Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, 1900

This copy of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll was published in 1900 by Three Sirens Press and printed by J.J. Little & Ives Company. Both companies were located in New York City. It was printed 35 years after the original publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and 29 years after the original publication of Through the Looking Glass (1871).

It is unclear who the book originally belonged to, but there is an address label in the front of the book for a woman named Mary E. Valla in Santa Monica. The address label looks to be no more than 50 years old. It was not hand written, nor was it typed out on a typewriter. The address has also been pressed into the first page of the book. A label in the back suggests that it was purchased at Bullock’s, a department store chain that was bought out in 1990. I could not find out how it made its was into LMU’s Department of Archives and Special Collections.

The cover of the book is an eggplant color with small wavy lines and the spine is camel-colored with gold lettering. The edges of the pages are a bit jagged and the page sizes/alignment are uneven throughout. The book is in fantastic condition and has obviously been well taken care of by its previous owners.

Something I found interesting, as someone who owns 8 copies of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, was that this copy looks exactly the same as recently published copies. The book is laid out/structured in the same way was the contemporary copies I own. In fact, even the font is the same.

O.P.