Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, Progress Publishers 1966, VG HC, Russian

Carroll, Lewis, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, Moscow: Progress Publishers 1966, English/Russian, Very Good hardcover 8vo, 8" x 5 ¼”, 232 pp.

Pale red cloth boards with title and decoration stamped in black and silver to front panel, checkerboard design stamped in black to spine, black topstain to textblock, wear to head and tail, wear to bottom edge of rear panel, minor edgewear, soiling, and slight bumping to tips, some light pencil underlining to text. Illustrations in black and red throughout. No dust jacket, as issued. Full text in English, preceded and followed by approximately thirty pages of introduction, commentary, and explanatory notes by literary critic Dmitry Urnov in Russian placing the work in context for the Russian reader. Profusely illustrated throughout with lively modern line drawings in black and white with red accents by Evgenii Shukaev, a cartoonist noted for his work on the Soviet satirical magazine ‘Krokodil’. This beautiful and unique illustrated edition has never been reprinted and is scarce in the trade.