Alice's Adventures on Wonderland (a rare Bulgarian edition)

First thus (this is the first Bulgarian edition of Though the Looking Glass, and the second printing of Goldman's translation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the first was 1933). Hardback, cloth spine, blue paper covered boards with key motif by Chuklev to the upper board. 26.5 20.5 cm, 208pp [3]. Bulgarian language.

A rare Bulgarian edition of Lewis Carroll's perennial classic which follow Alice down the rabbit hole and her encounters with characters such as the White Rabbit, the Cheshire-Cat, the King and Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter, Tweedledum and Tweedledee among others. This edition superbly illustrated with eight colour plates and further black and white drawings within the text by Peter Chuklev, the Bulgarian illustrator and professor of printmaking.

The text of this 1965 edition was examined by the Russian authorities who believed it to be a story of Bulgarian origin and so ordered a Russian translation published in 1967, not knowing it was English.

Condition

This copy is in good condition or age. There is light rubbing to the covers, but the pages are clean and the inner binding is secure.