About this title: 'A landmark, bringing together a lifetime's work on Lewis Carroll by writer and mathematician Martin Gardner. He dazzles on Carroll's puzzles and games of logic and entertains on everything from Alice's influence on the Beat poet Jack Kerouac to how mercury in hat linings turned hatters mad...it is unsurpassed' - Jackie Wullschlager, "Financial Times". 'The indispensable guide to a classic of English literature...no one who has ever wondered about the meaning of 'Jabberwocky' should fail to include on their Christmas list' - Robert McCrum, "Observer".
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bramhall House
Date Published: 1960
Description: Good Condition. Hardcover, Good Condition, clean/unmarked textblock, tight binding, some edge/cover wear, no jacket, from a private collection. read more
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bramall House
Date Published: c1960
Description: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. Patterned end papers, illustrated in b/w by John Tenniel. Introduction and notes by Martin Gardner. Bit of light foxing, else tight, a nice solid copy, in a Good+ dustjacket, which has light fade to spine and edges, in a new clear mylar DJ cover.; 11x8-1/2" read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Bramhall House, New York
Date Published: 1960
Description: John Tenniel. Very Good in Very Good jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Tan cloth. Reprint edition in Bramhall House dust jacket, ex-library, lightly stamped, tape stains on surface cloth. Dust jacket lightly rubbed, with adhesive call label on lower spine panel. 352 pp., fully illus. (Tenniel). read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bramhall House / Clarkson Potter
Date Published: 1960
Description: Very Good. Book is in Very Good condition with a tight binding and clean crisp pages. No Dust Jacket. This is NOT an ex-school library book, but has come from a personal collection. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.,
Date Published: 1960.
Description: Very good plus khaki linen quarto, clean boards w/slight wear to bottom corners. Decorative endpapers; interior is lovely: clean, bright and tight. Wonderfully illustrated. Large print w/wide margins to accommodate notes on the text. A lovely title. 352 pp. Children's Literature. CHIL/8203. read more
Edition: Upd Sub
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Date Published: 11/17/1999
ISBN-13:9780393048476ISBN:0393048470
Description: Fine. 0393048470 **Updated** NEW/UNREAD! ! ! Text is Clean and Unmarked! --Be Sure to Compare Seller Feedback and Ratings before Purchasing--Has a small black ink mark on outside edge of pages. May have light shelf wear to cover from storage, if any. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bramhall House, New York
Date Published: 1963
Description: John Tenniel. About Near Fine jacket. Bramhall House. New York, 1963. Full text of 'Alice In Wonderland' and 'Through The Looking Glass' told with marginal annotations, facsimile reproductions by John Tenniel. Introduction and Notes by Martin Gardner. Fine in white cloth in an About Near Fine dust jacket, modest soiling. Quarto. Undated circa 1963. 352p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bramhall House, New York
Date Published: 1963
Description: John Tenniel. Very Good jacket. Bramhall House. New York, 1963. Full text of 'Alice In Wonderland' and 'Through The Looking Glass' told with marginal annotations, facsimile reproductions by John Tenniel. Introduction and Notes by Martin Gardner. Fine in white cloth in an About Near Fine dust jacket, modest soiling. Quarto. Undated circa 1963. Ink name. 352p. read more
Edition: 3rd Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, New York
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780393048476ISBN:0393048470
Description: Very Good+ 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Softcover. Expedited or International shipping may cost more. As new, unread with the lightest handling, 1/2" crease to top rear corner. read more
Edition: 1st thus
Binding: Beige/blue
Publisher: Clarkson N. Potter, NY
Date Published: 1960
Description: Tenniel illustrations. Hardcover. Dust jacket in poor condition. Gift inscription. Good. Quarto, 352 p., Martin Gardner intro and notes explaining the intellectual jokes and puns, the psychological interpretations often seen. The dust cover in badly tattered, but is enclosed in mylar protector. read more
Binding: softcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co, New York
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780393048476ISBN:0393048470
Description: Very good condition. No dj, very slight shelf wear, never read. The Definitive Edition from Martin Gardner. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, Illustrations by John Tenniel. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Potter, New York
Date Published: 1960
Description: John Tenniel Illustrator. Very Good in Fair jacket. 11" x 8" The complete text and original illustrations in the only fully annotated edition. Stated "First Edition". 351 pages, bibliography, illustrated. Front cover has a few discoloration lines, no other faults. Top edge of dustjacket has pieces missing and is mended and bottom edge chipped. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bramhall House
Date Published: 1960
Description: Tenniel, John. Fine in fine dust jacket. 352 p. Includes illustrations. Almost new Book and dust jacket; in fine + condition. Oversize book, 8" x 11", contains Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass with original John Tenniel illustrations reproduced in B&W, and comments, observations, and explanations concerning the text shown along side. Informative and fun book to read, as it shows just how much more there was to Lewis Carroll's creations than aat first meets the eye. ... read more
Edition: Rept
Binding: 9th ptg thus
Publisher: New American/Merician Bk Pub, NY
Date Published: 1960, 1970
Description: Tennierl, John Ilust. Good+Cond, ink name ep. 5x8" Paper Covers 352pg Many interesting side lights & historical notes on the Famous Story...Complete text and original illustrations of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass in the only fully annotated edition. read more
Binding: 4th ptg thus
Publisher: New American/Merician Bk Pub, NY
Date Published: 1960, 1974
Description: Tennierl, John Ilust. VG Cond. 5x8" Paper Covers 352pg Many interesting side lights & historical notes on the Famous Story...Complete text and original illustrations of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass in the only fully annotated edition. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York
Date Published: 1960
Description: Tenniel, John. Very Good. No DJ. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Cloth, 352 pp., illus., biblio.; 28 cm. Topstained blue. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light handling/storage soil on boards. Expected browning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. /Publisher,
Date Published: (1960).
Description: Near Fine in Very Good + DJ. With an introduction by Martin Gardner. 4to. Beige cloth covered boards with gery title to front board and to spine. Minor damp staining to bottom edge of boards though interior is not effected. Pristine interior filled with illustrations. Grey Dust jacket with white title to front and spine panels. Minor edgewear to jacket. 352 pages. CHI/052109. read more
Description: Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
"I had of course read this when I was a kid, but wanted to find it again and was very happy to find it free on Project Gutenberg. I'd forgotten how much of what was in the Disney version of Alice in Wonderland was really from Through the Looking Glass, which I remembered liking better, and I think I still do."
"Synopsis: The Annotated Alice consists of the books Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, both by Lewis Carroll. The full text of each book is included (as well as parts that were taken out) and there are annotative notes through the text of each chapter.
Alice in Wonderland: Alice dreams that she falls down a rabbit hole chasing a white rabbit and meets a bunch of interesting fantastical creatures. She plays croquet with the queen of hearts, has a baby turn into a pig in her arms and is continually changing sizes.
Through the Looking Glass: 6 months to the day after her dream about wonderland, she has another dream about climbing through the mirror into the house/parlor on the other side. She finds herself a pawn in a chess game and works her way across the board so that she can become a queen. Everyone she meets seems to recite poetry to her (where the annotations really help) including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Knight and Humpty Dumpty.
My Review: I've been wanting to read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass for quite a while. I very much enjoyed reading them with the annotations because there is so much more to the stories than you would ever know or realize without them. Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), was a shy, eccentric bachelor that taught mathematics at Oxford. Lewis Carroll (aka Charles Dodgson) was a man obsessed with little girls, especially one Alice Liddell. While his obsession with young girls is a little creepy, it was amazing to read the cleverness of his stories."
"This edition has an interesting and informative introduction in which Martin Gardner refers to "the Bible and all other great works of fantasy," which amused me. The annotations to the text are often quite interesting if somewhat intrusive; I found it best to read all of them for a chapter before beginning to read the chapter itself, having them then in my knowledge base without having to be interrupted from the flow of the story. I enjoying all the punning. I had not realized that the songs were all parodies of existing songs of the time when Carroll wrote the book; the annotations contain the original lyrics. As I moved through the book, I found that many episodes are very familiar and in fact have become the stuff of everyday allusions in our culture, whereas other episodes have been, by me at least, long forgotten. The story is extremely picaresque, with occasional characters reappearing in subsequent episodes and some themes, eg changes in size, being more or less continuous. The original John Tenniel illustrations are priceless.
I enjoyed the extended annotations on the chess game and "Jabberwocky." The entire book is unbelievably clever and often very droll. How much of this can be appreciated by children? Only a fraction, to be sure. The book deserves to be reread in adulthood, perhaps even at different adult ages. Too often, I think, all that people associate with the work is the limited amount of material included in the Disney movie which, while entertaining in itself, is far less rich than the book (as is usually the case with movie adaptations of literature). Carroll had a vivid and engaging imagination, and we are the lucky recipients of its products.
Through the Looking Glass is much more deep and dense than the first book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, filled as it is with metalinguistic speculations and puzzles, logic and mathematics, all within the context of an extended gigantic chess game. Gardner, in his annotations, charmingly discusses not only the origins of much of the material but also the use of Carroll's material in subsequent literature.
What a treat it has been to reread this delightful work, especially in the annotated version. I think that this process of refreshing my knowledge of it will enable me to recognize allusions to it in my further reading."
"This is an excellent presentation of both the Alice books from Lewis Carroll, and the information in the citations amounts to a mound of annotation. I truly enjoyed the choice of artwork throughout the book, and most of the annotation. A few times the annotations were overly long and sounded more the words of a fan than an observer or commentator.
As for the stories themselves, they are excellent. Both are quite fun and stretch the mind a bit. Also, the addition of The Wasp and the Wig at the end of the book was quite interesting, especially after taking into consideration the pieces very recent discovery. It is quite a strange tale, the piece and the whole."
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