Through the Looking Glass
by Carroll, Lewis
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fair
- Seller
-
Warsaw, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
Harper, 1902 First edition illustrated by Newell, bound in imitation vellum. Heavy stock jacket is lined in moire cloth. Olive green jacket is turning brown and is brittle.Front decoration of Alice carrying a cake replicates cover design. Jacket is separated at the back fold and is missing approximately 1/3rd of the spine and is reinforced internally at the front joint.Near fine book in fair jacket.
Synopsis
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a work of children's literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), generally categorized as literary nonsense. It is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Kerkhoff Books Div KSI
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000991
- Title
- Through the Looking Glass
- Author
- Carroll, Lewis
- Illustrator
- Peter Newell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Harper
- Date Published
- 1902
- Keywords
- Children, Illustrated
Terms of Sale
Kerkhoff Books Div KSI
Books returnable if not as described and returned in same condition as sent.
About the Seller
Kerkhoff Books Div KSI
Biblio member since 2006
Warsaw, Indiana
About Kerkhoff Books Div KSI
Primarily online seller with emphasis on better quality books.In the book business since the mid 1980s.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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