Alice s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, First Edition (602 results)

hardcover. Condition: near fine. first. First US edition, with first UK sheets. Book near fine, some rubbing to corners and spine ends, rubbing to upper left corner of front free end paper. Housed in custom-made fold-out case.

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.

hardcover. Condition: Very good. First. A very good first UK published edition (after the suppressed UK edition that was not distributed) in a very good original cloth with some repair on the hinge. First issue inverted S on the table of contents. Housed in an elaborate leather case.

Early edition with sixty-second thousand stated on the title page of this classic work, boldly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Edith Mary Alice Berkeley from the Author, May 15/80." Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, all edges gilt, publisher's cloth s, all edges gilt, housed inÂa modern scarlet morocco slipcase and chemise. 7 1/8 x 4 1/2Âinches (18 x 12 cm); 192 pp., [2] pp. ads, half-title; electrotyped frontispiece, and 42 illustrations from the woodcuts by Dalziel after John Tenniel. In near fine condition. From the library of actor William E. Self, with his book label on the front pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and slipcase. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed. Alice's Adventures were "born on a golden afternoon" in July 1862, when the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) took the three small daughters of Dean Liddell of Christ Church on a boating trip up the Isis. Carroll delighted the three children by relating Alice's adventures, and eventually promised his favorite among the three, Alice Liddell, to write the story down for her. Through the Looking-Glass can be seen as a mirror image of the Alice's Adventures. For example, the latter begins outdoors in the warmth of May 4 and uses the imagery of playing cards, while the former begins indoors on a snowy, cold November 4 and uses the imagery of chess. "The two Alice books completed the reinstatement of the imagination, so long disapproved of by the opponents of fairy stories, to its proper place. 'Alice 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'" (Carpenter & Prichard, 102).

(10),192;(12),224 pp. Octavo. Original red cloth with gilt decoration on the boards. Gilt title on spine. All edges gilt. Original dark blue/green endpapers. Modern bookplate on front endpaper of both titles. Half titles. Previous owners notation on the half title of Alice. Both titles have darkened boards and are soiled. Old crease on the front board of Alice. Both are slightly cocked. Both volumes are generally very clean internally with only a hint of foxing. A decent set of "Alice" comprising the the First available UK edition of Alice and the First UK edition of Through the Looking-Glass.

First German language edition, 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.

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.

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: 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,

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. In-folio, en feuilles, couverture toilée marron souple. Le plus fameux roman de Lewis Carroll illustré par le maître Salvador Dali. Il est orné d'une gravure originale en frontispice signée dans la planche et de 12 héliogravures en couleurs de Salvador Dali. Signé au crayon sur la page de titre et numéroté au colophon. Bel exemplaire. Signed by Illustrator(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.

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).

First trade edition, first impression, with an original pen and ink drawing on the half-title of the White Rabbit in dressing gown and striped slippers, signed lower right ("Arthur Rackham"). In 1907, the copyright of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland expired, and many publishers issued newly illustrated editions. Arthur Rackham's edition is one of the few that has endured, and his illustrations stand comparison with the original drawings by John Tenniel. This copy includes the Leicester Galleries Exhibition announcement slip for 1913 loosely inserted. Latimore & Haskell p. 29; Riall p. 77. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in dark green, front cover with pictorial decoration in gilt, rear cover with publisher's device in dark green, illustrated endpapers, top edge yellow. Colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Ownership signature of a Hobart Fordy to half-title. Extremities a little worn, spine sunned, minor marks to rear cover, some light foxing and browning, occasional finger-soiling, front hinge cracking: a very good copy.

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.

Octavo, two volumes, uniformly bound in full red morocco, all edges gilt, gilt titles and tooling to the spines, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands, original cloth bindings tipped in to rear of each volume. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an early printing. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There is an early printing. Illustrated by John Tenniel, text illustrated. A very nice set. Alice's Adventures were "born on a golden afternoon" in July 1862, when the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) took the three small daughters of Dean Liddell of Christ Church on a boating trip up the Isis. Carroll delighted the three children by relating Alice's adventures, and eventually promised his favorite among the three, Alice Liddell, to write the story down for her. Through the Looking-Glass can be seen as a mirror image of the Alice's Adventures. For example, the latter begins outdoors in the warmth of May 4 and uses the imagery of playing cards, while the former begins indoors on a snowy, cold November 4 and uses the imagery of chess. "The two Alice books completed the reinstatement of the imagination, so long disapproved of by the opponents of fairy stories, to its proper place. 'Alice 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'" (Carpenter & Prichard, 102).

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**.

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 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 reinforced on the inside with archival tape. In dust jacket, this edition is EXCEEDINGLY RARE.

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: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, 1867 (Eighth Thousand) Printing A very early printing, Very Good hardcover with the original red cloth covered boards, with a new full morocco spine with raised bands and gilt. A very early, Very Good hardcover with the original red cloth covered boards with some slight bubbling/mottling to the cloth. Finely recased with a new full morocco spine with raised bands and gilt designs. Mini-leather corner tip accents. (please see images for details). All Edges in full gilt. The binding is tight, square and quite readable, the end papers are replaced. All pages and illustrations are present and are overall clean with some scattered faded smudging/handling marks otherwise no bent pages, no tears, and no writing. ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for other landmark rare book titles.

First edition with these illustrations. Deluxe limited edition, large paper issue. Publisher's original white cloth with gilt titles to the upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated endpapers, 13 tipped-in colour plates, each with a captioned tissue guard and 15 black-and-white line drawings by Arthur Rackham. A lovely near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt fresh with just a few small marks and mild darkening to the spine. The contents, with a little toning to the enpapers and only the occasional finger mark to the margins of a couple of pages are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. All illustrations are present ('The Mad Tea Party' whilst called for opposite page 84 in the illustration list is bound, as issued, opposite page 79) and in fine condition. An attractive example of this finely illustrated Alice. This large paper issue of the first Arthur Rackham illustrated edition was issued in an edition of 1100 copies, the present example is hand-numbered 778 (there were also an additional 30 copies for presentation numbered 1101 - 1130). One of the most beautiful and collectable illustrated editions of Lewis Carroll's classic of children's literature. A very attractive example, in original condition, offered in its most desirable format. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

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.

Finely bound early printing of Carroll's beloved children's classic. Octavo, bound in full 20th century scarlet crushed levant morocco by William Bennet, gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, central gilt ornament of Alice holding a rabbit to the front panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated by John Tenniel, many with hand-coloring and including tissue-guarded frontispiece. In near fine condition. Bookplate and neat ownership name. Alice's Adventures were "born on a golden afternoon" in July 1862, when the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) took the three small daughters of Dean Liddell of Christ Church on a boating trip up the Isis. Carroll delighted the three children by relating Alice's adventures, and eventually promised his favorite among the three, Alice Liddell, to write the story down for her. "The two Alice books completed the reinstatement of the imagination, so long disapproved of by the opponents of fairy stories, to its proper place. âAlice is, in a word, a book of that extremely rare kind which will belong to all the generations to come until the language becomes obsoleteâ" (Carpenter & Prichard, 102).

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**.

Twenty-Second Thousand. 12.5 x 18.7 cm full red leather binding signed Bayntun-Riviere Bath with triple ruled border to the front and rear boards and a gilt cartouche of Alice carrying a pig on the front and the Cheshire Cat to the rear. 5 raised bands to the spine decorated with gilt spots, ruled gilt borders to the compartments and titles and date. All edges gilt, dentelles with ruled borders, marbled endpapers [iv]blank [x] 192 [1] blank [1] ads [4] blank. A fine, beautifully bound book. Internally very clean and without name, inscription or bookplate. A lovely collectable early copy of this children's classic in a beautiful signed binding. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

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.