?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(PENNYROYAL PRESS / BARRY MOSER.) Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Wood engraved illustrations in and hors-text by Moser; additional suite of plates and two pencil drawings, each signed by moser. Folio, original full gilt-pictorial burgundy goatskin by Gray Parrot, additional suite of plates loose in cloth chemise, some light foxing to plates at end; purple goatskin and cloth clamshell case, foxed on inside lining. West Hatfield, 1982
number 19 of only 50 deluxe copies for patrons signed by moser with the extra signed suite, and with an original signed drawing, in green ink, of a wooden rattle, a signed pencil drawing of the unicorn, and another signed rough pencil sketch of the knight's torso. In addition, Moser has inscribed and signed this copy to a friend and added an original green ink sketch of a printer's rattle. "There is greater cohesion in `Looking-Glass' than in `Alice.' I have never been able to understand why the critics called the pictures `dark.' I intended them to be whimsical and humorous displaying a kind of calculated pandemonium"--Moser, in The Pennyroyal Checklist, 1986.
