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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]

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]

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]

Stockholm: Albert Bonniers,, 1966. From the creator of the Moomins First Jansson edition, first impression, of this whimsically illustrated version of Alice in Wonderland, here in Swedish translation and with delightful artwork by the creator of the Moomins. Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover with pictorial roundel in gilt, green endpapers. With dust jacket. Colour and black and white illustrations in the text (4 full-page), by Jansson. Notably fresh, minor split to front hinge; slightly toned dust jacket, 36 mm. closed cut to jacket spine: a near-fine copy in a near-fine jacket. [Attributes: 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.

1995. First published within Firsts magazine for December 1995 to accompany Benjamin Harder's article, "Illustrating Alice". Phil Parks is a contemporary illustrator of horror novels and is particularly known for illustrating work by Dean Koontz, the American fantasy author. Original published artwork for Lewis Carroll's novel is not common. Harder stated that "the mass of Alice illustrators forms an unsteady but discernible pyramid. There are a few at the top who have created great works of art; a step down there are a handful of wizards who have managed interesting twists on the originals; and below them are the many who have turned out respectable, if uninspired, editions". The magazine Firsts - Collecting Modern First Editions commissioned Parks to provide a new illustration of the "Mad Tea-Party" featuring Alice, the March Hare, the Dormouse, and the Hatter from the seventh chapter of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Original drawing (455 x 340 mm) with decorative border (508 x 392 mm) on thin card (610 x 482 mm), ink and graphite, unsigned, mounted, framed and glazed (glazed size 742 x 625 mm). Fine condition. [Attributes: First Edition]

London: Macmillan and Co, 1876. First Edition. 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.. 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. [Attributes: First Edition]

Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society, for the Riccardi Press, London. 1914, 1914. LIMITED EDITION. Large 8vo. (9.3 x 6.6 inches). One of 1000 hand-numbered copies printed in the Riccardi Fount on handmade Riccardi Paper. Fine leather binding of recent full deep red morocco. Spine with five raised bands, ruled in gilt. Compartments ruled, lettered and decorated with March Hare and Playing cards motifs in gilt, with floral gilt surrounds. Ruled gilt border on boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A bright and clean copy of this lovely edition, beautifully printed on fine quality hand made paper and in a decorative leather binding. ----- This edition was published by arrangement with Macmillan and Company using Carroll's revised text of 1896. The wonderful Tenniel illustrations are printed from fresh electros taken from the original wood-blocks, with four being slightly enlarged from the original block designs.

London: Macmillan St. Martin's Press, 1929. 2 vols., 6-3/8" x 4-1/4", illustrations by John Tenniel. Bound in full blue polished calf, ribbed gilt decorated spines, covers ruled in gilt, gilt rabbit to front cover of Alice, gilt Queen to front cover of TTLG, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, by Riviere, Internally clean and bright, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine fine, no previous ownership makings, inscriptions, or bookplate, VERY GOOD COPIES. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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]

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]

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., 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. Twelfth thousand. With original binder's ticket to rear pastedown: Bound by Burn & Co. All edges gilt. Lacking the half title. Tissue guard intact. Rebacked, with the original spine panel and endpapers retained. Extremities rubbed; general soiling to cloth; gilt dulled. Binding is sound; no inscriptions. 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]

Albert Bonniers, 1966. FIRST JANSSON EDITION, illustrations throughout including 4 full-page and 11 with colour-printing, pp. 112, 8vo, original brown cloth with Jansson medallion-design stamped in gilt to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, dustjacket with Jansson design, very faintly toned to backstrip panel and with a faint trace of price-sticker adhesive at foot of rear panel, near fine. A delightful edition - Jansson's illustrations are distinctive and appropriate.

Jan Förlag, 1945. FIRST HÖGFELDT EDITION, frontispiece and 9 further colour-printed plates with line drawings to the text, pp. 219, 8vo, original deluxe binding of half red morocco with marbled boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, t.e.g., dustjacket a little browned with a couple of shallow chips around head, very good. An excellent copy of the scarce deluxe edition; Högfeldt's designs are attractive and distinctive.

London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd, 1910. Very good plus.. First edition of this charming panorama of Alice's Wonderland adventures, with character cutouts to tuck into slots and rearrange the story however you like - rarely found complete. A. L. Bowley worked on a number of titles for Raphael Tuck, including this dynamic take on Lewis Carroll's beloved story. The instructions to the rear encourage readers to switch up the placement of the figures - which include the White Rabbit, the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, the Queen of Hearts, and Alice herself - in order to make their own version of the story. Its many moveable parts means that this panorama is unusual to find complete and intact, as this copy is. A beautiful Alice. 10.5'' x 47.5'' (unfolded); 10.5'' x 12'' (folded). Original color pictorial self wrapper. Illustrated in color on one side, black and white on the other. 15 color figures, complete. Four panels, folded concertina-style, with pocket to rear. Some edgewear and light soil to outside, a few closed tears and careful repairs. Several interior slots with closed tears, but sound. Colors bright. [Attributes: First Edition]

London: Macmillan and Co., 1876 Illustrated by Henry Holiday. First edition, first printing, with "baker" on p. 83 and a single leaf of publisher's advertisements. Publisher's decorative light tan boards with illustrations by Holiday in black, lettered in black, all edges gilt, black endpapers. Near fine, with a touch of soiling to front board, moderate toning to spine, a touch of wear to the upper spine, tiny bookseller's embossed stamp to front free endpaper, and light offsetting from emblem on half-title page. Overall, an attractive copy, rarely found in such nice condition. Taylor 382.In this poem, Carroll returns to the setting of "Jabberwocky," the nonsense poem that was published as part of his 1872 novel Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There. Specifically, "The Hunting of the Snark" tells the story of ten sailors, each of whose name begins with the letter B, who are in search of a fearsome creature known as the "snark" which they fear may be an especially dangerous sort known as a "boojum." Like "Jabberwocky," this poem is filled with fantastical adventures, impossible scenarios, and gibberish words. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. [Attributes: First Edition]

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.

Hodder & Stoughton, London. Pp.(viii),180; text embellished with red lettering, illustrations and 12 coloured plates. Original red gilt and black pictorial cloth. Extremely rare and good quality illustrated edition. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

New York, Macmillan, 1890., New York. In-4° (mm 255x195). Pagine [10], 56, [8] con 1 antiporta a colori fuori testo corredata di velina protettiva e 19  illustrazioni a colori nel testo di Tenniel. Alcune pagine con lievi macchie, strappata in due punti la velina dell'antiporta, per il resto buona copia. Legatura originale in tela con piatti rivestiti in carta con illustrazioni a colori di Gertrude Thomson con lievi abrasioni e tracce di sporco. Assente l'angolo inferiore esterno del piatto anteriore. Dedica manoscritta alla sguardia anteriore. Prima edizione americana. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

First edition. Both with forty six illustrations by Harry Furniss. Two volumes. 8vo. Original cloth, spines and covers lettered and decorated in gilt, second volume with dust jacket, all edges gilt. London, Macmillan. [Attributes: First Edition]