Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (Illustrated)

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Write a customer review. Unlimited One-Day Delivery and more. Better World Books Condition: Limited Editions Club, In a Very Good to Fine slipcover.. Near fine in original vellum covered boards with gilt text on the spine and a raised, gilt image of Alice and gilt text on the front board and the top edge of the text block is gilt. Pasted to the front paste down is a book plate from The Pantasote Co. Pasted to the first free end page is the typed letter from The Pantasote Company awarding this copy to the winner of the prize.

Also pasted to this page is that award winner's book plate. The book is contained within three quarters of its original, stiff dust jacket; unfortunately, the spine area of the jacket is missing, but the front panel is decorated with a raised image of Alice and the same gilt text that appear on the front board of the book. Town's End Books Published: Oxfordshire, Witney, Inky Parrot Press, Foreword about Franciszka Themerson's drawings by Jasia Reichardt and Afterword by Graham Ovenden, both have signed the book on the limitation page at rear of book.

A Fine new unread copy issued without dustwrapper. All edges gilt, red-pink marbled end-papers. Half red morocco with five raised bands to the spine, gilt lettering with gilt lion and lily motifs to the compartments within ruled gilt borders. Binding fine with minimal wear only, spine very slighly faded. Contents very good, tight and clean, no inscriptions, minimal spotting to title page otherwise very clean. A very good copy in a fine binding. Very suitable as a special gift for a child.. The Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass original binding is in Very Good condition with light dust staining to the front board, more prominent dust staining to the back board, darkening of the spine, knocks to the top and bottom of the spine, corner knocks, wear to the edges of the spine and very slight shelf lean.

The faults with the binding that is over years of age is relatively minor and makes this a very attractive and collectable vintage Lewis Carroll Alice book. The pages are all edges gilt. The Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass pages are in overall Very Good condition with a name for Robert Wylie rubber stamped to the Half Title Page, light age toning to the pages which is not very noticeable, and foxing to the blank page opposite the Half Title Page, offsetting onto the Half Title Page, and foxing to the two blank pages before the rear endpapers.

Internally this is a very clean and attractive book with all the pages still firmly bound-in. The First Edition Published: Illustrated by Tenniel, John. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Red cloth with gilt title to spine, gilt border and vignette to front and rear boards. Spine bumped and worn with nicks to cloth on top edge and a little fraying to bottom edge. Slight wear to corners. Spine darkened and some darkening to covers.

Heavy foxing to title page, frontis and tissue guard. Only a few fox spots otherwise. Contents lightly browned and generally clean. Inky Parrot Press, Quarto [32 cm] Bound for the publisher by Ludlow Bookbinders, in red cloth over boards, with a gilt stamped title on the spine. The book is set in Breughel by Charles Hall, and printed on Stow book-white paper. Illustrated by Angel Dominguez with an Afterword by the artist.

Signed by the illustrator on the limitation page. Number 51 in an edition limited to Very Good condition, no dust jacket. The tan book is faded but the cover and lettering are still clean. The binding is solid although at some point it was reglued.

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A previous owner's name and address stamp is inside the cover and a gift inscription, Xmas , is on the front end paper. This book is sometimes confused with the first edition. Nonetheless, a true collectible.. Near very good in a half-vellum binding with blue cloth boards.

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Lettered on spine in gilt on black title-piece. Previous owner's name in not too prominent black ink on front board. Ex libris plate on front free end-paper.

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Photographs available on request.. Limited edition of 1, copies. Top edge tinted brown. White silk stamped in silver with pictorial vignette on front and rear covers. Seven full page color illustrations plus title page design by Franklin Hughes, the American artist, in a flat geometric 30s style.

Some light browning within.

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Green hardback cloth cover with gilt titles and crest. Barter Books Ltd Published: Creme vellum, uncut, t. Ink owner, light sunning to boards, with cap and corner wear, rear hinge starting.. Bound in the original red cloth as issued with Queen's head in gilt on top board and King's head on bottom board. Cloth a little rubbed in places and some wear to top and bottom of the spine.

Binding has a slight lean. Internally clean and bright. Illustrations inside by John Tenniel. Silver Fox Books Published: The front cover has a queen chess piece in gilt. Beautiful binding by Riviere and Son. Some wear to top of spine, and spine itself seems slightly faded. Covers have a light white residue in the pores of the leather looks to me as though someone tried to saddle soap or polish these covers.

She then meets the fat twin brothers Tweedledum and Tweedledee , who she knows from the nursery rhyme. After reciting the long poem " The Walrus and the Carpenter ", they draw Alice's attention to the Red King —loudly snoring away under a nearby tree—and maliciously provoke her with idle philosophical banter that she exists only as an imaginary figure in the Red King's dreams. Finally, the brothers begin suiting up for battle, only to be frightened away by an enormous crow, as the nursery rhyme about them predicts.

Chapter Five — Wool and Water: Alice next meets the White Queen , who is very absent-minded but boasts of and demonstrates her ability to remember future events before they have happened.

Through the Looking Glass

Alice and the White Queen advance into the chessboard's fifth rank by crossing over a brook together, but at the very moment of the crossing, the Queen transforms into a talking Sheep in a small shop. Alice soon finds herself struggling to handle the oars of a small rowboat, where the Sheep annoys her with seemingly nonsensical shouting about " crabs " and " feathers ". Chapter Six — Humpty Dumpty: After crossing yet another brook into the sixth rank, Alice immediately encounters Humpty Dumpty , who, besides celebrating his unbirthday , provides his own translation of the strange terms in "Jabberwocky".

In the process, he introduces Alice to the concept of portmanteau words, before his inevitable fall. Chapter Seven — The Lion and the Unicorn: In this chapter, the March Hare and Hatter of the first book make a brief re-appearance in the guise of " Anglo-Saxon messengers" called "Haigha" and "Hatta". Chapter Eight — "It's my own Invention": Upon leaving the Lion and Unicorn to their fight, Alice reaches the seventh rank by crossing another brook into the forested territory of the Red Knight, who is intent on capturing the "white pawn"—Alice—until the White Knight comes to her rescue.

Escorting her through the forest towards the final brook-crossing, the Knight recites a long poem of his own composition called Haddocks' Eyes , and repeatedly falls off his horse. Chapter Nine — Queen Alice: Bidding farewell to the White Knight, Alice steps across the last brook, and is automatically crowned a queen, with the crown materialising abruptly on her head.

She soon finds herself in the company of both the White and Red Queens, who relentlessly confound Alice by using word play to thwart her attempts at logical discussion. They then invite one another to a party that will be hosted by the newly crowned Alice—of which Alice herself had no prior knowledge. Chapter Ten — Shaking: Alice arrives and seats herself at her own party, which quickly turns into chaos. Alice finally grabs the Red Queen, believing her to be responsible for all the day's nonsense, and begins shaking her. Chapter Eleven — Waking: Alice awakes in her armchair to find herself holding the black kitten, who she deduces to have been the Red Queen all along, with the white kitten having been the White Queen.

Chapter Twelve — Which dreamed it?



The story ends with Alice recalling the speculation of the Tweedle brothers, that everything may have been a dream of the Red King, and that Alice might herself be no more than a figment of his imagination. The book ends with the line "Life, what is it but a dream? The themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland: In it, there are many mirror themes, including opposites, time running backwards, and so on.

The White Queen offers to hire Alice as her lady's maid and to pay her "Twopence a week, and jam every other day. The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day. Jam is therefore never available today. Whereas the first book has the deck of playing cards as a theme, Through the Looking-Glass is based on a game of chess, played on a giant chessboard with fields for squares. Most of the main characters are represented by a chess piece, with Alice being a pawn.

The looking-glass world is divided into sections by brooks or streams, with the crossing of each brook usually signifying a change in the scene, and corresponding to Alice advancing by one square. The sequence of moves white and red is not always followed.