Price: £2,200
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: [1929]
Stock Number: 75790
(Pogany.) CARROLL (Lewis)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Illustrations by Willy Pogany.
Description: FIRST EDITION, 126/200 COPIES signed by the artist, large paper issue, frontispiece, vignettes to half-title and title-page, and illustrations throughout, all by Willy Pogany, pink endpapers, faint spot on half-title, pp. 192, crown 8vo, publisher's rose-pink cloth-backed patterned paper-covered boards, the pattern of zig-zag stripes of gradated alternating pink and grey, backstrip with label printed in black, rear pastedown with small neat label of Connecticut bookseller, cover with a few abrasions, faintly discoloured at lower edge, backstrip label slightly worn, with glue-mark, board edges a little rubbed, very goodPublication Details: New York: E.P. Dutton, [1929]
Notes: The extremely scarce de luxe version of a wonderful edition in which Pogany updates our heroine to the Jazz Age, the edition identified by John Davis as 'the first really original interpretation since Tenniel and a milestone in the artistic characterisation of Alice' (The Illustrators of Alice in Wonderland).
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