Description
Very Good- dust jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added, price-clipped, crease in the front panel 2.6″ long, small tear to the rear panel. The Very Good+ binding is brown cloth over boards, silver stamped illustration on the cover, gilt stamping on the spine, red mark at the head of the spine which does not effect the text. The binding is tight and pages are clean. Lovely illustrations throughout the book by Peter Newell. Book measures 8.4″ wide x 10.9″ Tall. Jacket illustrations: Deborah Jones, based on original illustrations by Peter Newell. Looking-glass deign: Mikhail Swenitsky, Jacket design: Susan Shapiro.
About the book: (from the dust jacket)
On a golden summer afternoon in 1862 a shy stammering math teacher invented fairy tale about little girl named Alice that would become part of the folklore of the world. From that tale came Alice S Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, immortal classics of English literature that are among the most widely read, most admired, most studied, and most often quoted books in the world, relished today as much by adults as by young people.
Martin Gardner’s Annotated Alice, published thirty years ago, has become the classic reference to Lewis Carroll’s two books about Alice. Millions of readers have delighted in his clever annotations explaining the enchanting riddles, logic paradoxes, parodies, subtle humor, and concealed meanings in the books, and many of them have sent him suggestions for a sequel.
Now Mr. Gardner returns with More Annotated Alice, a book even more clever and irresistible than the first. Based on hundreds of letters from readers and new research by Carroll scholars, it contains more than 170 new notes not included in the earlier work, explaining more about Lewis Carroll’s mysterious characters and unraveling still more of his tantalizing riddles and whimsical rhymes. In glossing allusions, conundrums, jokes and puns that were overlooked or undiscovered when he made his first annotation, Mr. Gardner presents a wealth of fascinating new knowledge that no fan of Alice will want to miss.
This volume reprints for the first time the enchanting Alice illustrations of Peter Newell, one of the best-known artists in America at the turn of the century and the first important graphic artist after John Tenniel to provide significant art for the Alice books. Copies of the beautiful 190I and 1902 Newell-illustrated editions are now rare books, coveted by art collectors and Carroll fans alike, and his works, known for their rich, velvety halftones, are among the best examples of the Golden Age of American illustration.
This book also includes a celebrated recent discovery: the long-lost “Wasp in a Wig” episode, which was omitted from Through the Looking Glass because Tenniel complained that he couldn’t draw a wasp. Moro than century later, the episode was recovered when a copy of the original galleys mysteriously appeared at Sotheby’s auction; until now these pages have been available mainly as chapbook published by the Lewis Carroll Society. Also contained within are more answers to that intriguing riddle “Why is a raven like a writing desk?”; more about the origins of the Cheshire Cat’s grin; and marvelous Russian, Italian, and Spanish versions of the famous Jabberwocky poem.
Carrollians around the world have already hailed this work as the most significant contribution to Carrollian exegesis since The Annotated Alice, and there can be no doubt that this wonderful book, like its predecessor, will delight and surprise its readers for many years.
About the author: (from the dust jacket)
MARTIN GARDNER was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and educated at the University of Chicago, where he majored in philosophy. He is best known as a popularizer of mathematics and science, but his more than forty books also include volumes on philosophy and literature. For twenty-five years he wrote the Mathematical Games column in Scientific American. He shares with Lewis Carroll a love of recreational mathematics and wordplay. Mr. Gardner currently lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina.
