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[PEAKE, Mervyn, 1911-1968, illustrator]. -- DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (“Lewis Carroll”) (1832-1898). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Stockholm: Zephyr Books/The Continental Book Company, [1946].
8vo. 66 black and white illustrations. Original printed wrappers (some moderate edgewear, soiling, front hinge starting light soiling to rear wrapper); publisher’s printed dust jacket (spine toned and lightly chipped, some edgewear, chipping, upper third of rear jacket panel missing). Provenance: Anthony Stuart McCormick (ownership signature on half-title, dated 1948).
THE RARE TRUE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THESE ILLUSTRATIONS IN DUST JACKET. Lovett 344 (the entry for the later 1954 edition).