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DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll"). Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice found there. London: Macmillan, 1872.
8o. Illustrations by John Tenniel. Modern red calf, original cloth bound in at end.
FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION. [Tipped in:] ALS by Dodgson to his Landlady Mrs. Dyer at Eastbourne, the popular Victorian seaside resort, requesting additional rooms for friends. Starting in the late 1870ties, Dodgson would stay from July to October at Eastbourne: "Oxford June 7/87 Dear Mrs. Dyer, I would be glad to take the first-floor sitting-room and the two bed-rooms on the second floor, beginning from the afternoon of Thursday, June 16. Yours very truly, C.L. Dodgson." Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 84.
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FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION. [Tipped in:] ALS by Dodgson to his Landlady Mrs. Dyer at Eastbourne, the popular Victorian seaside resort, requesting additional rooms for friends. Starting in the late 1870ties, Dodgson would stay from July to October at Eastbourne: "Oxford June 7/87 Dear Mrs. Dyer, I would be glad to take the first-floor sitting-room and the two bed-rooms on the second floor, beginning from the afternoon of Thursday, June 16. Yours very truly, C.L. Dodgson." Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 84.