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Lewis Carroll.. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND.. , 1930.
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Description: No date, circa 1930, London, John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd., ppxiii + 152 + (viii), 8 colour colour plates and other black and white illustrations by W. H. Walker, complete, blue cloth. Spine and back edge sun faded, rear outer hinge cracked but holding, otherwise very good.
Seller: Graham York Rare Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, United Kingdom
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: . . . . 4to, paperbound. Near fine condition. Includes original slipcase, which has kept this copy in remarkably fresh condition. Original glassine wrapper still almost completely intact, as well. Covers and contents crisp, clean, unworn, no marking or writing. Binding secure. #193 of the 420 copies of this American Edition, printed on Rives paper, with 6 lithographs by Marie Laurencin.
Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Description: 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
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good condition. Signatures separate at spine but do not pull out. A little light foxing on front fly leaf with some heavier foxing on covers. Paper clip stain at top of front fly leaf and half title page. Front and back panels of inner sleeve with spine missing. Slipcase in poor condition.
Seller: Jerry Merkel, XENIA, OH, U.S.A.
Carroll, Lewis. ALICE IN WONDERLAND. Black Sun Press, Paris, 1930.
Price: US$2420.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition of the BLACK SUN PRESS edition This is #113/420 of the American Edition, complete with the Six colored lithographs by Marie Laurencin. This is one of the 350 copies of the American Edition printed on Rives paper. A rare and beautiful book.
Seller: Anthology Booksellers, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher's wraps in glassine, with six color lithographs by Marie Laurencin. Copy #196 of 370 of the European edition, and of that, one of 300 printed on Rives paper. Very Good. Foxing to wraps and to pages, often quite heavy. Previous owner bookplate to front free end paper. Six color lithographs present, with tissue guards present but often merely laid in. Snag to glassine at foot of spine.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
CARROLL, Lewis. LAURENCIN, Marie (illus.). Alice in Wonderland.. The Black Sun Press, Paris, 1930.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: 114 pp. Illustrated with six color lithographs by Marie Laurencin. Oblong folio, publisher's art vellum in glassine, printed in red and black. First edition; No. 300 of 370 copies of the European Edition. Some light foxing to the vellum and some very slight fraying to the tissue at the base of the spine; otherwise a very nice copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Carroll, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland. Black Sun Press, Paris, 1930.
Price: US$2638.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to - Oblong. Edition of 420 copies for the United States. This is copy no. 420. Illustrated with 6 full page colour lithographs. Bound in paper printed wrappers and glassine. Large chip to glassine wrapper at head and again at the spine foot, pink paper covered chemise, chemise with a spot of damp. Paper and silver foil slipcase faded and with wear along the edges and corners.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Carroll, Lewis; Laurencin, Marie. ALICE IN WONDERLAND. Black Sun Press, Paris, 1930.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition of this highly sought version of ALICE with full-page plates by the French avant-garde artist, one of 350 copies for the US. 9.5'' x 11.5''. Original white wrappers. In original slipcase and chemise. Illustrated by Laurencin with 6 magnificent tissue-guarded color plates with facsimile signatures. Printed on Rives paper. 114 pages. Wrappers moderately foxed, with some light marginal foxing to text. Case scuffed and and repaired; chemise repaired and joints, with part of tan paper overlay worn away on spine. Plates bright.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
CARROLL, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland. Black Sun Press, Paris, 1930.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Illustrated with 6 color lithographs by Marie Laurencin printed by Desjobert of Paris. Oblong 4to, 3/4 red morocco binding over patterned boards, gilt spine lettering and decorations, with a small inset of a white rabbit on the side panel, top edge gilt. Paris: Black Sun Press, 1930. Limited Edition. Of an edition of 790 copies, this is one of only 20 copies with a duplicate set of plates in sanguine. Five of the extra plates are signed in pencil by Laurencin, who has also signed the colophon page, which states that this is number 19 of the American Edition. Although the binding is unsigned it was likely done by the Bennett Book Studio which did a number of similar ones. Fine, in a leather-tipped slipcase which is missing the top edge.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$16034.52 + shipping
Description: First Black Sun Press edition, an extranumerary copy of the deluxe European issue, lettered "F", signed by the artist on the colophon, and with a supplementary suite of the illustrations in sanguine, of which five are signed by Laurencin in purple pencil, as issued. The colophon, which states that 20 numbered copies of this deluxe issue were released in Europe, does not mention lettered copies. This was the first illustrated book of the foremost French artist Marie Laurencin (1883-1956), whose celebrated queer illustrations are "characterized by a palette of pastel colours and feminine subject matter" (Summers, p. 208). Producing Alice in this aesthetic caused "a considerable shock to those brought up on Tenniel" (Tebbel, p. 625). Laurencin hosted other famous artists at her home in Auteuil, where she "reigned like a queen, with her cat, whom she said was the model for all her female faces. As she became popular, her influence was felt in the world of fashion and interior design" (Fine, p. 173). Of the edition, 420 copies were designated for the US and 371 for Europe. The issues comprised 650 copies on Rives paper, 100 on Japanese vellum, 40 signed copies on Hollande Van Gelder with the sanguine suite (as here), and a single copy on Vieux Japon with the extra suite alongside the original lithographs. This copy retains its original jacket, chemise, and slipcase in superb condition. Minkoff A39 (misprinted as A34). Elsa Honig Fine, Women & Art, 1981; Claude J. Summers, ed., The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts, 2004. Oblong quarto. Original cream wrappers, spine and front cover lettered in red and black, publisher's black-and-red device on rear cover, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. With the original glassine jacket. Housed in the publisher's silver paper and card chemise and slipcase. Frontispiece and 5 plates in colour lithography, this issue also with a duplicate suite of the 6 illustrations printed in sanguine and bound at the end, all with tissue guards and by Marie Laurencin. Text printed in red and black. Faint spotting to fresh wrappers; glassine jacket with a couple of chips and tears but very well-preserved; chemise and slipcase slightly toned and handled: a near-fine copy in like jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom