Condition: Good: Good condition for a used book! Some wear. Octavo, blue buckram boards, white lettering to spine & front board, white humpty dumpty illus to front board, frontispiece, ix + 185pp, ornate illus border to each text page, illus, (moderate bruising & scuffing to spine/board edges & extrems, light discolouration to spine, light soiling to boards. See images for the condition of this book. This book is GORGEOUS, what a find!!!!
Blurb: In 1865, English author CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, wrote a fantastical adventure story for the young daughters of a friend. The adventures of Alice-named for one of the little girls to whom the book was dedicated-who journeys down a rabbit hole and into a whimsical underworld realm instantly struck a chord with the British public, and then with readers around the world. In 1872, in reaction to the universal acclaim *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland* received, Dodgson published this sequel. Nothing is quite what it seems once Alice journeys through the looking-glass, and Dodgson's wit is infectious as he explores concepts of mirror imagery, time running backward, and strategies of chess-all wrapped up in the exploits of a spirited young girl who parries with the Red Queen, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and other unlikely characters. In many ways, this sequel has had an even greater impact on today's pop culture than the first book.
Series: (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland #2)