Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
$1,200 · Offered by Biblio
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869. Second. hardcover. very good(-). 42 Illustrations by John Tenniel. 8vo, brown end-papers, orange-red pebbled cloth (faded) with vignettes of Alice on the front cover and the Cheshire Cat on the rear. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869. A sound copy. Second American edition, and first to be published in America, the sheets from the first (Appleton) edition having been imported from England. 8 pages, including the front & back paste-down and both sides of the front free flyleaf are covered with pasted newspaper articles & photographs of Alice as a child, Lewis Carroll & Alice at age 80, from the time of the 100th anniversary celebration of the book.
- Publisher: Lee and Shepard
- Year: 1869
- Edition: Second
- Binding: unknown
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