Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Edition on rag laid paper exclusively for Boni & Liveright authors and friends - #278/300. Paper is watermarked with oval B&L mark. Illustrations by John Tenniel. Last few pages unopened. 8vo Black cloth and decorated paper covered boards. 349 pages. Top edges gilt, foredges and bottom edges uncut. Introduction by Alexander Woolcott. Both top outer corners bumped. Two previous owners names on front endpaper. Scarce. no jacket. Better than Very Good condition.
Seller: Cultural Connection, Cape Coral, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$472.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition thus, and first printing from Boni and Liveright (soon to become The Modern Library). With illustrations by John Tenniel and an introduction by Alexander Woollcott. First printing notes: error on half-title listing "The Hunting of the Shark" [vs. Snark], chapter 2 includes illustration of Alice's long neck (later omitted). No jacket. Green flexible leather with gilded device on front and gilded lettering and lines on spine. Debossed border close to edges on the front. Rubbing to extremities, slight bend to lower right corner of front, some denting/light creasing to spine, gilding aged. Pictoral Brodsky end-papers; front end-papers with some tears, all present - pencil notes at rear. The interior is toned, otherwise very clean and clear with all illustrations. Pages: 351 Dimensions:6½ x 4¼ x ¾.
Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: HARDBACK NODUSTJACKET, 1924 on copyright pg, 1st Modern Library Edition, 1ST PRINTING, , BONI & LIVERIGHT LETTERS on Front Green FLEXIBLE Leather Cvr & on title pg, CHAPTER 2 HAS ALICE'S LONG NECK OMITTED FROM OTHER EDITIONS, (suggestion of mushroom imbibing). GOOD+ condition, Light wear Wrinkling to some pages & Foxing, in green flexible boards WITH GOLD GILT ON FRONT CVR & SPINE, Light Fox Wear Thruout, 351 pgs, NO ADS in Back, 4 1/4 X 6 1/2 IN. LIGHT WATER STAIN BLANK Margin few pgs, This edition has strong dark printing, illustrations ,BONI & LIVERIGHT LETTERS B&L on Front Green FLEXIBLE Leather Cvr & on title pg, CHAPTER 2 HAS ALICE? LONG NECK OMITTED FROM OTHER EDITIONS , (suggestion of mushroom imbibing
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$530.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HARDBACK NODUSTJACKET, 1924 on copyright pg, 1st Modern Library Edition, 1ST PRINTING, , BONI & LIVERIGHT LETTERS on Front Green FLEXIBLE Leather Cvr & on title pg, CHAPTER 2 HAS ALICE'S LONG NECK OMITTED FROM OTHER EDITIONS, (suggestion of mushroom imbibing). VG condition, Light wear to some pages & Foxing, in green flexible boards WITH GOLD GILT ON FRONT CVR & SPINE lite wear , Light Fox Wear Thruout, 351 pgs, NO ADS in Back, 4 1/4 X 6 1/2 IN. owner stamp to front pastedown,LITE bumping to spine, , mild staining to rear endpapers. CREASE TO COVER SPINE
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.