Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Macmillan, London, 1883.
Price: US$77.97 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 53rd thousand. 50 illustrations. Top 2" of the spine is missing and there is a latge split on one fold of the spine. Contents are very good.
Seller: Beach Hut Books, Lingfield, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo. Pp. [xii] 224 +[8]pp. ads. Fiftieth thousand. With fifty illustrations by JohnTenniel. Internally fine, in red cloth decorated in gilt and black, Neat owner's name. Extremities worn, with 1/8 inch loss to spine ends. Spine toned dark; light soil to cloth boards. A good copy.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1883.
Price: US$233.92 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 192pp. 1883. Seventy-Second Thousand. A good, tight presentable copy of this early edition bound in the classic original burgundy cloth with circular vignette of Alice to the front board and a gilt embossed title to the spine with gilt embossed title to the spine. Illustrated by John Tenniel. All edges gilt. A closed split down the whole length of the lower joint (with some minor inobtrusive repair) and a split across the width of the spine under 'Alice's' - again with some repair. Original black endpapers. Some soiling/staining to the cloth boards and to the spine. Tissue guard to frontispiece present and still in surprisingly good condition. Notable spotting to the front endpapers to include the title page and the aforementioned tissue guard. A former owner's ink name (Beatrice Christmas 1883) has been largely penned through, though still fully legible. A small chip to the lower corner of page 11 - no loss of text. Notable if not significant finger soiling (probably from naive hands) throughout. A good only copy of a sought after survivor of an early impression of this classic work.
Seller: Trumpington Fine Books Limited, Gilmilnscroft, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Price: US$234.00 + shipping
Description: 54th thousand hardback in decorated cloth Nice copy small octavo 224pp., frontis., illusts., With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. boards a little worn at head of spine & rear hinge tender o/w a nice tight square copy with bright gilt decoration on front board. Loosely inserted 4pp. 'An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves "Alice"'
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$259.91 + shipping
Description: "Fifty-third thousand". 8vo. (xii), 224, (4) pp. Publisher's red cloth, gilt to the spine and upper board, all edges gilt, early gift inscription to the verso of the front free endpaper. Black and white illustrations. Recently rebacked preserving most of the original spine, a few minor marks to the boards, contents generally very good.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$314.49 + shipping
Description: Hardback, approx 7.5 x 5 inches. In red cloth with gilt paneled boards and gilt vignettes to front and rear. All page edges gilt. Black endpapers. In very good condition. Some darkening to spine and some minor darkening and handling marks to boards. Corners slightly bumped with a couple of small nicks to ends of spine, and one nick to cloth on bottom front board corner. Endpapers with previous owners label to front ?Robert Held.? Endpapers cracked between hinges. Penned inscription to halftitle page ?Humbaum(?)? Title page and frontis plate darkened from tissue guard. Some handling marks and a couple of minor spots to pages. Else overall pages clean and tight. Binding tight and sound. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 224pp +1pp advert. With 50 B&W illustrations by John Tenniel.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Author: CARROLL, Lewis. (John Tenniel, illustrator). Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With Forty-Two Illustrations by John Tenniel. Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., 1883. Seventy-First thousand. Language: Text in English. Size: 7.5 " X 5 ". Pages: 192, [1] pages. Binding: Attractive and very good original decorated full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. All edges gilt. Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, rare light foxing - as shown, very nice ex-libris of Isabelle Corwith Cramer on the first endpaper - as shown). WITH laid in original photograph (albumen carte-de-visite) of John Tenniel by John & Charles Watkins and a clipped inscription mounted to a card, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR JOHN TENNIEL: "With kind regards, Your very faithfully, John Tenniel.". Illustrations: Complete with the 42 wonderful illustrations by John Tenniel. **** The book: Attractive early edition of this classic, with the added bonus of Tenniel's rather scarce albumen carte-de-visite and signature! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.
Seller: MFLIBRA Antique Books, MONTREAL, QC, Canada