Word: wonderland
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There are genteel murmurs, Jewish gestures. The murmurs ask: "How much is this book worth?" The gestures tell how much it is worth to famed Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach, Harry Marks, Gabriel Wells or some other gentleman who collects books for profit or passion. Dr. Rosenbach (Alice In Wonderland inan) raised his hand vertically many times at the Kern sale* but three times he kept it in his pocket. Three times he refused to go on with the bidding, lost a coveted book to a braver bibliophile. Some top prices brought by Kern-collected editions and manuscripts: Shelley...
...have just returned from this great Northwest. It is a wonderland of broad spaces and fertile fields. There melons grow to thirty or forty pounds. It is a land of opportunity. All the land to be opened to settlers is fertile land, capable of producing rice and with large trees whose girth would take three men to span...
Another window contains the original drawings of Tenniel to illustrate "Alice in Wonderland. Among familiar faces may be seen "Father William", the "Mad Hatter," and the "Rabbit" as they first made their bows to the world...
Lewis Carroll's personal copy of the first edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is also of interest...
...Virginia speech was delivered a few hours after President Coolidge had examined the original manuscript of Alice in Wonderland, which was shown to him and Mrs. Coolidge at the White House by Phonograph Tycoon Eldridge Johnson, the present owner...