Alice Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, First Edition (624 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. In 1865 Macmillan printed this book in England and recalled it because John Tenniel, the illustrator considered the printing of the illustrations unsatisfactory. After consulting with Tenniel, Lewis Carroll authorized Macmillan to sell 1,952 bound copies to Appleton in New York with a new title page replacing Macmillan with D. Appleton and dated 1866. The new title page was tipped onto the excised stub of the Macmillan 1865 edition. Top edge and fore edge gilt. A few small waterspots on the front cover. The half title page has some writing on it and the lower fore edge corner has had a professional repair of the lower fore edge corner not affection the text. Spine a little darkened otherwise a tight copy. Michael Hancher, author of The Tenniel Illustrations to the "Alice" Books was in the shop this summer and examined our copy of this book. There is a census of the extant copies of the 1866 Appleton Alice as announced by John Lindseth in PBSA some time ago that is still a work in progress. He goes on to say, "Extant copies of what has become known as "The Appleton Alice" have turned out to become quite elusive. The British Library is the only institutional holder found in the UK. Some seventy institutional holders are found in the United States and Canada and one in Switzerland. Fewer than twenty private holders have been identified. Our copy may add one to that small number. In his note Lindseth distinguishes four different states of the text, which apparently have no priority. Hancher goes on in his email to write, "I also attach two pages from the new chapter about "Printing" in the revised edition of my Tenniel book. Apparently the image quality for the illustrations of the suppressed Macmillan printing of 1865 (which got recycled as the Appleton edition of 1866) varies from copy to copy and image to image, depending on how much ink leaked through from the printing on the other side of a particular leaf. Tenniel must have been given - and rejected - one of the worse copies. Had he been given your copy he might not have balked." 1st American edition / Ist edition, second issue.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. First American issue. An attractive copy that has benefitted from some professional restoration. The end result is a beautiful book that is rich in color with no material missing. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean, with no writing marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy housed in a custom clamshell slipcase for preservation. We buy Lewis Carroll First Editions.

First German language edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author "Margaret Evelyn Hardy, from the Author" on the half-title. The first foreign language translation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was published in February 1869 before a French translation of August 1869. The original English text was first published in 1866. Williams, Madan, Green, and Crutch praise the illustrations in this edition and note "the reproductions of the woodcuts in this German edition are excellent, and bear comparison with those in any other issue of Alice in Wonderland". The contents listing exactly copied the pagination of the English edition so that for every chapter except the first, the page numbers are incorrect. Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, (1814-1906) became known to Carroll's Oxford circle in 1865 when he was nominated to stand in the Oxford University constituency. There were three candidates: William Gladstone, William Heathcote and Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy. Carroll records signing a voting paper in his diary for 10 July and Jackson's Oxford Journal for 15 July notes that "Dr Dodson [sic], of Christ Church" voted for Gladstone. The final result was Heathcote 1331, Gathorne-Hardy 767, and Gladstone 735 votes. The election prompted Carroll to write his Dynamics of a Particle (1865) comprising a satirical pamphlet masquerading as a mathematical treatise in which chapter two refers to the contest between Gathorne-Hardy and Gladstone. The politician was responsible for Carroll's admittance to the public area of the House of Commons on 8 April 1867, and when Gathorne-Hardy visited Oriel College, Oxford, Carroll invited him to Christ Church to have his photograph taken. Carroll noted in his diary on 10 June 1867 "He had not long to spare, but I succeeded in taking two pictures of him, neither of them, I fear, particularly successful". Gathorne-Hardy had married Jane Orr in 1838 and they were to have four sons and five daughters. On 24 June 1867 the politician wrote to Carroll stating "my little girl's names are Margaret Evelyn, and I am sure she would dearly treasure Alice in English and French, but has no right to tax you for both". At the time of writing, there were no foreign language translations. A correspondence between the two men commenced and, in time, Carroll certainly sent both English and French editions of Alice. This inscription in an unrequested German translation is previously unknown (unrecorded by Carlson and Eger). Another hand other than Carroll's has added the date of 1871. Carroll continued to send copies of his books to Margaret: she also received an inscribed copy of Through the Looking-Glass dated Christmas 1871 and a copy of The Hunting of the Snark with an inscription dated 24 April 1876. Carroll's diary entry for 12 September 1877 records a visit by the author to the Hardy family to "meet Evelyn again (she is now 'Miss Evelyn')" when he "walked on the Parade with Mrs. Hardy and Misses K. and E." Williams, Madan, Green, and Crutch 71; Carlson and Eger, Dodgson at Auction 1893-1999, 1999. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial roundels and triple-line borders to covers in gilt, brown coated endpapers, binder's label ("Burn & Co") to rear pastedown, all edges gilt. Frontispiece and 42 illustrations by John Tenniel. Some fading and bubbling to covers, spine slightly soiled, corners slightly bumped, minor restoration to spine and hinges, some browning and foxing throughout; a very good copy.

TENNIEL, Sir John (illustrator). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [With:] Through the Looking Glass. London: MacMillan and Company, 1866. Full Description: CARROLL, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: MacMillan and Company, 1866. First published edition, with inverted "s" on the last line of the contents page. Octavo. (7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 186x 123 mm.). [xii], [1]-192 pp. With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel including frontispiece. With the original cloth binding bound in at the end. The original blue endpapers are also bound in at the end. [Together with] CARROLL, Lewis. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: MacMillan and Company, 1872. First edition. Octavo. (7 x 4 3/4 inches; 176 x 120 mm.). [xii], [1]-224, [2] pp. With the misprint "wade" instead of "wabe" on page 21. Fifty illustrations by John Tenniel including frontispiece. Without the page of publisher's advertisements. With the original cloth binding bound in at the end. Two volumes uniformly bound by Bayntum-Riviere in red morocco. Boards ruled in gilt. Board edges tooled in gilt. Gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with a stamped in gilt with the white rabbit on the front board and Through the Looking Glass with the queen stamped in gilt on the front board. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Small closed tear to leaf B in volume I on lower margin, not affecting text. A small closed tear to Z2 in Volume I at fore-edge margin, not affecting text. Previous owner's old ink inscription dated 1866 on original endpapers. Previous owner's inscription dated 1871 on half-title of volume II. Overall a near fine set in a beuatiful binding. Housed together in a custom cloth slipcase. This is the first authorized edition, often cited as the second edition and was published in November, 1865, (some say issues were ready as early as September 1865), preceding that of the New York 1866 edition by six months. "The first edition, familiarly known to book-collectors as 'the 1865 Alice', was printed at the Oxford University Press. This edition was at the last moment canceled by the author, for whom MacMillan's were publishing 'on commission' (i.e. as agent, not sponsors) because of what was considered the poor printing of Sir John Tenniel's almost equally famous illustrations. The few early copies sent out were recalled; seemingly with fair success, since less than a score are known to survive today. The book was then reprinted, by Clay, with the title-page re-dated 1866, and this constitutes the first regularly published edition" (Printing and the Mind of Man). Williams, Madan and Green 44 and 84. HBS 69110. $15,000.

First Edition. "CARROLL, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan, 1866. Octavo, mid-20th century full red morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, all edges gilt. $14,500.First authorized English edition of Carroll s cherished romp through the realm of nonsense, illustrated with 42 engravings by John Tenniel, handsomely bound by Riviere & Son, with original cloth-gilt at rear."More than a flare of genius," Alice's Adventures in Wonderland "was the spiritual volcano of children's books" (Darton, 260). "Historians of children's literature universally agree that [its] publication marks the liberation of children's books from the restraining hand of the moralists" (Carpenter & Prichard, 102). A mesmerizing masterpiece of comic nonsense, Alice also demonstrates Carroll's gift for recognizing "the child's inner fears, wishes, intelligence and imagination. He unleashed thousands of children's minds and invited them to laugh" (Silvey, 124). "It is, in a word, a book of that extremely rare kind which will belong to all the generations to come until the language becomes obsolete" (Sir Walter Besant). First published and authorized English edition, preceded only by the extraordinarily rare suppressed 1865 London edition, of which only about 20 copies are known to exist, and the scarce New York edition of 1866. Lewis Carroll Handbook 46. Lewis Carroll at Texas 3. See PMM 354. Bookplate. Newspaper clipping laid in.A bit of foxing to front blank endpapers only. A beautifully bound copy with the original cloth bound in.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. TENNIEL John 1820-1914 (illustrator). 1st Edition. The second, first published edition, 1866 In the original publishers gilt red cloth, 3 circular lines containing a picture of Alice holding the Pig on the upper cover with the Cheshire Cat to the back cover, a little rubbed & soiled, cloth worn at some extremities. Professionally re-spined, old laid down, gilt titles. Internally, half-title, frontispiece, [10], [1], 2-192 pp, frontis, with tissue guard, + 42 illustrations by John Tenniel, a couple of short tears, some foxing, pale blue endpapers (earliest state), hinges with signs of repair, a.e.g. Housed in a custom red half morocco over red cloth drop-back- box, gilt titles to spine, gilt titles to morocco label to upper cover. (193*126 mm). (Crutch 46. Madan 33. Williams 10). A better than usual copy of Alice with an ownership inscription on half-title dated in the year of publication ( M.A. Watson Binfield 1866) + a bookplate to fpd (Latham). The contents 'S' is normal whilst page 30 is correctly numbered. Dodgson, author, mathematician, and photographer, whose writing meant a great deal to him; writing was the main course by which he could do something for others, to fulfil a deep religious desire to contribute something to humanity?it was his offering to God. After resigning his mathematical lectureship in 1881, at the age of forty-nine (he retained his studentship and resident privileges at Christ Church to the end), he devoted himself primarily to his writing. Often standing at his upright desk (he calculated that he could stand and write for ten hours a day), he turned out a myriad of works. See ODNB.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. FIRST. First edition. Maecenas Press/Random House, New York, 1969. Illustrations by Salvador Dali. #668 of a signed limited edition of 2500 copies , issued as a portfolio containing 12 color wood engravings and a color etching. Signed by the illustrator on the title page. Signed by Dali on the title page, with an original etched frontispiece in four colors signed in the plate, and 12 color heliogravures each with an original remarque. Press/Random House, New York, 1969. Illustrations by Salvador Dali. 1147 of a signed limited edition of 2500 copies , issued as a portfolio containing 12 color wood engravings and a color etching. Signed by the illustrator on the title page. twelve full page color heliogravures. Interior contents bright, clean and fresh. Spine of morocco case lovely copy to beige cloth of folding case. Loose as issued in original brown cloth chemise, quarter morocco folding case original boe closures. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HARDBACKNODJ, 1ST EDITION , 1866 ON TITLE PG, .FIRST LONDON EDITION. SECOND 1ST PUBLISHED EDITION SINCE 1865 WAS RECALLED. VG-, AS -IS, Final 'S' on the contents page is correctly printed, page '30' numbered '3'. 192 PGS NO ADS IN BACK, ORIGINAL Red Cloth binding 3 circular lines containing a picture of Alice holding the Pig on the upper cover with the Cheshire Cat to the back cover, REBACKED, Preserving Original covers with small stain and spine which has tears chips wear. Wear to exterior with some marks/stains. All edges GOLD gilt. RECENT endpapers, half-title with pencil name. Pages are complete with illustrations throughout. Age toning and the odd mark/spot here and there, otherwise pages are generally clean , TINY CORNER STAIN WEAR FRONT BTM RIGHT , The first published edition, re-set from a copy of the recalled first issue. 3 circular lines containing a picture of Alice holding the Pig on the upper cover with the Cheshire Cat to the back cover, a little rubbed , 192 PGS,

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). 1st Edition. Carroll, Lewis. (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., [n. d. but 1907]. First American De Luxe Edition illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a "proem" by Austin Dobson. Limited to 550 numbered copies SIGNED by the publisher of which this is #114. Large quarto. Thirteen full-page tipped-in colored plates with all tissue guards present, illustrations sized much larger than those found in the first trade edition. This large paper edition is 162pp and measures 11 1/2" x 9 ¼". Original publisher's quarter dark green cloth over light green boards lettered in gilt with a small onlay image of Alice affixed to the upper board, t.e.g. A VERY FINE copy in ORIGINAL GLASSINE DUST JACKET still residing inside its matching green ORIGINAL CARDBOARD GIFT BOX. Virtually as new and untouched, an astonishing survival. In 1907, after more than forty years, Lewis Carroll's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland entered the public domain. That year, many new editions of Alice's Adventures were free to be published. Of those, Arthur Rackham's 1907 illustrated version is arguably the most iconic (and the most sought after) visual interpretation of Alice outside of the original Victorian era drawings by John Tenniel. In thirty years of selling Lewis Carroll desiderata, this is the first time we've ever seen the Doubleday Edition De Luxe in its original glassine DJ (much less with its original gift box). Also included, an example of the first American Trade Edition (c.1907, printed in England) as a reading copy. Signed by Author(s).

192 pp. With Forty-two Illustrations by John Tenniel. 12mo, in a modern designer binding in full inlaid morocco, a.e.g. by Starr Bookworks. Preserved in a custom quarter morocco slipcase and chemise. First American edition, first printing; second issue with the cancel Appleton title page. 1 x 2" section of the upper right corner of the title page expertly replaced (owner's name removed?) This copy has the title page with the "B" in the second "By" above and slightly to the right of the "T" in "Tenniel," and the hyphen in "Rabbit-hole" on the Contents page. No priority for these variants has been reliably established.

Original buckram. Condition: Very Good. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). first Rackham edition. DELUXE LIMITED EDITION in exceedingly rare original slipcase. WITH: RACKHAM INK DRAWING of the Gryphon. The book: "Rackham embarked on his new edition of Alice in Wonderland, with illustrations to rival John Tenniel's, when the book came out of copyright in 1907. Rackham's advantage over Tenniel was that now he could introduce colour; also his pen line would not be reproduced by wood-engraving. This gave him some new freedoms for invention, but his amendments to the ingrained image of Alice were not only technical. Rackham's Alice was very much a fleshly Edwardian child who would question the status quo of Wonderland. Her courtesy carried an undercurrent of insistent argument. A contemporary critic observed 'a tender, flickering light of imagination in [Alice's] eyes' (Daily Telegraph, 27 Nov 1907). (Dictionary of National Biography). This deluxe limited edition is number 1030 of 1130 copies, unsigned as issued. (Rackham was out of the country when the book was published and did not sign the edition.) Complete with thirteen large tipped-in color plates and many black and white drawings. In the exceedingly rare original "windowed" slipcase: We can only find records of very few references to the original slipcase, although numerous copies exhibit the patch of rectangular discoloration corresponding to the cut-out opening of the slipcase, designed to display the gilt title and the gilt cover illustrations of the turtle and gryphon. The drawing: Laid-in is a large pen and ink drawing of the gryphon, signed by Rackham ("ARackham") and dated ("07") the same year as the book. The drawing is similar to the one on page 119 of the text, but is larger and with much more detail. Size: sheet = 7 1/4x9 (184x228 mm); image = approx. 5 1/2x7 in (136x180 mm). London and New York: William Heinemann and Doubleday, Page, & Co., 1907.Quarto, original white buckram gilt, original marbled slipcase with morocco edges and cutout displaying the title and illustrations on the front panel. Drawing laid-in. Book with mild rectangular "ghosting" from where the cloth was exposed when in the slipcase; mild toning to spine and a few stray spots but cloth exceptionally clean and bright. Corners a little bumped. Slipcase with general rubbing to marbled paper and chips around the frame of the cutout. Matte for one plate with small abrasions at gutter. Text and plates nearly pristine. Drawing was previously framed, resulting in toning to paper where it was exposed (ink crisp and fine). A beautiful copy of a Rackham classic, complete with the very rare slipcase and a unique Rackham ink drawing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST LONDON EDITION. 1 vol., with the inverted "S" to last line of contents page, illustrated by John Tenniel. Bound in fine full red morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, covers ruled and paneled in gilt, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, housed in a matching red morocco edged open ended slipcase, by John Vivian. Internally clean and bright, 5 pages with closed tears expertly repaired, foredge of 1 leaf (p.111) strengthened on verso, still a VERY GOOD copy. Included with this item is a letter from a Richard to a Mr. Evans on Dept. of Zoology Univ. College London letterhead. The first paragraph states in part that "your Alice reached our head binder safe and sound. He is going to do it in full scarlet morocco, all edges gilt,.".

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Willy Pogany (illustrator). 1st Edition. Carroll, Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). Willy Pogány (Hungarian/American, 1882-1955). ORIGINAL PEN-AND-INK PORTRAITS OF THE MARCH HARE, MAD HATTER and DORMOUSE (From his illustrated 1929 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland published by E. P. Dutton). These marvelous drawings illustrate "The Mad Tea Party" chapter and grace pages 102 and 103. The images are both 4.75" x 3.5" situated in two corners of a large sheet of 11" by 14" heavy art paper. Pogány has printed his name in full on the March Hare drawing at the top right and initialed the Mad Hatter drawing at the lower left. His lightly penciled outline and notations can also be seen. The detail in the drawings is spectacular in comparison to the actual printed book (see published drawing for comparison). In a Victorian-Style frame with museum glass. Unique. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very good. John Tenniel (illustrator). Second (First Published) Edition. 192pp. Duodecimo [22 cm] rebound in gilt-stamped dark red morocco with raised spine bands. Binding pristine. Includes original pale blue free endpapers, now serving as flyleaves. Calligraphic ink name dated May 1st, 1866 on original front free endpaper, reinforcements to the edges of several leaves, light to moderate foxing throughout. With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel. The first published edition, re-set from a copy of the recalled first issue. Williams, Madan, Green 46. The publication of Carroll's work appeared at a time when children's literature was produced primarily to teach moral lessons. Carroll's tale was, by contrast, wonderfully fantastical and nonsensical, and the book baffled critics at first. By the close of the 19th century, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" had become the most popular children's books in England. Two decades later, the Alice story grew to be one of the most celebrated works of fiction in the English language throughout the world.

Cloth. Condition: Very good. Uniformly bound in red morocco, an early edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with the first edition of Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll. (illustrator). Early Edition. Twelvemo, [two volumes], xii, 192pp; xii, 224pp, [2]. Finely bound in full red morocco. Five raised bands, title in gilt with gilt devices on spines. Top stained with marbled endpapers. Both with half-titles. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is the third edition, with "Seventh Thousand" stated on title page and "backs" for "back" on Page 116. Solid text block, occasional foxing to leaves. Complete with forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel, including frontispiece. (Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch, 42) Through the Looking-Glass is a first edition, early impression, with the corrected "wabe" on page 21. Solid text block, touch of foxing to front and rear leaves. Complete with fifty illustrations by John Tenniel, including frontispiece and chess diagram at front of volume. (Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch, 84) A beautiful set of children's literature classics.

Both volumes in green cloth titled in gilt and with triple rectangular panels and central thematic gilt emblems to both front and back panels. Through the looking glass is the first issue with "wade" on page 21. Endpapers are a pale olive floral and leave pattern which don't seem to appear in other copies but also appear to be publisher's issue. Prelims rearranged from English issue appearing after the title and with Macmillan device as called for in Williams' and Madan's "The Lewis Carroll Handbook. Both volumes expertly restored by Glenn Fukunaga with small portions on spine tips replaced, spine of Through the Looking Glass a little dull, overall fine albeit restored in custom mylar covers and handsome double spined leather-backed slipcase. Each book in individual folding chemise. A very handsome set. First American edition from American sheets of the Alice and First American Edition of Through the Looking Glass.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. John Tenniel (illustrator). 1st Edition. Carroll, Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND and THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS. London: Macmillan and Co., 1911. First Edition, thus. The first Alice printed with John Tenniel's original illustrations in colour, sixteen in total, plus 92 line drawings. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good priced (10/-) ORIGINAL 1911 DUST JACKET. The book is virtually unworn with tight hinges, some offsetting to endpapers, a touch of edge-wear and some slight dulling to the spine gilt. Previous owner's Christmas 1911 gift inscription to front free endpaper. The dust jacket is nearly complete with rubbing, small closed tears, a few tiny chips. It has also been substantially reinforced on the inside with archival tape. This is the first time in thirty years of selling Alice books that we've handled this important edition in its original dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Tenniel, John; Fritz Kredel (illustrator). 1st Edition. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland **EXTREMELY RARE ILLUSTRATED MODERN LIBRARY WITH CLEAR DUST JACKET AND SLIPCASE IN VERY FINE CONDITION!!** Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. The Illustrated Modern Library, 1947, First Edition Thus. Bound in decorative boards with gilt spine and an acetate dust jacket with printed text on front, stored in cardboard Philco corporation slipcase. Absolutely gorgeous illustrations by John Tenniel and colored by Fritz Kredel. Every modern library collector knows how rare this item is but this copy is in PRISTINE condition - the best I've ever seen and I'm positive the best that will ever be seen. The book, acetate jacket and slipcase are all in PRISTINE new condition!! The book is in VERY FINE PRISTINE condition. Binding tight and solid, gilt on spine perfect, boards nice and bright, corners sharp. Contents are clean and bright with no writing in text. Amazing illustrations! The all-important glassine or acetate dust jacket is in VERY FINE PRISTINE condition - Printing on dust jacket is bright and complete with no rubbing of the letters. These dust jackets are usually missing and when present usually torn and exhibiting drastic wear. This is an incredible example! The Slipcase is also PRISTINE. It is rumored that approximately 1,000 copies of the book were given out as gifts at Philco's national convention. Well, this copy appears as if was gently placed in a suitcase, brought home and never saw the light of day until now. **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Charles Robinson (illustrator). First edition. A wonderful, first illustrated Cassell edition of Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland, with colour plates. This is a first UK edition of this illustrated edition published by Cassell and Company. Stated as first impression, November 1907 to the edition page.This volume of the hugely popular tale, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, reimagines the story with beautiful and colour illustrations by Charles Robinson. This edition is notably the first illustrated edition to feature Alice with short hair. This version of Alice with short hair was possibly due to the publication of Lewis Carroll's photograph of Alice Liddell with a bob haircut.With seven colour plates and colour frontispiece and many other illustrations throughout the text.Collated, complete.This is an especially hard first edition format of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to find. This first edition is special as the reprints of this work were issued in a smaller format with smaller and less impactful images. In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding. Externally, very smart with some fading to the spine and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. With a bookplate for Suzanne Eward to the front pastedown. Front hinge is starting and is generally firm. Internally, generally firmly bound with bright pages with some scattered spots, mainly concentrated to the first and last few pages. Very Good. book.

Cloth. Condition: Very good. Early edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, uniformly bound in red morocco. (illustrator). Early Edition. Twelvemo, [two volumes], [xii], 192pp; xii, 224pp, [2]. Finely bound in three-quarter red morocco, marbled paper boards. Five raised bands, title in gilt with gilt devices on spines. All edges gilt, new endpapers. Both with half-titles. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an early edition, with "Fourteenth Thousand" stated on title page. Solid text block, faint and occasional foxing to leaves, complete with forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel, including frontispiece. Through the Looking-Glass is a first edition, first impression, with "wade" in the place of "wabe" on page 21. Solid text block, touch of foxing to front and rear leaves. Preface incorrectly bound after page two. Previous ownership inscription on half-title. With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel, including frontispiece. (Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch, 84) A beautiful set of children's literature classics.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First and only edition; later issue with white endsheets, consisting of remaindered sheets put into covers perhaps as late as 1931. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with fading/mottling to cloth, contents toned and with several hinges slightly exposed. In a Very Good dust jacket with light soiling, spine toning, edge wear and a closed tear at the bottom front spine joint. A facsimile of Carroll's manuscript which would be developed into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Rountree, Harry (illustrator). 1st Edition. Carroll, Lewis. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND with ninety-two coloured illustrations by Harry Rountree. London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, [1908]. FIRST EDITION. 8vo - 7-1/4" x 9-5/16". TEG. Dark green cloth covered beveled boards with an elaborate and extensive color illustration and gilt lettering to upper board, and gilt lettering and design to spine with just the lightest touches of wear at the corners for what is an incredible copy of the book. Also, a few light spots to fore edge and top of text block, not effecting the open pages, with the rest of the book being as good as one could ever hope to find. Pictorial endpapers with a neatly written gift inscription dated May 25, 1916 on FFE. 246, [2] pp. Extensively illustrated with color frontispiece, many color drawings within text and eleven full page color plates; all in marvelous condition. The condition of the book is NEAR FINE. VERY SCARCE.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Tenniel, John; Fritz Kredel (illustrator). 1st Edition. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland **EXTREMELY RARE ILLUSTRATED MODERN LIBRARY WITH CLEAR DUST JACKET IN NEAR FINE CONDITION!!** Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. The Illustrated Modern Library, 1947, First Edition Thus. Bound in decorative boards with gilt spine and an acetate dust jacket with printed text on front. Absolutely gorgeous illustrations by John Tenniel and colored by Fritz Kredel. Every modern library collector knows how rare this item is and this copy is in NEAR FINE/FINE condition. The book is in NEAR FINE condition. Binding tight and solid, gilt on spine perfect, boards nice and bright, corners sharp. Contents are clean and bright with the slightest of age toning and no writing in text. Amazing illustrations! The all-important glassine or acetate dust jacket is in VERY FINE condition - Printing on dust jacket is bright and complete with no rubbing of the letters. These dust jackets are usually missing and when present usually torn and exhibiting drastic wear. This is an incredible example! This is the nicest copy of the Modern Library's Illustrated Alice I've ever seen (besides the PRISTINE copy in a slipcase I also have listed for sale). **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**.

First Edition. AVENTURES D'ALICE AU PAYS DES MERVEILLES, Macmillan, 1869, first French edition, some wear to the spine extremities, inner hinges just barely starting, else a tight, bright vg or better copy in the publishers original blue cloth binding with all page edges gilt, spine lettering gold-gilt, triple rules to both covers likewise in gold-gilt as well as the circle encased Alice avec cochon on the front cover and the similar circle encased Cheshire Cat on the rear cover.

With a Proem by Austin Dobson. ix, 161 [2] pp. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham; 13 full-page illustrations in color mounted on brown paper; each with printed tissue overleaf, fourteen drawings in black and white, and pictorial endpapers. Folio, publisher's white gilt-lettered and gilt-stamped cloth; t.e.g. First edition; No. 215 of 1130 copies. Latimore & Haskell, pp. 28-29. Offsetting and tanning to the free endpapers front and rear; spine tanned; a little hand-soiling and a light rectangular tanned shadow to the front board. Contents very nice.

[ix] 56 [8] pp. Coloured Enlargements from Tenniel's Illustrations. Cover Designed and Coloured by W. Gertrude Thomson. 4to, publisher's boards illustrated in color; cloth spine. Second (first published) edition. The price on the title page is Four Shillings, and Alice has her back to the reader on p. 34. Diagonal creasing to pp. 35-36; some smudging and occasional light foxing to text; illustrated boards soiled with a vertical reddish transfer stain about seven inches in length along the left side of the front board; worn at corners and edges of boards.

First Edition printed in America; publisher's decorated green cloth. Previous owner's contemporary inscription on first blank; light rubbing; top of front hinge mended; a very good to fine copy. [with] Through the Looking-Glass. Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1872. First American Edition; first state. Contemporary pencil owner's inscription on the front free endpaper; publisher's decorated green cloth, matching the earlier volume; very good. Both volumes feature the illustrations of John Tenniel. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1907. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. With a Proem by Austin Dobson. Limited edition of eleven hundred and thirty copies, of which 1100 were for sale and the remaining 30 copies were reserved for presentation. Large format. White cloth, gilt titles and vignette to front. Brown and white pictorial endpapers. 13 tipped in colour plates plus b/w illustrations. xi and 161 numbered pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn, fraying to cloth at top and tail of spine and a small section of the front edge starting to split (but hasn't yet). Spine is grubby/sunned with grubby marks to covers are well (see photos). Endpapers are browned. Rear joint is cracked (possibly very neatly repaired). There is a light crease to one of the plates, all others are present and in fine condition. Light page browning and fingering to contents and some light foxing. A small brown spot affects the margins of pages 105 to 113. Overall this is still a very decent copy of the scarce limited edition Rackham Alice. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Charles van Sandwyk (illustrator). 1st Edition. This Folio Society's edition, limited to 1,000 copies, this being number Beautiful Folio edition limited to 1,000 copies of which this is number 851, is illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk, the famed Canadian artist who collaborated with the same publisher on an earlier limited edition of "The Wind in the Willows". Quarto size. This book has an etching that is signed and numbered by Sandwyk, eleven tipped in color plates and nine color "scraps". The book is bound in vellum with vellum tips, blocked on the spine in 24-carat gold, and has a gilded top edge. It comes with a solander case that weighs nearly 1kg while the book tip close to 2kg. Shipping will be at cost. Images available.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. An American edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with fair/poor condition. With forty two illustrations by John Tenniel. Boards with damage and wear. All edges gilt, worn in places. Split hinge on end papers and slight lean. Browning and marks on contents with small water stain on the last pages. 8vo 192pp.