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OXENBURY**, HELEN: : Alice Through The Looking-Glass and What She Found There

LONDON.WALKER BOOKS LTD.,2005.

ISBN 0744561248.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[The true original 1st edn was published in 1871 as 'Through The Looking-Glass and What She Found There'.This particular edition first published 2005,with complete number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury and also an UNABRIDGED 1st edn thus.] FINE/FINE.Neat ink, gift presentation inscrptn to front free endpaper and a tiny 2/5ths" accidental rip/tear centrally,to it's top edge and no price clip (£14.99) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,matt, rusty-brown (?) background with colour pictorial artwork,by Helen Oxenbury,ilustrated front panel and spine/ backstrip,with blue,orange and black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Majority of light creasing to top edges of dw/dj - a small puncture on front panel's gutter's edge, near the head of same - board beneath unaffected though.Dw/dj design repeated to bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, paper-covered boards,clean dark blue endpapers - gift inscrptn excepted.Top edges lightly grubbed,fore-edges brighter and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - a couple of accidental corner creases to top corners of pp31/2 and pp33/34 - otherwise could be unread - apart from my own collation.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st illustrated edn thus,11-224pp [paginated] includes 12 chapters, profuse b/w+ colour illustrations throughout the text and the book: of which are either single full-page,full-colour,or double-page,full-colour illustrations,and full-page b/w line illus,b/w line illus chapter head-pieces,and also many part-page b/w+colour illus - all by Helen Oxenbury.Plus [unpaginated] full-page,full-colour illustrated half-title page, with colour frntis to it's recto,title page, Alice Through the Looking-Glass verse,author's (Lewis Carroll's) preface to the 61st Thousand of the 6/- edn,1897,a colour illustrated chess game/ puzzle,and double-page b/w vignette illustrated contents list/table. For over a hundred years,Lewis Carroll's classic story of logic and lunacy has delighted young and old alike,with many outstanding artists turning their hand to its illustration. Here,at last,is Helen Oxenbury's interpretation, which bears all of the special qualities that make her picture books so well-loved.Indeed, though unabridged,this is more abundantly illustrated,more of a picture book, than previous editions of the story. One snowy winter's afternoon,Alice climbs through the mirror above her drawing-room fireplace,into a back-to-front,topsy-turvy world where flowers talk,chess pieces walk and the faster you run the more you end up in the same place.As she wanders through this strange, astonishing land,Alice encounters a host of favourite childhood characters,each clamouring to be rediscovered and given new life by award-winning illustrator Helen Oxenbury.Wonder at Tweedledum and Tweedledee,laugh at the Walrus and the Carpenter,cower from the Lion and the Unicorn,ponder the Jabberwock,and beware the proud Humpty Dumpty and snappish Red Queen. Sequel to classic 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' published six years earlier by Carroll - which Oxenbury has also illustrated (see my book ID rja547515 and was awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal,the same title also winning the Kurt Maschler Award too. Marvellous story or meaningful text,'Alice Through the Looking-Glass' has long captivated readers of all ages.Satirical,witty and irreverent,it pokes fun at authority and mocks traditional education in a way that appeals to children of any era. Helen Oxenbury,born 1938,in Ipswich,Suffolk, daughter of an architect.Attended Ipswich School of Art and then studied theatre design at the Central School of Arts and Crafts.She was assistant designer and then designer at Colchester Repertory Theatre and spent three years in Israel as scene painter and designer for the Habinek Theatre,Tel-Aviv.On her return she worked for television at Teddington and on film sets at Shepperton Studios.Her first book, 'Numbers of Things',was published in 1967 and in 1969 she won the Kate Greenaway Medal with 'The Quangle Wangle's Hat' and 'The Dragon of an Ordinary Family'.These and her subsequent picture books have been notable for their humour and freshness,and often for their conceptualised,deliberate childlike iconography. She generally works in pen and ink,coloured with crayon, watercolour washes or gouache.She married the children's illustrator and writer John Burningham. 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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn thus.
Not SIGNED.

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