Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.
First Edition of the Centenary Edition of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass & What Alice Found There; iNSCRIBED by Legendary Illustrator Ralph Steadman
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.
CARROLL, Lewis [Ralph Steadman].
$450.00
Item Number: 146024
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1972.
First Centenary edition of this classic work of children’s literature. Large quarto, original black boards, pictorial endpapers, numerous illustrations by Ralph Steadman throughout. Boldly signed by the illustrator in the year of publication on the half-title page, “Ralph Steadman 11.11.72.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Book design by Brian J. Green. Uncommon signed.
In the Centenary edition of 'Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There,' The Committee of the Lewis Carroll Society celebrates the hundred-year anniversary of Carroll's dazzling work. Ralph Steadman, who illustrated 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,' which was awarded the Francis Williams Memorial bequest for the best illustrated book of the previous five years, has returned to create the outstanding art for this book, implementing his spectacularly original ideas and threading a lovely relationship between Carroll and his work.
