Lewis Carroll. Sylvie and Bruno. Macmillan and Co., London, 1890.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Binding slightly loose. Spine darkened. Binding showing at pages 193 and 225.
Seller: RZabasBooks, Toronto, ON, Canada
Carroll, Lewis. Sylvie and Bruno. Macmillan, 1890.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green boards with gilt title and decoration. Boards have some minor white spots on front. Pencil inscription on front endpaper. Rear endpaper has some spotting (not foxing). Corners lightly bumped. Interior is clean and bright with 46 illustrations by Harry Furniss. 3 pages of ads in back.
Seller: Linda's Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Carroll, Lewis. Sylvie and Bruno. Macmillan, 1890.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In green cloth with gilt and black decorations. Slight discoloration to cloth. Previous owner name.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Carroll, Lewis. SYLVIE AND BRUNO. Macmillan & Company, Ltd, London and New York, 1890.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. First American edition. Octavo. 400pp. Incl. index. plus 3pp. ads. 46 Illustrations by Harry Furniss. Decorative red cloth stamped in black and gilt. Spine darkened, rubbed and lightly frayed on ends. Book is slightly cocked, still a bright, nice copy. In this "two volume tale of the eponymous fairy siblings.Carroll entwines two plots, set in two alternate worlds, one the fairytale kingdom of Elfland, the other a realm called Outland, which mirrors and satirizes English society."-publishersweekly.
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
CARROLL.LEWIS. SYLVIE&BRUNO.. MACMILLAN., LONDON/NEW YORK., 1890.
Price: US$51.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: TIGHT CLEAN COPY.GILT ON COVERS BRIGHT.CORNERS AND TOP AND BOTTOM OF THE SPINE A LITTLE RUBBED.GIFT INSCRIPTION AND LATER NAME AND DATE ON FFEP.
Seller: Angus Books, SHEFFIELD, MA, U.S.A.
Lewis Carroll. Sylvie and Bruno. MacMillan and Co., 1890.
Price: US$116.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ills. by Harry Furniss, clean tight copy, Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada
Lewis Carroll.. Sylvie and Bruno.. Macmillan & Co., London and New York, 1890.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Lewis Carroll. Sylvie and Bruno. London and New York, Macmillan & Co., 1890. First American edition. Xxiv, 400Pp, plus 4pp ads (including an amusing index). Original publisher's cloth. Chipping to head and tail, and the joints are cracked. Overall, a fresh copy, and not bad-looking at all. Solid GOOD.
Seller: JF Ptak Science Books, Hendersonville, NC, U.S.A.
Lewis Carroll. Sylvie and Bruno, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. , 1890.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Carroll, Lewis. Sylvie and Bruno (1890) and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1894). New Tork, Macmillan. Both first American MacMillan editions, with the New York address on the ads at the end. Some scuffing at bottoms of spines. Sylvie and Bruno: xxiv+ 400 + 3 pages of ads. Sylvie and Bruno concluded: xxx + 423 + 9 pages of ads.
Seller: South Willington Book Cartel, WILLINGTON, CT, U.S.A.
Lewis Carroll. SYLVIE AND BRUNO. MacMillan & Company , Ltd, New York, 1890.
Price: US$384.94 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Front hinge cracked. Corners lightly bumped. Light soiling on front/rear panels. Illustrations by Harry Furniss.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ; 2 volumes in matching fine bindings (one red, one blue). Satin cloth covers with gilt and black embossed details have wear to corners and spine caps with light soiling but bright and in very good condition. Boards and spines are straight. Bindings are tight. Former owner's name stamped in lower corner of front paste downs. Pages are barely toned with a couple of tiny chips to the very edge of a couple of pages and an erasure in the margin of a page but overall in very good condition.
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First published edition (the second produced edition overall) of this color-illustrated ALICE for young children, with the Carroll-approved color images of Tenniel's original illustrations - quite a nice copy. In 1889, Lewis Carroll adapted his beloved ALICE IN WONDERLAND for younger readers as THE NURSERY "ALICE." With picture-loving children in mind, he suggested that Macmillan use color-printed illustrations in this edition, and enlisted his close collaborator John Tenniel to add color to his earlier designs. However, when he received the proofs, Carroll was aghast: "The pictures are far too bright and gaudy, and vulgarize the whole thing," he lamented, "NONE must be sold in England" (Lovett, 36). Carroll suggested that Macmillan offload the offending copies to their American offices, and demanded the printer produce another edition "with Tenniel's coloured pictures before him" (Lovett, 36). This copy of THE NURSERY "ALICE" reflects Carroll's editorial input, with the colors duly toned down. Given the target audience and poor quality of the binding materials for this production, copies are rarely found today in decent condition: this is a lovely copy. 10'' x 7.75''. Original cloth-backed color pictorial boards. Color frontispiece with tissue guard, 19 color illustrations. Price four shillings on title page (ref. Weaver Collection). [12], 56, [8] pages, with SYLVIE AND BRUNO advertising slip insert. Binding with toning, some edgewear and light rubbing; faint tide mark at bottom corner of front board. Interior bright and sharp.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Carroll, Lewis; [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge]. The Nursery Alice. Macmillan and Co., London, 1890.
Price: US$10882.47 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: [12], 56pp, [8], original quarter cloth and decorated boards, the upper cover with a pictorial design in colour of Alice asleep and dreaming beneath a tree, signed 'E.G. Thomson', the lower cover with a picture of the March Hare in the centre, and the initials 'E.G.T.'. Cloth to spine repaired, with small splits to head of upper joint, corners bumped with small amounts of loss, slightly rubbed with very light soiling. Internally very lightly browned, lacking tissue guard to frontispiece, but generally clean and fairly bright. Now housed in a black buckram chemise and slipcase, with title and author in gilt to spine. Inscribed by Carroll, in his usual purple ink to half title, being one of one hundred presentation copies (see Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch, page 162), 'For Nina from the author, Mar. 25 1890'. Nina was apparently Nina 'Ninty' Eschwege, who later married Herbert Haviland Field. This "second (first published) edition appears to differ from the first only in the date 1890, in the substitution of 'Price Four Shillings' above the imprint, and in the Advertisements at the end. Copies also have an inserted printed slip advertising Sylvie and Bruno [not found in this copy]. The impression consisted of 10,000 copies on white, rather than 'toned' paper, with greatly improved colour reproduction" (Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch, page 162), after Dodgson had rejected the first ten thousand sets of sheets printed by Edmund Evans, because the pictures were too bright and gaudy, so he instructed that they be reprinted. Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 216 Size: 4to
Seller: Temple Rare Books, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$10882.47 + shipping
Description: Second edition (the first published in the UK), first issue, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "For Olive, from the Author. Mar. 25, 1890". The recipient was Olive Augusta Langton Clarke who Carroll met in September 1883. Her father was both a clergyman and an inventor, and a close friend of the author's. The original idea for a simplified version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland came to Lewis Carroll in 1881. He conceived a book with simplified text and pictures printed in colour. In 1886, the book was announced as being in preparation. The first edition was printed in 1889 and Carroll, mirroring his behaviour over the original publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865, rejected the printing with the complaint that the illustrations were "far too bright and gaudy". The rejected sheets would eventually be issued in the US in 1890 (and then in the UK in 1891 and 1897). The second edition, published in 1890, was therefore the first published edition and on 25 March 1890 Carroll inscribed around 100 presentation copies, having recorded the names and (mostly) addresses of recipients in an exercise book. Describing the new printing in his diary, Carroll stated that "it is a great success" (Diaries, p. 506). The most notable alteration between the first and second editions is the printing of the sheets on white rather than toned paper and the change to the illustration of "Alice and the Cheshire Cat" on p. 34, removing Alice's profile. The first issue has "Price four shillings" above the imprint. Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch call for "an inserted printed slip advertising Sylvie and Bruno" which is frequently missing, but present in this copy. Carroll's exercise book recording the names and addresses of recipients, includes Olive Langton Clarke as entry number 45. She is listed as living at 25 Clarendon Square, Leamington. Carroll first met the Clarkes at Whitburn in October 1864. James Langton Clarke (1833-1916) attended University College, Durham (obtaining a BA in 1856 and MA 1857). He was a curate of Whitburn 1858-60, and afterwards curate at Leamington from 1885. Given this gap, it is assumed that he had some independent means. In 1857 he married Frances Mary Harrison (b. 1835), daughter of the railway engineer Thomas Elliott Harrison, and the couple had 14 children. Olive Augusta was the youngest and born in 1880. In 1904, James Langton Clarke published The Eternal Saviour-Judge. He was also an inventor of items such as a mechanical pencil-sharpener (and applied for six different patents between 1863 and 1885). The Langton Clarkes were friends of the Wilcoxes (related to Carroll), and James Langton Clarke officiated at the christening of Mary Dorothea Wilcox in October 1859. A collection of photographs taken by Carroll of the Langton Clarkes is now at the Chicago Art Institute. Provenance: Sotheby's, 25-27 July 1927, lot 571; Quaritch; Thomas and Jania Erwin. Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 216, Edward Wakeling, ed., Lewis Carroll's Diaries, 2004. Tall octavo. Original white cloth-backed white glazed pictorial boards designed by E. Gertrude Thomson, front cover lettered in red and black. Printed slip advertising Sylvie and Bruno loosely inserted. Housed in a custom red linen chemise and red cloth slipcase by James Macdonald (of New York). Colour frontispiece with tissue-guard and 19 colour illustrations after John Tenniel. Book label of Thomas and Jania Erwin on front pastedown. Binding somewhat worn and soiled with extremities worn, some abrasions to rear cover, some light finger-soiling; else a good and attractive copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$24581.57 + shipping
Description: This remarkable copy in extremely fresh condition signed by Lewis Carroll one of 100 copies presented to friends with a copy of the name recorded in a Lewis Carroll's notebook. Second overall edition 1st Uk edition. This fabulous copy comes with four signed letters by Lewis Carroll, a brief transcript of each below.nbsp;Engraved and printed by Edmund EvansTitle page versonbsp;Advertisements: p. 68 at end, with slip advertising Sylvie and Brunonbsp;A fascinating collection of four letters written by C.L. Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll, and addressed to euro;Mabeleuro; Lewis Carroll first met Mabel Amy Burton on 16 August 1877. He noted in his diary Went on the pier in the evening and made another fortunate acquaintance. my new friend is Mabel Amy Burton, of 53 Pentonville Road, Islington. She seems to be about 8. Mabel herself is entirely charming, and without an atom of shyness: I never became friends with a child so easily or so quickly. Though their friendship ended as Mabel grew, these examples of correspondence provide a precious insight into both Carrolleuro;s relationships and, in the case of letter no. 4, of how his taste for nonsense and the absurd permeated his real life as well as his work. Revisiting letter no. 4, weeuro;re gifted a particularly valuable passage: euro;What is your idea of smallness, I wonder And how do you distinguish it from largeness Do you call an elephant smalleuro;, for instance And do you call this a longeuro; lettereuro; Of course, weeuro;re reminded of Aliceeuro;s adventures and her bizarre physical changes. In the midfifties, English psychiatrist John Todd coined the terms euro;Alice in Wonderland syndromeeuro; to refer to certain hallucinations induced by migraines; sufferers would experience sizerelated hallucinations affecting both themselves and the objects around them. Since, many scholars have proposed that Carroll himself was plagued by these same illusions, consequently using them as a source of inspiration for his two Alice books.nbsp; A fine example of this famous work, with such fabulous covers.nbsp;
Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United Kingdom