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The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll. Includes: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass; Sylvie and Bruno; Sylvie and Bruno Concluded; The Hunting of The Snark; Puzzles From Wonderland; Phantasmagoria; Acrostics, Verse, Stories and A Miscellany.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1939. [Children's] FIRST NONESUCH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 1165 [3]. With Tenniel's original in-text illustrations to the Alice books. Bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to black morocco label, matching cloth sides, t.e.g., original cloth spine preserved at rear. Contents and edges clean, minor toning to half title, exterior unmarked. Attractively presented in a recent leather binding. The complete works of one of the greatest authors of the nineteenth century, enhanced by the addition of the most influential of Alice illustrators, John Tenniel. Item #74672
Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Williams and Madan, p.223. Book Collector No.271, 'The Great Illustrators'.
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