Hardback in pictorial dust jacket, publisher's brown cloth with gilt vignette to upper board, gilt lettering to spine, lime-green endpapers, 11 colour illustrations, 49 line drawings, 112 pages, 23.9 x 15.8 cm. First Tove Jansson edition, 1966. Translated (with an afterword) by Åke Runnquist. Scarce and wonderful Swedish edition of 'Alice in Wonderland', illustrated by the great Finnish artist Tove Jansson – much-loved creator of the Moomin books. 'Alice' was the second of two Lewis Carroll titles illustrated by Jansson, following on from 'The Hunting of the Snark' ('Snarkjakten') in 1959. She provides a delightfully quirky, Moomin-esque interpretation of Carroll's fantasy – much as she had done a few years earlier with her whimsical version of J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit' ('Bilbo, en hobbits äventyr'), published in 1962. Note that this is the true first Tove Jansson edition – the English-language version following over a decade later, in 1977. Condition
 Usual age-toning to paper, occasional pale finger-marking/smudging, light creasing (mostly to lower edges plus a few corners); one colour spread with surface damage (a few tiny pieces of paper from illustration page stuck to facing text page: see scans of Alice with Griffin and Mock Turtle). Front free endpaper with trace of penciled price (erased), rear pastedown with small area of surface loss. Binding tight, with slight lean, bumping to head of spine. Unclipped dust jacket with discoloration, marks and wear as shown, creasing and tears to upper edge; reverse with (archival?) tape repairs to upper edge. Supplied in removable protective sleeve.