Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$57.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition 8vo, illustrated.Blue with dark blue to spine, minor abraded wear, some mild patchiness ,sunned spine, slight forward lean, sound binding, a signature inside front, excises fep, pale toning to ffep, very good internally, with illustrations by Mervyn Peake
Seller: Anne Godfrey, Pwllheli, United Kingdom
Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass. Allan Wingate, 1954.
Price: US$190.80 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Some light wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corner, top and bottom of spine a little bumped and worn, a couple of small marks on spine, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but slightly yellowing
Seller: Neo Books, Sidcup, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$222.60 + shipping
Description: A scarce edition of the classic Victorian children's novel, here with illustrations by British author and artist Mervyn Peake. A scarce first edition thus, with original unclipped dustwrapper.This edition features sixty-five illustrations from British author and artist Mervyn Peake, best known for the 'Gormenghast' fantasy series, and his poetry and literary nonsense.Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland' first saw publication in 1865. Following Alice as she falls down a rabbit hole and encounters various anthropomorphic creatures, it remains one of the most popular and renowned works of both Victorian and children's fiction, having seen countless interpretations since. Originally published in 1871, Alice's sequel, 'Through the Looking-Glass', sees the heroine return to the world of Wonderland by climbing through a mirror, where she know finds that everything she encounters has now been reversed.This is the first UK printing with Peake's illustrations, with the spelling mistake 'pulished' to verso of title page. Bears a school prize book plate to the front pastedown, dated July 1959, awarded to Stephanie Shannons of Sandhurst Primary. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dustwrapper. Fading to the perimeters of the boards and spine, focused to head and tail. Tail of spine bumped. School prize bookplate to front pastedown. Dustwrapper is discoloured, particularly at spine panel. Pencil markings to front panel. Edgewear, chips and closed tears present. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$222.60 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This is the First UK HARDBACK printing published by Allan Wingate, London in 1954. This was the first UK printing of the book in hardback, as opposed to the soft covered edition printed earlier in 1946 by Zephyr Books, Stockholm & London, which was the first edition illustrated by Peake in the english language. This Hardback BOOK is in blue cloth with gilt titling/gilt illustration to the spine, with a little dulling to the gilt on the spine, and some light edge fading to the covers, but overall near VG, tight, clean and sound. The DUST-JACKET is only in a fair condition with some loss, some fading, marks, creasing and sunning to the spine. However the d/j is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks a little better, and the Mervyn Peake d/j artwork is striking, so nice to have it in some form, even in a poor version. The page fore-edges are very lightly toned but uniform. Internally, some VERY light offsetting to the endpapers, but the text block is overall very clean and tight, but page183/4 has been folded over (for a long time I would guess) and has a crease line running down the page(s) and some 'invisible' archive tape over a tear at the bottom margin/inner gutter of the page, but not affecting the text, otherwise NO Inscriptions or other marks I can see. (viii) + 264 pp. A full page b/w frontispiece - 65 illustrations in total throughout - all by Mervyn Peake, including a vignette in red on the title page. A Very Scarce title. SEE IMAGES. ; 8vo 7.5" - 8" tall.
Seller: Sue Lloyd-Davies Books, CARMARTHEN, United Kingdom
Price: US$248.04 + shipping
Description: The first edition thus of this edition of Lewis Carroll's classic works of children's fiction, illustrated throughout by Mervyn Peake. This edition features sixty-five illustrations from British author and artist Mervyn Peake, best known for the 'Gormenghast' fantasy series, and his poetry and literary nonsense.Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland' first saw publication in 1865. Following Alice as she falls down a rabbit hole and encounters various anthropomorphic creatures, it remains one of the most popular and renowned works of both Victorian and children's fiction, having seen countless interpretations since. Originally published in 1871, Carroll's sequel, 'Through the Looking-Glass', sees the heroine return to the world of Wonderland by climbing through a mirror, where she know finds that everything she encounters has now been reversed.In the publisher's original price clipped dust wrapper.Former owner's inscription to front free endpaper.This is the first UK printing with Peake's illustrations, with the spelling mistake 'pulished' to verso of title page. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price clipped dust wrapper. A touch of fading to back strip head, otherwise externally fine. Inscription to front free endpaper. Discolouration to dust wrapper back strip, with marks to wraps. Chipping to back strip head and tail, with a small loss to the head of the rear wrap. Dust wrapper reverse age toned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and wright. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$313.42 + shipping
Description: 2nd (1st English) Edition. Dark blue boards, lettered in gilt. Very Good in dust wrapper. The 1st issue of this edition. PiP B8b
Seller: Michael S. Kemp, Bookseller, Sheerness, KENT, United Kingdom