AUTOMATED ALICE.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.[Book is from the personal library of a book dealer/collector who stored+protected it from day of issue/ purchase and therefore unread.] No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj - based on an illustration by Sir John Tenniel,adapted by Ian Murray,with black+ red lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip,a red+black striped headband and immaculate black+red illustration from dw/dj design to endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 10-251pp [paginated] includes 12 chapters in form of 12 (I-XII) hourly parts,part+full page b/w line illustrations by Harry Trumbore throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table,a verse poem,individual illustrated chapter separator pages (hourly clock face numeration) and 4pp blanks at the rear of the book. In the last years of his life,the fantasist Charles Dodgson wrote a third Alice book.This mysterious work was never published or even shown to anybody.It has recently been discovered.Now,at last,the world can read of Automated Alice and her fabulous adventures in the future. That's not quite true.The book called 'Automated Alice' was actually written by Lewis Carroll.Lewis Carroll was the nom de plume of Charles Dodgson.
No,that's not even slightly true either.
'Automated Alice' was in reality written by Zenith O'Clock,the writer of wrongs.In the book he sends Alice through a clock's workings. She travels through time,tumbling from the Victorian age,to land in 1998,in Manchester,a small town in the North of England.
Oh dear,that's not at all right.This book was actually written by Jeff Noon.Zenith O'Clock is only a character invented by Jeff Noon and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely accidental. What Alice encounters in the automated future is mostly accidental too: mutant hybrids,sinister game-play,chaos theory,a roboAlice,quantum physics, computermites,jigsaw killers,tickling Vurt feathers, puzzle poems and secret messages and an invisible cat called Quark.
Jeff Noon takes on the mantelpiece of Lewis Carroll,bringing Alice thoroughly up to date.Not so much a sequel to 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass',more of a trequel, the third book in a series of misadventures even weirder than your dreams. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.