Through the Looking-Glass: And What Alice Found There, by Lewis Carroll (used)

Second-hand copy — condition: fair.

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is Lewis Carroll's sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, first published by Macmillan in London in December 1871. This time the theme is chess. Alice climbs through a large looking-glass into the world she can see beyond it, where things are reversed, including logic, chessmen are alive and nursery-rhyme characters are real. The landscape is laid out as a chessboard, and Alice advances one square each time she crosses a brook, meeting the Red Queen, the White Queen, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty and the White Knight along the way. The book includes the poems "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter". This edition has John Tenniel's fifty illustrations.

Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), an English author, poet, mathematician and photographer who lectured in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford. His two Alice books are among the most important examples of Victorian literature.

Macmillan, London, Melbourne and Toronto; St. Martin's Press, New York, 1967. Hardcover with dust jacket. With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel.