ALICE I UNDERLANDET [Alice in Wonderland]

First edition with these illustrations. Publisher's original brown cloth with gilt titles to the spine and a gilt design to the upper board, in dustwrapper. Illustrations in colour and black and white throughout the text by Tove Jansson. Text in Swedish. A lovely fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. Complete with the near fine dustwrapper that that has a couple of short closed tears without loss and very mild toning to the spine and rear panel edges.

Moomin creator Tove Jansson brings her exquisitely unique style to the fantasy world of Alice in Wonderland. She had previously illustrated Swedish editions of Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark in 1959 and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit in 1962.