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Merry Christmas and happy holidays from #BookweightCat, #LadyCatGrey, and Secret Agent #00Cat (if you can find her). Wishing you a wonderful season! (Hopefully full of good books 😘) #christmascats #stealthykitty #waitthesepresentsarentmine

As we wind up Alice week, #LadyCatGrey is here with Alice I Have Been by @melaniebenjamin_author It's not strictly a copy of Alice, but it shows the reach and influence of the novel and it's inspiration, Alice Liddell. The novel presents a fictional account if Alice's life. My copy was a gift from my father, which he kindly got signed for me when I was in grad school at Indiana University (IU). #aliceinwonderland #aliceturns150

Today, the cats and I are featuring the Annotated Alice. Two editions, no less! Secret Agent #00Cat is lying on top of the Definitive Annotated Alice (the third edition). I grew up with my parents' copy the first edition of Martin Gardener's beautiful work, and I felt awesome when I bought a copy that was even more comprehensive than theirs. And then I saw they released a 150th anniversary edition. And I had to have it. (#LadyCatGrey is chilling on that one). My sister asked if I was going to replace my third edition, and I'm just thinking "...no..." Because, of course, I hope to someday hope to inherit my parents first edition, and then I'll have three of the four editions :)

#LadyCatGrey decided to break open one of today’s books. She’s looking through an early Grosset & Dunlap edition, which helpfully has no publication date :( It’s inscribed Christmas, 1910, and using the awesome cataloging skills I’ve learned workings at @americanantiquarian, I looked up the novels being advertised in the back and discovered that one wasn’t published until 1907. It is officially the oldest Alice in my collection! My aunt bought it used to be a decoration, and passed it along to my mom when she no longer wanted it. I quickly laid claim to it :) The more colorful edition is Robert Sabuda’s pop-up adaptation. It has the dubious honor of having been a gift from an ex-boyfriend. My Alice collection was prominently displayed in my previous apartment, and he knew I really wanted the Sabuda. He bought it while we were dating, but gave it to me in the brief period after we broke up when we were still talking. We are definitely not talking now. All of which is to say that I don’t hold the book responsible for my stupid ex (in fact I love it dearly; it's gorgeous), but it adds to the emotional tapestry of my collection.

On this #marbledmonday, #LadyCatGrey is admiring the beautiful marbled edges of this massive volume of Illinois local history.

#LadyCatGrey is admiring The Love Elegies of Abel Shufflebottom, which came across our desk with our 1801-1820 materials. She wonders how they compare to "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." #cataloging #19thcenturypoetry #TSEliot

Lady Cat Grey just cannot get over some of theses dime novel covers. An animal of…indeterminate variety holding a knife? Strains credulity just a wee bit.

Well, that just looks uncomfortable…and Lady Cat Grey agrees.