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Black Sun Press, Paris, 1930. Limited edition of this highly sought version of ALICE with full-page plates by the French avant-garde artist, one of 350 copies for the US. 9.5'' x 11.5''. Original white wrappers. In original slipcase and chemise. Illustrated by Laurencin with 6 magnificent tissue-guarded color plates with facsimile signatures. Printed on Rives paper. 114 pages. Wrappers moderately foxed, with some light marginal foxing to text. Case scuffed and and repaired; chemise repaired and joints, with part of tan paper overlay worn away on spine. Plates bright. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1932. Signed Limited Edition. First edition thus, limited to only 1500 numbered copies and published for the members of the Limited Editions Club of New York. Signed in ink by "The Original Alice" in Wonderland, Alice Hargreaves (née Liddell); Reportedly only about 1,000 copies of this title were signed by her, a few years before her death. With original illustrations by John Tenniel re-engraved by Frederic Warde and Bruno Rollitz; additionally signed at the rear limitation page by Warde. Bound in publisher's original red full leather decorated heavily in gilt, with all edges gilt; in publisher's original blue cloth slipcase. Near Fine, with blemish to rear cover, in Very Good slipcase with light edge wear, light toning and light soiling. A lovely copy. Near Fine. [Attributes: Signed Copy]

London: Macmillan & Co., 1872. First edition. Finely bound in three-quarter red crushed morocco over cloth boards with the Red Queen and White King stamped in gilt on the boards. All edges brightly gilt. Marbled end-papers and paste-downs. In excellent condition internally, with the first issue misprint "wade" for "wabe" on p. 21. Complete with all 50 engravings by John Tenniel. A faint contemporary gift inscription on the title page, a few spots of soiling or foxing throughout. Carroll's fantastical sequel to the classic Alice Adventures in Wonderland. Published in 1871, the book follows Alice as she enters a strange alternative world by stepping through a magical mirror. She soon encounters the nonsense poem "Jabberwocky", which Martin Gardner called "...the greatest of all nonsense poems in English", and later meets the famed Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was a sensation when it was first published, and Through The Looking Glass received favorable reviews as well. The novel has been adapted into film, television, and stage. Carroll scholar Florence Becker Lennon calls the novel a "masterpiece -- only a shade less than Wonderland" (Lennon, "Escape Through the Looking-Glass," 1971; pp 66-79). Fine. Fine. [Attributes: First Edition]

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932. Hardcover. Very light rubbing to the spine tips and corners, spine a bit sunned. Near Fine in a somewhat darkened, Very Good slipcase. John Tenniel. 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." [Attributes: Signed Copy]

Heinemann, London. Pp.xi,161; 13 coloured plates. Numbered edition of 1130 copies. Original white decorated gilt buckram. Alice in Wonderland fine editions are extremely rare. A very good copied of the scarce numbered beautifully illustrated edition. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

UK: The Folio Society, London, 2016. The First UK printing of this illustrated edition, published by The Folio Society, London in 2016. Number '295' of only 1000 copies issued. The BOOK is in Fine condition and appears unread with the original publisher's tissue paper covering still present. 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, number '295' 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. The clamshell case bound in Paradise cloth with spine titling label blocked in two colours on laid paper is in almost 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. Loosely inserted is the publisher's 'Order Form', fold out 'Prospectus' and 'Proclamation' (the latter states : 'The drawings in this letter were made especially for it, and have never been printed anywhere else'). The order form letter is to a named subscriber and he has written some details on the actual order form. All housed in the original publisher's envelope (which is very slightly edge-worn where opened). Together with a complete set of six greeting cards reproduced from the original watercolour paintings in this edition, with their original envelopes. The cards and envelopes are all in Fine unused condition and each has been signed (without dedication) by the illustrator. These cards are very scarce in their own right. An extremely handsome production and highly collectible. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy]

London: Macmillan and Co. 1867. First edition. First edition. 4to. Publisher's original burgundy cloth, border ruled in blind, titles in gilt to the spine. Edges speckled red. Blue coated endpapers, binder's ticket of Burn to the rear pastedown. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with some rubbing at the spine tips and corners with minor fraying at the upper spine fold. The contents with a previous owner's name to the reverse of the front endpaper and a little spotting to the prelims, are otherwise clean and bright throughout. Housed in a quarter red morocco slipcase and cloth chemise.One of the key mathematical works by the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In addition to his celebrated, beloved books for children, Dodgson produced almost a dozen works in the fields of geometry, linear and matrix algebra, mathematical logic, and recreational mathematics, all published under his real name, whilst in his role as lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford. The present work concerns determinants; these "are the sum of of the products of a square block of quantities. Their condensation, or reduction to simpler forms, facilitates the solution of simultaneous linear equations, and other similar problems" (Williams, The Lewis Carroll Handbook). Although seemingly far removed from his fictional fantasies, Dodgson's academic work and his children's novels exercised a mutual influence. As Professor Francine Abeles has written, "many of the ideas involving inversions and mirror images that are so prevalent in the Alice books found their way into Dodgson's more serious work as well," for example Alice's shrinking, which is something like the shrinkage - or condensation - of a set of numbers to a single number, as explored in the present work. Dodgson's paper on the subject was read to the Royal Society on 17th May 1866, with the production of the text itself the result of a great deal of time and intellectual exertion on the author's part: "this little book has given me more trouble than anything else I have ever written: it is such entirely new ground to explore". Only around 750 copies of this first edition were printed, although the exact number is unknown. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. [Attributes: First Edition]

London: Macmillan, 1889. Very good.. Inscribed first edition, with a purple-ink inscription by Carroll in the year of publication to the wife of the playwright who tried to take ALICE to the theater. This copy is inscribed to "Mrs. Dubourg": the Dubourgs appear a number of times in the journals and letters of Lewis Carroll. Augustus William Dubourg was an author and playwright who attempted to get ALICE produced on the stage. Carroll also formed a friendship with their daughter Evelyn, who was either 10 or 12 when they first met. He frequently met with the family when in town, and continued to make special visits with them over the course of many years. SYLVIE AND BRUNO is a tale of Fairyland, which grew from the episodic stories of two characters that Carroll would often tell to children. In it Carroll sought to create an entirely original approach to the fairy story - just as he had with ALICE, which now had so many imitations that Carroll hoped once more to prove his ingenuity; a few of the scenes were apparently inspired by dreams. A nice copy with an interesting association. Octavo. 7.5'' x 5.25''. Original full gilt-stamped red cloth. All edges gilt. Illustrated by Harry Furniss. Publisher's ads at rear. xiv, 400, [4] pages. Inscribed by Carroll in purple ink on half title: "Mrs. Dubourg, / With sincere regards / from the Author [flourish] / Dec. 12, 1889." Hinges repaired, some small holes to cloth at front joint, fore-edge, and rear top corner, a few patches of foxing to text. Red cloth bright, gilt strong.[Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy]

Macmillan, 1893. FIRST EDITION, tissue-guarded frontispiece, this and title-page faintly spotted, the half-title likewise, pp.xxxi, 423, [5, ads], 8vo, original red cloth with gilt triple fillet border and illustrations stamped in gilt to both boards, backstrip lettered in gilt and faded, some light soiling to cloth with a couple of small waterspots and a very faint graze to upper board, tiny pinhole incursion to lower joint, a.e.g., black endpapers, with the Advertisement leaf issued with the book loosely inserted following the Preface, good. Inscribed at the head of the title-page, to 'Lady Eustace Cecil, with the Author's sincere regards. Dec. 28, 1893'. The recipient, née Gertrude Scott, was the wife of Lord Eustace Cecil, a Tory M.P. (like his father-in-law) - with whom Dodgson spent time at the family seat of Hatfield House, residence of Cecil's brother, the Marquess of Salisbury. Both Lady Eustace Cecil and her niece, Maud, have been suggested as models for the character of 'Lady Muriel' in this work. Carroll's 'Advertisement' (Williams 219), issued with this edition, is generally discarded. It reflects his admirable, nearly obsessive, concern with the production qualities of his books: 'I am deeply annoyed to find that the last issue of "Through the Looking-Glass,". has been put on sale without its being noticed that most of the pictures have failed so much, in the printing, as to make the book not worth buying.' He asked that copies be returned to the publisher in return for copies of the next issue. Those returned he proposed giving to 'Mechanics' Institutes, Village Reading-Rooms, and similar institutions, where the means for purchasing such books are scanty'. Subsequent issues of Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, his final work of fiction, had white endpapers. (Williams 216: Parrish Catalogue 51) [Attributes: First Edition]

Limited Editions Club, New York, 1935. In original full blue morocco binding with heavy gilt decorations, neatly rebacked retaining the original spine. Copy #867 of 1500 copies with typography and binding by Frederick Warde and with the original John Tenniel illustrations. This is one of less than 1000 copies SIGNED by Alice Hargreaves, "the original Alice," on the colophon page. Alice refused to sign other editions of the Alice books in her lifetime, written by Carroll for her when she was young Alice Liddell, but she was convinced with the help of monetary compensation and an advanced age to sign here. Light wear to spine. Near Fine in a Fine red cloth slipcase, uncommon thus [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. [iv], 114, [2 blank], [1 colophon] pages. Number 185 of the 420 numbered copies for the United States, of which the first 350 were printed on Rives paper. Complete with the original tissue wrapper, which has a small chip at both head and heel of spine, together with the original slipcase which is very worn and distressed. The book itself, however, is a fine, clean copy without any marks or inscriptions.

London: Macmillan & Co, 1889. 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, a GOOD+ set. Both volumes inscribed pre-publication. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Londres: Macmillan and Co., 1869. FIRST FRENCH EDITION. 1 vol., bound in the publisher's original gilt decorated blue cloth, all edges gilt. Much, much better than it may sound, one of the nicest copies of this title/edition we have ever offered.

Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, 1994. In-folio, en feuilles sous un emboîtage illustré de l'éditeur.Edition bilingue présentant le texte en anglais suivi de sa traduction française, illustrée par Martin Bradley de 67 lithographies originales dont une en couleurs sur l'emboîtage, un hors-texte en couleurs sur double page, 5 à pleine page en couleurs et 60 in-texte (47 en couleurs dont un sur double page et 13 en noir et blanc). Tirage unique limité à 150 exemplaires sur papier B.F.K. Rives signés par l'artiste. Pour des raisons de mise en pages, les compositions servant de bandeaux au bas des pages 88 et 89 ont été tronquées. Elles ont été reproduites dans leur totalité sur deux feuillets séparés et encartés dans l'ouvrage.

London, Macmillan & Co., 1887. 8vo. (12), 96 pp., 2 ff. of publisher's advertisements. With game board frontispiece and several text illustrations. Contemporary red full cloth with giltstamped title to cover and spine. First trade edition. With the loosely inserted customary envelope containing a game card and 9 tiles (5 gray, 4 pink) required to play the "game of logic". The envelope bears the date of the privately printed 1886 first edition. As Dodgson was not satisfied with the first issue, initially intended to be printed in an edition of 500 copies, it was suppressed. - Extremities lightly bumped, spine slightly sunned, minor edgewear, a few spots of soiling to the boards. Internally clean and tight, all edges trimmed; minor intermittent foxing. Envelope somewhat foxed and thumb-soiled with minor edgewear and several closed tears, professionally repaired. - Williams 53, 54. William et al., 193,196. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

London, Macmillan & Co., 1887, 1886. 8vo. (12), 96 pp., 2 ff. of publisher's advertisements. With game board frontispiece and several text illustrations. Contemporary red full cloth with giltstamped title to cover and spine. First trade edition. With the loosely inserted customary envelope containing a game card and 9 tiles (5 gray, 4 pink) required to play the "game of logic". The envelope bears the date of the privately printed 1886 first edition. As Dodgson was not satisfied with the first issue, initially intended to be printed in an edition of 500 copies, it was suppressed. - Extremities lightly bumped, spine slightly sunned, minor edgewear, a few spots of soiling to the boards. Internally clean and tight, all edges trimmed; minor intermittent foxing. Envelope somewhat foxed and thumb-soiled with minor edgewear and several closed tears, professionally repaired. - Williams 53, 54. William et al., 193,196.

MACMILLAN, 1334. TWO VOLUME SET RIVIERE BINDING RED MOROCCO WITH ALICE AND THE RABBIT ON THE COVERS. ALL EDGES GILT. volume two slightly sunned. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

New York and London Harper & Brothers Publishers ; 1903, 1902. 3 vols, 8vo (227 x 160 mm); First vol: frontispiece photogravure of Lewis Carroll, 40 black & white illustrations by Peter Newell, further text decoration by Robert Mary Wright; Second vol: frontispiece photogravure of Peter Newell, also with 40 illustrations; Third vol: colour frontispiece and 39 further illustrations, slight age toning to paper but clean; publisher's cream paper-covered boards, each with a gilt vignette to upper cover, top edge gilt, other pages untrimmed, browning and light dust-soiling, offsetting to free endpapers, ink ownership to second upper blank endpaper of first, dated 1906, corresponding green dust-jackets, spines and edges browned, the first with abrasion to front panel, the first and third reinforced on spine-folds,the third with a short tear to upper spine-fold, otherwise very good and internally near-fine. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1932. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. TENNIEL John 1820-1914. (ROLLITZ Bruno - engraver). Limited Editions Club, 1932, Near Fine, in the original red morocco, decorative gilt panelling to boards, spine with pictorial motifs after Tenniel & gilt titles, light rubbing to spine ends, otherwise fine. Internally, half title, frontis, title with vignette, [4], (v-xi), [1], [2] contents, [3], 4-182 pp, [1], [1], [1] limitation, an edition limited to 1500 copies, signed by Frederic Warde (Typographer & binder). (221*145 mm). Dodgson, was about 6 feet tall, slender, had either grey or blue eyes, wore his hair long, and 'carried himself upright, almost more than upright, as if he had swallowed a poker'. He dressed customarily in clerical black and wore a tall silk hat, but when he took Alice and her sisters out on the river, he wore white flannel trousers and a hard white straw hat (A. and C. Hargreaves, Alice's recollections). He ate frugally when he ate at all, disliked tea but enjoyed a glass of wine. He had a pleasant speaking voice, but left no recording of it, and a tolerably good singing voice which he did not mind using. He sometimes talked to himself! See ODNB.

Stockholm: Albert Bonniers. 1966. First edition with these illustrations. First edition with these illustrations. Signed by Tove Jansson. Publisher's original brown cloth with gilt titles to the spine and a gilt design to the upper board, in dustwrapper. Illustrations in colour and black and white throughout the text by Tove Jansson. Text in Swedish. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents with a previous owner's initials to the top corner of the front endpaper are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the very good, lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has several short closed tears and a small chip to the upper left corner of the front panel.Signed by the illustrator Tove Jansson in black ink at the bottom of the front endpaper. Scarce thus. Moomin creator Tove Jansson brings her exquisitely unique style to the fantasy world of Alice in Wonderland. She had previously illustrated Swedish editions of Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark in 1959 and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit in 1962. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; In Dust Jacket]

London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. First edition. One of approximately 100 copies in the publisher's deluxe binding of red cloth. Full gilt illustration on the front cover, all page edges gilt, dark blue end papers, Burn bindery ticket on the rear paste-down. A Near Fine copy overall with just slight signs of use, and completely unrestored. "Although best known as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871), Lewis Carroll...was also an avid reader and writer of poetry. He greatly enjoyed the poems of the Victorian writers Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Christina Rossetti. His own poems were varied -- some humorous nonsense, some filled with hidden meanings, and some serious poems about love and life...[Snark] stands out from all the other poems that Carroll wrote. It has inspired parodies, continuations, musical adaptations, and a wide variety of interpretations...Carroll originally intended it as a set of verses to be included in another of his children's stories, but it grew too long and became a book in its own right...Although issued in a pictorial buff coloured cloth, he had copies bound in red, blue, green, and white cloth, all with gold decorations, to give away to his friends and family" (Wakeling). The present copy is one of these, bound in striking red and gilt. Near Fine. Near Fine. [Attributes: First Edition]

London, Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to The Medici Society, 1914., 1914. First Riccardi Press edition. 8vo. With the original illustrations by John Tenniel (the frontispiece and illustrations on p. 63, 65, and 125 have been slightly enlarged). Original 1/2 olive green cloth over cream boards with green and gold pattern, printed paper labels on the spine and upper cover, t.e.g., other uncut; green silk bookmark. Dust jacket (unclipped; light toning). Fine. 131 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Number 150 of 1,000 copies. Printed by the Riccardi Press. Extra spine and cover labels tipped-in at end. Lovett & Lovett 71a.. Hardcover. New/Fine. [Attributes: In Dust Jacket]

E.P. Dutton, 1929. FIRST EDITION, 126/200 COPIES signed by the artist, large paper issue, frontispiece, vignettes to half-title and title-page, and illustrations throughout, all by Willy Pogany, pink endpapers, faint spot on half-title, pp. 192, crown 8vo, publisher's rose-pink cloth-backed patterned paper-covered boards, the pattern of zig-zag stripes of gradated alternating pink and grey, backstrip with label printed in black, rear pastedown with small neat label of Connecticut bookseller, cover with a few abrasions, faintly discoloured at lower edge, backstrip label slightly worn, with glue-mark, board edges a little rubbed, very good. The extremely scarce de luxe version of a wonderful edition in which Pogany updates our heroine to the Jazz Age, the edition identified by John Davis as 'the first really original interpretation since Tenniel and a milestone in the artistic characterisation of Alice' (The Illustrators of Alice in Wonderland). [Attributes: First Edition]

Paris: Black Sun Press, 1930. Limited Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/Slipcase. Marie Laurencin. 4to - Oblong. Edition of 420 copies for the United States. This is copy no. 420. Illustrated with 6 full page colour lithographs. Bound in paper printed wrappers and glassine. Large chip to glassine wrapper at head and again at the spine foot, pink paper covered chemise, chemise with a spot of damp. Paper and silver foil slipcase faded and with wear along the edges and corners.

Macmillan and Co., London, 1890. [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. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]