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Dodgson (Rev. Charles Lutwidge)"Lewis Carroll". Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, second (first published) edition, half-title, frontispiece with tissue-guard and illustrations by John Tenniel, ink gift inscription to front free endpaper verso, dated Xmas 1868, a few very short marginal tears, some light foxing and soiling, upper hinge cracked, original cloth, gilt, neatly rebacked with original backstrip laid down (spine ends frayed), some generally light staining, cloth worn at some extremities, elsewhere little rubbed, g.e., housed in a red cloth chemise and morocco-backed slipcase (spine ends rubbed), [Crutch 46], 8vo, Macmillan and Co., 1866.*** With the inverted 'S' in the last line of the Contents page, and p.30 correctly numbered. This copy is in the earliest state with the pale blue endpapers, as opposed to green. The original 1865 first edition was suppressed by Dodgson on account of the inferior printing quality.
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Dodgson (Rev. Charles Lutwidge)"Lewis Carroll". Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, second (first
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