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New York. 1977. Potter. 1st American Trade Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket.

New York. 1977. Potter. 1st American Trade Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0517532662. 68 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Hermann Strohbach. keywords: Children's Books Literature England. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Frontispiece after Tenniel with two additional black-and-white illustrations by Ralph Steadman. Now more than one hundred years after Lewis Carroll's immortal Through the Looking-Glass was published, lovers of the Alice books have a new episode written by Carroll in which Alice meets an aged, bad-tempered wasp who wears a yellow wig. ‘Don't think me brutal, ' John Tenniel, illustrator of Through the Looking-Glass, wrote to Carroll on June 1, 1870, ‘but I am bound to say that the 'wasp' chapter doesn't interest me in the least, and I can't see my way to a picture. ' A wasp in a wig, he said, is ‘altogether beyond the appliances of art. ' Following Tenniel's letter Carroll dropped the episode, and little more was known about it until 1974. Although the episode was long thought destroyed, at that time galley proofs, corrected in Carroll's hand, came up suddenly for auction at Sothebys of London. The episode was purchased by a collector in New York City who, along with the Trustees of the Dodgson Estate, gave the Lewis Carroll Society of North America permission to prepare the material for publication. Martin Gardner, author of the classic Annotated Alice, has contributed an introduction and annotations, and the long-lost galley proofs have been reproduced in facsimile. Two illustrations have been added by the distinguished contemporary Carroll illustrator Ralph Steadman. The episode, which was originally intended to follow the White Knight sequence in Chapter V Ill, is rich in Carrollian humor, nonsense, and wordplay. inventory #2032.

First American Trade edition. Near fine with slight bump to the tail in near fine dustwrapper.

First American Trade edition. Near fine with slight bump to the tail in near fine dustwrapper.