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Show Look Up Your Copy of "Alice in Wonderland" So conscientious was Doctor Dodg-son Dodg-son (Lewis Carroll) about his books giving full value in good workmanship workman-ship for the money paid for them that, when the printings of the drawings draw-ings in the first editions of "Alice in Wonderland" proved defective he sat down and wrote purchasers (getting the names from a list supplied by his publishers) his personal apologies. These letters further said that he had made arrangements for the exchange of perfect copies for these first defective defec-tive Issues. Those who sent in the badly printed print-ed first editions got nice new copies in which the ink was properly spread over the Sir John Tenniel illustrations. But they made bad bargains. It was for two of these "defectives," and the handwritten manuscript by Lewis Carroll, that Eldridge R. Johnson John-son paid 5150,000. And those who threw away the author's au-thor's letter of apology and regret were also out of luck. I Any such letter offered on the open market would bring enough to make a good stab at shooing the wolf from the door. Detroit News. |