ROSSOTTI, Renzo (author). Grazia NIDASIO (illustrator). Alice in 2000. A tale for today’s children who may travel to the moon when they grow up. Ward, Lock Limited. 1970

4to. Original glazed pictorial boards, preserved in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [iv], 5-45 + [iii]; illustrated throughout in glorious colour; a near fine copy with just one very small and faint mark (20 x 20mm) to top edge of upper board; internally immaculate; the price-clipped dustwrapper also in very nearly fine condition with just a hint of discoloration to spine.

First edition in English: first issued in Italian three years earlier. An extraordinary book, beautifully realised, in which the famous eponymous heroine of Carroll’s “Wonderland” stories is imagined adventuring in space in the year A.D. 2000.