1899 First Edition - The Story of Lewis Carroll. Told for young people by the real Alice in Wonderland, Miss Isa Bowman.

Author: Miss Isa Bowman.
Title: The Story of Lewis Carroll. Told for young people by the real Alice in Wonderland. With a diary and numerous facsimile letters.
Publisher: London J.M. Dent & Co, 1899. First edition.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 8 " X 6 ".
Pages: vii-132 pages.
Binding: Good original full-cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly scuffed, soiled and worn - as shown, back cover sunned - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.  Upper edge gilt.
Content: Good to very good content (tight, light foxing and staining - as shown, toning of endpapers - as shown).
Illustrations: Profusely illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Miss Isa Bowman, the author, and numerous photographic plates and illustrations.

Estimate : (USD 150 - USD 250)

The book: Rare First edition of this Story of Lewis Carroll. Told for young people by the real Alice in Wonderland. With a diary and numerous facsimile letters.

The author: Isa Bowman (1874–1958) was an actress, a close friend of Lewis Carroll and author of a memoir about his life, The Story of Lewis Carroll, Told for Young People by the Real Alice in Wonderland.
She met Carroll in 1886 when she played a small part in the stage version of Alice in Wonderland with Phoebe Carlo in the title role: she replaced Carlo as Alice in the 1888 revival. She visited and stayed with him between the ages of fifteen and nineteen: Carroll described a visit in July 1888 in Isa's Visit to Oxford, which she reprinted in her memoir. Carroll introduced her to Ellen Terry,[8] who gave her elocution lessons. Carroll dedicated his last novel Sylvie and Bruno to her in 1889: her name appears in a double acrostic poem in the introduction.