1872 Through the Looking Glass 1st ed 1st Carroll Tenniel Alice Wonderland RARE

1872 Through the Looking Glass 1^st ed 1^st Carroll Tenniel Alice Wonderland RARE

‘Through the Looking Glass’ was published a few years after the success of ‘Adventures in Wonderland’. While it was never as popular as ‘Adventures in Wonderland’ it did include ‘the greatest nonsense poem ever written in the English language’, the “Jabberwocky” (Gardner). It was in this poem that Carroll created playful nonsense words that have become recognizable in English such as “galumphing” and “chortle.”

This 1872 first American edition features 50 whimsical illustrations by John Tenniel.

Item number: #24988

Price: $995

CARROLL, Lewis

Through the looking-glass : and what Alice found there

Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, 1872. First American edition. First printing.

Details:

• Collation: Complete
  • [12], 224
  • 50 illustrations
• References: References: Carroll Handbook 44; Lovett 215b; PMM 354; Riall pg. 77
  • PMM: “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its hardly less famous sequel Through the Looking Glass (1872), although ostensibly written for children are unique among ‘juveniles’ in appealing equally if not more strongly to adults. Written by an Oxford don, a clergyman, and a professional mathematician, they abound in characters—the White Knight, the Red Queen, the Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty—who are part of everybody’s mental furniture. And the philosophic profundity of scores, if not hundreds, of these characters’ observations, long household words wherever English is spoken, gains mightily from the delicious fantasy of their setting.”
• Edition point: First American edition is a reissue of the original London sheets with the ‘wade’ misprint on p.21
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
  • Red cloth
• Size: ~ 7.5in X 5.25in (18.5cm x 13cm)
• Quite rare and desirable with auction records and price comparisons at over $3000

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