Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Light green-gray wraps, lettered/illus. in black. Inaugural issue. Front cover detached, back cover barely hanging on, with surface loss along most of binding. Corners bumped/creased, with minor corner loss to covers. 64 pp. Despite its title, primarily a literary venture, with selections in this issue by Robert B. Brough, William P. Hale, William Brough, Godfrey Turner, John V. Bridgeman, George Augustus Sala, Frank E. Smedley, Edward Draper, Edmund H. Yates. The fourth issue of this title is notable as containing the first published work of Charles L. Dodgson under the name of Lewis Carroll; while quite scarce in its own right, this is (alas!) not that issue. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VOLUME ONE NUMBER ONE. THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF LEWIS CARROLL. Bound in the original brown cloth, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine lightly rubbed, spine lightly spotted, some light foxing, else a GOOD+ copy of the first appearance of Lewis Carroll. This volume contains three original pieces by Dodgson: 'Solitude.' 'Ye Carpette Knyghte.' 'The Path of Roses.' Dodgson's use of the pseudonym 'Lewis Carroll' is here used for the first time (Solitude).
Seller: D&D Galleries - ABAA, Somerville, NJ, U.S.A.