Chris Riddell's Through the Looking-Glass Signed First Edition

£32.00

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Signed First Edition - Sorry but only one per customer. A new full-colour, hard-back edition of Through the Looking-Glass illustrated by Chris Riddell published this year. Looking-Glass was first published in 1871, so 2021 is the 150th anniversary of the this iconic book. Riddell has modelled his Alice on the real Alice, Alice Liddell, daughter of the Dean of the Oxford college Christ Church, which is just across the road to Alice's Shop.

Alice's Shop has a limited number of first editions with signed bookplates by the illustrator Chris Riddell, perfect as a precious keepsake for any family. The shipping fee is at the Heavy Item rate because this is a big book. We can only ship one book per order but other items can be included in the order.

Chris Riddell, is a British illustrator and occasional writer of children's stories as well as being a political cartoonist for the Observer. He has won three Kate Greenway Medals as well as the British librarians' annual award for the best-illustrated children's book.

Books that he wrote or illustrated have won three Nestle Smarties Book Prizes and have been silver or bronze runners-up four times. On 9 June 2015, he was appointed the UK Children's Laureate.