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Price: US$104.47 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Red Cloth, All Edges Gilt, Black Endpapers, Frontis With Interleaf, [Viii] + 192 Pages, Illustrated, Plus [2] Pages Publishers Ads. Has Been Re-Spined In The (Not-Recent) Past With The Original Covers & Spine Panels, Complete With The Original Gilt Decoration, Neatly Laid-On The New Coarse, Red-Cloth, Binding. An Additional Gilt Rondel "Spondon House School" Is Also Imprinted On The Original Front Cover. A Complete Book, Two Sheets Are Detached There Is Wear And Water-Staining To The Original Covers, Also Internally A Few Small Ink Blots, A Little Foxing, And A Little Underlining But On Only A Few Pages. No Other Damage.
Seller: NorWest Books (UK), Minehead, United Kingdom
Carroll, Lewis ( Dodgson). A Tangled Tale. Macmillan, London, 1886.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Us G1: This states 1886, fourth thousand, w six Frost b&w illustrations, 152 pages plus 3 of ads with last page a specimens page of Alices Adventures Undergound by Lewis Carroll. All edges gilt, some light hand wear to spine, spine tips, and covers. Red spine w gilt title at the top.
Seller: Aamstar Bookshop / Hooked On Books, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
CARROLL, Lewis. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. MacMillan, London, 1886.
Price: US$300.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Edition: 81 thousand. Original red cloth, spine darkened. A very good copy.All edge gilt. Original copies of this work are extremely difficult to find.
Seller: Anah Dunsheath RareBooks ABA ANZAAB ILAB, Auckland, NZ, New Zealand
Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Macmillan, 1886.
Price: US$342.20 + shipping
Description: Alice's Adventures Under Ground, Macmillan, 1886, first edition, all edges gold-gilt, fraying to the spine extremities with some cloth loss, obvious soiling to the covers and spine with some vertical creasing to the covers. Perhaps a fair to good copy with near vg contents. Illustrated by the author. Housed in a most handsome custom slipcase with a leather spine and marbled boards.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Lewis Carroll. Alice's Advemtures Under Ground. Macmillan, 1886.
Price: US$503.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st 1886 Hardback Macmillan; Red cloth binding with gilt titles and gilt lines to front and back; gilt roundel design to back boards; no dust jacket; inside slight marks to front endpapers; label mark on inside of rear endpaper; slight mark to Christmas dedication page, otherwise clean with no previous owner signatures or inscriptions; photographs on request; binding sound with no issues to either hinges; slight sunning to spine, slight fraying to top right corner and to bottom of spine otherwise cloth very good; publisher advertisements to rear
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, Bucknell, SHROP, United Kingdom
CARROLL Lewis. Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Macmillan and Co Limited, London, 1886.
Price: US$573.32 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Being a facsimile of the original MS book afterwards developed into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with 37 illustrations by the Author. (viii) 96pp. Red buckram boards with gilt titles and decorations to front back and spine. Aeg. Boards lightly bumped with small chips to extremities and very small loss to top of spine.White endpapers. Neat ownership inscription dated 1906 to ffep. Hinge at half title and title page cracked. Binding a tad fragile. Otherwise a pleasing copy.
Seller: David Kenyon, King's Lynn, United Kingdom
Price: US$637.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With Thirty Seven Illustrations by Carroll First edition, 1886, in the original publishers red cloth, gilt tooling & titles, lower board with the gilt mock turtle. Spine, faded, gilt titles. Internally, half title, [5], (vi-viii), [2], [2], [4], 95 pp, [1] Xmas Greeting, [1], [2] adverts, 37 illustrations (14 being full page), a.e.g., white endpapers, price crossed out on title, small ink owners name to fep (ELP Grant? 1919), faded to lower board edge. (188*122 mm). (Green -LC Handbook 194, p132p. Williams 52, p62-5).
Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good minus copy, bound in finely woven red cloth with 3 gilt rectanglar border rules on the front and rear boards. With the Mock Turtle in a gilded circular cameo on the rear boards. With white endpapers and black lettering along the spine. The cloth is edge-worn and dulled; the spine is slightly slanted with readable lettering. All edges are gilded.With a name in ink on the front endpaper. Following the two pages of ads at the end, there are three newspaper clippings from 1931 glued onto the rear endpapers, one featuring a photograph of the original Alice-- Alice Pleasance Liddell Hargreaves. In addition there is a special tipped-in sheet on sturdy glossy photographic paper with a lengthy facsimile handwritten passage about "happy summer days" with a cameo photo of a young Alice at the bottom of the sheet. This special sheet appears opposite the title page with the specially decorated lettering: "A Christmas Gift to a Dear Child in Memory of a Summer Day." An attractive but used copy with bumped corners and a tiny snag on the front boards not affecting the gilt lettering. Wear to the top and bottom of the spine and at the corners. An enchanting copy, nonetheless. Carroll had known the Liddell children since around March 1856, when he befriended Harry Liddell.[14] He met Lorina by early March as well.[15] In June 1856, he took the children out on the river.[16] Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, who wrote a literary biography of Carroll, suggests that Carroll favoured Alice Pleasance Liddell in particular because her name was ripe for allusion.[17] "Pleasance" means pleasure and the name "Alice" appeared in contemporary works including the poem "Alice Gray" by William Mee, of which Carroll wrote a parody; and Alice is a character in "Dream-Children: A Reverie", a prose piece by Charles Lamb.[17] Carroll, an amateur photographer by the late 1850s,[18] produced many photographic portraits of the Liddell children but none more than Alice, of whom 20 survive.[19] Carroll began writing the manuscript of the story the next day, although that earliest version is lost. The girls and Carroll took another boat trip a month later, when he elaborated the plot to the story of Alice, and in November he began working on the manuscript in earnest.[20] To add the finishing touches he researched natural history in connection with the animals presented in the book and then had the book examined by other children particularly those of George MacDonald. Though Carroll did add his own illustrations to the original copy, on publication he was advised to find a professional illustrator so the pictures were more appealing to its audiences. He subsequently approached John Tenniel to reinterpret Carroll's visions through his own artistic eye, telling him that the story had been well liked by the children. Carroll began planning a print edition of the Alice story in 1863.[21] He wrote on 9 May 1863 that MacDonald's family had suggested he publish Alice.[11] A diary entry for 2 July says that he received a specimen page of the print edition around that date.[21] On 26 November 1864, Carroll gave Alice the manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground, with illustrations by Carroll, dedicating it as "A Christmas Gift to a Dear Child in Memory of a Summer's Day". The published version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is about twice the length of Alice's Adventures Under Ground and includes episodes, such as the Mad Tea-Party, that did not appear in the manuscript.[24][21] The only known manuscript copy of Under Ground is held in the British Library.[21] Macmillan published a facsimile of the manuscript in 1886. (Wikipedia) First Edition of this Facsimile edition with title page date of 1886. With "Richard Clay and Sons, London and Bungay" and stamped "Printed in Great Britain" on the copyright page.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$775.89 + shipping
Description: 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). viii, 95pp + ads. Thirty-seven illustrations by the author. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Spine sunned and with minor wear to spine ends. Aeg
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$885.46 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A sought after first edition of this smart facsimile of Lewis Carroll's original 'Alice in Wonderland' manuscript. The first edition of this facsimile of Carroll's original manuscript of the novel with later became 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'.The second issue, with white endpapers.A faithful reproduction of Lewis Carroll's manuscript, offering a wonderful insight into the enduring children's tale. Carroll was inspired to pick up his pen after taking the Liddell children out to a river, beginning this manuscript the very next day.Complete with the original pen drawings of Carroll, which later inspired John Tenniel in his illustrations for the published novel.Two pages of adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Front board and spine are faded, with light fading to the head of the rear board. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine. A few light marks to the boards. Gift inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Spots to the endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Three of the illustrations have been hand-coloured by a prior owner. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
CARROLL, LEWIS.. Alice's Adventures Under Ground. London: Macmillan, 1886, 1886.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Offsetting from a previously laid in clipping on the half-title; nearly fine. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Macmillan, London UK, 1886.
Price: US$1082.94 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very bright copy of the facsimile of the original Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with thirty seven illustrations by the author. Original cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Faded spine colour and light rubbing. Chipping of the spine ends. Black ink splashes marks on the rear board with light fading section. Intact black end papers. Previous owner signature in pencil opposite the half title page. The contents are bright and the hinges are tight.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition being a facsimile of the original manuscript which was later expanded and published as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Octavo, original scarlet cloth, elaborate gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt vignette to the rear panel, triple gilt ruled, all edges gilt, text printed in the author's handwriting including thirty-seven illustrations in facsimile, advertisements at rear. In very good condition. 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 relaying Alice's adventures, and eventually promised his favorite among the three, Alice Liddell, to write the story down for her. Carroll composed the original manuscript for the work in 1864 which he presented to Alice dedicating it as "A Christmas Gift to a Dear Child in Memory of a Summer's Day." He later expanded the manuscript from 15,500 to 27,500 words which included the addition of some of the tale's most memorable characters such as the Cheshire Cat and Mad Hatter.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1669.13 + shipping
Description: London, Macmillan and Co., 1886. 8°. VIII, 4 Bl., 95(1) Seiten, 2 Bl. Dreifacher Goldschnitt. Rotes OLeinen mit goldgeprägtem Rücken- und Deckeltitel sowie goldgeprägten Fileten und Vignette auf dem hinteren Deckel. Erste Ausgabe. - Original red cloth gilt with elaborately lettered spine and upper cover, triple-line gilt panel to boards and roundel featuring the gryphen to centre of lower panel, all edges gilt, black endpapers;a near fine copy in very bright and clean condition. First edition, first issue, of this manuscript text of carrolls's original Alice in Wonderland story, complete with his inspired illustrations. Very good plus copy. Sprache: Englisch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie mich immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact me always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***
Seller: Antiquariat CoBrA, Oberrohrbach, Austria
Price: US$3600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First and only edition; later issue with white endsheets, consisting of remaindered sheets put into covers perhaps as late as 1931. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with fading/mottling to cloth, contents toned and with several hinges slightly exposed. In a Very Good dust jacket with light soiling, spine toning, edge wear and a closed tear at the bottom front spine joint. A facsimile of Carroll's manuscript which would be developed into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, 4 volumes. "Through the Looking-Glass" is the stated "tenth thousand," but the other volumes are first printings. A handsome set, uniformly bound by Riviere and Son in full rich blue polished calf, with all edges gilt, tilt edges and borders, elaborate spine compartments, reddish-brown morocco spine labels, marbled andpapers, and the original cloth bound in at rear in all four volumes. A very near fine set, with the spines gently and evenly faded to lighter blue, but with gilt still vibrant. A few leaves trivially bumped at the bottom edge of "Through the Looking-Glass;" entirely forgiveable. A most pleasing set.
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$5414.68 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original red cloth blocked and ruled gilt on upper and lower covers, lettered gilt on spine. All edges gilt. First issue with black coated endpapers. With illustrations in text by the author. The first and only edition of this facsimile of Lewis Carroll's original manuscript of the suppressed book that became Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This copy inscribed by the author on half-title "Helen Bagnall from the author, Dec 3/92". Tipped onto front endpaper is a press cutting from 1928 relating to the sale of Carroll's original manuscript and loosely laid in are press cuttings reporting on the death of the author (1898) and the discovery of some unpublished letters (1937). Cloth a little marked with some uneven fading of lower board, spine darkened, inner front hinge cracked at gutter, half-title somewhat browned by offsetting from the laid in press-cuttings. In all other respects a very good sound copy with clean, unmarked text.
Seller: Owen & Barlow Rare Books, Welshpool, United Kingdom
Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventure Under Ground. Macmillan and Co., London, 1886.
Price: US$5500.00 + shipping
Description: London, Macmillan and Co. 1886. This is a first edition 1886 copy of Alice's Adventures Under Ground, which is the printed facsimile of the original manuscript and illustrations that would later become Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It contains 37 illustrations by Lewis Carroll which were later used by John Tenniel as the basis for his illustrations in the book. The book is in excellent condition with minor wear, and comes in a custom made box with a gilt spine.
Seller: Antiquarian Book Company, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures Underground. Macmillan, London, 1886.
Price: US$18500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st edition of the replication of Carroll's original manuscript for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with his original title, his own 37 illustrations, and reproducing his own handwriting. This edition differs from the published book in that Macmillan had Carroll change the title, delete a few personal references, and add 2 chapters, and they hired a professional illustrator, but our book is the original. Presentation copy from the author to the publisher, inscribed (to Emma Macmillan), "Mrs. Macmillan from the author" and dated in January, the month that all the earliest presentation copies were inscribed. A bright and beautiful copy, near fine in original cloth. Best copy in the world? Probably.
Seller: Biblioctopus, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.