YOU'LL  LOVE  THIS  BOOK!!!

It is also filled with 50 ILLUSTRATIONS!!! by the original "Alice" artist, Sir JOHN TENNIEL.

This RARE edition includes 4 COLOR CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS!!!

This scarce LARGE FORMAT book has a beautiful DECORATIVE BORDER that frames each page.

There are many mirror themes in the story, including opposites, time running backwards, and so on. Whereas the first book has a deck of cards as its theme, this book is loosely based on a game of chess, played on a giant chessboard with fields for squares. Alice ponders what the world is like on the other side of a mirror, and to her surprise, is able to pass through to experience the alternate world. She discovers a book with looking-glass poetry, "Jabberwocky," which she can read only by holding it up to a mirror. Upon leaving the house, she enters a garden, where the flowers speak to her and mistake her for a flower. There, Alice also meets the Red Queen, who offers a throne to Alice if she just moves to the eighth rank in a chess match. Alice is placed as the White Queen's pawn, and begins the game by taking a train to the fourth rank, since pawns in chess can move two spaces on the first move. She then meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee, of whom she knows from the famous nursery rhyme. After reciting to her the long poem, "The Walrus and the Carpenter," the two proceed to act out the events of their own poem. Alice continues on to meet the White Queen, who is very absent-minded and later transforms into a sheep. The following chapter details her meeting with Humpty Dumpty, who explains to her the meaning of "Jabberwocky" before his inevitable fall from the wall. This is followed by an encounter with the Lion and the Unicorn, who again proceed to act out a nursery rhyme. She is then rescued from the Red Knight by the White Knight, who many consider to be a representation of Lewis Carroll himself. At this point, she reaches the eight rank and becomes a queen, and by capturing the Red Queen, puts the Red King (who has remained stationary throughout the book) into checkmate. She then awakes from her dream (if it was a dream) and blames her black kitten (the white kitten was wholly innocent) for the mischief caused by the story. The two kittens are the children of Dinah, Alice's cat in the first book.

Published in 1897, this book is in GOOD CONDITION! for its age and especially to 115 YEARS OLD!!! ALL TEXT IS PRESENT!!! and tightly bound with no stray intext markings. There is a note penciled in on the front pastedown endpage that reads: "This is my book don't book it." Its most notable minor imperfections are: the title page has a minor 1/2 inch tear at the foredge, three introduction page and first page of the story each have an old tape repair near the gutter, and two pages have Alice in Wonderland stamps affixed to them, as pictured for your review. This is a one of the most sought after of all Looking-Glass editions because of the attractive pictorial cover and color chromolithographs so...GET IT WHILE YOU CAN!!!

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