1932 MacMillan ALICE IN WONDERLAND Alice's RARE CENTENARY EDITION Adventures VTG

Description: ONLY 3 AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE!!! RARE CENTENARY EDITION ALICE!!! GET IT WHILE YOU CAN!!! In 1932, the centennial of Lewis Carroll’s birth, Alice Liddell, then an 80-year-old widow, traveled with her son and sister to New York City to receive an honorary doctorate from Columbia University for "awaking with her girlhood's charm the ingenious fancy of a mathematician familiar with imaginary quantities, stirring him to reveal his complete understanding of the heart of a child." An informal group of his admirers commemorated the centennial by praising Dodgson as a "great lover of children" and raising the equivalent of almost $1,000,000 in today's currency to fund a Lewis Carroll children’s ward at St. Mary’s Hospital in London. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This SALE! is for an original RARE! 1932 Limited SPECIAL CENTENARY EDITION of "ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND" by Lewis Carroll. YOU'LL LOVE THIS BOOK!!! It is filled with 42 ILLUSTRATIONS!!! by theoriginal "Alice" artist, Sir JOHN TENNIEL. It is a work of children's literature by the English mathematician and author, Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, written under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy realm populated by talking playing cards and anthropomorphic creatures. The tale is fraught with satirical allusions to Dodgson's friends and to the lessons that British schoolchildren were expected to memorize. The Wonderland described in the tale plays with logic in ways that have made the story of lasting popularity with adults as well as children. A girl named Alice is bored while on a picnic with her older sister. She finds interest in a passing white rabbit, dressed in a waistcoat and muttering "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!" She follows it down a rabbit-hole where she finds herself floating down into a dream underworld. As she attempts to follow the rabbit, she has several adventures. She grows to gigantic size and shrinks to a fraction of her original height; meets a group of small animals stranded in a sea of her own previously shed tears; gets trapped in the rabbit's house when she enlarges herself again; meets a baby which changes into a pig, and a cat which disappears leaving only his smile behind; goes to a never-ending tea party; goes to the shore and meets a Gryphon and a Mock Turtle; and attends the trial of the Knave of Hearts, who has been accused of stealing tarts. Eventually, Alice wakes up back with her sister. Published in 1932, this rare, classic, children's book is in VERY GOOD CONDITION for any age and especially to be almost 92 YEARS OLD!!! ALL PAGES & 42 ILLUSTRATIONS ARE PRESENT!!! and firmly bound with NO TEARS! or stray intext markings. It measures 4 1/8" X 6 1/4" and is 200 pages long. Early "Alice" books are very scarce and in high demand so...GET IT WHILE YOU CAN!!! We combine wins to save you shipping costs! This classic bedtime story was written right in the middle of the Civil War, in 1862. This is what ordinary Americans were reading as entertainment at the time. It provided temporary escape and relief from the ravages of the War. The Author: Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was a mathematician and a logician who lectured at Oxford for some 26 years. He was also an accomplished photographer and a Church Deacon. Dodgson's pen name was Lewis Carroll. Dodgson first told the story during a 2½ hour rowing trip with friends on July 4th, 1862. He created the story on the spur of the moment to entertain the three young daughters of the Dean of Christ Church at Oxford, (Alice, Lorina, and Edith Liddell). 10 year old Alice later pleaded with Carroll to commit the story to paper. He completed it the following February. This first manuscript, called "Alice's Adventures Underground" is thought to have probably been destroyed in 1864 when, on November 26th 1864, Dodgson presented Alice Liddell with a more elaborate hand-printed second version which included 37 of his own illustrations as a Christmas present. Reverend Dodgson later showed the tale to his friend George Macdonald, who urged him to publish it. He then revised and expanded the tale to almost twice its length. This third version was published by Macmillan and Co. in London, on July 4th, 1865. Sir John Tenniel was the artist who agreed to illustrate the revised and expanded text which was now called Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Tenniel's black and white illustrations were made for the reproductive process known as wood-engraving. Please see our other books too!

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