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CARROLL, LEWIS.. The Game of Logic. London: Macmillan, 1887, 1887.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition (after the privately issued edition). Bound by Riviere in 3/4 red morocco, with the counters and board bound in. Fine. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Lewis Carroll. The Game of Logic. Macmillan, 1887.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "The Game of Logic" by Lewis Carroll. Macmillan, 1887 first published edition (technically second edition, since Carroll had suppressed a 1886 edition of which only 50 copies have survived). Book in good condition, iagrammatic frontispiece and illustrations in text, gift inscription to head of half-title, half-title and frontispiece loose, original red cloth gilt, lower joint split and showing, spine toned, 8vo, lacking game card and tiles.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Lewis Carroll. The Game of Logic. Macmillan and Co., London, 1887.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Red boards with gilt title to front and spine. Spine is heavily darkened. Small 1 cm. loss of cloth on back joint. Head and tail of spine quite worn. Front and back hinges are split showing binding cloth but still sturdy. Some foxing to title page, tissue guard and frontispiece. Hints of moisture to top edges of last two pages. Envelope present but fair condition with foxing dirty and a tape repair to the flap. Folded sheet with "From the Author" present. Six of nine counters present; three pink, three grey. Game card present and in good condition. Text pages in very good condition. Binding also very good. Photos available on request.
Seller: RZabasBooks, Toronto, ON, Canada
Carroll, Lewis. THE GAME OF LOGIC & THE MAGIC OF LEWIS CARROLL. Macmillan, 1887.
Price: US$966.62 + shipping
Description: THE GAME OF LOGIC, Macmillan, 1887, first edition (trade issue after a privately published edition of 1886 of which only a few copies are known), some light wear to the spine extremities, else just about a vg copy with the gold-gilt lettering still nice and bright. The game board envelope (dated 1886) the game board insert and 8 of the 9 game markers are all still present. Rare thus. Along with THE MAGIC OF LEWIS CARROLL, Simon & Schuster, 1973, first edition, fine in like dust-wrapper. Illustrated.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Carroll, Lewis. The Game of Logic. Macmillan and Co Ltd, London, 1887.
Price: US$1104.89 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: red cloth, gilt lettering, black endpapers, 96 pp, first trade edition, darkened spine, hinges split but still tight, cover lightly soiled, laid in is an envelope dated 1886, when it was privately published by Macmillan and Co. containing 9 cardboard tiles (5 gray, 4 pink) used as counters and the cardboard board the game is played on,the flap of the envelope is detached Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Price: US$3038.45 + shipping
Description: 8vo. (12), 96 pp., 2 ff. of publisher's advertisements. With game board frontispiece and several text illustrations. Contemporary red full cloth with giltstamped title to cover and spine. First trade edition. With the loosely inserted customary envelope containing a game card and 9 tiles (5 gray, 4 pink) required to play the "game of logic". The envelope bears the date of the privately printed 1886 first edition. As Dodgson was not satisfied with the first issue, initially intended to be printed in an edition of 500 copies, it was suppressed. - Extremities lightly bumped, spine slightly sunned, minor edgewear, a few spots of soiling to the boards. Internally clean and tight, all edges trimmed; minor intermittent foxing. Envelope somewhat foxed and thumb-soiled with minor edgewear and several closed tears, professionally repaired. - Williams 53, 54. William et al., 193,196.
Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria
Lewis Carroll. The Game of Logic (Signed). MacMillan, 1887.
Price: US$3671.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1887 First Edition, First printing. Description: First edition (after the very rare private issue). Spine repaired. Tear to publisher's printed envelope. Presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title in purple ink: "Middle Lynge/ From the Author [flourish] Mar. 87." Game board and 3 (of 9 -- 1 pink and 2 gray) original counters in publisher's envelope at rear.
Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
CARROLL, Lewis.. The Game of Logic.. Macmillan and Co., London, 1887.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo, publisher's gilt-lettered red cloth in custom cloth folding box. First edition (after the very rare private issue). Rear hinge cracked; long tear to publisher's printed envelope; otherwise a very good copy. The spine is a little darkened, and there is some use to its extremities. There is a small ink spot to the rear panel. Presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title in purple ink: "R. Brodie / From the Author [flourish] Mar. 87." The recipient may be the Oxford professor referred to in the Carroll ABC ditty: "B is for Brodie who swears by the gasses." Game board and 5 (of 9 -- 3 pink and 2 gray) original counters in publisher's envelope at rear.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Carroll, Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). The Game of Logic.. MacMillan and Co, London, 1887.
Price: US$7200.00 + shipping
Description: First trade edition ofÂLewis Carrollâs game, with scarce original card and several original markers. Octavo, original publisher's red cloth. Association copy, inscribed by Lewis Carroll to his nephew, on the half-title in purple ink in the year of publication, "Bertram J. Collingwood with the Author's love Mar. 87." The volume contains the original envelope containing the playing board, with six of the nine rare counters. In very good condition with some rubbing to the extremities. Uncommon signed and inscribed. âThe native acuteness and ingenuity of [Carrollâs] intellect led him to devote much attention to formal logic, in whose intricate puzzles he delighted, and he almost seemed to have convinced himself that it was an engine for the discovery of new truth, instead of a means of detecting errorâ"that more could be got out of the premises than was put into themâ (DNB). This first published edition was preceded only by an extremely small private printing in 1886 that Carroll suppressed.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.