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London: Macmillan and Co., 1889 & 1893. First editions of Carroll's final novels, finely bound by Bayntun with attractive multicolour onlay designs on the covers after Furniss's illustrations. "Late in life Dodgson published Sylvie and Bruno (1889) and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893), two long, complicated novels depicting three realms of being. Essentially love stories, they contain some imaginative flights that sparkle, but, where Dodgson in the Alice books eschewed any moral lesson, here he set himself a mission to edify and instruct, suggesting 'some thoughts that may prove. not wholly out of harmony with the graver cadences of Life' (preface, Sylvie and Bruno, xiii)" (ODNB). Williams, Madan, Green & Crutch 217 & 250. 2 volumes, octavo (180 x 120 mm). Early 20th-century red morocco by Bayntun, spines with gilt-dotted raised bands, compartments lettered and framed in gilt, elaborate gilt borders to covers, front covers with multicolour pictorial onlay centrepieces after Furniss (vol. I, p. 48; vol. II, p. 8), board edges and turn-ins tooled in gilt, marbled paper doublures, marbled free endpapers, edges gilt, orange silk bookmarkers. With original red cloth covers and spine bound in at rear of both volumes. Frontispieces and numerous black and white illustrations in text by Harry Furniss. Both volumes bound without advertisements. Cloth and gilt bright, spines uniformly slightly darkened, vol. I with small loss of leather to bottom spine compartment, contents generally clean. A very good set, attractively bound. [Attributes: First Edition]

Paris, Hachette et Cie, sans date (1908). Imprimé à Londres par l'Imprimerie Ballantyne § Co.Un volume relié (24 x 28,5 cm) de 168 pages. Un frontispice et douze illustrations en couleur hors texte contrecollées, pages de garde illustrées d'un dessin de Rackham, plusieurs bois in-texte de différentes dimension. Reliure pleine toile d'éditeur, dos lisse, tête dorée, titrage doré sur le plat et au dos, illustration de deux animaux fantastiques sur le premier plat. Reliure légèrement salie sinon bel exemplaire.Un des 250 exemplaires numérotés sur papier à la forme. Livres [Attributes: Hard Cover]

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good - (minus). 22.5 x 15 cm. Octavo. Limited to 1500 copies signed by Alice Hargreaves, "the original Alice" who the title character was named after, of which this is copy 264. According to the LEC bibliography "most copies", but not all, are signed by her. Bound in publisher's full blue morocco, gold stamped. AEG. With illustrations by John Tenniel. A bit of scuffing and chipping to the corners as well as the head and tail of the spine of the binding. There is evidence of bookplate removal to the front free and fixed endpaper. Lacking slipcase.

Lee and Shepard, Boston, 1870. 192 pp. With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel. 12mo, publisher's green gilt cloth, a.e.g. Second edition printed in the US. 19th c. private library bookplate on pastedown; a few tiny stains to the first few leaves; first gathering re-inserted; some light rubbing to cloth. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

London: Macmillan and Co, 1872. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Illustrated by John Tenniel. 12mo. 224pp. Handsomely rebound in polished red leather elaborately gilt by Bartlett & Co., Boston, with their signature on the verso of the front flyleaf (a tiny chip causing a bit of loss to the name). All edges gilt. Boards separated with the corners worn through, small dampstain on the lower board with corresponding staining (and a tiny chip) on the rear flyleaf, spine toned and with loss, a good only copy; the text is fine. From the noted Lewis Carroll collection of Philip Conklin Blackburn, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Blackburn was an editor of the 1934 anthology *Logical Nonsense*, considered by Carroll scholar Charlie Lovett to be the first serious attempt to anthologize Lewis Carroll's works. Blackburn also cataloged the important Carroll collection of Morris L. Parrish, now at Princeton. An excellent association.[Attributes: First Edition]

Culver City, CA: Bandersnatch Productions / Walt Disney Pictures, 2010. Original archive of production materials in 2 black three-ring binders for the Walt Disney Pictures film ‘Alice in Wonderland’ that went into the making of Tim Burton’s brilliant re-imagining of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale. Included in the 1 1/2” three-ring black binder is a printed single page invitation for a private screening of the film held at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Wednesday, March 3, 2010; a 105 page revised shooting script by Linda Woolverton dated, May 8, 2008; a 3 page production contact list, a 46 page shooting schedule; a 16 page ‘Hatters Path Revised Final Tech Boards, Scene 35’ by Dan Sweetman, dated 10/01/08; a 3 page ‘Tea Party, Scenes 30 - 34, Revised Storyboards’ by Dan Sweetman dated 8/01/08, a 2 page character and environment list, miscellaneous cast and set lists, construction budget, and a UK shoot unit list and contact list. With 25 pages of storyboards with “Tech Boards Internal Use Only” in red on each page and a Walt Disney Studios “Admit One” pass measuring 4” x 1 3/4” tucked into a pocket at the front binder cover. Included in the 3 1/2” binder is a 93 page revised shooting script with color rewrite pages by Linda Woolverton, dated May 8, 2008, a 84 page “Official Shooting Schedule” dated 10/2/08, two sets of “Bandersnatch Stall / Stable Art Dept. Tech Boards” by Dan Sweetman for scenes 65 - 66 and 69 dated 9/18/08, a 41 page set of material titled “Round Hall Continuity Pre-Vis Tech Boards” dated 9/18/08, a 46 set of material titled “Round Hall Diagrammatic Pre-Vis Tech Boards” dated 9/18/08, and a 82 page “White Shooting Script” by Linda Woolverton dated 9/9/08. With 2 items tucked into the pocket at the front of the binder: a 3 page pink revised on-line schedule and a 3 page character list. All of this material belonged to the film’s set construction coordinator with their name appearing occasionally throughout. Everything is in uniformly about fine to fine condition. Alice in Wonderland was written by Linda Woolverton, directed by Tim Burton, and stars Mia Wasikowska as Alice, Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen, and Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen. The film won 2 Oscars for Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction and was nominated for Best Visual Effects. It was also nominated for 3 Golden Globes; Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical, Best Actor (Johnny Depp), and Best Original Score.

London: Macmillan, 1890. Very good.. First published edition (the second produced edition overall) of this color-illustrated ALICE for young children, with the Carroll-approved color images of Tenniel's original illustrations - quite a nice copy. In 1889, Lewis Carroll adapted his beloved ALICE IN WONDERLAND for younger readers as THE NURSERY "ALICE." With picture-loving children in mind, he suggested that Macmillan use color-printed illustrations in this edition, and enlisted his close collaborator John Tenniel to add color to his earlier designs. However, when he received the proofs, Carroll was aghast: "The pictures are far too bright and gaudy, and vulgarize the whole thing," he lamented, "NONE must be sold in England" (Lovett, 36). Carroll suggested that Macmillan offload the offending copies to their American offices, and demanded the printer produce another edition "with Tenniel's coloured pictures before him" (Lovett, 36). This copy of THE NURSERY "ALICE" reflects Carroll's editorial input, with the colors duly toned down. Given the target audience and poor quality of the binding materials for this production, copies are rarely found today in decent condition: this is a lovely copy. 10'' x 7.75''. Original cloth-backed color pictorial boards. Color frontispiece with tissue guard, 19 color illustrations. Price four shillings on title page (ref. Weaver Collection). [12], 56, [8] pages, with SYLVIE AND BRUNO advertising slip insert. Binding with toning, some edgewear and light rubbing; faint tide mark at bottom corner of front board. Interior bright and sharp.[Attributes: First Edition]

Macmillan, London, 1898. Zaehnsdorf binding, half-leather with original gilt vignettes of Alice upper board and the Cheshire Cat lower board, gilt lettering and raised bands spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, pp 183. The 'People's Edition'. 42 b&w illustrations by John Tenniel. Includes Carroll's 'An Easter Greeting to Every Child who Loves Alice', and his poem 'Christmas Greetings from a Fairy to a Child'. Some light scuffing to spine, head of spine lightly rubbed with slight loss. Tiny Hatchards inscription reverse of ffep. Very good condition. The classic 'Alice,' in sought-after Zaehnsdorf binding. This particular volume was first sold by Hatchard's of Piccadilly. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Black Sun Press, Paris, 1930. 114 pages. Landscape 29.5 x 24.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 94 of 350 on Rives paper of the American issue from a total edition of 790. Six full page chromolithographs (all with tissue guards) by Marie Laurencin, lithographs executed by Desjobert of Paris. Title page printed in red and black, wide text margins -- a brilliant, fresh copy with interior almost as new. Marie Laurencin (1883-1956) was born in Paris and was an integral part of that city's wide literary and artistic circles that included Picasso and Apollinaire. AVERY 27. MINKOFF A39. Orig. beige stiff wrappers, clear cover glassine intact. Fine in board chemise lacking backstrip, in original worn slipcase [Attributes: Soft Cover]

London: Macmillan and Co. , 1872 [1871]. Very good example. Hinges and text block weak in places, interior largely clean and crisp.. Edition: First Edition. First State., Binding: Full red gilt-stamped cloth boards bound by Burns & Co., original bookbinder's ticket pasted to lower left corner of lower pasted endpaper. Spine lettered in gilt. Black pasted and free endpapers. All edges gilt. , Notes: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898), known as Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician and photographer, widely known for his iconic children's books, most notably being Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Through the Looking-Glass (1871) is its sequel.
John Tenniel (1820 - 1914) was a prominent English illustrator, graphic humourist and political cartoonist of the second half of the 19th century. An alumnus of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, he was knighted for artistic achievements in 1893, the first such honour ever bestowed on an illustrator or cartoonist. Tenniel's detailed black-and-white drawings done for Alice in Wonderland are widely recognized to be the most iconic depictions of the famous characters; "Carroll never describes the Mad Hatter: our image of him is pure Tenniel" (Bryan Talbot, comic book illustrator and writer).

, Size: 8vo. (185 x 120 mm), Illustration: Attractive copy, first edition in first state, with the misprint "wade" on pg. 21, changed to "wabe" in later editions. With frontispiece and in-text illustrations throughout, plus one page of publisher's advertisements. , Provenance: Gift inscription signed "J.B. Russell" dated 1871 inked on front free endpaper verso., Pages: 224 pp., Category: Book Children; Book Literature;

London: Horace Hart for Macmillan, 1888. FIRST EDITION. 1 vol., diagrammatic frontispiece. Bound in the original black stamped tan cloth, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine fine, some minor foxing to pastedowns and endpapers otherwise internally clean and bright, overall generally a VERY GOOD copy. WMG&C #210. The great majority of the seventy-two problems of "Curiosa Mathematica", chiefly in Algebra, Plane Geometry or Trigonometry, were 'almost all mentally worked out in the night, without a word or line put on paper till the daylight came. The Introduction describes the method of calculation, and states that Dodgson generally wrote the answer first, then the question and solution! He could distinctly visualize complicated diagrams in the dark, such as the frontispiece . He published the problems to encourage the pastime as a means of avoiding undesired thought by concentration on a subject' (WMGC p. 181). [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Copenhagen, T. Nielsen, 1875. 8:o. (4),144 pp. With illustrations in the text. Original illustrated boards. Slightly nicked on top of spine. Some later pencil notes on the inside of the front board. Fine copy with a few fingerprints in the outer margin on pp. 3-4, 129 and 134 and some minor stains in the inner margin on pp. 62 and 93. With Thore Virgin's signature dated March 21 1956 and his library stamp. A charming and well preserved copy!First Danish translation of "Alice in Wonderland". With John Tenniel's illustrations. Later and considerably revised editions published 1912 and 1930. Thore Virgin (1886-1957) was one of the most prominent book collectors in Sweden. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Lewis Carroll and the Subconscious', dated October 1932 Manuscript. 11 leaves. (21 x 18 cm). Contemporary, multi-coloured silk binding, small 4to, contemporary. "Published by the Upton Press, Unlimited", and with m/s text opposite title page "This edition is strictly limited to one copy, signed and illustrated in pen & ink by the author", 8-page manuscript study + 3 full page fantastical illustrations. Any student of the life and works of Lewis Carroll.cannot have failed to have been struck by a.presentiment - that hidden in his words is something of the esoteric, or, at least, of the subconscious. This may be purely unintentional on the author's part. He himself always emphatically disclaimed ever having written any serious or solemn meaning into his verse. Yet everybody knows that, when was discussing himself, he was quite untrustworthy, his love of fun overcoming his passion for truth .it is quite possible that while he did not intentionally put any great truths into his work, yet his subconscious may have had effect in the shaping of his thoughts.Living as he did a solitary and somewhat morose existence, it is obvious he must have become in some degree introspective and self-analytical.” This remarkable analysis is written by a 16-year-old boy in 1932, who had a great career ahead. His name was Harry Henry (1916-2008), the father of the market research industry in Britain.0 He launched Marplan Ltd, which became one of Britain's leading market research agencies, and developed the methodology 'motivation research'. As former director of the Thomson Organisation, he changed the face of newspaper publishing in Britain. He was an innovator in all aspects of marketing and the media. In 1965 he was responsible for the introduction to Britain of Yellow Pages directories, his single main achievement. During WW2 Henry was the principal statistician of 21 Army Group in the invasion of Europe 1944-45 where he was the "father" of military statistical analysis. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Oxford: Printed for private circulation only, 1875. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Original stitched printed wrappers; a perfect copy preserved in a half-morocco slipcase with the author and title in gilt on a morocco label on the front, small bookplate of Alfred Sutro on the verso of the front wrapper.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. TENNIEL John 1820-1914. (WARDE Frederic 1894-1939).. The Limited Editions Club, 1935, signed by Alice Hargreaves (the original Alice). Full blue morocco, decorative gilt tooling & titles, spine rubbed slightly at head. Internally, half title, frontis (chess board to verso), [7], (viii-xii), [1], [1], [6], [3], 4-211 pp, [3], [1] limitation leaf. Spine with vertical crack, almost invisibly repaired, Text Block is in Fine condition, a.e.g., signed by Alice to the limitation leaf, an edition limited to 1500 copies. Housed in its publishers pale blue slip case. (219*146 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.

Funk and Wagnalls n.d. but circa, 1921. FIRST AMERICAN ROBINSON EDITION, some printing in black and red to prelims, pp. [xii], 179, 8vo, original mid-brown cloth, backstrip and upper board lettered in black, the illustrations to both (not by Robinson)stamped in black, yellow and red, a little rubbing at tips of backstrip, the scarce dustjacket present (repeating one of the Robinson plates to front), the backstrip a little sunned, some chipping around head, rubbed to extremities, very good. A nice copy of a scarce edition. The only institutional copy showing on WorldCat is in the estimable Cassady collection of Carroll material at USC - but theirs lacks both dustjacket and, more grievously, endpapers. The code at the foot of the colophon at rear, '25-621', suggests the date of printing - the sheets are printed by Cassell, but clearly distinct from the first Robinson edition from that publisher in 1907.

Macmillan & Co. London. 1867, 1867. EARLY EDITION. Eighth Thousand. 8vo, (7.5 x 5.2 inches). Illustrated throughout, with forty line engravings by John Tenniel. A few minor marks to a handful of pages but overall a very good, clean copy in a fine leather binding. Recent full deep red morocco binding, gilt decorative borders on boards. Spines with raised bands, compartments decorated with gilt stamps of The Mad Hatter and playing cards. All edges gilt. Original publishers burgundy cloth boards, with gilt ruled lines and circular central illustrations, are bound into the back of each volume and show some rubbing and wear but are generally in fair condition. An attractive and early edition of this classic, published the year after the first published edition.

London & New York: Macmillan and Co., 1896. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Original publisher's cloth with the author and title in black on the front cover, edge of back cover just starting to fray; overall a wonderful copy with the bookplate of J. Steele, Coldstream Guards on the pastedown.

Xavier Press, Baltimore, 1993. 19pp. A timeless essay by Lewis Carroll on the art of correspondence, illustrated with two pasted-in postage stamps promoting letter-writing and a fold-out sample of a letter by the author. In a designer binding by Dominic Riley featuring gilt-tooled envelopes and abstracted stamps in onlays of yellow, green, and plum on black morocco. These panels were inlaid into overlapping strips of dark brown goatskin, and the title is tooled in gilt down the spine. The design is segmented into panels that are slightly offset from each other, introducing tension and movement into the design. Between the panels are columns of gilt dots, and the dots are repeated inside the covers on bright green morocco doublures. Violet suede flyleaves and jewel-toned endpapers complete the production. The edges are painted with blue, green, yellow, and violet acrylic. Housed in a black cloth clamshell box lined with vibrant turquoise suede. Riley studied with Paul Delrue and at the London College of Printing before starting his own bookbinding studio in 1994. He co-founded the bookbinding program at the San Francisco Center for the Book in 1996 and returns there annually to teach and lecture. He was elected a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders in 2008. Extremely fine. (2 5/8 by 2 1/8; 66x52mm). [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Londra: Macmillan & Co., 1872. FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE IN ITALIAN. 1vol., illustrated by Tenniel. Bound in the remainder binding of smooth red cloth, covers ruled in blind, top edge gilt.

- Macmillan and co, London 1889 - 1893, 12,5x19cm, 2 volumes reliés. - Editions originales de ces 2 volumes, chacun illustré de 46 dessins de Harry Furniss. En fin de chaque volume, 5 pages des oeuvres de Carroll et un fac-similé du manuscrit D'alice aux pays des merveilles. Reliure de l'éditeur en pleine toile rouge. Dos lisse avec titres dorés, médaillons dorés sur les plats figurant les personnages des romans. Triple filet d'encadrement sur les plats. Tranches dorées. Le volume de Sylvie end Bruno uniuformément passé, une fente en tête en en queue sur quelques minimètres, 2 légers enfoncements sur le dos, le long du mors inférieur, percaline usée et ouverte sur quelques minimètres ; coins repliés, petites taches et salissures. UNe étiquette de libraire sur le contreplat : Serendip books, Dorset. Sur le faux titre, une écriture manuscrite à l'encre bleue : Purchase 1972 march, et en regard une signature. Le volume de Sylvie and Bruno concluded en bel état, malgré les coiffes affaissées, un dos un peu passé et quelques légères salissures. Assez bel ensemble dans la reliure originale de l'éditeur, parfaitement frais intérieurement. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND] [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

London: The Nonesuch Press,, 1939. Pleasingly bound and illustrated First Nonesuch omnibus edition, released in the Compendious series, and presented here in a handsome binding. Reviewing the volume, Virginia Woolf declared that it leaves us "no excuse - Lewis Carroll ought once and for all to be complete. We ought to be able to grasp him whole and entire. But we fail, once more we fail...". Octavo, pp. 1293. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in red morocco, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands dotted in gilt, twin gilt rule on turn-ins, dark green endpapers, edges gilt. Illustrated by John Tenniel. An excellent copy. A History of the Nonesuch Press 115. Virginia Woolf, "The upside-down world of Lewis Carroll", New Statesman, 9 Dec. 1939.

The Limited Editions Club., New York, 1935. Signed by Alice Hargeaves "The Original Alice" on the colophon. This copy has been expertly re-backed with portions of the original spine laid on and a paper spine label. weight: 1.7 lb. Rebacked, light wear to extremities, otherwise near fine in a very good slipcase. Illustrated by John Tenniel. 22.5x14.5 cm. xiii, [6], 213, [1] pp. Full blue leather, gilt decorations, in the original red cloth slipcase. Limited edition, number 83 of 1500 copies. [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

VG, Ltd Ed, 1907 Rackham illustrated, 13 pls, complete. In quarter green cloth over green printed boards, gilt titles, corners a little bumped. Spine, gilt titles, edges bumped & worn. Internally, half title, limitation to verso, frontis, [4], (v-xi), [1=], 161 pp, [1], 13 pls (coloured & tipped in), lettered tissue guards, numerous illustrations within text, t.e.g, remainder uncut, an edition limited to 550 copies for the US and signed by the publisher Doubleday Page Co, bookplate to fpd (Francis Kettaneh) with off-setting to half title, printed endpapers, ink ownership signature to base fep. But a VG copy. (Folio, 228*282 mm). (Williams A5. Madan p215). With a poem by Austin Dobson. First published by Carroll with illustrations by Tenniel in 1865. The Alice books and The Hunting of the Snark have had an impact upon the English language as well, and after Shakespeare and the Bible are the most frequently quoted round the world. These works grow more popular with time even as the fascination with the life of their begetter increases. See ODNB.

Oxford James Parker and Co, 1872. First edition, first issue with no mention of Stacy in the imprint. Original brick red wrappers printed in black. A fine copy, faint ink numeral to the upper cover, but virtually as issued. One of Dodgson's famous 'Oxford Squibs', good natured satires, usually of a local political nature disguised in the sort of 'nonsense' writing popularised in the author's fiction writings. This one apparently aimed at Henry Liddell, father of Alice and Dean of Christ Church at the time, over the "bald wooden cube erected to contain the bells extruded from the Cathedral, and placed over the beautiful staircase leading to the hall, in the south east corner of Tom Quad." (Williams, Madan, Green) Williams, Madan, Green, Crutch 88 [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]