Alice in Wonderland. Printed in Gregg Shorthand

by [Education - Shorthand Alice] Carroll, Lewis [pseud. of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]

$250 · Offered by Biblio

New York and Chicago: The Gregg Publishing Company, 1942. Early Gregg Shorthand edition. Paperback. Very Good. 154pp. Octavo [24 cm] Green and red printed wraps. Previous owner's name in faint pen along the top edge of the front wrap. Minor creasing to wraps. Text and illustrations by Tenniel & Maybank throughout. Early Gregg Shorthand edition of Alice, with shorthand plates created originally in 1915 by Georgie Gregg Gingell. An installment in a series meant to promote the use of Gregg Shorthand. Prior to computers, word processors, and the prevalent use of dictation machines, stenographers transcribed much of business and institutional correspondence, and then retyped it into sensible text. In order to better convey the diversity of the system, Gingell created an entire group of literary classics in shorthand, including Letters from a Self-Made Merchant by Latimer, Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Hamlet, Dickens' Christmas Carol, Poe's Descent into the Maelstrom, and Carroll's Alice. An early printing of the softcover edition, which was first published in softcover in 1931.

• Publisher: The Gregg Publishing Company
• Year: 1942
• Edition: Early Gregg Shorthand edition
• Binding: paperback

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