Description
Very Good+ dust jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added. The Very Good+ binding is brown cloth over boards, gilt stamping on the cover and on the spine. The binding is tight and pages are clean.
About the book: (from the dust jacket)
THE RAVEN AND THE WRITING-DESK by Francis Huxley. As all readers of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland will know, when Alice sat down (uninvited) at the Mad Tea-party, the Hatter opened his eyes very wide and asked, “Why is a raven like a writing-desk? ” The riddle is famous because when Alice in turn asked “What’s the answer? the Hatter replied that he hadn’t the faintest idea. It has provoked ingenious possible answers from many Great Minds, but in this utterly engaging Enquiry,” Francis Huxley has undertaken the first investigation in depth.
In his pages we learn a number of essential facts: that Lewis Carroll always wore black or gray gloves and usually wore a top hat but never a top coat; that he stuttered, especially on words beginning with P; that he created a private code in which numbers were represented by certain eccentrically chosen letters of the alphabet; that Nonsense which is game played with feeling by at least two people. expresses universal principle of convertibility and that Carroll is, therefore, a favorite author of people studying nuclear physics, Time, mirror-imagery logic and semantics, We also come to know certain Rules, i.e.: Rule 1. You can come and go simultaneously, as long as there are two of you; Rule 5. Players are obliged to create an appearance, but they score only if it deceives; and Rule 42 (or 20). All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.
Alice addicts, puzzle-fanciers, code-breakers and readers who like to laugh will find here hours of unqualified delight.
