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Norwalk:: Heritage Press,. Near Fine. 1969. Hardcover. Illustrated by John Tenniel. A reprint edition. "Sandglass" laid in. Small number in ink at the base of the spine, else fine in a near fine slipcase. .

Norwalk:: Heritage Press,. Near Fine. 1969. Hardcover. Illustrated by John Tenniel. A reprint edition. "Sandglass" laid in. Fine in a near fine slipcase. .

Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., [190-?]. Hardcover. Good condition . John Tenniel. 184p., illus. Colored frontispiece

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc./Publishers [1977], 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. Slim 8vo. [4], v-xiv, [2], 68, [11] pp. Orange cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Tan endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $3.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated with a few facsimiles of Carroll's handwriting. With a preface, an introduction, and notes by Martin Gardner. A Very Good+ book with a former owner's name, and inscription ("Tranquility and Peace") written on the corner of the ffep, minor fading to the bottom edges of the boards; dust jacket is Near Fine with one small tear to the front panel.

New York: Random House, [1946]. Two vols. 8vo. 150; 165,[1] pp. Colour frontispieces, colour-illust. title pages., colour illusts. throughout. Quarter-blue; Quarter-red cloth over colour-illust. boards, black & gilt spine labels (slight dustsoilng to spine, very slight rubbing to corners, very minor bumping head of 1 spine), w/ open-backed slipcase (colour plate mounted on side (old price notations, edgewear, minor bumping), still VG/VG- set. Reprint editions of these wonderful Alice in Wonderland tales.

New York: Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf, [1941]. Two vols. in one. 8vo. xiv, 172, [2]; xiv, [2], 198, [2] pp. Titles pgs in red & blk, blue & blk. Woodcut frontisp., numerous illusts. throughout. Yellow cloth, decorated & lettered in red & green (very minor shelfwear), w/ open-backed slipcase, printed labels on covers (minor scuffing, edgewear, slight scuffing), VG/VG- copy. First Heritage Illustrated edition of these classic Alice in Wonderland tales.

(London), Macmillan Children's Books, (1990). . Im Anhang: "The wasp in a wig" (S. 208-213) u. "An Easter greeting to every child who loves 'Alice'". - This edition replaces the Children's Edition, first published in 1927. The text has been re-set and re-designed. All of John Tenniel's illustrations are reproduced including 8 in colour which have not been used since 1911 when Macmillan published an edition of the 'Alice' books containing some of the Tenniel drawings in colour. For this New Children's Edition we have reproduced afresh these illustrations of outstanding quality (Klappentext). - Gutes, sauberes Exemplar

NY:: Harper & Brothers,. Very Good. 1902. Hardcover. Illustrated with 41 duotone plates by Peter Newell and page decorations by Robert Murray Wright. First edition thus. Light shelf wear, else very good in red cloth. No dust jacket. ; 211 pages .

Berkeley Los Angeles London: University of California Press, 1982. First Printing of "The Pennyroyal [Trade] Edition". Cloth and boards. Fine/Near Fine. Barry Moser. Folio (8 3/4" x 13 3/4"), red quarter buckram over lilac boards with metallic blue lettering on spine, Preface and Notes by James R. Kincaid; text edited by Selwyn H. Goodacre; profusely illustrated with full-page and in-text B&W fine-line woodblock illustrations by BARRY MOSER, mottled purple endpapers, xxiii, [xxiv], [4] + 4-146 pages + [2] Acknowledgements + [2] Colophon. Weight: 2 lbs. 6 oz. Elegantly illustrated and handsomely printed impressive "Pennyroyal Edition" of Lewis Carroll's classic tale, which first appeared in 1871. This is, of course, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). The black fine-line woodblock illustrations by Barry Moser (born 1940) are dramatic and refined. Barry Moser is an artist, known as a printmaker and illustrator of many fine works of… Read More

Berkeley Los Angeles London: University of California Press, 1983. First Printing of "The Pennyroyal [Trade] Edition". Cloth and boards. Fine/Near Fine. Barry Moser. Folio (8 3/4" x 13 3/4"), royal blue quarter buckram over powder blue boards with metallic blue lettering on spine, Preface and Notes by James R. Kincaid; text edited by Selwyn H. Goodacre; includes "The Wasp in a Wig" episode note present in the 1982 edition; profusely illustrated with full-page and in-text B&W fine-line woodblock illustrations by BARRY MOSER, powder blue endpapers with blue-on-blue depiction of Alice, xxiii, [xxiv], [4] + 4-167 pages + [3] Acknowledgements + [2] Colophon. Elegantly illustrated and handsomely printed impressive "Pennyroyal Edition" of Lewis Carroll's classic tale, which first appeared in 1871. This is, of course, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). The black fine-line woodblock illustrations by Barry Moser (born 1940) are… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1922 London: Macmillan and Co., 1922 [originally published in 1872]. With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. Later printing ("Sixty-Seventh Thousand"). Publisher's red cloth, borders of front and rear boards triple-ruled in gilt, boards illustrated with the Queens in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, and all edges gilt. Near fine, with light toning to spine and right side of front board, light offsetting and spotting to endpapers, small tear to surface of front pastedown, and contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper. Overall, a tight and lovely copy. Through the Looking-Glass is Lewis Carroll's sequel to his popular children's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). In this story, which represents the child protagonist's journey from adolescence to adulthood, Alice ventures into a fantasy world through the mirror above her fireplace. Throughout the novel, Carroll includes nonsense poetry, including the playful and popular… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1881. Fiftieth thousand [ i.e. 2d edition]. Hardcover. Good condition in red publisher's cloth, spine ends worn. John Tenniel. 224p., illus.

London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1889. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. TENNIEL John 1820-1914. Thirteenth Thousand, 1889, Peoples Edition. G. In printed green cloth, black ink titles, corners bumped. Spine, edges worn & bumped, black ink titles. Internally, half title, tissue guarded frontis, [12], [1], 2-208 pp, [1], [3] adverts, 50 B&W illustrations by Tenniel, occasional spotting, ink inscription to fep ('89), (182*121 mm).

New York: Macmillan, 1872. First American Edition. 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.

London: Macmillan and Co.: Macmillan and Co., 1868. 1st Edition . Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. TENNIEL John 1820-1914. 2 vols as 1, 1868, 12th thousand, 42 illust & 1872, 1st ed, 1st issue, 50 illust's. VG. In contemporary full red calf, gilt & blind edge tooling, corners & edges brushed. Spine, decorative gilt tooling, raised bands, gilt titles & tooling to black calf label, joints brushed. Internally, half title, tissue guarded frontis, [12], [1], 2-192 pp, 42 illustrations (B&W). [1], [8], [1], 2-224 pp, 50 ilust + 1, marbled endpapers & text block edges, bookplate to fpd, fep (George David Leslie Melville), diagonal repaired tear to p33/34, Looking-Glass has the corrcted b on p21 indicating not 1st issue, tipped in newspaper clippings to verso fep & ffep, contemp ink dedication & anchor to half title, printed by R Clay, Son, and Taylor, Bread Street Hill. The Glass lacks a front blank & the half title, whilst the Alice TP a little cropped along the Rights of… Read More

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. TENNIEL John 1820-1914. (WARDE Frederic 1894-1939).. 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… Read More

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. Hardcover. Light wear to spine. Near Fine in a Fine red cloth slipcase, uncommon thus. John Tenniel. 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.

London: Macmillan & Co, 1872. First edition. Fine. 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… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co, 1927. Octavo. Half-title, Color frontispiece, 299(1)pp., (continous pagination) with 92 illustrations by John Tenniel including 8 in color. This was the book that made Lewis Carroll famous. Soon after writing Alice, he went on to write Through the Looking Glass which became another best seller. Alice (Liddell), was the little girl he wrote the story for. This is a beautiful copy bound by Riviere in full blue crushed morocco, elaboratly decorated in gilt, inlaid on the upper board is Alice and the Dodo bird, the lower board inlaid with Alice and the Queen., marbled paper doublures and endpapers signed by Riviere, all edges gilt, raised bands with compartments lettered and decorted in gilt, page 281 has a small marginal closed tear otherewise a fine, fresh and lovely copy housed within a lined cloth covered slipcase.

London: MacMillan and Co, 1872. 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… Read More