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Price: US$5488.60 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original red cloth blocked and ruled gilt on upper and lower covers, lettered gilt on spine. All edges gilt. First issue with black coated endpapers. With illustrations in text by the author. The first and only edition of this facsimile of Lewis Carroll's original manuscript of the suppressed book that became Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This copy inscribed by the author on half-title "Helen Bagnall from the author, Dec 3/92". Tipped onto front endpaper is a press cutting from 1928 relating to the sale of Carroll's original manuscript and loosely laid in are press cuttings reporting on the death of the author (1898) and the discovery of some unpublished letters (1937). Cloth a little marked with some uneven fading of lower board, spine darkened, inner front hinge cracked at gutter, half-title somewhat browned by offsetting from the laid in press-cuttings. In all other respects a very good sound copy with clean, unmarked text.
Seller: Owen & Barlow Rare Books, Welshpool, United Kingdom
Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures Underground. Macmillan, London, 1886.
Price: US$18500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st edition of the replication of Carroll's original manuscript for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with his original title, his own 37 illustrations, and reproducing his own handwriting. This edition differs from the published book in that Macmillan had Carroll change the title, delete a few personal references, and add 2 chapters, and they hired a professional illustrator, but our book is the original. Presentation copy from the author to the publisher, inscribed (to Emma Macmillan), "Mrs. Macmillan from the author" and dated in January, the month that all the earliest presentation copies were inscribed. A bright and beautiful copy, near fine in original cloth. Best copy in the world? Probably.
Seller: Biblioctopus, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.