[Rarebooks] FS: Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, both fine copies SIGNED by Alice

[Charles Agvent]

[CARROLL,  Lewis]  DODGSON,  Charles   L.  ALICE'S  ADVENTURES  IN
WONDERLAND  and THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS AND WHAT ALICE FOUND  THERE.
New  York: Limited Editions Club 1932 & 1935. In original full morocco
bindings  with  heavy  gilt decorations, red for the first  title  and
blue  for the second, in the original slipcases. Each is #1208 of 1500
copies  with typography and binding by Frederick Warde who SIGNED  the
first  volume.  Each copy is additionally SIGNED by Alice  Hargreaves,
"the  original  Alice." Only about 500 copies of the first  title  and
about  1000  of the second were signed by her a few years  before  her
death.  Alice  refused to sign other editions of this famous  book  in
her  lifetime,  written  by Carroll for her when she was  young  Alice
Liddell,  but she was convinced with the help of monetary compensation
at  an  advanced  age  to sign these copies.  A  rare  opportunity  to
acquire  two  of the most famous children's books ever published  here
signed  by  the subject of the books. Many have praised  these  books,
but   perhaps  novelist  Sir  Walter   Besant's  remark  on  ALICE  IN
WONDERLAND  is  the  most insightful: "It admits us into  a  state  of
being  which,  until  it  was written, was  not  only  unexplored  but
undiscovered."  Small  adhesive remnant from a bookplate on the  verso
of  the  front endpaper of the first volume and two tiny nicks to  the
spine  of  the  second  volume. Each has a  monthly  letter  from  the
publisher  laid  in. Beautiful books, rarely found in  this  condition
with  the  leather  still  supple  and  the  slipcases  not  darkened.
Extraordinarily Fine set and increasingly scarce thus.        $6000.00

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