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CARROLL, Lewis. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. London Macmillan & Co 1867, 1867.

Price: US$1495.19 + shipping

Description: Sixth Thousand, 11.5 x 17.7cm Red half leather. The spine has five raised bands with a title label in one compartment and gilt stamped decoration in the other five. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers, [x] 192[2]pp with black and white illustrations by John Tenniel throughout. The half leather binding is rubbed at the corners, spine tips and edges with some surface abrasion but the binding is firm. Internally without name or inscription but with the bookplate of Thomas Weld-Blundell on the front free endpaper and just a touch of spotting and light marking to the text pages. There a few spots to the endpapers and a little cockling to the last few pages. Increasingly difficult to find, a very nice copy of this early printing. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Seller: Rainford & Parris Books - PBFA, Bishop's Stortford, United Kingdom

Carroll, Lewis.. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.. Macmillan and Co, London. 1867. Sixth thousand - so third edition., 1867.

Price: US$1560.20 + shipping

Description: Black and White illustrations by John Tenniel. Fully bound in reddish leather by Riviere & Sons, with gilt lines to boards; gilt decorations to spine; raised bands; all edges gilt, with decorative gilt detailing on inside edges of boards. Marbled endpapers. Very Good (hinges weak). A lovely copy of this scarce edition.

Seller: Much Ado Books, Alfriston, SUSSE, United Kingdom

CARROLL. LEWIS. ; Tenniel. John. Illustrates.. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND.. Macmillan & Co. London. 1867, 1867.

Price: US$1885.24 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 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.

Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom

Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland. Macmillan and Co, London UK, 1867.

Price: US$2665.35 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Early edition, eighth thousandth, in very good condition. Rebacked with original red cloth. Rubbed gilt and light wear. All edges gilt. Replaced dark end papers. Previous owner's address on the free and half title page. Light staining within the text. Tissue guard in situ.

Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom

Carroll, Lewis. [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.. Macmillan and Co, London, 1867.

Price: US$3000.00 + shipping

Description: Finely bound early printing of Carroll's beloved children's classic. Octavo, bound in full 20th century scarlet crushed levant morocco by William Bennet, gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, central gilt ornament of Alice holding a rabbit to the front panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated by John Tenniel, many with hand-coloring and including tissue-guarded frontispiece. In near fine condition. Bookplate and neat ownership name. Alice's Adventures were "born on a golden afternoon" in July 1862, when the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) took the three small daughters of Dean Liddell of Christ Church on a boating trip up the Isis. Carroll delighted the three children by relating Alice's adventures, and eventually promised his favorite among the three, Alice Liddell, to write the story down for her. "The two Alice books completed the reinstatement of the imagination, so long disapproved of by the opponents of fairy stories, to its proper place. ‘Alice 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’" (Carpenter & Prichard, 102).

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

DODGSON, Charles Ludwidge; [CARROLL, Lewis]. AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON DETERMINANTS, WITH THEIR APPLICATION TO SIMULTANEOUS LINEAR EQUATIONS AND ALGEBRAICAL GEOMETRY. London: Macmillan and Co., 1867.

Price: US$3575.46 + shipping

Description: First edition. 4to. Publisher's original burgundy cloth, border ruled in blind, titles in gilt to the spine. Edges speckled red. Blue coated endpapers, binder's ticket of Burn to the rear pastedown. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with some rubbing at the spine tips and corners with minor fraying at the upper spine fold. The contents with a previous owner's name to the reverse of the front endpaper and a little spotting to the prelims, are otherwise clean and bright throughout. Housed in a quarter red morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. One of the key mathematical works by the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In addition to his celebrated, beloved books for children, Dodgson produced almost a dozen works in the fields of geometry, linear and matrix algebra, mathematical logic, and recreational mathematics, all published under his real name, whilst in his role as lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford. The present work concerns determinants; these "are the sum of of the products of a square block of quantities. Their condensation, or reduction to simpler forms, facilitates the solution of simultaneous linear equations, and other similar problems" (Williams, The Lewis Carroll Handbook). Although seemingly far removed from his fictional fantasies, Dodgson's academic work and his children's novels exercised a mutual influence. As Professor Francine Abeles has written, "many of the ideas involving inversions and mirror images that are so prevalent in the Alice books found their way into Dodgson's more serious work as well," for example Alice's shrinking, which is something like the shrinkage - or condensation - of a set of numbers to a single number, as explored in the present work. Dodgson's paper on the subject was read to the Royal Society on 17th May 1866, with the production of the text itself the result of a great deal of time and intellectual exertion on the author's part: "this little book has given me more trouble than anything else I have ever written: it is such entirely new ground to explore". Only around 750 copies of this first edition were printed, although the exact number is unknown. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom

Carroll, Lewis (Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. MacMillan & Co, 1867.

Price: US$3900.51 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Octavo. 8vo. 192pp. Bound in the original red cloth as issued with Alice holding a pig in gilt on top board and grinning Cheshire cat on bottom board. Illustrations inside by John Tenniel. Collated and complete. Illustrated with Forty two beautiful line illustrations by John Tenniel. Original black endpapers with but the original tissue guard is missing on frontispiece. Two line presentation inscription on the half title page dated October 23rd. 1867. Inside there are a few minor spots and marks, a small corner missing on the title page to lower right . The book has been recased with the top and bottom of spine strengthened otherwise very good copy. All edges gilt. An highly acceptable copy of an early edition of a well-loved and read book. Size 185 x130mm (7.5 x 5.25 inches)

Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom

Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. Macmillan and Co, 1867.

Price: US$4420.57 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Sixth thousand, or third edition, bound in modern, full red morocco with marbled end papers. Comes with custom made solander box. Gilt compartmented spine. Some slight finger marking and page mottling throughout, neat ownership signature from 1878. A beautiful copy. More photographs available on request.

Seller: Langton Books, Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom

[Carroll, Lewis] Charles L. Dodgson. An Elementary Treatise on Determinants. Macmillan and Co, London, 1867.

Price: US$4500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original plum-brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt, with black endsheets. Very Good. Cloth worn at extremities, unevenly sunned, and wormed. Contents toned, with foxing to preliminary and terminal pages. A scarce mathematical work by Dodgson, better known under his pen name, Lewis Carroll.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Macmillan and Co, London UK, 1867.

Price: US$4550.59 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - Fifth Thousand Rare early edition by Lewis Carroll in very good condition. This is the fifth thousand, so third printing, dated 1867, the year after the first printing. Overall in very good condition with professionally and finely re-laid spine. Requires close inspection to realize work has been carried out. Also retains original endpapers and again finely repaired gutters. Inscription to rear of front endpaper dated January 1st 1867. No other writing in the text block. Clean throughout other than for a few lightly spotted pages. Multiple iconic illustrations throughout by John Tenniel. Gilt to all three edges of text block.  Comes with tailor made storage box.

Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom