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London: William Heinemann; New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1907. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis and 12 other tipped in color illustrations (by Arthur Rackham), ix, [3], 161, [1]p. Original white cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. 29 cm. Gilt lettering on backstrip mostly gone. Uneven soiling on front cover. Uneven browning on free endpapers. Contents generally sound and clean -- offsetting or browning on the pages which face the brown mounting sheets for the illustrations. This copy has been neatly resewn and recased in the original binding with the hinge portions of the endpapers neatly reinforced with narrow strips of brown cloth. Copy No. 225 of an edition of 1130 copies for sale in Great Britain, Ireland and Colonies. A separate edition of 550 numbered copies was published for the United States in a green cloth-backed binding. Rackham was away from London when this limited edition was being produced so most copies, including this one, are not signed by Rackham.

London Macmillan and Co, 1876. First edition, first impression; 8vo; 9 illustrations by Henry Holiday, including frontispiece, light toning and spotting to prelims, previous owner's signature to half-title; publisher's cream pictorial cloth, all edges gilt, spine and extremities slightly darkened, quite pronounce cockling to cloth, more evident on upper board; first issue of An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves "Alice" and 1928 newspaper clipping from The Times tipped in, overall a very good copy. First edition of Carroll's dark poem, describing 'with infinite humor the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature'. An Easter Greeting was privately printed on laid paper by Carroll for his friends in a small number, and reprinted in 1880 with correction. This example is a genuine 1876 issue with the correct border size and all points of WMG 116, including the critical 'my' in Roman type at line 12 on the third page and E. Towgood's watermark. Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 115. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

London: Groombridge and Sons, 1856. VOLUME ONE NUMBER ONE. THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF LEWIS CARROLL. Bound in the original brown cloth. This volume contains three original pieces by Dodgson: 'Solitude.' 'Ye Carpette Knyghte.' 'The Path of Roses.' Dodgson's use of the pseudonym 'Lewis Carroll' is here used for the first time (Solitude).

Helsinki: Holger Schildts förlag,, 1959. Warmly inscribed by the translator First edition in Swedish of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, and the first appearance of Tove Jansson's illustrations. Tove Jansson would later provide illustrations for the follow-up translation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland published 1966. This copy is familiarly inscribed by the translator Lars Forrell on the first blank: "Agneta, Arne och deras två små glin av gamle Lasse", ["Agneta, Arne, and their two little sprogs, from old Lasse"], very scarce thus. The Hunting of the Snark was originally published in 1876 by Macmillan & Co. Octavo. Original printed wrappers. Colour illustration to front wrapper, 8 full-page black and white illustrations and occasional illustrations in text. A bright fresh copy, a few small brown marks to front cover, sound, and clean within, very good condition indeed. [Attributes: First Edition]

Macmillan and Company, 1872. BOOK IS IN VERY GOOD+ CONDITION BEAUTIFULLY REBOUND IN FULL CRUSHED MOROCCO WITH BRIGHT GILT RULE TO BOARDS, SIX COMPARTMENTS AND FIVE RAISED BANDS TO SPINE WITH BRIGHT GILT DETAILS AND TITLE. BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD, NEW END PAPERS AND PASTE DOWNS. NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES, PAGES ARE WITHOUT MARKS, SOME MINIMAL FOXING AND SOILING TO PAGES. WITH FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN TENNIEL , 224 PAGES, BOOK MEASURES 7.5"x5.25". FIRST EDITION, 150 YEARS OLD. A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE IN GREAT CONDITION. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Oxford: Emberlin and Son, 1890. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good +. 39 p. 10 cm. Stitched pamphlet has paper covers. Accompanied by Postage-Stamp Case, illustrated folder, and brown envelope. Chips and tears to envelope edges. Small tear at bottom of booklet spine. Colour illustration on each side of stamp case and matching folder. 15 stamps in 12 slots marked from 1/2d to 1s in stamp case. Rear of stamp case states "Invented by Lewis Carroll MDCCCLXXXIX" (1889). Booklet contains an essay by Lewis Carroll on useful tips for composing, writing, mailing, and recording letters. While times have changed and our letters are now electronic, Carroll's rules for polite letter writing still hold true today. Four pages of advertising for Carroll's works at rear of booklet. Envelope refers to two "surprises:" Folder shows Alice nursing the Duchess's baby while the stamp case shows Alice nursing the pig; the rear of the folder shows the Cheshire Cat while the stamp case shows the cat fading - except for its grin, of course. There were numerous reprints of this booklet and stamp case. Williams 223-5.

George H. Doran, 1914.

CARROLL, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Illustrated in colour by A.E. Jackson. NY: George H. Doran [1914]. 8vo, 512pp (18 printed pages). Yellow cloth pictorially stamped in black. Pictorial endpapers; 16 color plates. Spine ends a tad rubbed, two tiny tears at top and bottom of spine, front hinge starting (but still strong), a few ink spots to top edge of sheets (not affecting internal pages), else a clean, tight copy.

Salesman's Sample Dummy of the first US edition, featuring the first printed signature - including title, contents, plate listing, and the start of the first chapter - followed by all 16 of the color plates, each hand-mounted on the appropriate page with printed caption. A surprisingly bright copy of A.E. Jackson's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland produced for salesman to show booksellers the vibrant color plates of this edition to elicit orders. Rare, as only a handful of copies like this would have ever been produced.

New York and London: Macmillan and Co, 1872. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good+/No dust jacket. New York and London: Macmillan and Co, 1872. First American edition. With fifty b/w illustrations by John Tenniel. [xii], 224, [ 1 ], 1 ad for authorÕs works pp. Hardcover. 8vo. Red full calf; a facsimile, in leather, of the original cloth binding. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to edges of head and heel; minor foxing to prelims and half-title, else quite good. A very handsome, gift quality volume. Very good+/No dust jacket. (Insurance required to ship this item). [Attributes: First Edition]

Baltimore: Xavier Press, 1993. Riley, Dominic. 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).

Decorah, IA: Solmentes Press, 2020. Solmentes Press. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. pastepaper boards, with a leather spine, presented in a cloth-covered drop-back box. 60 pages. First edition limited to 35 copies (although '40 copies' is stated on the limitation page), of which this is one of thirty regular copies. The book comes with a metallic paper inserted into a paper folder which is used to help read the poem. In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, Alice climbs through a mirror into another world and finds many strange things: "There was a book lying near Alice on the table . . . she turned over the leaves to find some part that she could read, for its all in some language I dont know, she said to herself. She puzzled over this for some time, but at last a bright thought struck her. Why, its a Looking-glass book, of course! And if I hold it up to a glass, the words will all go the right way again. This was the poem that Alice read: *in reverse* Jabberwocky 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe Esslemont has illustrated the poem with linocuts, creating unique images, ignoring Sir John Tenniels original drawings and Humpty Dumptys later explanation of the meaning of such words as "brillig", "toves" and "borogroves". However, they transpire to be quite similar to Humptys notions . . . . The 26 linocuts are mostly color reduction linocuts - they are printed from the same block cut several times. Esslemont identifies the narrator in the poem with simple black and white illustrations. The calligraphic text was drawn with a broad-nibbed pen on linoleum blocks that when printed render the letters in reverse, just as Alice found them. It seems very pretty, she said when she had finished it, but its rather hard to understand! (You see she didnt like to confess, even to herself, that she couldnt make it out at all.) Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas only I dont exactly know what they are! However, somebody killed something: thats clear, at any rate.

With Nine Illustrations by Henry Holiday. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. 1 page undated ads. Original deep red cloth pictorially decorated in black, all page edges gilt. First Edition, special dark-red binding, which consisted of 100 copies. This is a poetical nonsense tale, both funny and subtle, that "describes with infinite humour the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature" [WM&G]. The crew consists of a Bellman, a Bonnet-Maker, a Barrister, a Broker, a Billiard-Maker, a Banker, a Butcher, a Baker, a Beaver and (the only one not illustrated) "a Boots." In his dedicatory verse to Gertrude Chataway, Carroll hid the child's name twice. Standard copies were issued in buff-colored cloth (with the same elaborate pictorial decoration, but in black). According to WM&G, "It is doubtful whether any variant coloured bindings were for sale, other than buff or red; the other colours seem to have been bound specially for Dodgson, who wrote to Macmillan on 21 Mar. 1876 ordering: '100 in red and gold, 20 in dark blue and gold, 20 in white vellum and gold'." (Dodgson had a few others bound just for himself, possibly in light blue, light green and dark green.) This is a very good-plus copy, with (as usual) some wear at the spine ends; the covers have some rubbing, but the original endpapers are not cracked at all. In all, this is an attractive book, with the gilt standing out well against this dark red cloth. Williams Madan & Green 115. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Lee and Shepard, Boston, 1869. 192 pp. With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel. 12mo, publisher's green gilt cloth, a.e.g. First US edition. The blank leaf preceding the half-title is lacking. Old ownership signature on half-title; yellow hand coloring added to the hair of the King and Queen of Hearts on the frontispiece; to Alice's hair throughout, and to all of tall Alice on p. 15. Light rubbing to the tight and sound cloth. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

London Macmillan and Co, 1876. First edition, first impression; 8vo; 9 illustrations by Henry Holiday, including frontispiece, light toning and spotting to prelims, previous owner's signature to verso front free endpaper; publisher's cream pictorial cloth, spine and extremities slightly darkened, all edges gilt, An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves "Alice" tipped in, short split to inner hinge, lightly soiled, a good copy. First edition of Carroll's dark poem, describing 'with infinite humor the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature'. Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 115. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

MacMillan and Co., New York and London, 1872. [xii], 224 pages, with advert leaf at rear. Frontispiece retains the tissue guard. First issue [wade p. 21]. Professionally well restored: front board mended; resewn; spine recreated; rear free endpaper replaced with matching period slate; first two leaves repaired. 1877 signature to half title. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Macmillan and Co., London, 1869. [8], 192 pages. Fourteenth thousand. T. Houldsworth McConnel bookplate with faint gift inscription penciled to Mary McConnel Xmas 1869 above the motto Victor In Arduis. All edges gilt. Half title and tissue guard present. Rebacked, with most of the original spine panel retained. Extremities rubbed; light general soiling to cloth. Binding is sound. 7.5 x 5.25 inches. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Grosset & Dunlap, 1933. Carroll, Lewis. ALICE IN WONDERLAND and THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS. [WITH:] AUTOGRAPH LETTER, signed and dated 1935, BY ACTRESS CHARLOTTE HENRY. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1933]. First Photoplay edition issued in tandem with the 1933 Paramount live-action film adaptation starring Charlotte Henry as Alice and co-starring Cary Grant, W. C. Fields, and Gary Cooper among others. Directed by Norman Z. McLeod from a screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and William Cameron Menzies based on the two Lewis Carroll classic tales. A FINE, bright and fresh copy in a FINE lightly used (one tiny closed tear) Original Dust Jacket. Illustrated with 32 original photo images from the film as well as endpapers with additional film images. [WITH:] One-page Autograph Letter, Signed, on letterhead, dated May 12th, 1935 (stamped envelope included) in which Charlotte Henry writes: "To Philip Smith/ Thank you for your cartoons of me/ Cordially/ Charlotte Henry." Surely, the finest example of this hard-to-find film tie-in edition that one could hope to acquire. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover; In Dust Jacket]

MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1927. Reprint of the 1921 edition. 8vo. Full contemporary blue calf by Riviere; the uppercover with gilt rabbit device; the back cover with gilt queen standing figure; edges gilt. No signatures or bookplates. Fine. 300 pages. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Macmillan and Co, London, 1876. 8vo, 83pp; original pictorial cream cloth, a.e.g., coated black endpapers. A presentable copy of Carroll's great nonsense poem, distinguished by the presence of the rare pamphlet "An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves 'Alice'" tipped to the front endpaper. Discreet blindstamp of a London bookshop on front endpaper; 1876 gift inscription; title page faintly offset from frontispiece tissue, as usual; covers a bit soiled and rubbed at extremities. [Attributes: First Edition]

University of California Press, Berkeley, 1982. Two-Volume Set. Tall quarto. 9 x 13.75 in. 150; 167 + [5] pp. Fully illustrated with black & white reproductions of artworks by Barry Moser, illustrated endpapers. Volume I: Near fine in original red quarter-cloth over lavender boards, lettering on spine in purple, mild sunning to top and especially bottom of boards, light spotting to fore- and bottom edge; near fine pictorial dust jacket. Volume II: Near fine in original blue quarter-cloth over light blue boards, lettering on spine in blue, subtle sunning to top and bottom of boards, light spotting to fore- and bottom edge. Near fine pictorial dust jacket. Overall, both volumes square, clean and bright. Both copies inscribed affectionately by Moser to NC artist George Cress. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is inscribed on the title page, "for my dear friend George Cress"; Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice Found There is inscribed on the title page, "for my mentor, George Cress, dear friend, splendid artist," with a pencil drawing of a horse chess-piece opposite on frontispiece. Very handsome set with kind association. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover; In Dust Jacket]

Macmillan and Co, 1869. pleine percaline de soie bleue éditeur à décors, tranches dorées Édition originale française. Dos un peu foncé, pâles rousseurs sur le titre, bon exemplaire cependant.

London: MacGibbon & Kee. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1972. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0261633325 . First edition. INSCRIBED by Ralph Steadman & dated in year of publication on title page. (Appears to be inscribed to- "John Jackson with that name morphing into a exclamation cluster. ) About fine in a near fine dust jacket. (Couple small edge nicks at corners of jacket. ) ; 8 3/4" x 12 1/2"; 144 pages .

London: Groombridge and Sons, 1856. VOLUME ONE NUMBER ONE. THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF LEWIS CARROLL. Bound in the original brown cloth, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine lightly rubbed, spine lightly spotted, some light foxing, else a GOOD+ copy of the first appearance of Lewis Carroll. This volume contains three original pieces by Dodgson: 'Solitude.' 'Ye Carpette Knyghte.' 'The Path of Roses.' Dodgson's use of the pseudonym 'Lewis Carroll' is here used for the first time (Solitude). [Attributes: Hard Cover]

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899 Illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings. First edition, first printing. Publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt, with Gryphon and White Rabbit to front board in gilt. Near fine, with light toning to spine, light rubbing to spine ends, a couple of gentle bumps to board edges, mild offsetting to endpapers, a bit of separation to front hinge, sound binding otherwise, and light spotting throughout text. Overall, a beautiful yet sturdy copy.Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an author, poet, and mathematician, best known for his fantastical children's book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871). In this unique book, The Lewis Carroll Picture Book, obscure publications, drawings, and photos taken by Carroll are brought together, and contextualized by Carroll's nephew, Stuart Dodgson Collingwood. Chapters in the book include: "The Rectory Umbrella," "Notes by an Oxford Chiel," "'Alice' on the Stage," "An Irresponsible Correspondent," "Curiosa Mathematica," "Games and Puzzles," and "Miscellanea Carrolliana." Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (1870 - 1937) was a headmaster and clergyman who, in addition to The Lewis Carroll Picture Book, wrote The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898).. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy]

Wild Pangolin Press, 2022. 29/34 COPIES printed on Rives BFK paper, signed by the printer and artist Vladimir Zimakov, linocuts in tan and black, accordion-folded, pp. [36], square 4to, original quarter red cloth and tan cloth sides, backstrip lettered in black, upper board lettered in dark brown with reproduction of original linocut illustration, patterned endpapers, housed in matching red and brown slipcase, new. An imaginative and accomplished piece of printing, strikingly illustrated. The printer makes clever use of different type to convey the nonsensical tone of the poem, which was sung by the White Knight in Carroll's 'Through the Looking Glass': only Kabel used for the narrator, whilst the aged man speaks in an eccentric combination of Caslon, Gill Sans, Goudy Old Style, Trajan, Futura, Caviar Dreams, Din and Porter.