ALICE IN WONDERLAND by LEWIS CARROLL; Illustrations by Marie Laurencin, 1930

Description: Black Sun Press. Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland. Paris: Black Sun Press, 1930. American edition, limited to 350 copies on Rives Paper ofwhich this is number 92. Oblong quarto. 114 pages and six colorlithographs by Marie Laurencin with laid in tissue-guards.Publisher's paper wrappers with folded edges. Titles and publisher's device printed in black and red. Top and Bottom page edges trimmed with remainder uncut. Mildrubbing to wrappers with one-half-inch splits beginning from joint ends. Original glassine. Publisher's folding paper-over-boards chemise with minor rubbing andsplitting to ends. A very good example of what wasone of The Black Sun Press' "finest efforts, justifiably renowned." This was the first illustrated book of the foremost French artist Marie Laurencin(1883-1956), whose celebrated illustrations are "characterized by apalette of pastel colours and feminine subject matter".Producing Alice in this aesthetic caused "a considerable shock to thosebrought up on Tenniel". Laurencin hosted other famousartists at her home in Auteuil, where she "reigned like a queen, with hercat, whom she said was the model for all her female faces. As she became popular,her influence was felt in the world of fashion and interior design".

Price: 2250 USD

Location: Anchorage, Alaska

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