Alice s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, First Edition (295 results)

First published editions of both Alice books, presentation copies inscribed by the author to Margaret Evelyn Hardy, the daughter of Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy. She is recorded in Carroll's listing of recipients of presentation copies of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as noted in his diary. The inscriptions comprise "Margaret Evelyn Hardy from the Author" on the half-title of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and "Margaret Evelyn Hardy from the Author. Christmas 1871" on the half-title of Through the Looking-Glass. 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". 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". Gathorne-Hardy had married Jane Orr in 1838 and they were to have four sons and five daughters. A correspondence between the two men commenced and Carroll continued to send copies of his books to Margaret: we know she received the 1869 German and French translations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and her inscribed copy of Through the Looking-Glass is dated Christmas 1871. She also received a copy of The Hunting of the Snark with an inscription dated 24 April 1876. The present set is unrecorded by Carlson and Eger. 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." Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is the first published edition, the second overall: the book was originally printed in Oxford at the Clarendon Press in June 1865, but was suppressed when Carroll heard that John Tenniel, the book's illustrator, was dissatisfied with the quality of the printing. It was withdrawn before publication and now survives in tiny numbers. The book was entirely reset by Richard Clay for the present authorized Macmillan edition, the earliest edition that can be realistically obtained. Although dated 1866, the edition was in fact ready by November 1865, in time for the Christmas market, and was published in a print run of 4,000 copies. The copy of Through the Looking-Glass is the first edition; like its predecessor, it was published for the Christmas market and bears the following year's date in its imprint. It was actually published in December 1871, in an edition of 9,000 copies. Carlson and Eger, Dodgson at Auction 1893-1999, 1999; Williams, Madan, Green, and Crutch 46, 84. Edward Wakeling, ed., Lewis Carroll's Diaries, 1993-2007. 2 volumes, octavo (176 x 117 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in red morocco, spines lettered and with motifs in gilt, raised bands, covers with pictorial roundels replicating the original binding design and single rule in gilt, elaborate turn-ins in gilt, gilt edges. Housed in a morocco entry slipcase. Illustrated frontispieces, with tissue guards, and illustrations to the text, all by John Tenniel. Occasional finger-soiling and foxing; near-fine and attractive copies.

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.

First published edition. This copy was inscribed in the year of publication on the frontispiece recto: "May Hemming from her Godfather H. L. Gaskell on her birthday April 1866". Henry Lomax Gaskell of Kiddington Hall (1813-1889) was JP and sheriff of Oxfordshire and is mentioned by Dodgson in his diaries. In his diary entry for 9 August 1879, Dodgson recorded a journey from Oxford to Eastbourne during which he met a lady, unknown, and her daughter Amy, who became his travelling companions. While talking, he was pleased to discover that the lady "knows the Gaskells of Kidlington [sic]" (Diaries, p. 198), referring to Gaskell and his wife, Alice Cunliffe. In 1864, their third son, James, entered Rugby, the same school Carroll had attended some 20 years before. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland was originally printed in Oxford at the Clarendon Press in June 1865, but Dodgson heard that the book's illustrator John Tenniel was dissatisfied with its quality, so he suppressed the whole edition of 2,000 copies. The book was entirely reset by Richard Clay for this present edition which, although dated 1866, was ready by November 1865, in time for the Christmas market. The unused Oxford sheets were sold to Appleton's for use in their New York edition, published the following summer. The Macmillan edition was published in an edition of 4,000 copies. The book is "especially demonstrative of the fantasy genre; Alice, a stranger to Wonderland, realises the fantastical nature of the world that surrounds her and must constantly work to navigate and understand it" (Carter). The work was "enormously influential, bringing about a sea change in children's fantasy and mounting a defiant opposition to the didactic tendencies of Victorian children's literature" (Stableford, p. 63). Grolier Children's 100, 35; Printing and the Mind of Man 354; Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 46. Carter, "Which way? Which way?": The Fantastical Inversions of Alice in Wonderland, 2007; Magill, Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature, I, pp. 7-16; Stableford, The A to Z of Fantasy Literature, 2009. Octavo (191 x 126 mm). Early 20th-century red morocco by Lloyd, spine with raised bands, compartments lettered and elaborately tooled in gilt, covers, board edges and turn-ins ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. With original cloth covers bound in at rear. Frontispiece and 41 illustrations by John Tenniel. Bookplate of one Elizabeth Cornell Kinsley to front pastedown, 1950 gift inscription to recto of frontispiece, small bookseller ticket to rear pastedown. Joints sometime repaired, light offsetting to endpapers, neat repairs to margins of a couple of leaves, contents generally clean. A very good copy, attractively bound.

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.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Limited edition of 2500 copies, signed on the title page by Dali, this being number 1392. Folio measuring 430 x 285mm, with Mandeure paper pages loose as issued and housed in the publisher's quarter leather clamshell case. Near Fine clamshell with about a 3 inch split at the top and a 1.5 inch split at the bottom of the front joint, unrestored. Complete with the original leather straps and horn clasps intact. Internally Fine; bright, clean, and complete, with the original etched frontis and all 12 original color illustrations present. Retaining the original shipping box from the publisher (also numbered 1392). Based on the beloved fantasy by Lewis Carroll, Salvador Dali's rendition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland exceed surrealist expectations. As the reader travels through Dali's Wonderland, they are treated to a brilliantly coloured illustration, giving insight into how the painter experienced Carroll's story. An unforgettable adaptation. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Illustrated by Dali Complete portfolio limited edition, one of the 2500 copies, in Mandeure paper, illustrated by Salbador Dali with one original etching in color signed in plate, in frontispiece, and 12 prints, each with an original woodcut remarque, to accompany the text of Lewis Carroll. Signed in pencil by Daly in frontispiece. Guarded in the original cloth chemise and half brown morocco and cloth case. Very Good. Case slightly worn, leather strings to close the case broken. Ref: Michler Lepsinger, Prestel-Verlag #321-333. Signed by Illustrator(s).

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.

London: Macmillan And Co. 1870 and 1872. 8vo.; 2 vols.; both finely and handsomely bound in late twentieth-century full rich red morocco, gilt extra, both spines with 5 raised gilt-ruled bands, panelled gilt in compartments, enclosing appropriate gilt centres of rabbits, playing cards etc., both volumes lettered direct in gilt to 2 panels with single gilt fillet to all sides surrounding a striking and decorative gilt vignette of the White Rabbit and the Red Queen respectively, with an embellished gilt fillet to all board edges, all edges gilt, decorative gilt dentelles, and Cockerell marbled endpapers, with original cloth covers and spines expertly laid down and bound in to the rear of both books, both volumes neatly housed in a custom-made red cloth-covered slipcase with fleece lining and ribbon-pull, by Bayntun-Rivià re of Bath; pp. [xii] + 192 + [ii], original publisher's printed tip-in advertising the first French edition of Alice and [xii] + 224 + [ii], publisher's advert.; with a total of 92 fine illustrations after John Tenniel's original wood-engravings; fine, crisp and unmarked copies, with an early ownership inscription to half-titles of both volumes expertly bleached to erasure by the binder. Early edition, (twenty-first thousand) of Wonderland, published 5 years after the first published edition and the first edition, first printing of Through The Looking-Glass, with the famous misspelling of "wade" for "wabe" in the second line of the Jabberwocky verse on page 21.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST LONDON EDITION. 1 vol., illustrated By John Tenniel. Bound in full green morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, covers triple ruled in gilt, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, original clothe covers and spine bound in rear, by Ringer & Hertzberg, hinges fine, head of spine renewed, internally clean and bright, overall VERY GOOD. Ernst Hertzberg was born in Gramzow, Germany in 1853. At age thirteen Ernst made a decision to leave Germany and move to Chicago, Illinois. It wasn't long before he used his apprenticeship talents to get a job at Ringer Bookbindery as a finisher. He progressed rapidly with his talent for designing and finishing fine bindings. In the next four or five years Ernst married and started a family of his own. He also became a partner in the Ringer Bindery, and it became known as the Ringer & Hertzberg Bindery. Ernst had five sons and two daughters. As the years went on, all of his sons and daughters worked at the bookbinding trade. Under their father's teaching, most learned the skills and craftsmanship of the bookbinding art. Ernst bought out his partner, who wanted to retire, and was able to establish a new bindery. He called it the Monastery Hill Bindery.

First edition, second issue. The Appleton 1866 edition of "Alice" is comprised of the sheets of the suppressed first English issue (1865) with a cancel title page for D. Appleton & Co, New York, 1866. This edition is then the first printing, second issue. The illustration of the White Rabbit on page one is seen against a muddy background of text from page two. It is clear why the author and Tenniel rejected the printing of these sheets. However, the resulting sale of the inferior but first edition sheets to Appleton have made available to posterity the earliest obtainable sheets from the first edition of this children's masterpiece. There are two variants of the Appleton cancel title page. In this copy, the "B" of By is directly over the "T" of Tenniel. There are also two variants of the last stanza of the prefatory poem and the Contents page. This is Variant a. According to Selwyn Goodacre "In Variant a, the first line of the last stanza of the prefatory poem reads "Alice! A.", in the list of Contents, RABBIT-HOLE has a hyphen, the "9" in page numbers 29 and 59 is oval, is round in 95, and the 5 in page 95 is undamaged."* 8vo, [x], 192pp, publisher's dark green endpapers, all edges gilt. Wood-engraved frontispiece and 41 vignette illustrations after Sir John Tenniel. Beautifully rebound by Courtland Benson in dark red half morocco, spine in six compartments, gilt decorated and marbled papered boards. The original red cloth from the boards bound in the back of the book. They are bordered with gilt triple fillet lines and a central gilt vignette (of Alice & the Cheshire Cat) also within three gilt-stamped circles. Small repair on page 1. The minutest of tidemarks on the upper corners of page 1-15. Otherwise an extraordinarily bright copy magnificently rebound with the original cloth bound in. *Goodacre, Selwyn H. "The 1865 Alice", p. 29 (&) "Lewis Carroll comes to America", p. 113.

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,.".

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. 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.

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).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First American US Edition, First Printing: An exceptional, clean vibrant and rare copy of the first American edition, first printing. The beautiful book has vibrant green cloth boards in with bright gilt images to the front of Alice and gilt titles to the spine. The book has benefited from being rebacked with all the original materials intact, which has made for a very strong tight binding. The scarce original dark brown coated end papers are present with no owner names and no bookstore stamps. The book has sharp corners and no edgewear. Inscription located to the half title page dated in the year of publication. All the pages are present and are overall unusually clean for this title, with no foxing, no stains, no handling marks and no bent pages. One page with tiny chips to the very outer blank margins which has been restored by an expert conservator. An unusually clean book with fantastic boards. Please see the many detailed images. Accompanied by a matching, slightly rubbed slip case. No dust jacket. A superb copy of this classic, fragile, highly collectible book. Presents well on the shelf. ADDITIONAL IMAGES UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for other landmark Children's rare books.

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.

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.

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.

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.

[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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The first French edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, very good in original cloth, housed in a custom-made case with a leather spine.

Alice's Adventures: later edition (thirty-fifth thousand) 8vo (190 x 135 mm); half-title, 42 woodcut illustrations (including frontispiece), advertisement leaf at rear, a few minor spots, mostly to endpapers andhalf-title, otherwise very good; publisher's red pictorial cloth by Burn, portrait of Alice in gilt to upper cover, portrait of the Cheshire Cat to lower cover, gilt edges, dark blue endpapers, extremities rubbed and slightly soiled by two small stains, otherwise very good; Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice Found There, first edition, early edition (same year as the first issue), thirty first thousand; 8vo (188 x 140 mm); half-title, 50 wood-engraved illustrations after John Tenniel (including frontispiece), advertisement leaf at rear, verso of upper endpaper spotted with slight offsetting to half-title opposite, the same at the rear but offset to blank opposite, otherwise very clean and bright; publisher's red pictorial cloth gilt buy Burn, gilt edges, mild soiling, extremities slightly rubbed and corners mildly bumped, otherwise, also very good. TBC on return from Claire 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. Williams, Madan and Green, p. 29 & Williams, Madan, and Green 84; Williams 21.

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.

First edition. First edition to be printed in America, after the scarce first American edition made from sheets given to Appleton from the suppressed 1865 British edition. [xii], 192 pp. Bound in publisher's red pebbled cloth stamped in gilt, all edges gilt, brown coated endpapers. About Very Good with darkened spine that is rubbed along edges, front hinge crack ed but holding, one gathering of pages is proud (i.e. protrudes from textblock), former owner's name on first blank page and inner margin of p. 18, a few reading smudges. The classic Victorian children's story that inspired numerous film adaptations.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Harry Rountree (illustrator). 1st Edition with ninety-two coloured illustrations by Harry Rountree. Thomas Nelson and Sons, [1908], London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and New York. 8vo - 7-1/4" x 9-5/16". TEG. Dark green cloth covered beveled boards. Gilt lettering to upper board, and gilt lettering and design to spine. A very nice copy of this much sought-after publication. Collector's Item.

Hardcover. First American Edition. Octavo, [10], 192 pages. In Good condition. Bound in publisher's pebbled green cloth with gilt ornamentation. Spine rebacked with original cloth preserved; the repair is scarcely visible except at head and tail. Hinges splitting. Tide-marks along top edge of all pages, not impacting text. Original brown endpapers preserved with pencil name on front free end paper. All edges of text block gilt. Volume contains forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel. MF Consignment. Shelved in Case 2. The first edition printed in the US, following the extremely scarce 1865 British sheets given to Appleton from the suppressed version. 1319550. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 246 p. 24 cm. 92 colour illustrations. Cloth hardcover with colour illustation, gold lettering. Bevelled edges. Spine ends, corners, and internal hinges repaired. Ink inscription on half title. Some thumbing to margins and other marks on p. 241. Harry Rountree was born in New Zealand and emigrated to London in 1901. He studied under engraver and landscape painter Percival Gaskell and, by 1903, was contributing work to periodicals, including Punch. His "big break" came when he was asked by the editor of Little Folks to illustrate a series of books featuring animals. But his work on Alice in Wonderland is considered by many to be his best.

Hardcover. Sabuda, Robert (illustrator). SIGNED with a print. First limited edition, first printing. Fine/As New clothbound hardcover in the original plastic sleeve in the Fine/As New matching slipcase in the publisher's shipping box; no dj as issued. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. There were two limited editions of this book. Our copy is of the limited edition issued in only 50 copies. It has the extra pop-up to the front cover, SIGNED and numbered by Sabuda, in this case #25/50, as well as the slipcase. This edition has an envelope inset to the front of the slipcase with a tissue guard and an ORIGINAL PRINT laid-in, also SIGNED BY SABUDA and numbered 25/50. Illustrations and paper engineering by Robert Sabuda; original story by Lewis Carroll. Unpaginated [12 pages] with pop-ups, flaps, and pull-tabs throughout; color illustrations; 8.5 x 10.5 inches. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is Sabuda's most amazing creation ever, featuring stunning pop-ups illustrated in John Tenniel's classic style. The text is faithful to Lewis Carroll's original story, and special effects like a Victorian peep show, multifaceted foil, and tactile elements make this a pop-up to read and admire again and again.".