Description:
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge [aka] Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) Limited Editions Club, One Signed by Alice Hargreaves.
Two octavo volumes: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932; and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935; the first volume signed by Alice on blank leaf between the half-title and the frontispiece, and signed by Frederic Ward on the limitation page, copy 969 of 1,500 copies; the second volume not signed, copy 1,343 of 1,500; both bound in publisher's leather, a.e.g.; spine from Through the Looking-Glass detached and chipped with loss, leather on both volumes fragile, with chipping, the two housed in a slipcase, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. each. (2)
Estimate $2,000-2,500
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Alice Hargreaves, Charles Lutwidge, Frederic WardJohn Dorfman
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