Lewis Carroll. The Game of Logic (Signed). MacMillan, 1887.

Price: US$3686.81 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1887 First Edition, First printing. Description: First edition (after the very rare private issue). Spine repaired. Tear to publisher's printed envelope. Presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title in purple ink: "Middle Lynge/ From the Author [flourish] Mar. 87." Game board and 3 (of 9 -- 1 pink and 2 gray) original counters in publisher's envelope at rear.

Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom

CARROLL, Lewis.. The Game of Logic.. Macmillan and Co., London, 1887.

Price: US$4000.00 + shipping

Description: 12mo, publisher's gilt-lettered red cloth in custom cloth folding box. First edition (after the very rare private issue). Rear hinge cracked; long tear to publisher's printed envelope; otherwise a very good copy. The spine is a little darkened, and there is some use to its extremities. There is a small ink spot to the rear panel. Presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title in purple ink: "R. Brodie / From the Author [flourish] Mar. 87." The recipient may be the Oxford professor referred to in the Carroll ABC ditty: "B is for Brodie who swears by the gasses." Game board and 5 (of 9 -- 3 pink and 2 gray) original counters in publisher's envelope at rear.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Carroll, Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). The Game of Logic.. MacMillan and Co, London, 1887.

Price: US$7200.00 + shipping

Description: First trade edition ofÂLewis Carroll’s game, with scarce original card and several original markers. Octavo, original publisher's red cloth. Association copy, inscribed by Lewis Carroll to his nephew, on the half-title in purple ink in the year of publication, "Bertram J. Collingwood with the Author's love Mar. 87." The volume contains the original envelope containing the playing board, with six of the nine rare counters. In very good condition with some rubbing to the extremities. Uncommon signed and inscribed. “The native acuteness and ingenuity of [Carroll’s] intellect led him to devote much attention to formal logic, in whose intricate puzzles he delighted, and he almost seemed to have convinced himself that it was an engine for the discovery of new truth, instead of a means of detecting errorâ€"that more could be got out of the premises than was put into them” (DNB). This first published edition was preceded only by an extremely small private printing in 1886 that Carroll suppressed.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.