New Adventures of "Alice"
Chicago: P. F. Volland Company, [1917]. First P. F. Volland edition with illustrations by John Rae. Hardcover. 157pp. Quarto [24.5 cm] Tan cloth with pictorial paper over boards. White and gold pictorial endpapers. Twelve color plates. With some moisture staining and fading to the covers. The text block is cracked several times. The plate at p. 137 is detached, but present. Good. Item #60546
John Rae's spin-off of Lewis Carroll's hugely popular tale.
John Rae (1882-1963), an illustrator from New Jersey, studied with Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute in Philadelphia. Although a well-known author and illustrator of children's books, he also illustrated adult books for publishers including Harpers, Macmillan, and Dodd Mead. He is also recognized for his portraits of Albert Einstein and Carol Sandburg.
This is one of the more significant "Alice imitations."
Price: $75.00