The Wasp in a Wig: A "Suppressed" Episode of Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

Overview:

  • Title: The Wasp in a Wig: A "Suppressed" Episode of Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
  • Author: Lewis Carroll
  • Year: 1978
  • ISBN-10: 0517532662
  • Publisher: Clarkson N. Potter
  • Price: $3.95
  • Pages: xiv+21
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Chapter Book
  • Title Reference: The Wasp in a Wig
  • Notes:
    • 1st US trade ed. "Publication sponsored by the Lewis Carroll Society of North America."
    • Edited by {{a|Edward Guiliano}}
    • "Preface, Introduction, and Notes by Martin Gardner"
    • "xiv, 21, [16] p. : ill., facsims. ; 24 cm." --LCCN
    • Price from review by Jeffrey M. Landaw The Sun (Baltimore) 1978-02-26 pD5 "The Wasp: allowed to sting at last" (not too much an anti-climax; why did Tenniel refuse to illustrate it? Gardner speculates)
    • Publication date inferred from that review, a notice in The Sun -02-12 pD5 that it "is to be released", and the apparent absence of January newspaper coverage. (In October it was reported forthcoming in January.)
    • (c)1977, 1978 printing --LCCN
    • Cover image from Amazon UK 2018-04-13 for this ISBN, when Amazon US shows another copy as ASIN B002PZCX4Y. For this ISBN Amazon US provides an image of the 1977 Macmillan UK ed.

      Numerous listings of 1977/1978 chapbooks at ABEbooks provide some description or some bookseller image; jointly they are decisive on most points. But many listings display a thumbnail "Stock image" of the wrong ed., and several of those if not others state the wrong ISBN.
    • "DJ Design By Hermann Strohbach" --one ABEbooks dealer reports