The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Modern Library Giant #28.1)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. [c.1946]. Hardcover. A Modern Library Giant edition presenting the collected prose and poetry of the ever-popular Lewis Carroll, including his "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," "Through the Looking Glass," "Sylvie and Bruno," "Sylvie and Bruno Concluded," "The Hunting of the Snark," plus his puzzles, acrostics and much more. With the superb b&w illustrations by John Tenniel to the Alice stories and an introduction by Alexander Woollcott. Volume wrapped in yellow, green and brown variant jacket featuring illustrations, but not those of John Tenniel. --- In Toledano spine G5 / green cloth / gilt titling on black cover & spine blocks / black topstain / 'Quad Aristocrat' GB style endpapers / jacket style Gd, verso advertises 316 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1946 (no publication date appears in book). ML #G28.1. --- With mild age-toning to leaves, otherwise a well-preserved, unmarked, tightly-bound copy. Price-clipped dust jacket with chips and tears to extremities (especially at spine ends), otherwise bright, intact and protected in new removable mylar wrapper. (NOTE: Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be requested for shipments beyond the U.S.); Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xi, [3], 1293 pages .