Lewis Carroll’s own adaptation of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland for a younger audience
First Edition* [Macmillan & Co, London, 1890] 56pp + An Easter Greeting, Christmas Greetings, advertisements & facsimile specimen page of original manuscript; 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, a good copy of a hard-to-find title
Containing Twenty Coloured Enlargements From John Tenniel’s illustrations
NB illustration of Alice fully facing the Cheshire Cat [no profile] on page 34
Cover illustrations by E. Gertrude Thomson
*Our copy, with price Four Shillings on title page, is the First Edition as approved by the author [an initial first run of 10,000 copies, printed 1889, was rejected by Carroll with 4000 sent to the US to be bound as the 1st American Edition]
