Price: US$23.69 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: LONDON : 1935. Pocket Edition. Salmon-red cloth; gilt lettered spine; and gilt 'Queen' to cover. Illustrated by John Tenniel. Tight and clean copy. No owner name or internal markings. Jacket spine slightly fading; affecting binding slightly. Wear and chipping to jacket; no major loss; now in a clear protective sleeve. Minor wear. GOOD. (xi), 229 pages (includes adverts in the pagination). CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON (1832 -1898), better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. 12mo. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, Cumberland, Inklings, Literature, Rarities, Theology and History. ]
Seller: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, United Kingdom
Price: US$99.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Soft Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. PBO, 1935, 1st edition, Lovely Pictorial Color Wraps with minor rub, Wear & light small stain back Cvr , Interior Nice, Tight Clean With slight rust at some inner Staples , approx 9 1/2 X 6 inchdes, Unpaginated, F-/F-, AS-IS, SOFTCOVER
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 6 x 9 in. Full blue calf with elaborate gilt decorations. Limited edition of 1500, this is no. 323. Not signed by Alice Hargreaves. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; leather supple and covers clean with a little wear to the spine ends. Binding tight and text bright and sptless, some minor foxing to endpapers. Fic. RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: VG+. Previous owner's bookplate on the front inside cover. The front inside cover and front fly-leaf have very light age staining or foxing. Lacking the slipcase. ; Printed in an edition of 1500 copies by William Edwin Rudge for the Limited Editions Club, this is number 1280. The illustrations by John Tenniel have been re-engraved by Frederic Warde. Full blue leather. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo.; xiii + 211 pages. Illustrated by John Tenniel. First Edition. Binding is Leather binding.
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc., Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$960.22 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1938 & 1935. Miniature Editions . 2 volumes, small octavo, approximately six inches tall - termed (by Macmillan) the "Miniature Edition". Finely bound in green polished calf, red morocco labels, gilt lined compartments separated by raised bands, twin rule to boards, dentelles gilt lined, decorative endpapers, gilt edges. Unsigned by the binder, but extremely good quality work. Spines faded, ever so slightly rubbed at tips, excellent copies. With black and white illustrations by John Tenniel. A handsomely bound pair of the miniature editions which were first published in this format in 1907. Relatively scarce and even more so bound in leather. Approximately 6 inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition slight fading, gilt titles and author to red and brown labels, 5 raised gilt bands dividing 6 gilt decorated compartments. Joints good condition sound. Corners good condition. Boards good condition green calf boards with a double gilt fillet to the upper and lower boards and gilt detailing to the edges, some rubbing and marks. Page edges good condition all gilt. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound. Paste downs good condition marbled, with leather and gilt turn-ins. End papers good condition marbled. Title good condition clean. Pages good condition clean, illustrated throughout. Binding good condition beautiful binding. See photos Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1938, 1935 Binding: Hardback
Seller: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, United Kingdom
Price: US$1650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed by Alice Hargeaves "The Original Alice" on the colophon. This copy has been expertly re-backed with portions of the original spine laid on and a paper spine label. weight: 1.7 lb. Rebacked, light wear to extremities, otherwise near fine in a very good slipcase. Illustrated by John Tenniel. 22.5x14.5 cm. xiii, [6], 213, [1] pp. Full blue leather, gilt decorations, in the original red cloth slipcase. Limited edition, number 83 of 1500 copies.
Seller: Zephyr Books, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$1920.44 + shipping
Description: The Limited Editions Club, 1935, signed by Alice Hargreaves (the original Alice). Full blue morocco, decorative gilt tooling & titles, spine rubbed slightly at head. Internally, half title, frontis (chess board to verso), [7], (viii-xii), [1], [1], [6], [3], 4-211 pp, [3], [1] limitation leaf. Spine with vertical crack, almost invisibly repaired, Text Block is in Fine condition, a.e.g., signed by Alice to the limitation leaf, an edition limited to 1500 copies. Housed in its publishers pale blue slip case. (219*146 mm). Dodgson, was about 6 feet tall, slender, had either grey or blue eyes, wore his hair long, and 'carried himself upright, almost more than upright, as if he had swallowed a poker'. He dressed customarily in clerical black and wore a tall silk hat, but when he took Alice and her sisters out on the river, he wore white flannel trousers and a hard white straw hat (A. and C. Hargreaves, Alice's recollections). He ate frugally when he ate at all, disliked tea but enjoyed a glass of wine. He had a pleasant speaking voice, but left no recording of it, and a tolerably good singing voice which he did not mind using. He sometimes talked to himself! See ODNB.
Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: 22.5 x 15 cm. Octavo. Limited to 1500 copies signed by Alice Hargreaves, "the original Alice" who the title character was named after, of which this is copy 264. According to the LEC bibliography "most copies", but not all, are signed by her. Bound in publisher's full blue morocco, gold stamped. AEG. With illustrations by John Tenniel. A bit of scuffing and chipping to the corners as well as the head and tail of the spine of the binding. There is evidence of bookplate removal to the front free and fixed endpaper. Lacking slipcase.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illus. by John Tenniel, 8.75 x 5.75", gilt-dec blue leather; aeg, 212pp, covers a bit rubbed, minor scuffing to spine corners, very minor finger soiling else a nice copy in a cloth slipcase (though the slipcase is for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). LIMITED TO 1500 NUMBERED COPIES (this is copy #774), SIGNED BY "THE ORIGINAL ALICE" ALICE HARGREAVES.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$2875.00 + shipping
Description: Illus by John Tenniel, 9 x 5.75", nicely gilt-dec blue leather; aeg, 212pp, covers a bit rubbed, extremities worn, hinges loose, eps toned at edges else a nice, clean copy. LIMITED TO 1500 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY THE "ORIGINAL ALICE" ALICE HARGREAVES
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$3125.00 + shipping
Description: In original full blue morocco binding with heavy gilt decorations, neatly rebacked retaining the original spine. Copy #867 of 1500 copies with typography and binding by Frederick Warde and with the original John Tenniel illustrations. This is one of less than 1000 copies SIGNED by Alice Hargreaves, "the original Alice," on the colophon page. Alice refused to sign other editions of the Alice books in her lifetime, written by Carroll for her when she was young Alice Liddell, but she was convinced with the help of monetary compensation and an advanced age to sign here. Light wear to spine. Near Fine in a Fine red cloth slipcase, uncommon thus
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HB NODJ ISSUED, 1935, 1st Edition THUS, Fine/F-, NODJ, tiny rub extremities spine book Cover, BOUND IN Original FULL BLUE MOROCCO Decorated Leather with LAVISH Gold Gilt Embossing on Front, back & Spine, Reddish cloth covered SLIPCASE Has MUCH Rub, Wear & some paper Adhereing to it & Staining but iS INTACT with No Tears Good - cond. ONLY Slipcase, Copy #204 of a limited run of 1,500 copies for the Limited Editions Club. It's signed by Alice Hargreaves, the real life inspiration for Carroll's "Alice". in Plastic Mylar clear Cover For Protection, 212 pages, Small octavo, Illustrations Re-engraved by Frederic Warde, , Alice refused to sign other editions of the Alice books in her lifetime, written by Carroll for her when she was young Alice Liddell, but she was convinced with the help of monetary compensation and an advanced age to sign here. A rare opportunity to acquire one of the most famous children's books ever published here signed by the subject of the books.
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Two volumes. First editions thus, limited to only 1500 numbered copies and published for the members of the Limited Editions Club of New York. Both books signed in ink by "The Original Alice" in Wonderland, Alice Hargreaves (née Liddell); Reportedly only about 1,000 copies of this title were signed by her, a few years before her death. With original illustrations by John Tenniel re-engraved by Frederic Warde and Bruno Rollitz; the first volume is signed at the rear limitation page by Warde. Bound in publisher's original red and blue (respectively) full leather heavily decorated in gilt, with all edges gilt; in publisher's original blue and red cloth slipcases. Near Fine with light rubbing to leather at spine ends and light fading to spine. In Very Good spotted, toned and edge-worn slipcases. A beautiful set.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.