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FIRST EDITION Through the Looking-Glass 1872 LEWIS CARROLL Alice Wonderland

Updated: Mar 29, 2023


SOLD.

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll. With Fifty Illustrations by John Tenniel. London; Macmillan and Co.; 1872.


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Very early issue with original pictorial cloth and 'wabe' on p.21.


Bound by Burn & Co (the original binder, the same as that of the first edition of Alice In Wonderland)



Size: 19 x 13 x 2.5 cm (8vo).



Condition:


Text block extremely clean with light tonging and very sporadic very minor foxing. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Original spine fragment with minor wear, and prominent marks. Spine with very minor warping. Both boards securely attached. Very minor wear and some marks on boards. Page edges with minor loss and minor dulling. Shelf wear. Some minor wear to corners. Some marks on pastedown. Pen inscription dated 1872 on preliminary page. Half title with light toning and minor foxing. Frontispiece and title page lightly toned with very minor foxing.



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