Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller - Old and Rare Books

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland [WITH] Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice found there. 2 Vols. [INSCRIBED BY BARRY MOSER]

Carroll, Lewis; Barry Moser (Ill.); James R. Kincaid (preface and notes)

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982 & 1983. First printing. Hardcover. Folio.146pp. 168pp. Red cloth over purple boards and blue cloth over light blue boards, in original illustrated dustjackets. Marbled, respectively illustrated endpapers. Illustrated half-titles. Frontispieces. Title pages printed in two, respectively three colors. Both volumes inscribed "For Bruce - B. Moser" on title pages.

"The California edition of the Pennyroyal Press Alice's Adventures in Wonderland represents an extraordinary blend of artistic imagery, meticulous craft, and scholarly care. In the sesquicentenary of Carroll's birth, a book exemplary of innovative design, illustration and printing offers a new vision of the calculated pandemonium of Wonderland." (Publ.). Careful reproductions of the original printing by Harold McGrath at Pennyroyal Press, Massachusetts. Illustrated with wood-engravings by the great Barry Moser. Preface and notes by James R. Kincaid. vg. Item #55241

Price: $350.00