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Carroll Lewis. Through the Loking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Macmillan & Co, 1872.
Price: US$192.43 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Twelfth Thousand. Fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. Red cloth covers with small round gilt portraits, one on each cover. Spine is very rubbed with large splits and is partially detached but present. Small piece missing to top of spine. Corners bumped and rubbed. Some tanning, marks and soiling to covers. Cracks to hinge. Inside covers and pages look a little shaken. Two previous owners inscriptions. Light foxing to some pages. 224 pages.
Seller: M and M Books, Barkway, HERTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Description: 1872, twenty-first thousand printing. A poor condition reading copy - please contact us for photos of condition. Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Carroll, Lewis. Through The Looking Glass And What Alice Found There. Macmillan, London, 1872.
Price: US$250.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 50 illustrations by John Tenniel, including frontis with tissue guard. All edges gilt. 23rd thousand 1872 (the same year as the 1st edition). Publishers burgundy cloth, titled and decorated gilt (a little dusty now). Spine has been professionally re-laid & is a touch age toned. Pages a little shaken
Seller: Black Cat Bookshop P.B.F.A, Leicester, United Kingdom
Carroll, lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Macmillan and Co., 1872.
Price: US$261.79 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback, no dust wrapper. 1872, 35th Thousand. Red cloth with gilt decorations. With John Tenniel illustrations. Re-backed with most of original spine laid down, though titles faint. Board apparent at corners. Slight spine lean. Gilt Alice device to front is partly rubbed, while the cat on the reverse is clearer Occasional marks to cloth. Original black eps preserved at front, though paper lightly edg-rubbed and hinge cracked with mull apparent. Ownership inscription on reverse of front fep, with small ink shadow on half title. Rear free ep replaced in black and binder's diamond ticket stuck down. All page edges gilt. Frontispiece protected by tissue guard. Internally the paper is a little age-toned, with some fingermarks, but no obvious foxing. A reasonable copy of an early reprint in sound condition. Pics available on request.
Seller: Sally Smith Books, Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom
Price: US$319.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Has some forward-leaning and some black strengthening tape inside. Even though this yhe pages internally are quite fresh. With some foxing and some small stains. The binding is a bit damaged as seen in photos but holds together quite good.
Seller: Great and rare books, Uppsala, UPPLA, Sweden
Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. MacMillan, London, 1872.
Price: US$378.56 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover with full gilt page block, gilt borders and decoration to front and rear board and gilt printing to spine. Thirteenth Thousand. Features 50 illustrations by John Tenniel, including a tissue-protected frontispiece. Signature of previous owner to half-title page and hand-written text of the poem "The Vulture and the Husbandman" at the final pages. This copy is with the original binding and it is quite worn with numerous tears to the cloth on the spine. Front and rear boards are marked and the corners are rubbed and worn. Cracks along front and rear hinges and light foxing to first couple of pages. Small sticker on rear pastedown and minor marks in margins of a few pages at upper leading corners. The text and illustrations remain clean and unmarked throughout. AD
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1] 2-224, fifty illustrations by John Tenniel, three-quarter leather and marbled boards, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. First U.S. edition. The sheets of the American edition are probably the same as those used for the British first printing for they have Macmillan's device, and the misprint "Wade" for "Wabe" on page 21. "THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS has the added discipline of being based on a chess game, an ingenious contrivance that brings structure to the surrealism and makes the sequel a more accomplished and successful work. The second Alice book is quoted more often that the first (though most people believe they are quoting from the first), and features the poems 'Jabberwocky' and 'The Walrus and the Carpenter.'" - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 169. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 1-11 and (1981) 1-37. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 3-17. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-23. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 7-16. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2278-82. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, p. 61. Bleiler (1948), p. 73. Reginald 02674. See Williams, Madan and Green 84. Leather worn, outer hinges cracked, chip from spine panel. The front and rear panels of the original cloth binding are affixed to the front and rear paste-downs. Bound without the flyleaves, text block very clean, illustrations sharp, a solid candidate for rebinding. (#173012)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1] 2-224, flyleaves at front and rear, fifty illustrations by John Tenniel, publisher's pictorial pebbled blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, rear panel stamped in gold and blind, all edges plain, brown coated endpapers. First U.S. edition. The sheets of the American edition are probably the same as those used for the British first printing for they have Macmillan's device, and the misprint "Wade" for "Wabe" on page 21. "THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS has the added discipline of being based on a chess game, an ingenious contrivance that brings structure to the surrealism and makes the sequel a more accomplished and successful work. The second Alice book is quoted more often that the first (though most people believe they are quoting from the first), and features the poems 'Jabberwocky' and 'The Walrus and the Carpenter.'" - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 169. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 1-11 and (1981) 1-37. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 3-17. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-23. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 7-16. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2278-82. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, p. 61. Bleiler (1948), p. 73. Reginald 02674. See Williams, Madan and Green 84. Cloth worn at spine ends and corners, stain on rear cover, inner front hinge cracked, front flyleaf missing, scattered foxing to text block, chocolate stain on page 79, a good copy. (#173011)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$545.39 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: EARLY EDITION. (Twenty-fifth thousand). 8vo. (7.4 x 5.3 inches). Illustrated with fifty line illustrations by John Tenniel. Previous owners neat 3 line name and date (Juy 1872) on the half title page. A Very good clean copy in recent binding of full red Morocco leather binding. Spine with raised bands, each with vertical gilt ruled lines, the compartments decorated with gilt designs & lettered in gilt. Single gilt ruled border on bevelled edged boards, decorated with floral corner pieces. All edges gilt. Yellow endpapers. Some rubbing to the corners and spine but overall a very good attractive copy of this early edition.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
CARROLL, Lewis. Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. Macmillan, London, 1872.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: 50 woodcut Illustrations by John Tenniel. [12], 224, [4] pages. Small 8vo, original red cloth with circular devices on front & back covers; professionally re-cased with some of the original spine preserved; black end-papers, all edges gilt. London: Macmillan, 1872. Thirteenth Thousand. An early impression, from the same year as the first edition. A very good(-) copy with spine darkened and boards somewhat discolored; original endpapers are retained but neatly strengthened at the hinge; rear endpaper with flattened creases; several pages with grubby handling marks but generally in clean condition.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$615.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 12th thousand.Printed same year as the first edition, first impression., 1872. 8vo. Bound in the original red cloth as issued with Queen's head in gilt on top board and King's head on bottom board. Illustrations inside by John Tenniel. Neat inscription on half title page Mary L Garland from Uncle Tom January 22/72 The spine is present. The text is fairly clean, a text segment, pages 67-178, are loose, but all pages are present and complete. Inside there is the odd finger mark, light foxing, there are three small pieces of paper missing in the margins and corners, two pages have light pencil annotations which I could erase but have left, but no juvenile scribbling inside and text is clean. I have collated it, all is complete. All edges gilt. With original dark green endpapers. Cloth is worn and rubbed at corners, cloth marked as if it has been damp. A good copy as usual with these well-loved and read books. Size 185 x130mm (7.5 x 5.25 inches)
Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$990.00 + shipping
Description: First printing, with the misprint "wade" for "wabe," p.21. Rebound in brown cloth, titled in gold on spine; salmon endpapers; [xiv], 224pp; with fifty wood engravings by John Tenniel. A straight and sound copy, rebound, with minor edge wear, discoloration to fore-edge of front board, and small perforations to rear upper joint; internally foxed, lacking 4 unnumbered pages at rear, but otherwise complete and clean: Good. First American issue of the sequel to Alice in Wonderland, preceding the Lee and Shepard edition. LOVETT & LOVETT 17. Not in WILLIAMS, MADAN, GREEN, and uncommon in the trade.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1055.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. pp. 6 p.l., 224, [2]ads. with half-title. frontis. & numerous text illus. by John Tenniel. new half morocco, original cloth sides bound in, all edges gilt (light foxing to first & last leaves). First Edition, First Issue (with misprint wade for wabe on p. 21).
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$1122.86 + shipping
Description: Two Volumes. Bound in attractive modern quarter bound maroon leather binding, maroon cloth boards. With raised banding and gilt decoration to spine. With a fine matching maroon cloth Protected slipcase. In very good near fine condition. New deep blue endpapers. Half titles page a little marked. Inside a few minor marks, else generally clean & tight. Size 19cm x 13cm 192pp Ipp & 224pp.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Carroll, Lewis. Through The Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. MacMillan & Co., London, 1872.
Price: US$1154.94 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Decorated embossed red/gilt cloth hard back creased/fraying & slightly torn edges/blemished/bumped. +227pp.+ 3pp. incorpoating "Works by Lewis Carroll". Includes 50 b/w illustrations by John Tenniel. creased & partly detached tissue-guard to b/w frontispiece. Very dark green to inside cover/fep; cream (albeit discoloured, foxed & blemished) to inside rear cover/rear ep. Gilt to page edges. Pages foxed, blemished & beginning to brown. Previous owners' inscriptions on first tile page - dated "Nov.15.90" - and on rear of frontispiece (undated). Strain on hinges. Given book age, a Fair copy.
Seller: Makovski Books, Southampton, United Kingdom
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: [xii], 224 pages, with advert leaf at rear. Frontispiece retains the tissue guard. First issue [wade p. 21]. Professionally well restored: front board mended; resewn; spine recreated; rear free endpaper replaced with matching period slate; first two leaves repaired. 1877 signature to half title.
Seller: The Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB), Wolfville, NS, Canada
Lewis Carroll. Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. Macmillan and Company, 1872.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: BOOK IS IN VERY GOOD+ CONDITION BEAUTIFULLY REBOUND IN FULL CRUSHED MOROCCO WITH BRIGHT GILT RULE TO BOARDS, SIX COMPARTMENTS AND FIVE RAISED BANDS TO SPINE WITH BRIGHT GILT DETAILS AND TITLE. BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD, NEW END PAPERS AND PASTE DOWNS. NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES, PAGES ARE WITHOUT MARKS, SOME MINIMAL FOXING AND SOILING TO PAGES. WITH FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN TENNIEL , 224 PAGES, BOOK MEASURES 7.5"x5.25". FIRST EDITION, 150 YEARS OLD. A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE IN GREAT CONDITION.
Seller: Reagan's Rare Books, Moseley, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1900.00 + shipping
Description: Edition : First Edition. First State., Full red gilt-stamped cloth boards bound by Burns & Co., original bookbinder?s ticket pasted to lower left corner of lower pasted endpaper. Spine lettered in gilt. Black pasted and free endpapers. All edges gilt. , Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 ? 1898), known as Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician and photographer, widely known for his iconic children?s books, most notably being Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Through the Looking-Glass (1871) is its sequel.John Tenniel (1820 ? 1914) was a prominent English illustrator, graphic humourist and political cartoonist of the second half of the 19th century. An alumnus of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, he was knighted for artistic achievements in 1893, the first such honour ever bestowed on an illustrator or cartoonist. Tenniel's detailed black-and-white drawings done for Alice in Wonderland are widely recognized to be the most iconic depictions of the famous characters; "Carroll never describes the Mad Hatter: our image of him is pure Tenniel? (Bryan Talbot, comic book illustrator and writer). , Size : 8vo. (185 x 120 mm), Attractive copy, first edition in first state, with the misprint ?wade? on pg. 21, changed to ?wabe? in later editions. With frontispiece and in-text illustrations throughout, plus one page of publisher?s advertisements. , Gift inscription signed ?J.B. Russell? dated 1871 inked on front free endpaper verso., 224 pp. Very good example. Hinges and text block weak in places, interior largely clean and crisp.
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Illustrated by John Tenniel. 12mo. 224pp. Handsomely rebound in polished red leather elaborately gilt by Bartlett & Co., Boston, with their signature on the verso of the front flyleaf (a tiny chip causing a bit of loss to the name). All edges gilt. Boards separated with the corners worn through, small dampstain on the lower board with corresponding staining (and a tiny chip) on the rear flyleaf, spine toned and with loss, a good only copy; the text is fine. From the noted Lewis Carroll collection of Philip Conklin Blackburn, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Blackburn was an editor of the 1934 anthology *Logical Nonsense*, considered by Carroll scholar Charlie Lovett to be the first serious attempt to anthologize Lewis Carroll's works. Blackburn also cataloged the important Carroll collection of Morris L. Parrish, now at Princeton. An excellent association.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
CARROLL LEWIS. THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE. LONDON MACMILLAN, 1872.
Price: US$2053.22 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, WITH FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN TENNIEL, FINELY REBOUND IN GREEN MOROCCO, AEG, INSCRIPTION DATED 1871, WITH PRINTING ERROR OF 'WADE' ON PAGE 21. A FINE AND HANDSOME COPY.
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: [8] 224 [1, ads] pp. With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. 12mo, publisher's red gilt-ruled cloth with circular vignettes on front and rear covers; a.e.g. Preserved in a custom cloth folding box. First edition, first printing with "wade" for "wabe" on p. 21. Sections of cracks to the paper at the rear inner hinge, which is still sound; cloth and gilt decoration a bit soiled and rubbed; still, a tight and sound copy. The spine of the folding box is sunned and there is some fraying to its cloth at one joint.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Macmillan & Co, London, 1872.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing with "wade" for "wabe" on page 21. Bound in full polished red calf by Zaehnsdorf. Very Good with some rubbing to bextremities, sunning to spine, bookplate to front paste down and toning to pages. With black and white illustrations by John Tenniel.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking Glass. MacMillan, New York and London, 1872.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original decorative cloth, red gilt queen on the front board, no illustration on the rear. With the typo "Wade" for "wabe" on pg. 21/ Wear at edges, rubbing and light soiling to cloth, old signatures to half title. Macmillan reportedly only sent a small number for the first American edition because domestic demand was so strong. Most of the original sheets with the typo went for the Lea & Shepard edition in Boston. A seldom seen state of the first American edition. In a custom morocco backed slipcase with cloth che,ise. This is the first US edition. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; Inventory No: 048439.
Seller: Pazzo Books, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2875.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "With Fifty Illustrations by John Tenniel", 7.5 x 5", highly gilt-dec blue crushed Morocco by The Harcourt Bidery in Boston [signed binding] with red leather inlaid flowers at each corner; aeg, extremities a bit worn, spine has been sunned and is a bit dull and a bit dry, bookplate by former owner (financier and horseman John Russel Macomber), pp with some scattered finger soil. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE ("wade" for "wabe" on page 21).
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Finely bound in three-quarter red crushed morocco over cloth boards with the Red Queen and White King stamped in gilt on the boards. All edges brightly gilt. Marbled end-papers and paste-downs. In excellent condition internally, with the first issue misprint "wade" for "wabe" on p. 21. Complete with all 50 engravings by John Tenniel. A faint contemporary gift inscription on the title page, a few spots of soiling or foxing throughout. Carroll's fantastical sequel to the classic Alice Adventures in Wonderland. Published in 1871, the book follows Alice as she enters a strange alternative world by stepping through a magical mirror. She soon encounters the nonsense poem "Jabberwocky", which Martin Gardner called ".the greatest of all nonsense poems in English", and later meets the famed Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was a sensation when it was first published, and Through The Looking Glass received favorable reviews as well. The novel has been adapted into film, television, and stage. Carroll scholar Florence Becker Lennon calls the novel a "masterpiece â" only a shade less than Wonderland" (Lennon, "Escape Through the Looking-Glass," 1971; pp 66-79). Fine.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass. Macmillan and Co, London, 1872.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. This is the TRUE FIRST EDITION with the misprint on page 21. The book is bound in the publisher's original cloth with some wear to the spine and edges. The pages are clean with a nice bookplates to inside endpaper. There is NO writing or marks in the book. A lovely copy in collector's condition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1872. Illustrated by John Tenniel. First US Edition. Octavo. Rebound in full white leather with blind stamped illustrations and titles to the front, raised bands, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, new marbled endpapers, and an archival cloth slipcase. Presented is a stunning first US printing of Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, by author Lewis Carroll and illustrated throughout by John Tenniel. The book was published by Lee and Shepard, in Boston, in 1872. The book is presented rebound in full white calf leather, blind stamped with a Mad Hatter illustration and titles on the front, with raised bands, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, new marbled endpaper, and an archival brown cloth slipcase. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 1832-1898), better known by his pen name of Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, and mathematician. His famous childrens book, Alices Adventures in Wonderland, was first published in July of 1865. Carroll then wrote Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There as its sequel. Through the Looking-Glass was first published by Macmillan in London, in December of 1871. It was the first of the Alice stories to gain widespread popularity, and prompted a newfound appreciation for its predecessor when it was published. Set six months after the first tale, Carroll wrote Through the Looking-Glass as a mirror image of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. While Alices Adventures in Wonderland begins outside on a warm summer day, uses changes in size as a plot device, and the imagery of playing cards, Through the Looking-Glass begins indoors on a snowy November day, plays with time and spatial directions, and uses the imagery of chess. Through the Looking-Glass includes such celebrated verses as "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter," and the episode involving Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Adept at word play, logic, and fantasy, Carrolls tales about Alice are prime examples of the literary nonsense genre. Bending logic and emphasizing the peculiar, Carroll often drew parallels between the fictional characters and real people, which created a type of parody of Victorian life and society. The book was beloved by children and adults alike, with readers such as Queen Victoria and Oscar Wilde among Carrolls fan base. "Alice is, in a word, a book of that extremely rare kind which will belong to all the generations to come until the language becomes obsolete " (Carpenter & Prichard, 102). CONDITION: Very good condition. Octavo. The book is presented rebound in full white calf leather, blind stamped with a Mad Hatter illustration and titles on the front, with raised bands, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, new marbled endpaper, and a new matching, archival brown cloth slipcase. Interior pages are healthy, considering age, with only light toning and a few scattered foxing marks. Many illustrations by John Tenniel including a full-page frontispiece, in-text illustrations, and head and tail pieces. 221 pp. TLS to the prior owner is laid into the back of the book, dated May 3, 1932. Book Dimensions: 7 5/8"H x 5 3/8"W x 1 1/8"D. Slipcase Dimensions: 8"H x 5 1/2"W x 1 5/8"D.
Seller: The Great Republic, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$3800.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt vignettes to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, frontispiece engraving with tissue guard present. With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation. Alice's Adventures were "born on a golden afternoon" in July 1862, when the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) took the three small daughters of Dean Liddell of Christ Church on a boating trip up the Isis. Carroll delighted the three children by relating Alice's adventures, and eventually promised his favorite among the three, Alice Liddell, to write the story down for her. Through the Looking-Glass can be seen as a mirror image of the Alice's Adventures. For example, the latter begins outdoors in the warmth of May 4 and uses the imagery of playing cards, while the former begins indoors on a snowy, cold November 4 and uses the imagery of chess. "The two Alice books completed the reinstatement of the imagination, so long disapproved of by the opponents of fairy stories, to its proper place. Alice is, in a word, a book of that extremely rare kind which will belong to all the generations to come until the language becomes obsolete" (Carpenter & Prichard, 102).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$3850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Twelvemo, [two volumes], [xii], 192pp; xii, 224pp, [2]. Finely bound in three-quarter red morocco, marbled paper boards. Five raised bands, title in gilt with gilt devices on spines. All edges gilt, new endpapers. Both with half-titles. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an early edition, with "Fourteenth Thousand" stated on title page. Solid text block, faint and occasional foxing to leaves, complete with forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel, including frontispiece. Through the Looking-Glass is a first edition, first impression, with "wade" in the place of "wabe" on page 21. Solid text block, touch of foxing to front and rear leaves. Preface incorrectly bound after page two. Previous ownership inscription on half-title. With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel, including frontispiece. (Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch, 84) A beautiful set of children's literature classics.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, two volumes, uniformly bound in full red morocco, all edges gilt, gilt titles and tooling to the spines, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands, original cloth bindings tipped in to rear of each volume. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an early printing. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There is an early printing. Illustrated by John Tenniel, text illustrated. A very nice set. Alice's Adventures were "born on a golden afternoon" in July 1862, when the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) took the three small daughters of Dean Liddell of Christ Church on a boating trip up the Isis. Carroll delighted the three children by relating Alice's adventures, and eventually promised his favorite among the three, Alice Liddell, to write the story down for her. Through the Looking-Glass can be seen as a mirror image of the Alice's Adventures. For example, the latter begins outdoors in the warmth of May 4 and uses the imagery of playing cards, while the former begins indoors on a snowy, cold November 4 and uses the imagery of chess. "The two Alice books completed the reinstatement of the imagination, so long disapproved of by the opponents of fairy stories, to its proper place. Alice is, in a word, a book of that extremely rare kind which will belong to all the generations to come until the language becomes obsolete" (Carpenter & Prichard, 102).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass. Macmillan and Co, London, 1872.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the First Issue point "Wade" printed on page 21 that was changed to "Wabe" on later editions. The book is bound in the ORIGINAL publishers' Red Cloth. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION housed in a custom folding slipcase for preservation. We buy Lewis Carroll First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
LEWIS CARROLL. THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS. MACMILLAN AND CO., 1872.
Price: US$4995.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, First Printing, First State A first printing hardcover with the original red cloth covered boards, and the original end papers. First Edition, first issue, with misprint “wade” for “wabe” on page 21. A very Good hardcover with the original red cloth covered boards with some typical mottling and discoloration (please see images for details). All Edges in full gilt. The book still has the original dark slate blue end papers, with the small stamp “Bound by Burn” still present to the rear end paper. The binding is tight and square. The spine was rebacked with the original cloth lay back down, as such the binding is tight and quite readable. The cloth has some rubbing to the corner tips and to the gilt ruling to the rear board panel. The original tissue guard is still present. The interior pages are remarkable clean for this title with only a bit of faint faded handling marks, and the blank verso of the front end paper has a neatly penned inscription dated from 1872. In this book, Alice returns to Wonderland by stepping through a mirror, playing out her journey like a game of chess. A scarce copy in the rare original boards, still retaining both the original dark slate blue papers and the original tissue guard. All pages and illustrations are present and very clean with a tight readable binding. Includes a stunning 50 illustrations by John Tenniel ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for other landmark children's books, rare literature, and original illustration artwork.
Seller: Meier And Sons Rare Books, New Canaan, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Description: Both volumes in green cloth titled in gilt and with triple rectangular panels and central thematic gilt emblems to both front and back panels. Through the looking glass is the first issue with "wade" on page 21. Endpapers are a pale olive floral and leave pattern which don't seem to appear in other copies but also appear to be publisher's issue. Prelims rearranged from English issue appearing after the title and with Macmillan device as called for in Williams' and Madan's "The Lewis Carroll Handbook. Both volumes expertly restored by Glenn Fukunaga with small portions on spine tips replaced, spine of Through the Looking Glass a little dull, overall fine albeit restored in custom mylar covers and handsome double spined leather-backed slipcase. Each book in individual folding chemise. A very handsome set. First American edition from American sheets of the Alice and First American Edition of Through the Looking Glass.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$5500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Twelvemo, [two volumes], xii, 192pp; xii, 224pp, [2]. Finely bound in full red morocco. Five raised bands, title in gilt with gilt devices on spines. Top stained with marbled endpapers. Both with half-titles. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is the third edition, with "Seventh Thousand" stated on title page and "backs" for "back" on Page 116. Solid text block, occasional foxing to leaves. Complete with forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel, including frontispiece. (Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch, 42) Through the Looking-Glass is a first edition, early impression, with the corrected "wabe" on page 21. Solid text block, touch of foxing to front and rear leaves. Complete with fifty illustrations by John Tenniel, including frontispiece and chess diagram at front of volume. (Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch, 84) A beautiful set of children's literature classics.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful copy bound in the original publisher's Red Cloth. This is the TRUE FIRST EDITION with "wade" on p.21 that was changed to "wabe" on later editions. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy of this First Edition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: John Tenniel. Leather Bound. H: 7 1/4", D: 5", W: 3/4" 2 Volumes. Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full red morocco with the covers and raised band spines gilt-tooled. All edges gilt with gilt-tooled dentelles and marbled endpapers. 42 illustrations by John Tenniel. New York & London: Macmillan & Co., 1872.
Seller: Imperial Fine Books ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$9624.49 + shipping
Description: First edition, with the misprint "wade" for "wabe" in the second line of "Jabberwocky". As with the first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass was published for the Christmas market but bears the following year's date in its imprint. It was published in December 1871 in an edition of 9,000. The recipient, apparently born in 1862, was therefore aged 9 when she received this gift from a paternal uncle. Florence Stahlschmidt lived in Lewisham and was the daughter of Alfred Stahlschmidt, a ship broker and Custom House agent. Williams, Madan, Green & Crutch note that the book was issued in 1871, "but no copies have 1871 on the title page" and "Dodgson's own first copy [was] received on 6 Dec. 1871". The inscription, dated Christmas 1871, therefore establishes this copy as being presented during the month of publication. Williams, Madan, Green & Crutch 84. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial roundels and triple-line borders to covers in gilt, dark green endpapers,all edges gilt, binder's ticket ("Burn & Co") to rear pastedown. Frontispiece and 49 illustrations within the text, all by John Tenniel. 1p. publisher's advertisement at rear. Contemporary inscription on half-title ("Florence Anne Stahlschmidt from her Uncle Ernest, Xmas 1871"). Head of spine slightly bumped, corners slightly bumped and rubbed, top of rear joint splitting, minor tear and loss to front free endpaper, rear hinge split: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$9752.82 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression of the iconic sequel to Alice's Adventures Underground. This particular volume in unique in that is itnbsp;signed by the author Lewis Carroll. Inscribed to the half title in what appears to be Carroll's hand, in his infamous purple ink, 'Dorothy Furniss from the Author'. Dorothy Furniss was the daughter of Harry Furniss who worked with Carroll illustrating his book 'Sylvie and Bruno'. Dorothy was born in 1879, several years after the first edition of Through the LookingGlass, so this could have been a Christening present. Interestingly, we have been informed from a collector that they own the sister copy to this book being a first edition of Alice's Adventures Underground, also inscribed to Dorothy Furniss. Unverified. Hardback, original cloth with gilt tooled border and gilt stamped motif to cover gilt tooled title to spine. All edges gilt. Original dark endpapers. Illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard, fifty illustrations by Tenniel throughout. Rear board detached. Front board until contents page near detached. Lifting to spine. Shelf wear and some fraying to edges. Top right corner of front board bumped. Rubbing. Cracking to gutter. Light marginal spotting to prelims. 'Furniss' of inscription a little faded. Tissue guard to frontispiece creased. Pages lightly toned to the edges with occasional infrequent spotting, otherwise clean. Overall fair condition. Collector's item with a unique and intriguing story.
Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United Kingdom
Price: US$25000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: PRE-PUBLICATION PRESENTATION COPY FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE. 1 vol., illustrated By John Tenniel, inscribed by Dodgson on the half-title "Joanna de Morlot Pollock / from the Author / Christmas 1871", in purple ink. Bound in full red morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, spine panels tooled with characters from Alice, covers ruled in gilt, covers center panel tooled with the Queens, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, original cloth covers and spine bound in rear, by Bayntun, IN AS NEW CONDITION. Joanna de Morlot Pollock (at the time 9 years old) was the daughter of Charles Edward Pollock, and his second wife Georgina Archibald. In 1865 Charles married his third wife, Amy Menella, daughter of Dodgson's cousin Hassard Hume Dodgson. The author attended the wedding, and recorded a visit to the family on 24 June 1866 in his diary, noting "we saw the pretty little Joanna", later that year (30 July) taking her photograph. By the time of a visit in July 1872 he noted that Joanna had "grown out of all recollection.". Edward Wakeling notes in Lewis Carroll's Diaries that on 8 December 1871 Dodgson had signed only 100 copies of Through the Looking Glass.
Seller: D&D Galleries - ABAA, Somerville, NJ, U.S.A.