Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$3100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This book is in fair condition. The book has been rebound in marbled boards with the original circular illustrations from the front and rear cover laid down. The spine and outside boards are worn and rubbed. All edges gilt. There is an inscription, bookstamp, and newspaper clipping in the front. The binding is shaken. Several pages have some wear to their edges. The first text page after the table of contents is missing. There is some foxing. This is the First published edition of this book, done by Macmillan in 1866. It features 42 black and white illustrations by John Tenniel. An rare copy of Carroll's classic work.
Seller: The Lion's End, Antiquarian Books, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 192pp. Duodecimo [22 cm] rebound in gilt-stamped dark red morocco with raised spine bands. Binding pristine. Includes original pale blue free endpapers, now serving as flyleaves. Calligraphic ink name dated May 1st, 1866 on original front free endpaper, reinforcements to the edges of several leaves, light to moderate foxing throughout. With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel. The first published edition, re-set from a copy of the recalled first issue. Williams, Madan, Green 46. The publication of Carroll's work appeared at a time when children's literature was produced primarily to teach moral lessons. Carroll's tale was, by contrast, wonderfully fantastical and nonsensical, and the book baffled critics at first. By the close of the 19th century, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" had become the most popular children's books in England. Two decades later, the Alice story grew to be one of the most celebrated works of fiction in the English language throughout the world.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$7900.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: FIRST LONDON EDITION. 1 vol., with the inverted "S" to last line of contents page, illustrated by John Tenniel. Bound in fine full red morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, covers ruled and paneled in gilt, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, housed in a matching red morocco edged open ended slipcase, by John Vivian. Internally clean and bright, 5 pages with closed tears expertly repaired, foredge of 1 leaf (p.111) strengthened on verso, still a VERY GOOD copy. Included with this item is a letter from a Richard to a Mr. Evans on Dept. of Zoology Univ. College London letterhead. The first paragraph states in part that "your Alice reached our head binder safe and sound. He is going to do it in full scarlet morocco, all edges gilt,."
Seller: D&D Galleries - ABAA, Somerville, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$12000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HARDBACKNODJ, 1ST EDITION , 1866 ON TITLE PG, .FIRST LONDON EDITION. SECOND 1ST PUBLISHED EDITION SINCE 1865 WAS RECALLED. VG-, AS -IS, Final 'S' on the contents page is correctly printed, page '30' numbered '3'. 192 PGS NO ADS IN BACK, ORIGINAL Red Cloth binding 3 circular lines containing a picture of Alice holding the Pig on the upper cover with the Cheshire Cat to the back cover, REBACKED, Preserving Original covers with small stain and spine which has tears chips wear. Wear to exterior with some marks/stains. All edges GOLD gilt. RECENT endpapers, half-title with pencil name. Pages are complete with illustrations throughout. Age toning and the odd mark/spot here and there, otherwise pages are generally clean , TINY CORNER STAIN WEAR FRONT BTM RIGHT , The first published edition, re-set from a copy of the recalled first issue. 3 circular lines containing a picture of Alice holding the Pig on the upper cover with the Cheshire Cat to the back cover, a little rubbed , 192 PGS,
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$13982.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The second, first published edition, 1866 In the original publishers gilt red cloth, 3 circular lines containing a picture of Alice holding the Pig on the upper cover with the Cheshire Cat to the back cover, a little rubbed & soiled, cloth worn at some extremities. Professionally re-spined, old laid down, gilt titles. Internally, half-title, frontispiece, [10], [1], 2-192 pp, frontis, with tissue guard, + 42 illustrations by John Tenniel, a couple of short tears, some foxing, pale blue endpapers (earliest state), hinges with signs of repair, a.e.g. Housed in a custom red half morocco over red cloth drop-back- box, gilt titles to spine, gilt titles to morocco label to upper cover. (193*126 mm). (Crutch 46. Madan 33. Williams 10). A better than usual copy of Alice with an ownership inscription on half-title dated in the year of publication ( M.A. Watson Binfield 1866) + a bookplate to fpd (Latham). The contents 'S' is normal whilst page 30 is correctly numbered. Dodgson, author, mathematician, and photographer, whose writing meant a great deal to him; writing was the main course by which he could do something for others, to fulfil a deep religious desire to contribute something to humanity—it was his offering to God. After resigning his mathematical lectureship in 1881, at the age of forty-nine (he retained his studentship and resident privileges at Christ Church to the end), he devoted himself primarily to his writing. Often standing 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.
Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom
CARROLL Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. , 1866.
Price: US$14500.00 + shipping
Description: "CARROLL, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan, 1866. Octavo, mid-20th century full red morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, all edges gilt. $14,500.First authorized English edition of Carrolls cherished romp through the realm of nonsense, illustrated with 42 engravings by John Tenniel, handsomely bound by Riviere & Son, with original cloth-gilt at rear."More than a flare of genius," Alice's Adventures in Wonderland "was the spiritual volcano of children's books" (Darton, 260). "Historians of children's literature universally agree that [its] publication marks the liberation of children's books from the restraining hand of the moralists" (Carpenter & Prichard, 102). A mesmerizing masterpiece of comic nonsense, Alice also demonstrates Carroll's gift for recognizing "the child's inner fears, wishes, intelligence and imagination. He unleashed thousands of children's minds and invited them to laugh" (Silvey, 124). "It is, in a word, a book of that extremely rare kind which will belong to all the generations to come until the language becomes obsolete" (Sir Walter Besant). First published and authorized English edition, preceded only by the extraordinarily rare suppressed 1865 London edition, of which only about 20 copies are known to exist, and the scarce New York edition of 1866. Lewis Carroll Handbook 46. Lewis Carroll at Texas 3. See PMM 354. Bookplate. Newspaper clipping laid in.A bit of foxing to front blank endpapers only. A beautifully bound copy with the original cloth bound in."
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.. Appleton, New York, 1866.
Price: US$36000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In 1865 Macmillan printed this book in England and recalled it because John Tenniel, the illustrator considered the printing of the illustrations unsatisfactory. After consulting with Tenniel, Lewis Carroll authorized Macmillan to sell 1,952 bound copies to Appleton in New York with a new title page replacing Macmillan with D. Appleton and dated 1866. The new title page was tipped onto the excised stub of the Macmillan 1865 edition. Top edge and fore edge gilt. A few small waterspots on the front cover. The half title page has some writing on it and the lower fore edge corner has had a professional repair of the lower fore edge corner not affection the text. Spine a little darkened otherwise a tight copy. Michael Hancher, author of The Tenniel Illustrations to the "Alice" Books was in the shop this summer and examined our copy of this book. There is a census of the extant copies of the 1866 Appleton Alice as announced by John Lindseth in PBSA some time ago that is still a work in progress. He goes on to say, "Extant copies of what has become known as "The Appleton Alice" have turned out to become quite elusive. The British Library is the only institutional holder found in the UK. Some seventy institutional holders are found in the United States and Canada and one in Switzerland. Fewer than twenty private holders have been identified. Our copy may add one to that small number. In his note Lindseth distinguishes four different states of the text, which apparently have no priority. Hancher goes on in his email to write, "I also attach two pages from the new chapter about "Printing" in the revised edition of my Tenniel book. Apparently the image quality for the illustrations of the suppressed Macmillan printing of 1865 (which got recycled as the Appleton edition of 1866) varies from copy to copy and image to image, depending on how much ink leaked through from the printing on the other side of a particular leaf. Tenniel must have been given - and rejected - one of the worse copies. Had he been given your copy he might not have balked." 1st American edition / Ist edition, second issue.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.