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'Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass and What She Found There', Lewis Carroll, w/All The Original Illustrations by John Tinniel, uncommon 1915 combined version published by Henry Altemus of Philadelphia.
One of our best loved treasures - is the Henry Altemus version containing both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass - by Lewis Carroll, the pen-name of Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson. It includes all of the original edition illustrations
Dodgson was fond of children and became friends with Lorina, Alice and Edith Liddell, the young daughters of the Dean of his college, Christ Church. One summer's day in 1862 he entertained them on a boat trip with a story of Alice's adventures in a magical world entered through a rabbit-hole. The ten-year-old Alice was so entranced that she begged him to write it down for her. It took him some time to write out the tale - in a tiny, neat hand - and complete the 37 illustrations. Alice finally received the 90-page book, dedicated to 'a… Read More

'Down Barnegat Bay, A Nor'easter Midnight Reader '- Robert Jahn, author signed, 1980, illustrated New Jersey Shore NJ maritime folk history, scarce and unusual.
From Amazon reviews:
'A favorite chronicle of the maritime history and folklore of the Jersey Shore. The historical narratives catapult the reader into an era when the now densely populated areas along the Barnegat Bay were filled with sailors, fishermen, Indians and farmers.
Tales of shipwrecks, pirates and the Lenni-Lenapi Indians along the Metedeconk River are exciting to read and add immensely to the feeling of being "transported in time" as do the many illustrations that look as if they were taken from a scrapbook in your great grandparent'sattic (some of them may have been!). Down Barnegat Bay gives the reader more than an appreciation for an area so rich in maritime history and folklore..it TAKES them there."'
Reads like narrative history, folklore at its best!
[Beachcomber Press, DuMont Publishing, Mantoloking, NJ, 1980, stated 1st… Read More

Uncorrected Proof: 'The Holder of the World', Bharati Mukherjee, w/signed note from Sonny Mehta (Alfred Knopf Editor in Chief) to American author Pat Conroy, requesting any comments on the proof..
The Holder of the World is a 1993 novel, retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter, placing the story in two centuries (17th and 20th). The novel involves time travel via virtual reality, locating itself in 20th century Boston, 17th century Colonial America, and 17th century India during the spread of the British East India Company. It was among the contenders in a 2014 list by The Telegraph of the 10 all-time greatest Asian novels.
Ajai Singh "Sonny" Mehta (1942 - 2019) was a British and American editor. Mehta was the editor-in-chief of Alfred A. Knopf and chairman of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.