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Issue Details: First known date: 1923... 1923 Through the Joke in Class
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'Alice (of Alice in One Dear Land) after her first visit to Australia ... returned - as everyone knows - in Native Bear's special flying machine, to her parent's home in the Old Country. However, she was shortly afterwards recalled to Australia, owing to some complicated problems and questions that had arisen in connection with the design of the North Shore Bridge...' (From Introduction)

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  • Influenced by Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass.
  • Sequel to Alice in One Dear Land.

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    • Hornsby, Hornsby area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: George Collingridge , 1923 .
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      Link: 8513535Full text document AustLit Full Text
      Extent: [19] p., [3] leaves of platesp.
      Description: illus., map
      Written as: Geo. Collingridge
      Note/s:
      • Contains a list of oil and water painting miniatures by Collingridge available for sale.
      • Digitised by AustLit, 2010, from the collection of the NLA.
      • Digitised item inscribed 'hommage de l'auteur à mon ami J.F. Thomas. Geo. Collingridge 10th April 1924'.
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