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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]

London Macmillan & C, 1868. Fifth edition, 'Twelfth Thousand'; 8vo (187 x 135 mm); half-title, 42 woodcut illustrations (including frontispiece), lacking advertisement leaf at rear, minor peripheral spotting, mostly to first and last two leaves, else very good; modern full red morocco gilt-panelled, spines with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in gilt in second and fourth compartments, gilt-stamped designs of playing cards and the March Hare in other compartments, a very handsome copy. [Attributes: Hard 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;

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: Macmillan & Co., 1891. C. L. DODGSON'S COPY FIRST EDITION 3RD PRINTING. 1 vol., initialed on the title page by Dodgson, bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped blue cloth, front inner hinge fine, rear inner hinge just starting, outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine fine, internally clean and bright, A VERY GOOD COPY. See "Dodgson At Auction" #368 [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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]

Solmentes Press, 2020. 36/40 COPIES, 60 linocuts by David Esslemont, including 34 monochrome cuts of text and illustrations and 26 colour illustrations, pp. 60, 8vo, original quarter brown calf with two gilt dots on spine, densely patterned pastepaper boards, the card mirror laid in, bubbling to pastedowns (a minor production fault), grey cloth dropback box with pictorial label to spine, near fine. A complete re-imagining of Carroll's surreal poem, in which the calligraphic text is drawn with a broad-nibbed pen directly onto the linoleum blocks, so when printed, the words appear in reverse as Alice first saw them in Through the Looking Glass. The vivd colour illustrations in particular are typical of Esslemont's work - richly textured and intricately patterned with striking changes of perspective.

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.

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.

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.

- 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]

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]

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.

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.

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]

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]

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).

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: 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.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932, 1935. Each one of 1,500 copies. 229 x 152 mm. (9 x 6"). Two volumes. Wonderland with an introduction by Henry Seidel Canby; "Looking-Glass" with an introduction by Carl Van Doren.
Publisher's attractively gilt red morocco (for "Wonderland") and matching blue calf (for "Looking-Glass"), both bindings designed by Frederic Warde, each with publisher's (lightly worn) slipcase that repeats the spine decoration from the volume, housed in a modern black buckram slipcase (spine ends of "Looking-Glass" neatly repaired). With 94 original illustrations by John Tenniel, the 43 illustrations for "Wonderland" re-engraved on wood by Bruno Rollitz, the 51 illustrations in "Looking-Glass" re-engraved by Frederic Warde. Signed in the colophon of "Wonderland" by the typography and binding designer Warde. With "Wonderland" title page vignette reproduced on Roman vellum and hand-colored, in an oval wood frame, this addition neatly housed in the larger slipcase along with the two printed volumes. Wonderland: Quarto-Millenary 36; Newman & Wiche 36a. "Looking-Glass": Quarto-Millenary 65; Newman & Wiche 65a. ◆Wonderland with shallow chipping to head of spine, "Looking-Glass" with front joint a little rubbed, small losses of leather at spine ends, and minor spotting to covers; the volumes otherwise as they should be, and internally as new.

This is an attractively produced private press edition of two of the best-loved works of children's literature, accompanied by a charming framed reproduction, on vellum, of Tenniel's white rabbit, garbed as a page to the Queen of Hearts. Our volumes owe their appeal in large measure to the taste and skill of typographer and designer Frederic Warde (1894-1939), whose lovely italic hand graces the colophon here. Perhaps best known for developing the elegant italic font Arrighi, Warde began his career as a printer with the house of William Edwin Rudge, later supervised the legendary Officina Bodoni, and afterward did work for several American private presses, including Crosby Gaige and, of course, the Limited Editions Club. Some copies of this edition were enhanced by a leaf signed by Alice Liddell Hargreaves (1852-1934), the daughter of Henry Liddell, dean of Christ Church, Oxford, for whose amusement Charles Dodgson originally composed these tales. Over the years, Alice had steadfastly refused requests to sign copies of the works, but agreed to provide signatures for the Limited Editions Club--at a price. The budget for the books' production could not accommodate her $1.50-per-signature price, so members were offered the option of paying the fee to have their copies signed. "Quarto Millenary" estimates that Hargreaves signed about 1,200 copies of "Wonderland," and Newman & Wiches says that only about 500 of "Looking-Glass" were signed; our former owner seems to have been among those unwilling to pay the premium..

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]

Macmillan and Co., London, 1872. [12] 224 [1, ads] pp. With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. 12mo, publisher's red gilt-ruled cloth with circular vignettes on front and rear covers; a.e.g. Preserved in a custom cloth folding box. First edition, first printing with "wade" for "wabe" on p. 21. Text block over-opened at the first page of text; a few scattered light stains to text; a little shaken; cloth quite worn and spine darkened. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]