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Price: US$1218.54 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition in French. 196pp., blue cloth, stamped in gilt, a.e.g. Cloth, particularly the spine, damp spotted and at some stage cleaned or varnished, but not too displeasingly; internally an excellent copy. The much scarcer variant binding, without any imprint at foot of spine.
Seller: Charles Cox Rare Books , Bude, United Kingdom
CARROLL Lewis :. Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles *. Macmillan, Londres [1869]., 1869.
Price: US$1244.12 + shipping
Description: Relié pleine percaline d'éditeur bleue, tranches, titres et décors frappés or. Menus défauts, principalement coins, tête et queue frottées, fissures aux charnières intérieures, (faciles) à restaurer ? un feuillet un peu lâche que je signale courageusement :-) Édition originale. 42 vignettes en noir par John Tenniel. Trois jours après l'édition originale anglaise en reliure rouge, l'allemande et la française sortent de concert, dans une même maquette mais dans des teintes différentes : verte pour la première et bleu pour la seconde. Je n'ai pas eu le courage d'investiguer du côté de l'énigmatique ex-libris parmi les 57900 résultats d'Internet, pour tenter de remonter à la provenance de cet exemplaire qui comporte encore une mention manuscrite à l'encre au faux titre : Alice Calame 1912, Repton. Le mystère reste entier pour ce duo d'Alice mais on peut imaginer quelle grande fut la tentation d'offrir ce livre à une fille portant ce prénom :-) > En cas de problème de commande, veuillez nous contacter par notre page d'accueil / If you have any problems with your order please contact us via our homepage <
Seller: OH 7e CIEL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Lewis Carroll. Aventures D'Alice Au Pays Des Merveilles. Macmillan and Co, 1869.
Price: US$1795.74 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First French edition. 196 pages. Illustrated by John Tenniel. Blue cloth boards with gilt decoration and lettering. Illustrated by John Tenniel. Boards are mildly rub worn, with some light shelf wear to spine, edges and corners. Spine somewhat darkened. Water marks to corner of rear cover and cracks to rear side of spine. Corners are slightly bumped with some crushing to spine ends. Internally one or two dog-eared corners, some internal hinge cracking but rest of pages have remained tightly bound. Bookplate "EC of Fairlawn" and ink signature to half-title. A generally clean, bright copy with the only slight foxing evident on end leaves. Shipping price quoted for UK only. Outside UK, prices on request.
Seller: Bredon Hill Books, Tewkesbury, GLOS, United Kingdom
Carroll, Lewis. Aventures d'Alice au Pays de Merveilles. MACMILLAN, London, 1869.
Price: US$1924.01 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The delicious French translation of 1869, published by Madmillan and Co. Tenniel illustrator. "Traduit de l'Anglais per Henri Bue." Bright blue binding, similar to the English first editions, showing on the back a vignette of Cheshire Cat and the front Alice holding the pig baby. All edges gilded. A small copperplate inscription has been pasted in, on the front paste-down surface, showing first prize for Miss S E Husband for Improvement in Writing.Small breaks in the inner paper covering of the front hinge, but the binding shows firm and solid, ditto the back. A very little scuffing and tiny split to the top of the spine. Tissue to the frontispiece. There is a little mark to page 3 but as the printing has gone over it, it must be a fault in the paper! A tiny, barely visible, ink mark on the front gilded page edges.An extremely nice copy!
Seller: Black Box Books, ASHFORD, United Kingdom
CARROLL, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Aventures D'Alice. MacMillan, 1869.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first French edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, very good in original cloth, housed in a custom-made case with a leather spine.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
CARROLL, Lewis. Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles. Macmillan, London, 1869.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Frontispiece and 42 text illustrations by John Tenniel. Publisher's blue cloth, triple gilt borders, circle with image of Alice in gilt on front cover and circle with image of the Cheshire Cat in gilt on rear cover, hinges starting; interior fine.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2555.12 + shipping
Description: AVENTURES D'ALICE AU PAYS DES MERVEILLES, Macmillan, 1869, first French edition, some wear to the spine extremities, inner hinges just barely starting, else a tight, bright vg or better copy in the publishers original blue cloth binding with all page edges gilt, spine lettering gold-gilt, triple rules to both covers likewise in gold-gilt as well as the circle encased Alice avec cochon on the front cover and the similar circle encased Cheshire Cat on the rear cover.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$16033.41 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, frontispiece (with tissue guard) and vignette illustrations by Tenniel, pp. [xii], 196, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, by Burn, with his diamond ticket on lower pastedown, backstrip gilt lettered direct, boards with triple gilt border, and central illustration (Alice and pig on upper; Cheshire cat on lower) within circular triple line frame, a little rubbing and light bumps to extremities, some light wear at backstrip ends, a.e.g., chocolate chalked endpapers, the flyleaf chipped at top corner, cracking to rear hinge with webbing exposed, good. Inscribed by the Dodgson on the half-title: 'Beatrice Cecilia Harington, from the Author'. The recipient was the eldest daughter of Richard Harington, Principal of Brasenose College and his second wife, Mary; her half-brother (also Richard) was a Christ Church contemporary and friend of Dodgson, who had translated a poem by the latter into Latin for the Daniel Press 'Garland of Rachel'. Beatrice, like her sister (Alice Margaret), was among Dodgson's child-sitters; she was seventeen years of age at the time this translation (which followed the German in the same year as the earliest translations of Carroll's chef d'oeuvre) - Harington was later the first Head of St. Margaret's House, Bethnal Green.
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom