• Publication: Alice's Adventures Under Ground: A Facsimile of the Original Lewis Carroll ManuscriptPublication Record # 670588
• Author: Lewis Carroll
• Date: 1964-12-00
• Publisher: University Microfilms
• Price:
  $4.50^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 91
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: CHAPBOOK
• Cover: Alice's Adventures Under Ground: A Facsimile of the Original Lewis Carroll Manuscript by Lewis Carroll
• Notes:

  • Published for the 1964 Christmas gift season evidently
  • Facsimile of that copy now in the British Museum. "the Alice Manuscript" by Luther H. Evans (preliminary leaf) and newspaper coverage feature the history of the manuscript including its post-war purchase with money raised by Americans for purpose of presentation to Museum.
  • Last page [91] numbered only as 46 in the alternative sequence (numbered by the Museum?). Odd-number pages 5 to [91] show manuscript numerals by Carroll presumably, and also show square numberals "4" to "47" perhaps stamped; the last full odd-number page 46/89 is also stamped with a "British Museum" logo.
  • p90 ends with an oval photo portrait of Alice Liddell, amid the closing line "happy summer days". p[91] displays "happy summer days." (that is, repeated) over "THE END."
  • Contains 37 b/w pictorial illustrations by Carroll, 14 full-page. The manuscript also contains decorations by Carroll, some if not all vines and leaves, on the front cover, dedication page, and chapter headings. The pale blue book cover, with green stamped lettering on the spine and decoration on the front cover, is decorated by an excerpt from the cover decoration--vine and leaf, perhaps English ivy.
  • December publication inferred from newspaper coverage in context of publication year 1964. NY Times 1964-12-20 pBR8 states in the present tense "[UM] is entering the trade-book field in an odd way--the publication of a microfilm[!] version ... [It] arranged page-by-page reproduction of the book with the Museum, bound the first result, and it now is the first book the company has printed in quantity for the retail book market. Price, $4.50."
  • Price stated in ample newspaper coverage including that quoted above.
  • The manuscript narrative (novelette) spans p[1]-[91], alternatively leaves [2]-47. Leaf 1 is the manuscript cover, whose decorative illustration (and colour?) matches the front cover inset of the Dover ed. (see), or the 1986 ed. without the photo portrait (see).
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 65003411
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 937215900

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Alice's Adventures Under Ground • juvenile • [Alice] • (1886) • novelette by Lewis Carroll
•  Alice's Adventures Under Ground • (1886) • interior artwork by Lewis Carroll