The Nursery Alice
by Carroll, Lewis
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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Adelaide , South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
London: Macmillan & Co, 1890. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Tenniel, John. Lewis Carroll's own adaptation of Alice's Adventures In Wonderland [Macmillan & Co, London, 1890] for a younger audience. Containing Twenty Coloured Enlargements From Tenniel's Illustrations. First run of 10,000 copies were rejected by Carroll [1889] with 4000 sent to the US to be bound as the 1st American Edition. This copy, with price Four Shillings on title page, is the First Edition as approved by the author; illustrated boards, bumped and chipped around edges with 3cm sq loss bottom rhs, spine with some minor splits, inner front hinge starting [top half], presentation inscription ffep [1891], water-affected at base with tide mark evident on half-title to 4cm from bottom, marked throughout but illustrations unaffected and bright [coloured by E. Gertrude Thomson]; a good + copy of a hard-to-find title. Note illustration of Alice fully facing the Cheshire Cat [no profile] on page 34. 56pp plus "An Easter Greeting", advertisements and specimen page of original manuscript facsimile
Synopsis
The Nursery "Alice" is a shortened version of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, adapted by the author himself for children "from nought to five" with twenty of Tenniel's illustrations from the original book coloured and enlarged. It was first published in 1890 by Macmillan, 25 years after the original Alice, and featured a new cover illustrated by E. Gertrude Thomson, who was a good friend of Dodgson.
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- Bookseller
- ORCHARD BOOKSHOP
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010752
- Title
- The Nursery Alice
- Author
- Carroll, Lewis
- Illustrator
- Tenniel, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 2nd Printing
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1890
- Pages
- 56
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Adelaide, alice, alice in wonderland, antiquarian, art, art books, cheshire cat, children, childrens books, classic, family, fantasy, fiction, first edition, literature, lobster-quadrille, mad hatter, magic, old books, pool of tears, queen of hearts, rare
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