[Rarebooks] FS: ALICE IN WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll, SIGNED by Alice

[Charles Agvent]

DODGSON, Charles L. (LEWIS CARROLL). ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. 
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932. In the original heavily 
gilt-decorated full red morocco. With the original illustrations by John 
Tenniel. Copy #12 of 1500 with typography and binding by Frederick Warde 
who has SIGNED the colophon page. Additionally SIGNED for the publisher 
on a separate page bound in before the title page by Alice Hargreaves, 
"the original Alice," one of only about 500 copies of the total edition 
of 1500 copies that 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 to sign 
these copies. She would also sign two years later copies of THROUGH THE 
LOOKING-GLASS by the same publisher. A rare opportunity to acquire one 
of the most famous children's books ever published here signed by the 
subject of the book. Many have praised this book, but perhaps novelist 
Sir Walter Besant's remark is the most insightful: "It admits us into a 
state of being which, until it was written, was not only unexplored but 
undiscovered." Light wear to the corners, a few light scratches to the 
front cover, and one deeper scratch to the spine which has light 
chipping to the heel and heavier chipping to the head with about an 1/8" 
loss of leather. The slipcase is from this book's companion title 
THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS. Very Good in a Fine slipcase. (#014447)    
     $3,000.00

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