THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS, AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE ... With fifty Illustrations by John Tenniel. Boston: Lee and Shepard. New York: Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, 1872. Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1] 2-224, fifty illustrations by John Tenniel, three-quarter leather and marbled boards, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. First U.S. edition. The sheets of the American edition are probably the same as those used for the British first printing for they have Macmillan's device, and the misprint "Wade" for "Wabe" on page 21. "THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS has the added discipline of being based on a chess game, an ingenious contrivance that brings structure to the surrealism and makes the sequel a more accomplished and successful work. The second Alice book is quoted more often that the first (though most people believe they are quoting from the first), and features the poems 'Jabberwocky' and 'The Walrus and the Carpenter.'" - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 169. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 1-11 and (1981) 1-37. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 3-17. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-23. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 7-16. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2278-82. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, p. 61. Bleiler (1948), p. 73. Reginald 02674. See Williams, Madan and Green 84. Leather worn, outer hinges cracked, chip from spine panel. The front and rear panels of the original cloth binding are affixed to the front and rear paste-downs. Bound without the flyleaves, text block very clean, illustrations sharp, a solid candidate for rebinding. (#173012).
Price: $450.00
No statement printing.