Dodgson, Charles Lewis Carroll ~ The Nursery Alice – People’s Edition
Macmillan And Co., London, 1889 [but 1891]
£800
First Edition Second Issue 1889 (but in fact 1891). This is the People's Edition priced at two shillings on the title page, essentially a re-issue of the first edition retaining the original illustration of Alice with the Cheshire Cat on p34. A much rarer edition then the second (published on white rather than toned paper and with Alice removed from the Cheshire Cat illustration). Original pictorial boards, lightly soiled, contemporary owner's inscription to pastedown, yellow endpapers, frontispiece with no tissue guard but bright and clean, very light odd spots to preliminaries else a clean and bright copy. frontis, title & [vi], 56pp [1], [6]pp (incl 2pp ads)
EDITION: First Edition
BINDING : Hardback
BOOK CONDITION: Very Good
JACKET: No Jacket
INVENTORY NUMBER: 108333
