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Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. William Heinemann Ltd., 1907.
Price: US$172.92 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 161pp. 1907. First edition. 8vo. sized. A good (or good plus) only copy of this edition with super colour illustrative plates. A colour frontispiece of Alice (with guard) and twelve other coloured plates all as called for. Original publisher's khaki cloth stamped in black to the spine and to the front board. Unfortunately the front endpaper has been pasted down to the front paste-down. It could probably be freed up with some professional attention, though I can't see what is under it. Light rubbing to the verso (now in effect the paste-down) upper corner of the front endpaper where a former neat gift inscription has been fairly neatly excised/rubbed out. No other visible inscriptions.There is rubbing - possibly caused by exposure to damp running down the length of the front board with some loss of text and image. Scattered light spotting. A little finger soiling to a few pages between 70 and 75. A 5mm circulat stain/soil mark to page 130 with a ghost mark to the corresponding page. An old paper repair to the lower corner of page 12. Not perfect, but still an attractive first Rackham edition copy.
Seller: Trumpington Fine Books Limited, Gilmilnscroft, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. William Heinemann, 1907.
Price: US$299.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , with Proem by Austin Dobson. Published by William Heinemann no date [1907], Hardcover. Pale green cloth stamped in gilt and blue on front cover. Top edge stained yellow, illustrated endpapers, 13 color plates, many black and white illustrations throughout, ad verso title page and verso rear fly. Red stain on cover, Foxing and discoloration as well, otherwise a good, clean copy.
Seller: Bergen Book Studio, Hillsdale, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$320.22 + shipping
Description: FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, 13 colour plates including frontispiece all with captioned tissue guards, further drawings to text, a handful of spots, largely restricted to borders, pp. xi, 162, [2], 8vo, original green cloth with Rackham design stamped in gilt to upper board, backstrip and boards otherwise with lettering and decoration in dark green, the upper board bowing slightly, backstrip and borders browned nwith a few spots and marks and some light wear at extremities, good. (Riall p. 77)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$384.26 + shipping
Description: First trade edition, 8vo, (xii), 161, (1) pp. 13 coloured plates with captioned tissues, some faint foxing. Recent green quarter calf. Latimore & Haskell p29.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. William Heinemann Ltd 1933, London, 1907.
Price: US$416.28 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xii, 162 pp. Recent half green calf, raised bands, red title labels, with gilt March Hare and Playing Card devices in compartments of the spine and gilt lettering. Minor spots to prelims and fore-edge, otherwise internally clean. Illustrated with 13 colour plates and numerous black & white in-tet illustratons by Arthur Rackham. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No date; circa 1907. Stated at copyright: "Printed in England" without any other printing details. Deep red full-cloth boards, Rackham pictorial plate: "The Mock Turtle drew a long breath and said, 'That's very curious'", white cover titles and border, some shelf wear, discoloration, spine rub. Thick heavy stock leaves generally very good; no writing. Frontispiece plate of "Alice." Bind good, intact. Includes thirteen richly colored plates by Arthur Rackham and fifteen full-page b&w illustrations. Also, decorative headers, tail-pieces, partial-page imagery throughout. A near good first edition with near very good interior. Recognized as one of the great pairings of an inimitable illustrator and the imagination of a remarkable storyteller, this work became an extremely influential edition with the marvelous color plates and drawings by Arthur Rackham, showing both a dark side and a sensitivity to the fantasy and "wonder" in the story. This work was among the first to offer a trade edition and a limited edition signed by the artist that brought special attention to the quality of the art printed for the edition. Lewis Carroll's classic begins on a boring summer afternoon when the bright and inquisitive Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole. At the bottom, she finds herself immersed in a bizarre world full of strange creatures and bizarre goings-on. She tries pills and potions, and attends a very strange tea party and croquet match. An immensely witty mix of satire, puzzles, and drama, this is one of literature's most astute depictions of the experience of childhood. 162 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Description: Edition : First American trade edition., Full red cloth boards. Upper with pictorial paste-on. Pictorial pasted and free endpapers. , Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 ? 1898), known as Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician and photographer, widely known for his iconic children?s books, most notably being Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Through the Looking-Glass (1871) is its sequel.Arthur Rackham (1867 ? 1939) was an English book illustrator, recognised as one of the leading figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration. His work is noted for its robust pen and ink drawings, which were combined with the use of watercolour, a technique he developed due to his background as a journalistic illustrator., Size : 8vo.(200 x 150 mm). , A very good example of this quintessential work by Carroll, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, one of the most noted illustrators of children?s books. 12 colour plates, plus many other black-and-white illustrations throughout. Bookbinder?s ticket (Smith Bros.) on recto of lower free endpaper. , 162 pp.
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. William Heinemann [1907], London, 1907.
Price: US$480.32 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition Thus; First Arthur Rackham edition. xi.,162, (2) pp. Publisher's original gilt-decorated green cloth with green lettering to front board & spine. Minor wear and bumping to spine ends and board corners. Minor rubbing to spine and light marking to boards. Foxing is generally light and occassional, though some sections have heavier cases. The first edition to be illustrated by Arthur Rackham with thirteen issue-guarded colour plates as well as an illustrated title page and endpapers. 8vo. Illustrated
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$505.94 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: *** IF YOU LIVE OUTSIDE THE UK YOU MUST CHOOSE PRIORITY MAIL AT CHECKOUT SO I CAN INSURE AND TRACK THE BOOK. IF YOU DO NOT CHOOSE PRIORITY MAIL YOU ORDER WILL BE REFUSED AND I WILL NOT TRADE WITH YOU AGAIN. *** This is a UK first edition hardcover published by William Heinemann in 1907. The photos show the condition better than I can describe, however overall I am grading as Very Good for its age, heading towards Near Fine. The book has a straight spine, sharp corners and firm spine ends, with a lightly sunned spine. The gilt illustration on the front cover is intact and not rubbed and the text on the boards is likewise complete. There is the inevitable page toning to the edges but the interior of the book is clean, aside from the odd fox spot. There is an owner inscription dated 1908 to the front end paper, which promotes Rip Van Winkle on the reverse at 15s net. The title page states there is also a "proem by Austin Dobson" and confirms the publisher as William Heinemann. There is no mention of a publication date anywhere but research confirms this to be 1907. the book has numerous black and white illustrations throughout and has the 13 original colour drawings.
Seller: Books for Collectors, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Price: US$576.39 + shipping
Description: [Literature] FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo, pp.162; [2]. With thirteen full colour plates, and many line drawings within the text. Bound in publisher's light green cloth with dark green titles and gilt illustration to upper, titled in green to spine, monogrammed imprint blocked to rear Light and occasional spotting, discreet ink ownership (Christmas 1907), covers lightly handled, minor sunning to spine. A near fine copy of the classic children's fantasy adventure. Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Williams & Madan p. 236. Richard Riall p.77-8. Book Collector No.271, 'The Great Illustrators'.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$591.76 + shipping
Description: Hardback, Approx 8 x 6 inches. Rebound in half morocco green leather with original green cloth covers, with gilt ?Griffon and Mock-Turtle? design to front. Pictorial green endpapers. In good condition. Some minor fading to spine, some rubbing and bumps to corners. A few marks and lightened on rear cloth board. Inside some foxing throughout. Plates are all clean and bright, all with titled tissue guards. Binding nice and tight. Else a good clean and tight first edition copy. 162pp. Complete With 13 full-page colour plates, and many b&w illustrations, full-page and within text.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$595.52 + shipping
Description: 1st ed. thus, original publisher's green cloth boards with gilt stamped decorations, complete 13 colour plates by Arthur Rackham, all with captioned tissue guards, b&w text illustrations, illustrated endpapers, pp 161, (i). Spine has been professionally restored: the original backstrip laid down on matching cloth, some wear along edges and slight loss of colour. A loose plate has been re-inserted. A child has wrritten 'The Cheshire Cat' under its b&w illustration, facing p. 78. Undated, an early printing: appears to be the first trade edition, 1907. An attractive Alice, with beautiful Rackham illustrations. Complete with all plates.
Seller: Muir Books -Robert Muir Old & Rare Books - ANZAAB/ILAB, PERTH, WA, Australia
Price: US$1585.71 + shipping
Description: Hardback, Large 4to. Approx 11 x 9.25 inches. Folio, publisher's white gilt-lettered and gilt-stamped cloth; t.e.g. In good condition. Some rubbing and bumps to corners and ends of spine. Spine tanned, small nick at head and small mark at the bottom. Cloth a little darkened. Plates are all very clean and bright, all with titled tissue guards. Offsetting and tanning to the free endpapers front and rear; Small inscription on half title page ?With love from Man 1907? Some minor foxing spots, else a good clean and tight Limited edition copy. ix, 161 [2] pp. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham; 13 full-page illustrations in colour mounted on brown paper; each with printed tissue overleaf, fourteen drawings in black and white, and pictorial endpapers.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: frontis and 12 other tipped in color illustrations (by Arthur Rackham), ix, [3], 161, [1]p. Original white cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. 29 cm. Gilt lettering on backstrip mostly gone. Uneven soiling on front cover. Uneven browning on free endpapers. Contents generally sound and clean -- offsetting or browning on the pages which face the brown mounting sheets for the illustrations. This copy has been neatly resewn and recased in the original binding with the hinge portions of the endpapers neatly reinforced with narrow strips of brown cloth. Copy No. 225 of an edition of 1130 copies for sale in Great Britain, Ireland and Colonies. A separate edition of 550 numbered copies was published for the United States in a green cloth-backed binding. Rackham was away from London when this limited edition was being produced so most copies, including this one, are not signed by Rackham.
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1697.14 + shipping
Description: VG+, Ltd Ed, 1907 Rackham illustrated, 13 pls, complete. In quarter green cloth over green printed boards, gilt titles, corners a little bumped. Spine, gilt titles, edges bumped & worn. Internally, half title, limitation to verso, frontis, [4], (v-xi), [1=], 161 pp, [1], 13 pls (coloured & tipped in), lettered tissue guards, numerous illustrations within text, t.e.g, remainder uncut, an edition limited to 550 copies for the US and signed by the publisher Doubleday Page Co, bookplate to fpd (Francis Kettaneh) with off-setting to half title, printed endpapers, ink ownership signature to base fep. But a VG+ copy. (Folio, 228*282 mm). (Williams A5. Madan p215). With a poem by Austin Dobson. First published by Carroll with illustrations by Tenniel in 1865. The Alice books and The Hunting of the Snark have had an impact upon the English language as well, and after Shakespeare and the Bible are the most frequently quoted round the world. These works grow more popular with time even as the fascination with the life of their begetter increases. See ODNB.
Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom
Price: US$1793.21 + shipping
Description: Number 981 of 1130 copies. Coloured tipped-in frontispiece and 12 coloured tipped-in plates with lettered guards. Decorative pictorial title. 4to (11 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches) 162-pages, original cream cloth blocked in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Foxing to prelims., generally very clean elsewhere. Binding dust-marked and a little spotted. Corner crease to one of the tipped-in colour plates. Brief inscription crossed out on front pastedown.
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
Carroll, Lewis. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. William Heinemann, 1907.
Price: US$2374.72 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1907. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. With a Proem by Austin Dobson. Limited edition of eleven hundred and thirty copies, of which 1100 were for sale and the remaining 30 copies were reserved for presentation. Large format. White cloth, gilt titles and vignette to front. Brown and white pictorial endpapers. 13 tipped in colour plates plus b/w illustrations. xi and 161 numbered pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn, fraying to cloth at top and tail of spine and a small section of the front edge starting to split (but hasn't yet). Spine is grubby/sunned with grubby marks to covers are well (see photos). Endpapers are browned. Rear joint is cracked (possibly very neatly repaired). There is a light crease to one of the plates, all others are present and in fine condition. Light page browning and fingering to contents and some light foxing. A small brown spot affects the margins of pages 105 to 113. Overall this is still a very decent copy of the scarce limited edition Rackham Alice. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: With a Proem by Austin Dobson. ix, 161 [2] pp. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham; 13 full-page illustrations in color mounted on brown paper; each with printed tissue overleaf, fourteen drawings in black and white, and pictorial endpapers. Folio, publisher's white gilt-lettered and gilt-stamped cloth; t.e.g. First edition; No. 215 of 1130 copies. Latimore & Haskell, pp. 28-29. Offsetting and tanning to the free endpapers front and rear; spine tanned; a little hand-soiling and a light rectangular tanned shadow to the front board. Contents very nice.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$3900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: LIMITED EDITION. 1 vol., 11-1/4" x 9-1/2", limited to 1100 numbered copies this being copy #508, illustrated with numerous tipped in color pates with titled tissue guards and B&W illustrations in text, bound in full blue morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, covers ruled and paneled in gilt, gilt corner pieces, gilt dentelles, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine ever so slightly sunned, internally clean and bright, no previous ownership marking, inscriptions, or bookplate, A VERY GOOD COPY.
Seller: D&D Galleries - ABAA, Somerville, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DELUXE LIMITED EDITION in exceedingly rare original slipcase. WITH: RACKHAM INK DRAWING of the Gryphon. The book: "Rackham embarked on his new edition of Alice in Wonderland, with illustrations to rival John Tenniel's, when the book came out of copyright in 1907. Rackham's advantage over Tenniel was that now he could introduce colour; also his pen line would not be reproduced by wood-engraving. This gave him some new freedoms for invention, but his amendments to the ingrained image of Alice were not only technical. Rackham's Alice was very much a fleshly Edwardian child who would question the status quo of Wonderland. Her courtesy carried an undercurrent of insistent argument. A contemporary critic observed 'a tender, flickering light of imagination in [Alice's] eyes' (Daily Telegraph, 27 Nov 1907). (Dictionary of National Biography). This deluxe limited edition is number 1030 of 1130 copies, unsigned as issued. (Rackham was out of the country when the book was published and did not sign the edition.) Complete with thirteen large tipped-in color plates and many black and white drawings. In the exceedingly rare original "windowed" slipcase: We can only find records of very few references to the original slipcase, although numerous copies exhibit the patch of rectangular discoloration corresponding to the cut-out opening of the slipcase, designed to display the gilt title and the gilt cover illustrations of the turtle and gryphon. The drawing: Laid-in is a large pen and ink drawing of the gryphon, signed by Rackham ("ARackham") and dated ("07") the same year as the book. The drawing is similar to the one on page 119 of the text, but is larger and with much more detail. Size: sheet = 7 1/4x9 (184x228 mm); image = approx. 5 1/2x7 in (136x180 mm). London and New York: William Heinemann and Doubleday, Page, & Co., 1907.Quarto, original white buckram gilt, original marbled slipcase with morocco edges and cutout displaying the title and illustrations on the front panel. Drawing laid-in. Book with mild rectangular "ghosting" from where the cloth was exposed when in the slipcase; mild toning to spine and a few stray spots but cloth exceptionally clean and bright. Corners a little bumped. Slipcase with general rubbing to marbled paper and chips around the frame of the cutout. Matte for one plate with small abrasions at gutter. Text and plates nearly pristine. Drawing was previously framed, resulting in toning to paper where it was exposed (ink crisp and fine). A beautiful copy of a Rackham classic, complete with the very rare slipcase and a unique Rackham ink drawing.
Seller: Manhattan Rare Book Company, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.