Recently I ran into a collector of Lewis Carroll’s works and
was reminded of a couple books I picked up last year and really should have
showcased them sooner.
Not a matched pair but close. |
Just a pair of brothers in politics, right? |
About this time last year The Monkey’s Paw threw an Alice in
Wonderland themed tea party, complete with delicious Eat Me cookies and mysterious
Drink Me elixirs (it was tequila. It’s always tequila…). Along with the food and
dressing up, they also put up a table full of antiquarian and hard to find
editions of Carroll’s works.
Apparently Carroll in Latin is still Carroll. |
Coming in a bit late, I missed out on the Chinese copies and some Slavic ones with gorgeous watercolour plates but did manage to score these two Latin copies of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.
Alice in Wonderland ranks quite high on the list of children’s books I grew up on, placing somewhere above Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and just under The Little Prince (both of which were also read to me in Chinese by my mother when I was a kid). Whenever I come across a unique or old edition I tend to snap it up and add it to my collection so when I saw these they were instant buys.
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