JACK THE RIPPER 'Light-Hearted Friend'

Softcover. 1st Edn. With Intro' by Colin Wilson. The author's suspect is Lewis Carroll of Alice in Wonderland fame, an Oxford Don whose real name was Charles Ludwig Dodgson. The author presents a very different view of Carroll's "children's books", concluding that the nonsense, however brilliant, was also a mask which concealed Victorian smut, and that this "light-hearted friend" was filled with rage seeking audacious release. "Off with their heads!" cried the hateful Queen of Hearts. Would this become the finally explosive means of retribution for an early life of emotional and sexual abuse by a man never able to escape childhood? Illus., Maps, Notes, Bibliog. and Index. 293pp. trade size softcover. From the library of Paul Daniel, ex-editor of the 'Ripperologist' magazine (December 1996 No. 8 - February 2000 No. 27) with his name rubber stamp and green felt-tip date to bep. Includes a tipped-in newspaper cutting on Lewis Carroll, dated 2014. + 'Cloak & Dagger Review Copy' insc. and partial Gemini Press rubber stamp to inside fr. cover. For some reason p.158 was blank (printing error?) and a replacement page stuck to the original page (see image). Nr. Vg. Becoming scarce.