WILSON, (WILLIAM) YATES. (AFTER LEWIS CARROLL). — More 'Alice'.

Capetown: Purnell and Sons (S.A) (PTY) Ltd, 1959. 1st edition. "A continuation of the original 'Alice' adventures written unashamedly in the style of Lewis Carroll and illustrated with John Tenniel's 'Alice' in mind..Although the scene is cast in the peropd pf the original 'Alice' stories(1862), a few comments on modern life are introduced and there is some intentional satire on certain aspects of the modern world. King Ethelred is any dictator, his castle is the iron curtain, and the 'school of unlearning' is a gentle satire on the practice of 'brain-washing'." Pp.125, inscribed by the author "For Norman Marshall with kind regards Yates Wilson. Dec. 1959" to half-title page, frontispiece + many further illustrations by the author in the style of John Tenniel, Cream pink and green vertically striped paper-covered boards, slight darkening to top and tail of spine. Colour illustrated dustwrapper, not price-clipped), darkening and scuffing to spine, edge wear with 1cm vertical tears to front fore-edge. VG/G+.** "William Yates-Wilson was employed as an illustrator for the Ministry of Information during World War II. Following the war he worked as an illustrator of books and magazines. For much of his life he lived in Cape Town, South Africa, where he worked in advertising in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1959 he wrote and illustrated More Alice, a continuation of the original Lewis Carol stories and written at the request of the artist’s daughter." (BADA).