The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
New York: Random House, [1937]. Illustrated by John Tenniel. Full leather. Octavo. [i-iv] v-xi [xii] xiii-xvi [xvii-xviii], 1-1293 pages.
Handsome edition in green leather fine binding. Contains Carroll's stories, puzzles, verses, acrostics, and more. Both "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass" are accompanied by the original John Tenniel illustrations. A beautiful one-volume edition.
Bound in green leather over boards with integral silk bookmark, gilt-stamped spine titles in gilt-bordered and ornamented title blocks between 3 raised bands, gilt-stamped border rules to both boards, ornamental gilt dentelles, and decorated endpapers. Top edge gilt. Mild dampstain affecting up to 1" of top margin through most of the textblock, spine lightly browned. Very good overall. A very attractive copy.
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