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DOUBLETS - A WORD PUZZLE

by Carroll, Lewis
DOUBLETS - A WORD PUZZLE, Macmillan, 1879, first complete edition and first hardcover edition, some light soil but a solid vg copy. Quite uncommon. [Attributes: First Edition]
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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

by CARROLL, Lewis
London: Macmillan, 1893. First. hardcover. fine. With 46 illustrations by Harry Furniss. 8vo, handsomely rebound in full crimson morocco, London, 1893. First Edition. Fine. First issue with the errors in the table of contents. [Attributes: First Edition]
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ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND.

ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND.

by CARROLL. LEWIS. ; Tenniel. John. Illustrates.
Macmillan & Co. London. 1876, 1876. EARLY EDITION. 8vo, (7.4 x 5.2 inches). Forty Ninth Thousand. Beautifully Illustrated throughout with forty line engravings by John Tenniel. Minor foxing and creasing to some pages but otherwise a very good copy in recent full deep red morocco binding, gilt ruled borders on boards. Spine with raised bands, compartments decorated with gilt stamps of The Mad Hatter and playing cards. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.
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THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS. And what Alice found there.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS. And what Alice found there.

by CARROLL. LEWIS. ; Tenniel. John. Illustrates.
Macmillan and Co. Limited. London. 1894, 1894. The Peoples edition. Twenty-third thousand. 8vo. (7.3 x 4.9 inches). Illustrated with fifty line illustrations by John Tenniel. Some foxing to the plain tissue paper guard over the frontispiece and a few minor spots throughout but overall a very clean and bright copy in a fine late 19th century leather binding. Full red calf, the spine with five raised bands, each with double rope design in gilt. Compartments ruled and fully decorated in gilt. Dark green morocco title label, gilt. Leaf and rose roll gilt borders on boards. Decorative gilt design on board edges. Decorative blind stamped inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Red silk page marker bound in. Grantham School arms stamped on the front board in gilt. Previous owners neat name stamp to top of the first leaf after title page. Aside from a small area of loss to the leather on the front board and another on the lower spine hinge this is a very good copy in a fine quality leather binding. The binding is not signed but is certainly the work of a master bookbinder.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson.

by Carroll (Lewis, pseud. for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
William Heinemann, 1907. FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, 13 colour plates including frontispiece all with captioned tissue guards, further drawings by Rackham to the text, some light spotting largely restricted to borders, pp. xi, 162, [2], 8vo, original green cloth with Rackham design stamped in gilt to upper board, the lettering to this and backstrip in dark green, the latter with Rackham decoration stamped in same, backstrip and borders gently faded, small mark to leading edge of upper board and a faint ink-smudge at head of backstrip, top edge green with all edges a little spotted, Rackham design in green repeated to front and rear endpapers, these also a little spotted, very good. A lovely clean copy of this important edition. (Riall p. 77)
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The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony in Eight Fits.

The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony in Eight Fits.

by STEADMAN, Ralph - CARROLL, Lewis.
London: Michael Dempsey,, 1975. First Steadman edition, first printing, signed and dated "19 Oct. 2002" by Steadman with a small drawing incorporated in the word Snark. Quarto. Original grey boards, lettering to spine in black. With dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Steadman. Spine bumped, dust jacket lightly unevenly faded to edges and spine, price clipped. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; In Dust Jacket]
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La Fourchette et l'Esprit. Traduction de Térence J. Hale et Sylvain Goudemare. 1 volume in-12 - Deux ou trois mots sages à propos des Lettres. 1 volume in-16.

by CARROLL (Lewis).
Paris Les Silènes 1990 Ensemble deux volumes brochés, couvertures imprimées.Edition originale de cette traduction de la conférence Feeding the mind (traduite ici par La Fourchette et l'Esprit) prononcée par Lewis Carroll en octobre 1884, et édition originale de la traduction de Deux ou Trois Mots à propos des Lettres , texte qui vit le jour en juillet 1890 sous le titre Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing. Ces deux volumes sont des exemplaires hors commerce nominatifs (justifiés à la main) sur vélin de Hollande, papier sur lequel ont été imprimés les 20 premiers exemplaires numérotés. Ces exemplaires sont bien accompagnés du petit cartonnage The Wonderland Postage-stamp Case inventé par l'auteur en 1884 (4 pages in-18, conservé dans une enveloppe imprimée), et de la plaquette de quatre pages intitulée Notulettes, qui donne la justification du tirage et un court historique des textes et du cartonnage. L'ensemble est rangé dans une enveloppe portant l'adresse de l'auteur imprimée au recto, celle de l'éditeur au verso.
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Wunderhorn. Auswahl der Texte von Max Ernst und Werner Spies.

Wunderhorn. Auswahl der Texte von Max Ernst und Werner Spies.

by Ernst, Max - Carroll, Lewis.
Stuttgart Manus Presse 1970. 4°, 78 S., 1 Bl. mit 36 (davon 18 ganzseitigen) Orig.-Farblithographien von Max Ernst, Orig.-Leinen mit Orig.-Schuber. Erste Ausgabe.- Gedruckt in 1000 Exemplaren.- Spindler, Typen 161,12; Tiessen IV,35.- Gutes Exemplar. [Attributes: First Edition]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland .

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland .

by Carroll, Lewis
1890. Ed. Belford - Clarke. . Chicago. . 1 Vol. . 168 pp. Cuarto. Cartoné. . Ejemplar restaurado con la lomera hecha íntegramente nueva, aún así conserva las tapas originales en buen estado y el interior también se encuentra en buenas condiciones. Edición con 42 ilustraciones en blanco y negro de John Tenniel. Sir John Tenniel fue un ilustrador, humorista y caricaturista político inglés destacado en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y nombrado caballero en 1893. Fue el caricaturista político principal de la revista Punch durante más de medio siglo y muy conocido por sus influyentes imágenes. En gran medida, adaptó los diseños personales de Lewis Carroll para este libro, Alicia en el país de las maravillas y también para los siguientes libros de Alicia. Sus ilustraciones dinámicas y atrevidas se ejemplifican en este volumen y reflejan el alcance de su talento.
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THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK

THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK

by Carroll, Lewis
London: Macmillan & Co, 1876. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo. Frontispiece, 83pp., (1)pp. ad. Illustrated by Henry Holiday with nine full page wood engravings. Bound in pictorial buff cloth also designed by Holiday, binding signed with his initials; all edges gilt, black endpapers; small loss at spine ends, light toning to spine. A very good or better copy with the bookplate of famed collector Beverly Chew. [Attributes: First Edition]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by CARROLL, Lewis
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1897. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Reprint. 12mo. 160, 9, [5] ads pp. Forty-two illustrations, some in color. Pictorial cloth. Contemporary gift inscription, else fine in very good dust jacket with shallow chipping at the extremities. [Attributes: In Dust Jacket]
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The Harp of a Thousand Strings; Or, a Laughter for a Lifetime.

The Harp of a Thousand Strings; Or, a Laughter for a Lifetime.

by DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge: Carroll, Lewis.
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1858. 1 volume, with the frontispiece, illustrated with wood-engraved title vignette and numerous wood-engravings in the text after Leech, Phiz, Doyle, Cruikshank, and others by S.P. Avery. Bound in the publisher's original olive pebble grained cloth decoratively stamped in blind, front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. "This book, one of the most popular collections of humor of the 19th century, went into an unknown number of reprintings from the original plates" (BAL). This first printing contains the first reprinting (unsigned and unauthorized) of any of Lewis Carroll''s writings, "Novelty and Romancement" (pp. 188-194), which had first appeared in the monthly magazine The Train in March of 1856, with only one illustration. Here there are three illustrations. BAL 7094. Parrish, Supplement, p. 69. William, Madan and Green 14 note. HBS 15037.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. WITH Through the Looking-Glass, And What Alice Found There

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. WITH Through the Looking-Glass, And What Alice Found There

by CARROLL Lewis [ie DODGSON Charles Lutwidge] 1832-1898
2 vols as 1, 1868, 12th thousand, 42 illust & 1872, 1st ed, 1st issue, 50 illust's. VG. In contemporary full red calf, gilt & blind edge tooling, corners & edges brushed. Spine, decorative gilt tooling, raised bands, gilt titles & tooling to black calf label, joints brushed. Internally, half title, tissue guarded frontis, [12], [1], 2-192 pp, 42 illustrations (B&W). [1], [8], [1], 2-224 pp, 50 ilust 1, marbled endpapers & text block edges, bookplate to fpd, fep (George David Leslie Melville), diagonal repaired tear to p33/34, Looking-Glass has the corrcted b on p21 indicating not 1st issue, tipped in newspaper clippings to verso fep & ffep, contemp ink dedication & anchor to half title, printed by R Clay, Son, and Taylor, Bread Street Hill. The Glass lacks a front blank & the half title, whilst the Alice TP a little cropped along the Rights of Translation line. (Williams p30. Allibone 498. Gumuchian 78. Madan p29). Dodgson, author, mathematician, and photographer, whose writing meant a great deal to him, would often stand at his upright desk (he calculated that he could stand and write for ten hours a day), he turned out a myriad of works. See ODNB.
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Symbolic logic. Part I: elementary

by CARROLL, Lewis [DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge]
London & New York: Macmillan and Co., 1896. THIRD EDITION. Addendum slip tipped in before the start of the text. Original publisher's cloth with the author and title in black on the front cover.
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The Hunting of the Snark.

The Hunting of the Snark.

by CARROLL, Lewis (author). Peter NEWELL (illustrator).
New York, Harper And Brothers Publishers. 1903. 8vo.; publisher's deep red cloth lettered gilt to spine and upper cover with a gilt-embossed vignette of the Bellman in gilt to upper board, top edges gilt, others uncut, in red cloth dustwrapper lettered in gilt at upper panel; pp. [xvi], 3-248; illustrated with 40 striking illustrations, printed in monochrome together with elaborate border designs to the text pages, printed in palest green, by Robert Murray Wright; a near fine copy in beautifully bright and crisp condition in a similarly fresh dustwrapper. First edition illustrated thus. A remarkable edition, and an inspired interpretation of the text. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover; In Dust Jacket]
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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded.

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded.

by CARROLL, Lewis.
Macmillan, London, 1893. First edition, first issue, with the error in the listing of chapter VIII. The sequel to Sylvie and Bruno. Octavo. pp xxii, 423. Forty-six drawings by Harry Furniss. Five pages of adverts at rear. Decorated cloth gilt. All edges gilt. Loosely inserted is the ''Advertisement'' leaf in which the author promises to replace substandard copies of the last issue of Through the Looking-Glass.Small patch of fading to tail of spine. Fine in very good, slightly nicked dustwrapper a bit darkened at the spine and edges, chipped at the tail of spine. On the spine of the dustwrapper are traces of a later label over the original price of 7/6 net. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover; In Dust Jacket]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

by CARROLL, Lewis.
Macmillan, New York, 1895. 75th thousand. Octavo. pp [xii], 192, [2] adverts. Forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel. Red cloth with gilt vignette on front. All edges gilt.Spine a bit faded and rubbed. Covers slightly dusty. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Very good. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Peake's Alice: Mervyn Peake's Drawings, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass

Peake's Alice: Mervyn Peake's Drawings, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass

by Carroll, Lewis
London: Libanus Press 2001. 4to.Limited Edition. Limited edition - variant edition. 2 volumes. Light blue cloth with gilt lettering to the spines and front covers, in a slipcase. With illustrations throughout by Meryn Peake No. 92 of 280 copies. This is the standard limited edition, however, it comes with the portfolio suite of plates in a second volume that was issued with the 60 special editions. This copy is from the library of a Macmillan employee, so may have been prepared for them especially in a slipcase. Bears some minor markings to the slipcase, but otherwise in fine condition. Mervyn Peake had just retuned from service as a war artist when he was commissioned to illustrate Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass in 1945. This Libanus Press limited edition reproduces Peake's restored drawings at their original size, celebrating Peake's skill as a draughtsman and humorist. 0948021470 . Fine. Cloth. Limited Edition. 2001. [Attributes: In Dust Jacket]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With and Introduction by R.S. Martin.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With and Introduction by R.S. Martin.

by CARROLL, Lewis (pseud. DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge); NEWELL, Peter (illustrator)
New York Harper & Brothers, 1901. 8vo (227 x 160 mm); frontispiece photogravure of Lewis Carroll, 40 black & white illustrations by Peter Newell, further text decoration by Robert Mary Wright, slight age toning to paper but clean; publisher's cream paper-covered boards gilt, top edge gilt, other pages untrimmed, browning and light dust-soiling, offsetting to free endpapers, ink ownership to upper one, lacking dust-jacket, otherwise a very good copy. [Attributes: Hard Cover; In Dust Jacket]
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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

by CARROLL, Lewis
London: Macmillan, 1872. hardcover. very good(-). John Tenniel. 50 woodcut Illustrations by John Tenniel. [12], 224, [4] pages. Small 8vo, original red cloth with circular devices on front & back covers; professionally re-cased with some of the original spine preserved; black end-papers, all edges gilt. London: Macmillan, 1872. Thirteenth Thousand. An early impression, from the same year as the first edition. A very good(-) copy with spine darkened and boards somewhat discolored; original endpapers are retained but neatly strengthened at the hinge; rear endpaper with flattened creases; several pages with grubby handling marks but generally in clean condition.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Poem by Austin Dobson.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Poem by Austin Dobson.

by CARROLL, Lewis [pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge DODGSON] (1832-1898) [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator].
London: Heinemann, no date [1907]. [Literature] FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION, first impression. Octavo, pp.162; [2]. With 13 full colour plates including a frontispiece, and many line drawings within the text, all by Rackham. Publisher's light green cloth with dark green titles and gilt illustration to upper, titled in green to spine, with monogrammed imprint blocked to rear. Light and occasional spotting, discreet ink ownership (Christmas 1907) to flyleaf and reverse of frontispiece. Covers lightly handled, minor sunning to spine. A near fine copy of the classic children's fantasy adventure. Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Williams & Madan p. 236. Richard Riall p.77-8. Book Collector No.271, 'The Great Illustrators'.
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Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll; Gertrude Kay [illustrator]; John Tenniel [drawings]
J.B. Lippincott Company., Philadelphia and London, 1923. Full blue gilt-stamped cloth boards. Upper with paste-on colour illustration. Spine lettered in gilt. Pictorial pasted and free endpapers. , 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 : Quarto. (235 x 175 mm), Very good example of this quintessential work by Lewis Carroll. Illustrated with 8 colour plates by Kay and additional in-text drawings by Tenniel. Includes publisher?s advertisement for ?Through the Cloud Mountain? by Florence Scott Bernard. 1st Kay-illustrated edition in rare blue cloth binding. , 241 pp. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London; The Folio Society Ltd.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London; The Folio Society Ltd.

by VAN SANDWYK, Charles (illustrator). Lewis CARROLL (author).
VAN SANDWYK, Charles (illustrator). Lewis CARROLL (author). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London; The Folio Society Ltd. 2019.8vo. Original dark red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, with triple-line gilt panel to upper cover and an onlaid pictorial plate of the White Rabbit surrounded by a decorative panel comprising a crown, a key, hearts, roses and thistles in black, red, and gilt, decorative map endpapers, preserved in original deep green board slipcase decorated in gilt; pp. [xii] + 148 + [ii]; beautifully illustrated throughout in full colour and line including 10 full-page plates, and one double-page, and a host of coloured 'scraps' and initials; a fine, as new, copy in the slipcase.First edition thus, signed ink by Charles van Sandwyk on the half-title. This is a reworked version of van Sandwyk's earlier commission for the Folio Society, published originally in 2016 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the book. The volume here is in smaller format with additional illustrations produced for this edition on pages 22, 63, 91, 110 and 132-3. Additionally the title-page and the decorated initials throughout are now coloured, there are new pictorial map endpapers, and a new decoration to page 83.#2107715
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Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

by Carroll, Lewis
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1872. Early edition (the word "wabe" appears on p. 21). 12mo. 224pp. Illus. by John Tenniel. Fair book. Owner's name on flyleaf. Front hinge split. First third of book disbound. (fantasy fiction, children's books) Inquire if you need further information. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Wunderhorn. Auswahl der Texte von Max Ernst und Werner Spies.

Wunderhorn. Auswahl der Texte von Max Ernst und Werner Spies.

by Ernst.- Carroll, Lewis (d.i. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
(Stuttgart), Manus Presse, 1970. 78 Seiten, 1 Blatt. Mit 36 farbigen Lithographien (meist ganzseitig) im Text von Max Ernst (gedruckt von Pierre Chave). Orig.-Leinenband. Bolliger-Katalog II, 165. - Originalausgabe. Eins von 1000 Exemplaren auf "Arches"-Velin. Mit einem Nachwort von Werner Spiess. - Tadelloser Zustand. Sprache: deutsch / german. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden + [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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