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Lewis Carroll. The Rectory Umbrellan and Mischmasch. Cassell and Company Ltd., 1932.
Price: US$25.66 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover is faded and worn, with foxing to pages and textblock.
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Lewis Carroll. The Rectory Umbrella And Mischmasch. Cassell & Co., 1932.
Price: US$27.20 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1932. First Edition. 193 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Illustrations to page 0 - 6 are painted over. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Some bumping to corners. Soft crushing to spine ends. Visible tanning to spine and edges. Bubbling to front board. Light marks overall.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Carroll Lewis. The Rectory Umberella and Mischmasch. Cassell, 1932.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: All books outside UK sent airmail. With a foreword by Florence Milner - Harvard College Library, rough opening to two leaves and a neat repair. Original blue decorated cloth, slightly nicked at head of spine. Overall a very good plus copy.
Seller: Lavender Fields Books PBFA, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Carroll, Lewis. The Rectory Umbrella and Misch Masch. Cassell & Co Ltd - 1st Edition, 1932.
Price: US$41.05 + shipping
Description: Hardback. No Dust Jacket in Very Good condition. Blue cloth decorated boards slightly rubbed. Title in gold relief to front and spine. Previous owner's name to front endpapers with private library stamp. 193 Pages. Foreword by Florence Milner. Many illustratuions throughout the book.
Seller: Rhos Point Books, Conwy, United Kingdom
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A lovely book, packed full of typically extraordinary illustrations. HB in red/maroon buckram. 4to, 193pp. Ex lib, but fine condition; bookplate on front ep. Lewis Carroll (really Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-98) was a mathematician and clergyman but his fame rests on his children's books full of ingenuity, charm and humour. Pb. Reprints available but here is the first edition Size: 4to
Seller: Appleford Bookroom, Abingdon, OXON, United Kingdom
CARROLL LEWIS. THE RECTORY UMBRELLA AND MISCHMASCH. LONDON CASSELL, 1932.
Price: US$64.14 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, WITH FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR, FOREWORD BY FLORENCE MILNER. A NICE COPY IN BLUE, DECORATED CLOTH.
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
Carroll, Lewis. The Rectory Umbrella and Mischmasch. Cassell, London, 1932.
Price: US$64.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in clean blue decorated cloth with bright, gilt titles to front board and spine, this 1932 hardcover First Edition is VG. X111/193pp with Foreword by Florence Milner, Full-page and other drawings set in text by author, Poetry and Prose included. Discolouration of mainly blank margin pages 48/49: all text legible. Published here for the first time are two manucsript magazines which Carroll wrote in his youth. Humorous and whimsical and wrtten about 1850, these early works neverthless reflect the scholarly atmosphere in which he lived, with detailed footnotes as if in a dissertation. Clean endpapers, slight wear to top/tail of spine and corners; two small abrasions to rear board, slight rubbing to spine edge. Small label seems to have been removed fron foot of front board, leaving only indistinct traces. Otherwise Vg
Seller: Camilla's Bookshop, Eastbourne, SX, United Kingdom
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Now for the first time published in full, are the last two of the eight manuscript magazines for which Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, as a child and youth, was responsible." Blue cloth decorated green and gold, 131 pages. Light wear, Very good+, bright and attractive.
Seller: The Bookstall, Richmond, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$96.21 + shipping
Description: [Children's Illustrated] FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 19cm), pp.[xvi]; 193; [3]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine and upper, decoration to upper, top edge tinted black. Illustrations throughout. Occasional spotting to textblock edge, a neat ownership inscription to front endpaper in black ink, else internally fine. Wearing to spine edges and head/tail, light wearing to board corners, minor marking to rear board. An attractive, very good copy. These two early manuscript books by Lewis Carroll originated as a family effort but quickly became the young man's independent project.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$96.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION. Very good copy in original blue cloth illustrated boards. Slight rubbing to top and tail of spine and fore-edges. Minor spotting to small lower section of boards, but still an attractive copy of this entertaining book.::
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$147.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Cassell & Company, (1932). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with correct copyright statement, ads, etc. 193 pages. Illustrated. Very Good+ in Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; moderate wear; dust jacket is worn with some chips and tears; tape along edges; price not clipped (10/6 net). A curious book by the author of Alice in Wonderland. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .
Seller: LaCelle Rare Books, Chadwick, MO, U.S.A.
CARROLL, Lewis.. The Rectory Umbrella and Mischmasch.. Cassell, London., 1932.
Price: US$224.48 + shipping
Description: First edition. Foreword by Florence Milner. Octavo. pp xiv, 193. Illustrations by the author. Original blue cloth with a maze-like pattern on the upper cover. 'In these two ''domestic magazines'' the greater portion of which is now published for the first time, Lewis Carroll's youthful pen exhibits every trait which later made ''Alice'' a unique and immortal joy.' (from the blurb).Half-title page and rear blank tanned. Near fine in very good, nicked and chipped dustwrapper chipped at head of spine, a bit faded at spine and edges and with a 3 cm closed tear.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom