Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass / First Trade Editions / 1982 - 1983

By Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ("Lewis Carroll")
Illustrated by Barry Moser

Two volumes, folio. Numerous illustrations by Barry Moser. Original cloth-backed boards; original dust jackets. 

Elegantly illustrated and handsomely printed, the impressive "Pennyroyal Edition" of Lewis Carroll's classic tale first appeared in 1871. The black woodblock illustrations by Barry Moser (born 1940) are dramatic and refined. Barry Moser is an artist known as a printmaker and illustrator of many fine works of literature.

Publisher: Berkeley Los Angeles London: University of California Press
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First trade editions.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Book Condition: Near Fine | Dust Jacket: Very Good

The boards are on red quarter buckram over lilac boards with metallic blue lettering on the spine. The pages are clean and unmarked. The spine is square, and the binding is firm, crisp, and unmarked. The dust jacket has some shelf wear but is a beautiful copy overall.

Print Date: 1982
Condition: Near Fine
Pages: xxiii, [xxiv], [4] + 4-146 pages + [2] Acknowledgements + [2] Colophon
Size: Folio (8 3/4" x 13 3/4")
ISBN: 0-520-04815-6

Through the Looking-Glass  

Book Condition: Near Fine. | Dust Jacket: Very Good

The boards are on royal blue quarter buckram over powder blue boards with metallic blue lettering on the spine. The pages are clean and unmarked, with a small smudged exception on the title page. The endpapers are powder blue with blue-on-blue depictions of Alice. The spine is square, and the binding is firm, crisp, and unmarked. The dust jacket has some shelf wear and bumping on the top edge.

Print Date: 1983
Condition: Near Fine
Pages: xxiii, [xxiv], [4] + 4-167 pages + [3] Acknowledgements + [2] Colophon
Size: Folio (8 3/4" x 13 3/4")
ISBN: 0-520-05309-8