Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
by CARROLL, Lewis
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Holt, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Stockholm/London Zephyr Books, The Continental Book Company, 1946. First Mervyn Peake illustrated edition. 186x120mm. pp. 347 [1bl], [2]. Original illustrated wrappers with original illustrated dustjacket. Very slight chipping and a small closed tear to head of spine of dust jacket and slight fading to spine but otherwise in very good condition throughout. Peake's illustrations play on the dark surrealism of Alice suggesting a wild fantastical humour. These were Alice illustrations for the mid-twentieth century. This Stockholm edition of 1946 predates by eight years the first publication of Peake's Alice drawings in England.
Synopsis
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There , tell the story of a young girl in a fantasy world filled with peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The classic tale of literary nonsense takes the reader on an exploration of logic and absurdities. The Alice books — sometimes combined or referred to with the abbreviated title Alice in Wonderland — have been translated into at least 97 languages with over a hundred different editions. The books have also been adapted numerous times into films (both live-action and cartoon), plays, and musicals.
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- Bookseller
- Voewood Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4207
- Title
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
- Author
- CARROLL, Lewis
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Stockholm/London Zephyr Books, The Continental Book Company
- Date Published
- 1946
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...