Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (Limited Edition, Signed by "the Original" Alice)
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. First Limited Editions Club Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. 211, [2] pp. Occasionally illustrated with black & white reproductions of drawings by John Tenniel. Near fine in original decorated leather-covered boards, all edges gilt, with light rubbing to spinal extremities, and one small spot of tarnish to head of text block near spine, and near fine cloth slipcase with faint rubbing to corners. Near fine. Item #9680
Signed on the colophon by Alice Hargreaves, the married name of Alice Liddell, on whom Lewis Carroll based “the original Alice.” Hargreaves notably resisted signing other editions of Carroll’s Alice books until a few years before her death in 1934. on the colophon, from a limited edition of 1,500, of which this is number 1,004.
Price: $2,000.00