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This 1872 sequel to Lewis Carroll's beloved Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finds the inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Looking-glass land, a topsy-turvy world lurking just behind the mirror over Alice's mantel, is a fantastic realm of live chessmen, madcap kings and queens, strange mythological creatures, talking flowers and puddings, and rude insects.
Brooks and hedges divide the lush greenery of looking-glass land into a chessboard, where Alice becomes a pawn in a bizarre game of chess involving Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Lion and the Unicorn, the White Knight, and other nursery-rhyme figures. Promised a crown when she reaches the eighth square, Alice perseveres through a surreal landscape of amusing characters that pelt her with riddles and humorous semantic quibbles and regale her with memorable poetry, including the oft-quoted "Jabberwocky."
This handsome, inexpensive edition, featuring the original John Tenniel illustrations, makes available to today's readers a classic of juvenile literature long cherished for its humor, whimsy, and incomparable fantasy.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Barry Moser (illustrator). First Printing. PAGES LIKE NEW, SOME DISCOLORATION TO DUST JACKET EDGES. A folio measuring 13 3/8 by 8 3/8 inches. 167 pages. 3.0. Seller Inventory # 038886
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Barry Moser (illustrator). First. This is a fine hardcover Pennyroyal Edition, blue binding, lovely blue end papers. Top of front DJ flap is clipped (not the price which is at the bottom), otherwise a fine copy. Signed by Barry Moser on the title page. MEDIA SHIPPING ONLY, extra for airmail or international shipping. Signed by Moser on Title Page. Seller Inventory # 098170