing light wear and rubbing to extremities with some small loss to spine ends and corner tips; short tears to tail of spine; light sunning to spine. Cloth very clean and bright. Foxing and offsetting to endpapers; pages a touch dusty in places but generally clean throughout.
Overall, a particularly nice, clean and well preserved copy – and uncommon to find in such a nice dustwrapper.
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References
The Lewis Carroll Handbook (Dawson, revised edition 1979)
