Description
The first American edition of Rhyme? And Reason? by Lewis Carroll, from the library of President Chester A. Arthur.
Octavo, xii, 214pp, [9pp ads], [3]. Red cloth, title stamped in gilt. No additional printings noted. Floral endpapers. Complete with frontispiece portrait and 65 illustrations. Light rubbing to tips of the spine, various points of soiling to cloth, bumped lower corner.
From the library of President Chester A. Arthur, with his armorial bookplate on the front pastedown, and a small stamp on the second free endpaper. Includes a gift inscription in an unknown hand on the front pastedown: “To The President / J.C.R.”
