Carroll Lewis Pseud Dodgson Charles (39 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Binding tight, pages unmarked. Age-toned. Cover scuffed, soiled, bumped corners, exposed boards. Spine cover faded, white streak near the bottom. Your purchase benefits the world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. PEAKE, Mervyn (illustrator). Very good condition, octavo, printed light card covers, some sun toning to covers, internally clean and bright, haunting illustrated on covers and throughout by Mervy Peake, 45 pages plus page of other books in the Zodiac series. [QP].

Hardcover. Condition: Good condition. John Tenniel (illustrator). 184p., illus. Colored frontispiece.

Hardcover. 55p. First edition thus. Previously published in an 1856 issue of The Train, a first-class magazine. Very good condition, cloth backed boards, edges worn.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xxxi+[blank]+423 pages with frontispiece and illustrations by Harry Furniss, tables and index. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial to cover. All edges in gilt. First edition. Sylvie and Bruno, first published in 1889, and its second volume Sylvie and Bruno Concluded published in 1893, form the last novel by Lewis Carroll published during his lifetime. Both volumes were illustrated by Harry Furniss. The novel has two main plots: one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fantasy world of Fairyland. While the latter plot is a fairy tale with many nonsense elements and poems, similar to Carroll's Alice books, the story set in Victorian Britain is a social novel, with its characters discussing various concepts and aspects of religion, society, philosophy and morality. Two short pieces, "Fairy Sylvie" and "Bruno's Revenge", originally appeared in Aunt Judy's Magazine in 1867. Some years later, in 1873 or 1874, Carroll had the idea to use these as the core for a longer story. Carroll initially intended for the novel to be published in one volume. However, due to its length, it was divided into two volumes, published in 1889 and 1893. The second part "Concluded" was issued with a dust jacket. Condition: Light edge wear with slightly pushed spine ends, some light foxing to preliminaries else better than very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First English Edition. Fine in slightly marked, price-clipped dust-wrapper; JF stamp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Foreword by Elisabeth Mead Acknowledgments Introduction. "Mystic, Awful Was the Process": Charles L. Dodgson, Victorian Photographer Collection Abbreviations and Short Titles Catalogue Raisonne Appendices 1. The Life of C. L. Dodgson: A Chronology 2. Surviving Glass-Plate Negatives 3. Photograph Albums and Handwritten Lists of Contents 4. Cabinet Card Sets 5. Nude Studies 6. C. L. Dodgson and Contemporary Photographers Selected Bibliography Index. 305 x 250 mm. x, 322 pp., 961 duotones. [ISBN: 978-0292767430] Clothbound. A fine bright copy free from ownership inscriptions in like dustwrapper.

H. M. Bateman (illustrator). First Edition. 4to, pp.119. Bound in cloth backed paper cpovered boards (some rubbed, small leather piece from another book adherring to the cover), a good copy.

First Edition. 8vo, pp. 252. Edited by John McDermott. Edges somewhat soiled, o/w a VG tight copy in little chipped and soiled dj.

Octavo, gilt-stamped red cloth, top edge gilt, uncut, printed in green & black, xiii, [1], 248 pp. Color frontis, 26 b&w plates, page decorations. Near-Fine, former-owner bookplate. Literature, Poetry, Illustrated. bnsli.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. original decorated cloth, rebacked with original backstrip relaid, illustrated by Harry Furniss, advertisement leaves, all edges gilt, good. first edition; 400 pages including index.

Hardcover. First edition. xv, 375, [1] p. incl. front., illus., port., facsim. 21 cm. Contents: Preface, by S. D. Collingwood.--The rectory umbrella.--Notes by an Oxford chiel.--"Alice" on the stage.--An irresponsible correspondent.--Curiosa mathematica.--Games and puzzles.--Miscellanea Carrolliana.--Appendix. Very good condition, Original gilt-decorated red cloth. Bevelled edges.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1929. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards, gilt printed paper labels to front cover and spine, pink price-clipped dust jacket lettered in blue; xxxviii,228pp. Chipping and short closed tears to jacket extremities including shallow loss at spine foot and larger loss at spine crown (neither approaching text though spine cloth toned where exposed), jacket spine panel quite toned with a few surface scratches, else Very Good overall in a nicer-than-usual dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, first issue. 423pp., scarlet cloth, stamped in gilt, a.e.g. Preliminaries lightly spotted, otherwise an almost startlingly bright copy, virtually as new.

Hardcover. John Tenniel (illustrator). Fiftieth thousand [ i.e. 2d edition]. 224p., illus. Good condition in red publisher's cloth, spine ends worn.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Early Gregg Shorthand edition. 154pp. Octavo [24 cm] Green and red printed wraps. Previous owner's name in faint pen along the top edge of the front wrap. Minor creasing to wraps. Text and illustrations by Tenniel & Maybank throughout. Early Gregg Shorthand edition of Alice, with shorthand plates created originally in 1915 by Georgie Gregg Gingell. An installment in a series meant to promote the use of Gregg Shorthand. Prior to computers, word processors, and the prevalent use of dictation machines, stenographers transcribed much of business and institutional correspondence, and then retyped it into sensible text. In order to better convey the diversity of the system, Gingell created an entire group of literary classics in shorthand, including Letters from a Self-Made Merchant by Latimer, Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Hamlet, Dickens' Christmas Carol, Poe's Descent into the Maelstrom, and Carroll's Alice. An early printing of the softcover edition, which was first published in softcover in 1931.

First edition, later issue, sixyy-seventh thousand; 8vo (193 x 135 mm); half-title, 50 wood-engraved illustrations after John Tenniel (including frontispiece), 3 pp advertisements at rear, near contemporary gift inscription to upper free endpaper, dated 1925, slight age-toning, otherwise remarkably clean; publisher's red pictorial cloth gilt, gilt edges, mild soiling, spine darkened, mild rubbing to extremities and browning to endpapers, otherwise very good. The second title is the first edition, later issue (the same year as the first) of Carroll's sequel to Alice in Wonderland, including the Jaberwocky and The Walrus and the Carpenter verses, and the episode involving Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

First edition, first printing; 8vo (187 x 123 mm); six engraved plates by Frost, spotting to frontispiece tissue-guard with resultant offsetting to illustration and title-page either side, spotting to ads; leaf in rear and verso of rear free endpaper, otherwise very bright; publisher's red cloth, gilt panelled, gilt vignettes, mild bumpint to spine-ends and darkening to spine, otherewise exceptionally bright; [xii], 152, [1, blank, 1, ads] p.p A collection of ten short stories based on mathematical problems, "the intention was to embody each Knot [story] one or more mathematical questions in Arithmetic, Algebra, or Geometry, as the case might be- for the amusement, and possible edification, of the fair readers''; the Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. Original red cloth lettered and stamped in gilt. A pleasing copy of Alice's adventures, including sixteen colour plates by Tenniel. Internally very good; spine a little dulled, mark to upper cover, but otherwise very good.

First editions; 2 vols, 8vo (190 x 140 mm); each title with 46 illustrations by Harry Furniss, the odd, minor, marginal spot but otherwise near fine internally; publisher's red cloth, triple gilt-panelled, gilt vignettes, dark blue endpapers and all edges gilt. spotting to secondary endpapers and half-title, minor bumping to spine-ends, otherwise also near-fine These were the last books published during Carroll's lifetime and his last story for children. It evolved from his short story, Bruno's Revenge, published in 1867, in Aunt Judy's Magazine Containing a lot of banter between the titular siblings, the complex story operates on two parallel levels, one realistic and didactic and the other, dreamlike and fantastic. It includes elements of fairy tales (Sylvie and Bruno are fairy children bent on doing good works and saving a throne), discussing concepts such as religion, society, philosophy, morality and espousing social reform. (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Condition: Buono (Good). 0. In-4° (mm 255x195). Pagine [10], 56, [8] con 1 antiporta a colori fuori testo corredata di velina protettiva e 19  illustrazioni a colori nel testo di Tenniel. Alcune pagine con lievi macchie, strappata in due punti la velina dell'antiporta, per il resto buona copia. Legatura originale in tela con piatti rivestiti in carta con illustrazioni a colori di Gertrude Thomson con lievi abrasioni e tracce di sporco. Assente l'angolo inferiore esterno del piatto anteriore. Dedica manoscritta alla sguardia anteriore. Prima edizione americana. Book.

3 vols, 8vo (227 x 160 mm); First vol: frontispiece photogravure of Lewis Carroll, 40 black & white illustrations by Peter Newell, further text decoration by Robert Mary Wright; Second vol: frontispiece photogravure of Peter Newell, also with 40 illustrations; Third vol: colour frontispiece and 39 further illustrations, slight age toning to paper but clean; publisher's cream paper-covered boards, each with a gilt vignette to upper cover, top edge gilt, other pages untrimmed, browning and light dust-soiling, offsetting to free endpapers, ink ownership to second upper blank endpaper of first, dated 1906, corresponding green dust-jackets, spines and edges browned, the first with abrasion to front panel, the first and third reinforced on spine-folds, the third with a short tear to upper spine-fold, otherwise very good and internally near-fine.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; 9 illustrations by Henry Holiday, including frontispiece, light toning and spotting to prelims, previous owner's signature to verso front free endpaper; publisher's cream pictorial cloth, spine and extremities slightly darkened, all edges gilt, An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves "Alice" tipped in, short split to inner hinge, lightly soiled, a good copy. First edition of Carroll's dark poem, describing 'with infinite humor the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature'. Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 115.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; 9 illustrations by Henry Holiday, including frontispiece, light toning and spotting to prelims, previous owner's signature to half-title; publisher's cream pictorial cloth, all edges gilt, spine and extremities slightly darkened, quite pronounce cockling to cloth, more evident on upper board; first issue of An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves "Alice" and 1928 newspaper clipping from The Times tipped in, overall a very good copy. First edition of Carroll's dark poem, describing 'with infinite humor the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature'. An Easter Greeting was privately printed on laid paper by Carroll for his friends in a small number, and reprinted in 1880 with correction. This example is a genuine 1876 issue with the correct border size and all points of WMG 116, including the critical 'my' in Roman type at line 12 on the third page and E. Towgood's watermark. Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 115.

8vo. (10), 192 pp. Contemporary red full cloth with giltstamped spine-title, giltstamped borders and 2 ornaments on the covers featuring characters from the story. All edges gilt. Presentation copy of the all-time bestseller illustrated by John Tenniel, signed and inscribed by the author to half-title: "Mary Harriet Rowden, / from the Author. / May 24. 1869". In a lovely binding prepared by the London bookbinder Burn & Co. with their label to lower pastedown, sixth edition. - Mary Harriet Rowden was the daughter of the Revd. Dr Edward Rowden. Her address is given next to the author's inscription in her own hand: "15. S. Giles / Oxford". - Covers slightly spotted. Rebacked with original spine relaid. Occasional minor spotting, front endpaper repaired at margins. Still a good copy. - Williams, Madan, Green & Crutch 46d.

First edition; 4to (22 x 17 cm); illustrated throughout with some full-page; publisher's original pictorial boards, a very good copy. A wonderful translation with beautiful illustrations of one of the most popular children's stories of all time. Zakhoder's version was hugely popular in the Soviet era and is still one of the standard Russian translations. As well as translating directly from the original text, he also added new content to make it easier for Russian children to understand. Zakhoder did publish his own works for children but he was mainly celebrated (and awarded the Russian state prize) for his translations which also included Winnie-the-Pooh and Mary Poppins.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition in French. 196pp., blue cloth, stamped in gilt, a.e.g. Cloth, particularly the spine, damp spotted and at some stage cleaned or varnished, but not too displeasingly; internally an excellent copy. The much scarcer variant binding, without any imprint at foot of spine.

FIRST HÖGFELDT EDITION, frontispiece and 9 further colour-printed plates with line drawings to the text, pp. 219, 8vo, original quarter brown cloth with illustrated boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, endpapers faintly browned, very good.

FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 10 further tipped-in colour plates by Folkard, with border designs and other illustrations throughout, printed in brown, one or two faint spots, pp. 48, 4to, original blue cloth, lettered in gilt to backstrip and upper board, the latter with additional Folkard colour plate laid down, a couple of light marks and a little wear at extremities, Folkard designs to endpapers, those at front with a few faint spots, good. The first appearance of Folkard's attractive illustrations to the text.

First Edition. First Impression. First issue [No mention of Alice on title page; error (p.78 for p.87) present on contents page]. Octavo (17.5cm); blue cloth-covered boards titled in gilt on the spine; device of the Crab Nebula in gold in the center of front board, Donati's comet with stars in gold on rear board; brown coated endpapers; all edges of textblock in gilt; [8],204pp. Recased, preserving the publisher's cloth; old stain to bottom quadrant of front board, with an apparent attempt at re-touching by a previous owner; else just light wear; a straight, tight copy, Very Good. Former owner's name written on the half-title page (J A Lees); tiny bookbinder's ticket inside rear cover (Burn & Co. Kirby St, E C ). "This entertaining medley was issued in Jan 1869 and consists of two parts.the title poem is in seven cantos and is well adapted to remove all fear of ghosts." CRUTCH, The Lewis Carroll Handbook (1979), p.49-50; WILLIAMS, A Bibliography of the Writings of Lewis Carroll, 18.