Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. The only edition with these illustrations.

Carroll, Lewis Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.  English text with Russian introduction and notes.Foreword by D. Urnov.Commented by O. Gavrilova.Book design by E. Shukaev. Moscow, Progress Publishing, 1966.8vo, 232 pp., ill. In original pictorial red cloth. Without dust-jacket as issued. Near very good condition. The only edition with these illustrations. One of 22 300 copies published. This intriguing book, published in Moscow, is in English and is accompanied by a foreword and comments in Russian.The foreword is authored by Dmitry Urnov (1936-2022), a literary critic and Shakespearean scholar known for his works on James Joyce, Daniel Defoe, and Charles Dickens. In 1991 he moved to the USA. In this foreword, he introduces readers to Lewis Carroll, delving into the historical era in which Carroll created his works, his travels to Russia, and the unique features of the language used in the book. Evgenii Shukaev (1932-1988), a prominent cartoonist for the Soviet sat