Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. Tenniel (illustratore). Dover Thrift Edition. With all the original illustrations by Sr John Tenniel. Dover Thift Edition New York, Dover Publications 1993 211 x 133mm, pictorial wrappers, design by Paul E Kennedy. Fine copy.
Editore: Leopard Books, 1996
Da: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, Regno Unito
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Illustrated by Peter Weevers (illustratore). New edition. 256 x 185mm, laminated pictorial boards, pp.128, pale pastel blue endpapers. Fine copy. Fine unclipped pictorial dustwrapper.
Editore: Walker Books, 2003
Da: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, Regno Unito
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Illustrated by Joel Stewart (illustratore). Illustrated Edition. Illustrated by Joel Stewart First edition thus. 262 x 178mm, stiff pictorial paper-covered boards, greyish red endpapers, pp.[32]. Illustrated in colour thoughout. Fine copy. Fine unclipped pictorial dustwrapper.
Editore: Hampster Books, n.d. [c.1960], 1960
Da: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, Regno Unito
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Nan Fullarton (illustratore). 1st edition thus. Early Reader series No.7. 251 x 187mm, quarter bound red cloth spine, stiff pictorial paper covered boards, pp.[80] (endpapers integral), top edge pink. Illustrated with line drawings. Very good copy. Very good unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. Cover design (repeated on dustwrapper) by Nan Fullarton.
Editore: P R Gawthorn, 1945
Da: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, Regno Unito
Hardcover. Condizione: Good copy. Rene Cloke (illustratore). Reprint. Illustrated by Rene Cloke. 248 x 187mm, orange cloth lettered in black on upper cover, pp.104, 8 full-page coloured plates, including frontispiece, numerous illustrations in text. Inscription on front free endpaper. Some neat colouring-in & 3 ballpoint-pen drawings (plates unscathed), small stains on upper cover.
Editore: Walker Books, 2005
Da: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, Regno Unito
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury (illustratore). 1st edition thus. 1st illustrated editon thus. 236 x 194mm, chocolate brown paper-covered pictorial boards, pp.228, blue endpapers. Fine copy. Fine unclipped pictorial dustwrapper.
Editore: Julia MacRae, 1988
Da: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, Regno Unito
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Illustrated by Anthony Browne (illustratore). First edition thus. 282 x 189mm, red buckram, spine lettered in gilt, pp.[x] 118. 52 coloured plates, including frontispiece, cream endpapers. Fine copy. Fine unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. Anthony Browne, the sixth Children's Laureate, has twice won the Kate Greenaway Medal and has thee Emils (the Kurt Maschler Award).
Editore: Chrysalis Children's Books, 2004
Da: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, Regno Unito
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Illustrated by Michael Foreman (illustratore). 1st edition thus. 260 x 213mm, stiff laminated coloured pictorial boards, pp.176, blue coated endpapers. Illustrated throughout in the artist's distinctive line & wash, with 12 sectional illustrations, more than 30 full-page or double-page spreads, and about a hundred other colourful illustrations in text. Fine copy. Fine clipped pictorial dustwrapper.
Editore: Chatto & Windus, 1941
Da: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, Regno Unito
Hardcover. Condizione: Near fine copy, without dw. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake (illustratore). De luxe edition. 208 x 130mm, greyish red cloth lettered in gilt on spine, pp.48. Decorated title-page & 15 illustrations in text (5 full-page). Armorial bookplate & neat contemporary ownership inscription on front pastedown. Small discoloration at head of lower cover, slightly affecting spine. Only 1,400 copies were issued in this format. Scarce.I specialise in Mervyn Peake. Enquiries welcome.
Editore: Macmillan, 1966
Da: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, Regno Unito
FIRST LATIN EDITION, Tenniel illustrations, a few faint spots to opening leaves, pp. [viii], 116, [1], crown 8vo, original red cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, Tenniel vignette of White Rabbit to upper board stamped in gilt, endpaper maps using Tenniel designs printed in red, dustjacket with Tenniel illustrations, price-clipped and slightly rubbed and nicked at ends of gently faded backstrip panel, very good. A first Latin translation of Carroll's much-loved work - 'try it as Julius Caesar might have read it, if he had been lucky enough'.
Editore: London, Billing and Sons, Ltd for Chatto and Windus, 1907., 1907
Da: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
8vo in 4s (181 x 112mm), pp. [i]-xiii, [1 (blank)], 15-[31], [1 (blank)]; title printed in red and black; a few light spots; original red cloth backed wrappers, upper wrapper lettered in red and black and with decorative border; minimally rubbed at extremities, otherwise a very good copy in the original wrappers.First edition in book form, wrappers issue. 'A short paper or lecture delivered in Oct. 1884 in the Derbyshire vicarage of Alfreton before a public audience. It is a comparison of feeding the mind with feeding the body in such points as proper food at proper intervals (a "fat mind"), mastication by thinking over what is read, and mental appetite, all pervaded with quiet humour. Mr. Draper explains that the MS. Was handed to him by the author, and occasionally read out at Christmas time to friends' (Williams, Madan, Green, and Crutch). Typical of Carroll's admonitions is this: 'Mental gluttony, or over-reading, is a dangerous propensity, tending to weakness of digestive power, and in some cases to loss of appetite: we know that bread is a good and wholesome food, but who would like to try the experiment of eating two or three loaves at a sitting?' (p. 20). The text was first published in the May 1906 issue of Harper's Monthly Magazine in New York, before being published in book form in 1907 in wrappers at 1s (as here) and in limp gilt leather covers at 2s.Williams, Madan, Green, and Crutch 291. Language: English.
Editore: Macmillan, London & New York, 1893
Da: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
First edition, first issue (chapter VIII mispaginated in table of contents), 8vo, pp. xxxi, [1], 423, [2], [5] ads; frontispiece and 46 illustrations by Harry Furniss; binding slightly spotted, else a very good copy or better in original pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, a.e.g. Without the separately printed advertisement by Carroll, dated Christmas, 1893.
Editore: The Continental Book Company AB, Stockholm, 1946
Da: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, Regno Unito
Soft cover. Condizione: Near very good copy. With [65] illustrations by Mervyn Peake (illustratore). First edition thus. 'Zephyr Books' series [Vol.67]. 183 x 119mm, stiff greyish cream pictorial wrappers printed in blue & brown with design by Peake of the Fish-Footman on upper wrapper, pp.350. Faint marginal waterstain to first few leaves, backstrip rubbed at edges, tail corner of upper wrapper creased. 'This edition not to be introduced into the British Empire or the U.S.A.' Scarce. One of the very few truly original interpretations of 'Alice' since Tenniel. The UK edition was not published until 1954, omitting the final drawing of Dinah the kitten and reducing in scale some of the other illustrations. I specialise in Mervyn Peake. Enquiries welcome.
Editore: Emberlin and Son, Oxford, 1907
Da: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
102 x 77 mm., pp. 39; white printed self wrappers (6 small, faint glue stains on back cover), near fine. With: "The Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case" in original envelope (edges tape-repaired), and consisting of a linen-lined paper case (103 x 79 mm.) containing a color-illustrated bifolium in which are 12 pockets for holding stamps, all but one pocket holding the corresponding stamp. Undated publisher's advertisements, pp. 36-39 advertising Chatto & Windus's publication of Carroll's 1884 lecture "Feeding the Mind," which first appeared in print in 1907. Williams 60 and 61; NCBEL III, 978.
Editore: London, Macmillan & Co., 1887., 1887
Da: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria
Prima edizione
8vo. (12), 96 pp., 2 ff. of publisher's advertisements. With game board frontispiece and several text illustrations. Contemporary red full cloth with giltstamped title to cover and spine. First trade edition. With the loosely inserted customary envelope containing a game card and 9 tiles (5 gray, 4 pink) required to play the "game of logic". The envelope bears the date of the privately printed 1886 first edition. As Dodgson was not satisfied with the first issue, initially intended to be printed in an edition of 500 copies, it was suppressed. - Extremities lightly bumped, spine slightly sunned, minor edgewear, a few spots of soiling to the boards. Internally clean and tight, all edges trimmed; minor intermittent foxing. Envelope somewhat foxed and thumb-soiled with minor edgewear and several closed tears, professionally repaired. - Williams 53, 54. William et al., 193,196.
Editore: Macmillan, 1893
Da: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, Regno Unito
FIRST EDITION, tissue-guarded frontispiece, this and title-page faintly spotted, the half-title likewise, pp.xxxi, 423, [5, ads], 8vo, original red cloth with gilt triple fillet border and illustrations stamped in gilt to both boards, backstrip lettered in gilt and faded, some light soiling to cloth with a couple of small waterspots and a very faint graze to upper board, tiny pinhole incursion to lower joint, a.e.g., black endpapers, with the Advertisement leaf issued with the book loosely inserted following the Preface, good. Inscribed at the head of the title-page, to 'Lady Eustace Cecil, with the Author's sincere regards. Dec. 28, 1893'. The recipient, née Gertrude Scott, was the wife of Lord Eustace Cecil, a Tory M.P. (like his father-in-law) - with whom Dodgson spent time at the family seat of Hatfield House, residence of Cecil's brother, the Marquess of Salisbury. Both Lady Eustace Cecil and her niece, Maud, have been suggested as models for the character of 'Lady Muriel' in this work. Carroll's 'Advertisement' (Williams 219), issued with this edition, is generally discarded. It reflects his admirable, nearly obsessive, concern with the production qualities of his books: 'I am deeply annoyed to find that the last issue of "Through the Looking-Glass,". has been put on sale without its being noticed that most of the pictures have failed so much, in the printing, as to make the book not worth buying.' He asked that copies be returned to the publisher in return for copies of the next issue. Those returned he proposed giving to 'Mechanics' Institutes, Village Reading-Rooms, and similar institutions, where the means for purchasing such books are scanty'. Subsequent issues of Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, his final work of fiction, had white endpapers. (Williams 216: Parrish Catalogue 51).
Da: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
166-173 (h) x 222mm, i.e. very slightly trapezoidal. Original albumen photograph. This famous photograph is one of a series of photographs taken of the Rossetti family by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, (i.e. Lewis Carroll), in the garden of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's house in Cheyne Walk on 7 October 1863. On verso, written in the hand of Helen Angeli Rossetti, daughter of William Michael Rossetti: "Photograph taken by Ch. L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) [sic] in the Cheyne Walk Garden, c. 1865? Probably 1863 (Autumn)." The composition, arranged by Carroll and subsequently photographed and printed by Carroll, shows the Rossetti's in their garden, from left to right: Christina G. Rossetti, Maria Francesca Rossetti, Frances Livinia Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the latter two seated at a table playing chess. Of a similar print, Christina Rossetti wrote, describing the day ìthe author of Wonderland photographed us in the gardenî: ìIt was our aim to appear in the full family group of five; but whilst various others succeeded, that particular negative was spoilt by a shower, and I possess a solitary print taken from it in which we appear as if splashed by inkî (quoted by Mackenzie Bell, Christina Rossetti [London, 1898]. From Jaqueline Banerjee, "Morton Cohen explains that in early October 1863 Dodgson was staying with the sculptor Alexander Munro, who took him to see the Rossettis. Dante Gabriel was "most hospitable in his offers of the use of house and garden for picture-taking" (Cohen 240) and he was able to take two pictures of Christina, and one of Rossetti himself. Dodgson wrote in his Dairy, "I afterwards looked through a huge volume of drawings, some of which l am to photograph ó a great treat, as I had never seen such exquisite drawing before. I dined with Mr. Rossetti, and spent some of the evening there. A memorable day" (qtd. in Cohen 240). He returned the next day and photographed the whole family, subsequently photographing Rossetti's drawings and one of his models. The contact with the Rossettis proved useful, introducing him to Swinburne and others. Rossetti looks relaxed and genial in this portrait, which gives a flavour of the pleasant visit." Edward Wakeling ("The Photographs of Lewis Carroll, A Catalog Raisonne") describes the photographs by Carroll taken at the Rossettis, with a census of those found, listing only five, of which only one is the full image our example, the others being either vignette prints, and one without Christina Rossetti. Provenance: this photograph originally the property of William Michael Rossetti, and then by descent to his daughter, Helen Rossetti Angeli (who inscribed the verso), and given to William E. Fredeman in 1963. Of great rarity and importance. Indeed, no similar quality original Lewis Carroll photograph of the Rossettis has sold ion the open market in recent memory.