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Alice the Flapper

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Of all the many versions of Alice in Wonderland at the Rare Book Room, I think I like this sweet 1929 one, with illustrations by Hungarian Willy Pogány (who it seems worked on everything from Djer-Kiss perfume adverts to the set design for Boris Karloff's The Mummy).

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Posted by on August 25, 2009 4:12 PM |

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This! via this.

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Posted by: peacay | August 25, 2009 5:37 PM

Fantastic! Hey, I'm going to find myself a cake-eater - sausage trousers and one of those jazzbo ties, sounds like the frog's eyebrows...

Posted by: Emma | August 25, 2009 7:10 PM

Oh, this is wonderful! Thanks for sharing.

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Posted by: Anonymous | August 25, 2009 10:10 PM

Very cool - so Henry Darger.

Posted by: Anonymous | September 1, 2009 8:41 PM

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