Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There
Price: $175.00
Tenniel, John. Hard Cover. London: Macmillan, 1972. Later Printing. About Fine.
Illustrated by Sir John Tenniel, with sixteen full-page color plates, and black and white illustrations in the text. Children's Edition, later printing. Publisher's green cloth, with black and red illustration to top of front board, lettered in black, and pictorial endpapers featuring various characters from the book. About fine book, with light toning to spine. Overall, an attractive, clean copy, printed 100 years after the first edition. Through the Looking-Glass (1872) is Lewis Carroll's sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). In this story, which represents the child protagonist's journey from adolescence to adulthood, Alice ventures into a fantasy world through the mirror above her fireplace. Throughout the novel, Carroll intersperses nonsense poetry, including the playful "Jabberwocky." Item #LC143
