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- Macmillan and co, Londres 1889, 12,5x19cm, reliure de l'éditeur. - Edition originale ornée de 46 illustrations d'Harry Furniss. Reliure de l'éditeur en plein cartonnage rouge, dos lisse, discrètes et légères restaurations sur les mors, médaillons dorés sur les plats, gardes et contreplats de papier noir, tranches dorées. Envoi autographe daté et signé de Lewis Carroll à Mrs Cole. [ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] Sylvie and Bruno Macmillan and Co | Londres 1889 | 12.5 x 19 cm | publisher's binding First edition with 46 illustrations by Harry Furniss. Publisher's binding over flexible paper boards, discreet and light repairs on the joints, all edges gilt. Autograph inscription dated and signed by Lewis Carroll to Mrs Cole. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

UK: Cassell and Company, Ltd, London, 1907. The First UK printing of this illustrated edition published by Cassell and Company, Ltd, London in 1907. The BOOK is in Very Good++ or better condition. 179 pages, b/w plates and text illustrations, 8 colour plates. Top edge gilt. All of the pages and colour plates are present Light wear at the top and bottom of the spine, with mild rubbing at the corners and edges. The gilt decoration to the front cover and spine remains very bright. Free from bookplates and inscriptions. Some spotting and age related marking to the prelims, text block and page edges due to the quality of the paper stock used. The plates remain clean and vibrant. Wonderfully illustrated throughout by Charles Robinson. The book is protected in a removable Mylar archival cover. An extremely elusive title to find as the first issue and complete. The reprints of this work (from 1913 onwards) were issued in a smaller format. Collectible. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. [Attributes: First Edition]

Macmillan und Comp, 1869. [12], 178, [2]pp. Original green decorative cloth gilt with medallion illustrations to upper and lower covers. All edges gilt.. Octavo. First edition. First issue. Slight wear to head and heel of spine; slight bubbling of cloth; hinges expertly repaired; else a very good copy of the scarce first issue, contained in a cloth, gilt clamshell box. Presentation copy, inscribed on front free endpaper: 'W. H. Ranken, with the Author's sincere regards march. 1869.' Casson family bookplate. It is believed that this copy was once owned by the actress Dame Sybil Thorndike (Casson). W. H. Ranken (to whom A Valentine, the second poem in Phantasmagoria is addressed,) was a close friend of Dodgson's at Oxford. He later taught English in Germany for a while. They visited Whitby together in 1854, and stories told to children by Dodgson on the shore at Whitby during the visit were thought by Ranken to have been the first germs of Alice in Wonderland. The first issue, which is by far the scarcer of the two, has the London: Macmillan imprint. The second issue, Liepzig: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch. [Attributes: First Edition]

Grosset & Dunlap, 1915. Carroll, Lewis [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND & THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [c. 1915]. First Deluxe oversized (9.5" x 7") Film Photoplay Edition, issued in tandem with the 1915 Silent Film based on the two Lewis Carroll classics. There exists also a smaller trade edition, the first time ever that a movie tie-in printing had been produced in two versions, regular and deluxe. The film was produced by the American Film Manufacturing Company and distributed by the Non-Pareil Film Company, adapted and directed by W. W. Young and starring Viola Savoy. Inside can be found 32 inserted black & white stills from the movie, plus a color frontispiece. A Fine, bright, unworn copy retaining the exceedingly rare Photo Art Dust Jacket which has some light chipping and wear but no restoration or repair. Complete with the original (slightly damaged) 1915 Gift Box which is the only example of this beautifully illustrated box which we've ever encountered. As part of the prelims, there is an account of the film's invite-only opening night at the Strand Theater in New York City. The original film still exists (and can be seen online) minus most of the Looking Glass segment which has been lost over the years. This book is surely the best imaginable artifact in book form of the first full-length (52 minutes) Alice film adaptation. It is arguably a lone survival with the original gift box, but inarguably a truly rare find for those seeking a deluxe edition of this illustrated Alice in dust jacket. [Attributes: Hard Cover; In Dust Jacket]

Macmillan & Company, 1911. 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. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover; In Dust Jacket]

Macmillan and Co, London and New York, 1893. Titles for both volumes continue: "With Forty-Six Illustrations by Harry Furniss." Two 8vo volumes. Pp. xxi, [4], 2-400, followed by three page of publisher ads, [1]; [4], x-xxxi, [1], 2-423, [2], followed by four pages of publisher ads, and then a facsimile of one page of Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Frontis. illustration to each, with tissue guards. Original red cloth, gilt. All edges gilt. General index in Vol. Ii. Light scattered foxing on first and last few leaves of both volumes. Both volumes a bit cocked, with spines faded; first volume with a few small spots on the front board. Armorial bookplate (Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester) on front pastedowns. Both volumes inscribed to "Mrs. Stevens" (Edith Stevens), the mother of Dodgson's last "child-friend," Enid Stevens.Both volumes presented in cloth chemises within three-quarter red morocco clamshell boxes, felt-lined, within a red linen slipcase. Inscriptions read, respectively, "Mrs. Stevens, from the Author. Feb. 28, 1891" and "Mrs. Stevens, with sincere regards, from the Author. Dec. 27, 1893."Edith Stevens (1841-1919) was the mother of Enid Stevens, considered by Dodgson to be the last of his "child-friends." On the very day of the first inscription Dodgson wrote to Edith, stating, "I have lost a considerable fraction (say .25) of my heart to your little daughter: and I hope you will allow me further opportunities of trying whether or no we can become real friends. She would be about my only child-friend in Oxford" (The Letters of Lewis Carroll, p. 825). Dodgson's warm feelings of his friendship with Enid was reciprocated by Enid who, later in life, wrote "we were the very greatest friends," and "I don't think anybody else ever had so much of him as I had . I was the last child-friend."The introductory poem in Sylvie and Bruno contains a double acrostic of the name "Isa Bowman", who was another of Carroll's child-friends; the dedicatory poem in Sylvie and Bruno Concluded contains a single acrostic, "enidstevens" using the third letters of each line. Provenance: Edith Stevens (née Headland, 1841-1919); Sotheby's, 1929; Christies; Christies, 2006. Original cloth with both vols. housed in a morocco slipcase with chemises [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

London: Macmillan and Co., 1867. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original plum-brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt, with black endsheets. Very Good. Cloth worn at extremities, unevenly sunned, and wormed. Contents toned, with foxing to preliminary and terminal pages. A scarce mathematical work by Dodgson, better known under his pen name, Lewis Carroll. Very Good. [Attributes: First Edition]

London: The Macmillan Company, 1889 & 1893. First Edition. Signed. 2 Volumes. First edition, first printings. Both inscribed by Lewis Carroll. Volume I inscribed "Mrs. Burton with kindest regards / Dec. 12. 1889," and Volume II inscribed to the same recipient, "Mrs. Burton with the Author's kind regards. Dec. 28. 1893." Very Good, with darkening to spine panels and light bruising to spine ends. Sylvie and Bruno Concluded boards bowed a bit; in a Very Good dust jacket, with shadow of removed over-price sticker, likely supplied, lightly edge worn and with a toned spine. A lovely set, inscribed by Lewis Carroll. Very Good. [Attributes: Signed Copy]

Limited Editions Club, New York, 1932. In publisher's heavily gilt-decorated full red morocco leather. With the original illustrations by John Tenniel. Copy #1327 of 1500 with typography and binding by Frederick Warde who has SIGNED the colophon page. Additionally SIGNED for the publisher on a separate page bound in before the title page by Alice Hargreaves, "the original Alice," one of only about 500 copies of the total edition of 1500 copies that were signed by her a few years before her death. Alice refused to sign other editions of this famous book in her lifetime, written by Carroll for her when she was young Alice Liddell, but she was convinced with the help of monetary compensation to sign these copies. She would also sign two years later copies of THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS by the same publisher. A rare opportunity to acquire one of the most famous children's books ever published here signed by the subject of the book. Many have praised this book, but perhaps novelist Sir Walter Besant's remark is the most insightful: "It admits us into a state of being which, until it was written, was not only unexplored but undiscovered." Very light rubbing to the spine tips and corners, spine a bit sunned. Near Fine in a somewhat darkened, Very Good slipcase [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

London Folio Society 2016. Limited Edition. Quarto (13" X 9.75"). Quarter vellum binding with vellum tips and decorative paper covered boards in a deep shade of red; 24-carat gold gilt lettering stamped to the spine and illustrations on the front board blocked in four foils. Gilded top edge. Illustrated endpapers. Limitation spread blocked in two colours on two shades of laid paper, inset with an etching hand-printed under the artist's supervision on Somerset Velvet Buff hand-made paper; signed and numbered by Van Sandwyk, out of an edition of 1000. Eleven plates printed in full colour with gold borders on art paper, tipped into the text within ornamental gold borders; nine "scraps" printed in full colour, individually cut out and tipped in place. Approximately 50 line-drawings throughout the text and hand drawn initials. Clamshell case bound in Paradise cloth with spine titling label blocked in two colours on laid paper. In as new condition. An immensely detailed and gorgeously bound limited edition of Alice in Wonderland, with new illustrations by the acclaimed artist Charles van Sandwyk. With a vellum binding blocked in real gold, exquisite typography and a hand-printed etching signed by the illustrator; this is in series with the limited edition of the Wind in the Willows, which was also illustrated by Van Sandwyk. Van Sandwyk created 11 wonderful new colour illustrations, all tipped in by hand within elaborate gold borders. Added to these are a multitude of pen-and-ink drawings, incorporating his charming calligraphy and portraying the book's memorable characters with unfailing wit and tenderness. Tipped into the book just after the etching is a wonderful full page watercolour illustration of the white rabbit and the cat! please see illustration. A unique copy of this iconic title. This item also comes with a set of six blank cards. Each of the cards feature different illustrations from The Folio Society's limited release of "Alice in Wonderland" and are signed by the artist. [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

London: Macmillan and Co Ltd, 1892. Book. Illus. by Arthur B. Frost and Henry Holiday. Near Fine. Full Leather. 5th or later Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Full Red Morocco with gilt raised bands (5) on spine and dentelles with attractive marbled endpapers. Gilt edges. Signed binding by BAYNTUN-RIVIERE. This copy a presentation from the author "Muriel Edith Midwinter from the author Oct 12, 1894 " with a characteristic Carroll swirl on the half title. Ads and original cloth cover bound in at rear. some mild foxing o/w a fine copy beautifully bound.

London and New York: Macdonald & Co., 1892. Book. Illus. by Arthur B. Frost. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full red leather, gilt, beautifully rebound and signed by the binder, Bayntun-Riviere. All edges gilt. First edition and presentation copy, inscribed in the author's hand. Title page has a little spotting, o/w crisp and clean, with 3pp publisher's adverts at the rear. The binders included the original bindings. Contains 65 illustrations. .

Macmillan and Co., London, 1887. 12mo, publisher's gilt-lettered red cloth in custom cloth folding box. First edition (after the very rare private issue). Rear hinge cracked; long tear to publisher's printed envelope; otherwise a very good copy. The spine is a little darkened, and there is some use to its extremities. There is a small ink spot to the rear panel. Presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title in purple ink: "R. Brodie / From the Author [flourish] Mar. 87." The recipient may be the Oxford professor referred to in the Carroll ABC ditty: "B is for Brodie who swears by the gasses." Game board and 5 (of 9 -- 3 pink and 2 gray) original counters in publisher's envelope at rear. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. First Edition in Presentation Bi. First edition in variant presentation binding of scarlet cloth (intended to match Alice in Wonderland) stamped in gilt, all edges gilt. Though typically found in buff cloth with black stamping, Lewis Carroll wrote to his publisher ordering copies in various colors stamped in gilt, intended for his give friends as presentation copies, requesting such as "100 bound in red and gold, 20 in dark blue and gold, 20 in white vellum and gold." First issue with "baker" not "butcher" on page 83. Binder's ticket on rear paste down. Good+. Cloth shows several small stains, gilt lightly rubbed but generally bright. Spine cloth darkened, chipped at ends, corners frayed, front outer joint partially split, hinge at rear open and binding a bit fragile. A very scarce issue of a book whose author proclaimed it "didn't mean anything but nonsense," which has nonetheless emotionally resonated with and beguiled readers ever since its publication. Good.

The Hours Press, Chapelle-Réanville - Eure, 1929. First edition in French. Quarto. Unpaginated. Red boards printed in black. The translator's two-page introductory text is printed in red. Out of a total edition of 360 copies signed by the translator this is one of 300 numbered copies.Presentation copy from the translator, inscribed on the first blank: ''à Louis Hay - qui me met dans l'obligation de continuer au jeu du Boojum, lequel est de longtemps mort, mais, j'espère, bientôt moi aussi - amicalement Aragon.'' The recipient was a French literary theorist and one of the founders of genetic criticism. In 1976 he established the Centre d'Analyse des Manuscrits under the aegis of the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique to which Aragon bequeathed his archive, together with that of his wife Elsa Triolet.Some rubbing to spine. Very good. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

1930. MARIE LAURENCIN'S STUNNING ALICE IN WONDERLAND BY THE BLACK SUN PRESS

SIX BEAUTIFUL COLOR LITHOGRAPHS BY AVANT GARDE ARTIST MARIE LAURENCIN
Ltd Edition: #298 of 350 copies printed on Rives paper of the European Edition. (In English). Paris: BLACK SUN PRESS,1930. Ltd 1st ed, thus.
Lithographs printed by Desjobert of Paris. Oblong, 4to lettered wrappers with Black Sun Logo on back cover. The book is complete with glassine dust wrapper. The SIX LITHOS have tissue guards with the artist's facsmile signature. The page numbers printed in red. Accompanied by the ORIGINAL Cardboard SLIPCASE and CHEMISE. The book is in VG+ cond. The glassine dj has a tear at bottom spine & a few very tine tears at edges. Silver gilt edges to the slipcase which has some wear at edges and a few small chips on the paper over the cardboard, o/w the slipcase is tight & good. The pink chemise has faded. It has wear at the hinges at the spine - which had been re-attached with archival tape from the inside.

A UNIQUE LOOK AT LEWIS CARROLL'S ALICE IN WONDERLAND.

London: Macmillan & Co., 1896. SECOND EDITION PRESETATION COPY. 1 vol., illustrated with diagrams, inscribed by Dodgson on the half-title "D. G. Ritchie, from the Author. June 13, 1896.", bound in the publisher's original black lettered brick red cloth, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine fine, ink notes to last blank endleaf possibly in the hand of Ritchie, overall VERY GOOD. Not located in "Dodgson at Auction" David George Ritchie (1853-1903) was a Scottish philosopher who was a fellow of Jesus College, Oxford before becoming a tutor at Balliol College. in 1894 he left Oxford having been elected Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at St. Andrews. He must have been at St. Andrews by the time that Carroll inscribed this book to him. [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

London: William Heinemann, 1907. LIMITED EDITION. 1 vol., 11-1/4" x 9-1/2", limited to 1100 numbered copies this being copy #508, illustrated with numerous tipped in color pates with titled tissue guards and B&W illustrations in text, bound in full blue morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, covers ruled and paneled in gilt, gilt corner pieces, gilt dentelles, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine ever so slightly sunned, internally clean and bright, no previous ownership marking, inscriptions, or bookplate, A VERY GOOD COPY. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

London: Macmillan & Co., 1885. FIRST EDITION PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol., inscribed on the half-title "Lilie Salle from the Author Feb. 1886." Bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped red cloth, all edges gilt, bookplate to front endpaper, light general handling, small stain to upper corner of rear cover, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine fine, back corners square, overall A VERY GOOD copy. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

London: Macmillan and Co, 1927. Octavo. Half-title, Color frontispiece, 299(1)pp., (continous pagination) with 92 illustrations by John Tenniel including 8 in color. This was the book that made Lewis Carroll famous. Soon after writing Alice, he went on to write Through the Looking Glass which became another best seller. Alice (Liddell), was the little girl he wrote the story for. This is a beautiful copy bound by Riviere in full blue crushed morocco, elaboratly decorated in gilt, inlaid on the upper board is Alice and the Dodo bird, the lower board inlaid with Alice and the Queen., marbled paper doublures and endpapers signed by Riviere, all edges gilt, raised bands with compartments lettered and decorted in gilt, page 281 has a small marginal closed tear otherewise a fine, fresh and lovely copy housed within a lined cloth covered slipcase.

London, Chatto and Windus 1880. First edition, Lewis Carroll's copy with ownership inscription "C. Dodgson 1886". 8vo., original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine. A very good copy. A pleasing association. In April 1865, Carroll (real name: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) recorded a visit to Dante Gabriel Rossetti thus: 'We went to call on Rossetti. We found him at home, and his friend Swinburne also in the room, whom I had not met before." Elsewhere Carroll is noted for his passion for Swinburne's sensual and 'scandalous' poetry. Stuart Dodgson Collingwood in "The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll" makes the comment, "Another excellent parody 'Atalanta in Camden-Town' exactly hit off the style of that poet who stands alone and unapproached among the poets of the day, and whom Mr Dodgson used to call "the greatest living master of language". [Attributes: First Edition]

London: Macmillan & Co., 1889 & 93. FIRST EDITIONS PRESENTATION COPIES BOTH INSCRIBED TO THE SAME PERSON. 2 vols., illustrated by Harry Furniss, vol. 1 inscribed on the half-title in purple ink "Mrs. Nash/ with Sincere regards/ from the Author/ Dec. 12. 1889", vol. 2 inscribed on the half-title in black ink "Mrs. Nash/ with the Author's/ Sincere regards./ Dec. 27, 1893". Each volume bound in the original gilt stamped red cloth, spine of volume one neatly relined, both volumes uniformly sunned, all edges gilt, housed in a fleece lined open ended slipcase. Both volumes inscribed pre-publication.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1886. 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. Very Good / Very Good. [Attributes: First Edition; In Dust Jacket]

London: Folio Society Ltd., 2015. Book. Illus. by Charles Van Sandwyk. Fine. Vellum-Paper. Signed by Illustrator(s). Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Gilt lettered quarter vellum over maroon paper boards decorated in white gilt black and red. Housed in maroon cloth clamshell box with paper label. Edition limited to 1000 copies only with copper etching signed by the Illustrator. Print is #6 of 1000. Beautiful edition of Alice..

[Burbank, CA]: [Walt Disney Studios], [1951]., 1951 9" x 9", within a 15" x 15" frame. Gouache on celluloid drawing of the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland, holding a flamingo mallet, colored in green, yellow, black, red, and white, with a gray background, in a glossy black frame. Fine. Overall, a bright and exemplary cel from the classic 1951 Disney film.Walt Disney's animated film Alice in Wonderland (1951) is based on Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1872). Walt Disney was inspired by Carroll's books from a young age, and his early silent "Alice Comedies" in the 1920s showed the imaginative author's influence on him. Disney purchased the rights to Tenniel's Alice illustrations in 1931 with the idea of turning the books into a film, but it wasn't until 1951 that the project was finally completed. Featuring the voices of Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Sterling Holloway and others, the film received a lukewarm reception when it was released, but has since come to be regarded as one of Disney's finest feature-length films. Like other hand-drawn Disney films, Alice in Wonderland required hundreds of thousands of hand-drawn cels (24 images equated to only a single second of animation) and the loving labor of hundreds of artists.. First Edition. Fine. [Attributes: First Edition]