Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

Carroll, Lewis

Verlag: Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, 1872

Beschreibung

Octavo, red cloth lettered in gilt, with pictorial devices of queens on covers; professionally rebacked with a touch of rubbing to the extremities. First American edition, first issue, with misprint "wade" on page 21; fifty woodcut illustrations by John Tenniel ---- From the library of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911), with the Unitarian minister's ownership signature "Higginson" on the front flyleaf. One of abolitionist John Brown's secret backers, Higginson wrote numerous articles and books, commanded the First South Carolina Volunteers (the first government-authorized regiment of ex-slaves mustered into the Union army), and inspirited the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson. An extraordinary association copy. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-4737221953

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice ...

Verlag: Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham

Erscheinungsdatum: 1872

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition