The Phantom Tollbooth.

JUSTER, Norton; Illustrated by Jules Feiffer.

Item Number: 125178

London: Collins, 1962.

First British edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated by Jules Feiffer. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Uncommon in this condition.

"This book has been described by Naomi Lewis as ‘the best original modern book in the Carroll line’" (Carpenter & Prichard, 409). Anyone with an appreciation for the language and irony of Alice in Wonderland will consider this witty adventure a classic. The novel begins with a miserably bored lad who exclaims that "there is nothing for me to do, nowhere I'd care to go, and hardly anything worth seeing." Suddenly a tollbooth appears in his room, and, having no other interests, the lad Milo drives through it and sets off in his toy car for a mythic journey.