Told for young people by the real Alice in Wonderland... with a diary and numerous facsimile letters...
London, J.M. Dent & Co., 1899
A biography of the famous author by one of his young ingénues, who made the role of Alice her own in the 1888 revival of the stage play. Carroll dedicated his last novel, Sylvie and Bruno to Bowman in 1889 (her name also appears in a double acrostic poem in the introduction).
First edition; 8vo; title printed in black & red, frontispiece portrait of the author, numerous photographic plates and illustrations, some light foxing, bookseller's small blind-stamp to rear free endpaper; publisher's gilt-tooled blue cloth, a little rubbed and bumped, top edge gilt, others uncut.
First edition; 8vo; title printed in black & red, frontispiece portrait of the author, numerous photographic plates and illustrations, some light foxing, bookseller's small blind-stamp to rear free endpaper; publisher's gilt-tooled blue cloth, a little rubbed and bumped, top edge gilt, others uncut.
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