Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Forty-second thousand. With Forty-Two Illustrations by John Tenniel including tissue guarded frontispiece. 192pp + publisher's advertisements. Light foxing to initial leaves and tissue guard + between pages 61 and 73, few grubby marks throughout. Discreet ink inscription to front free endpaper, with neat pencil inscription to verso. Small bookshop sticker to front endpaper. Cracked to hinge in several places, with last few pages almost loose but still holding. Binding shaken. Beautifully bound in bright gilt ruled, lettered and illustrated burgundy cloth, featuring triple gilt framed vignette of Alice and the pig to upper board and Cheshire Cat to lower, gently rubbed to edges and corners and a little grubby, spine scuffed and rubbed but gold gilt still shining through. All edges gilt. The red coloured cloth was chosen by Alice Liddell, for and to whom the Alice story was first composed and told to allay boredom during a summer boating trip down the stretch of Thames which runs through Oxford.