Alice\'s Adventures Under Ground, Lewis Carroll Manuscript Facsimile 1953 1st HC For Sale

Acceptable: spine backstrip missing, binding fragile. Gift inscription dated 1963 to upper front flyleaf, moderate ink smudging to margins & endpapers, else unmarked. First Thus; Facsimile Edition. 1953. Panda Prints, NY (printed by Edward Stern & Co., Philadelphia). Hardcover: tan pictorial paper-covered boards w/ multi-color Lewis Carroll cover illustrations, edge rubbing, corner chipping, shelf wear. Paper spine backstrip missing, coarse binding mull & webbing exposed along the spine length; starting inner hinges, all pages secure. Solid pink endpapers w/ moderate smudging & perimeter glue toning. Moderate smudging to outer margins & text pages, text fully legible. Lacks original publisher slipcase. Full-page multi-color lithographic facsimile title page & illuminated chapter headers, b&w & color-highlighted manuscript illustrations throughout by Lewis Carroll. 90 pp, preceded by 4 unnumbered introductory leaves. 4.75x7.5\" (12mo). Ships in a box, quickly & w/care. SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Preserving the 1864 handwritten presentation manuscript given to Alice Liddell, Alice\'s Adventures Under Ground is the earliest form of the story that became Alice in Wonderland. Composed by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson following a July 1862 boating excursion on the Thames, the narrative follows Alice\'s subterranean encounters with the White Rabbit, the Caterpillar, and the court of the Queen of Hearts across four core chapters, before Dodgson expanded the work for publication in 1865. Published in 1953 by New York imprint Panda Prints, Inc. and printed by Edward Stern & Co. of Philadelphia, this edition is a mid-century facsimile of the manuscript held in the British Museum (Add MS 46700). The volume carries multi-color lithographic floral borders on the title page, illuminated chapter headings in red and black, and Carroll\'s own manuscript illustrations, created before John Tenniel\'s engravings for the published book. The facsimile gives readers Dodgson\'s original calligraphy, early character designs, and initial literary revisions as they stood before the 1865 book. It is read by Victorian literature scholars, Lewis Carroll collectors, and children\'s literature archives.

Preserving the 1864 handwritten presentation manuscript given to Alice Liddell, Alice\'s Adventures Under Ground is the earliest form of the story that became Alice in Wonderland. Composed by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson following a July 1862 boating excursion on the Thames, the narrative follows Alice\'s subterranean encounters with the White Rabbit, the Caterpillar, and the court of the Queen of Hearts across four core chapters, before Dodgson expanded the work for publication in 1865.

Published in 1953 by New York imprint Panda Prints, Inc. and printed by Edward Stern & Co. of Philadelphia, this edition is a mid-century facsimile of the manuscript held in the British Museum (Add MS 46700). The volume carries multi-color lithographic floral borders on the title page, illuminated chapter headings in red and black, and Carroll\'s own manuscript illustrations, created before John Tenniel\'s engravings for the published book.

The facsimile gives readers Dodgson\'s original calligraphy, early character designs, and initial literary revisions as they stood before the 1865 book. It is read by Victorian literature scholars, Lewis Carroll collectors, and children\'s literature archives.

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