Carroll lewis pseudonym (27 risultati)

Octavo, illustrations by Henry Holiday, cloth-backed boards. First printing of this edition. "The poem describes with infinite humour the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature. It has been called the 'Odyssey of the Nonsensical,' a masterpiece with more nonsense to the foot than could be found…

First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine and a gilt motif to the upper board, in dustwrapper. Top edge gilt. With a blue ribbon marker. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, drawings and reproductions of Carroll's hand-written letters. A very good copy, the binding squar…

First edition. Limited to 300 copies, of which this is number 231. Sewn pamphlet with thin paper wrapped cover. Very lightly foxed bookseller's note loosely laid in. A very good copy, with a tiny blue mark to the front cover and a toned patch to the title page. Featuring two letters from Lewis Carroll to Marion Terry of the thea…

Octavo, pp. [i-ix] x-xi [xii-xiv] [1-3] 4-83 [84: printer's imprint] [85-86: ads], nine illustrations by Henry Holiday, original pictorial brown cloth, front, spine and rear panels stamped in black, black coated endpapers, a.e.g. First edition. "The poem describes with infinite humour the impossible voyage of an improbable crew…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Early Tarrant edition. 175pp. Quarto [25 cm] 1/4 green cloth with illustrated paper labels over boards. Cover art by Tarrant on the front. Light edgewear, rubbing, some wear to corners. Spine leans forward a bit. Free endpapers darkened. With 24 colour plates by Margaret W. Tarrant. Early Tarran…

[Children's illustrated] VINTAGE COPY, 'Seventy Fourth thousand' stated. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 192 [4]. With in-text illustrations and a frontispiece by Tenniel. One leaf of advertisements at rear. Publisher's red cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and gilt devices to boards, all edges gilt, dark navy endpapers. Contents cl…

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…

Early edition with these illustrations. Publisher's original blue cloth boards with titles in gilt to the upper board, illustration and titles in gilt to the spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with 12 full page colour plates and line drawings throughout the text by Mabel Lucie Attwell. A very good or better copy, the binding squa…

First Edition. [Children's] FIRST NONESUCH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 1165 [3]. With Tenniel's original in-text illustrations to the Alice books. Bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to red morocco label, marbled sides, sewn endbands. Contents and edges clean, exterior unmarked. Attractively presen…

[Children's] FIRST NONESUCH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 1165 [3]. With Tenniel's original in-text illustrations to the Alice books. Bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to black morocco label, matching cloth sides, t.e.g., original cloth spine preserved at rear. Contents and edges clean, minor tonin…

First Edition. [Children's fantasy] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[xvi], 91, [9], endmatter. Bound in modern half red calf, over marbled paper-covered sides, red calf gilt-lettered title label to spine, original cloth covers preserved at rear, all edges gilt with black endpapers. A few light reading marks el…

[Children's illustrated] EARLY PRINTINGS, the seventh thousand and 37th thousand respectively. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 192; pp.[10] 224 [4]. With in-text illustrations and a frontispiece by Tenniel to each volume. No ads at rear of first volume; one leaf to second volume. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, and…

[Children's fantasy novels] VINTAGE COPIES, the sixty-fourth thousand and fifty-fifth thousand respectively. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[xii]; 192; [2]; pp.xii; 234; [4]. With in-text illustrations and a frontispiece by Tenniel to each volume. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt devices to boards. All edges gil…

dj. [Children's illustrated] VINTAGE COPIES, the 98th thousand and 70th thousand respectively. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 195 [1]; pp.[2] xvi; 227 [5]. With in-text illustrations and a frontispiece by Tenniel to each volume. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt devices to boards, and all edges gilt. Both vo…

Octavo, illustrations in color and black and white by Tove Jansson, publisher's brown cloth stamped in gold, green endpapers. First edition with the Tove Jansson illustrations, first printing. Tove Jansson is the creator of the Moomins. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with 10 mm closed tear at upper front spine fold. A lovely co…

Two volumes. Author's presentation bindings of white textured paper-covered boards, imitating vellum, with gilt titles to the spines, gilt triple-ruled borders and gilt illustration motifs to the upper and lower boards. Inscribed presentation copies. Signed by the author. All edges gilt. 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', fifty…

First Edition. [Children's Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xxiii [1], blank; 400; [3], ads; [1], blank; pp.xxxi; [1], blank; 323; [2], blank; [5], ads; [1], blank. Two volumes. Illustrated frontispieces, with in-text illustrations throughout. Publisher's red cloth decoratively blocked in gilt, coated black endp…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo. Macmillan and Company, London, UK. 1876xi, 83 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in decorated paper covered cloth boards. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities . Previous owner's gift inscription present to the reverse of the FFEP and the hal…

First editions. Two volumes. Finely bound by Charles Elsden Gladstone in elaborately decorated full brown morocco, the spines with five raised bands and titles in gilt. Gilt decorated inner boards, marbled endpapers. Binder's initials stamped in gilt to the lower inner front board. All edges gilt. The publisher's cloth bound in…

First Edition. Pp. xiv+142+[4](advertisements), 8 full page facsimiles, addenda, index; roy. 8vo; qr. dark brown buckram, spine lettered in gilt, lighter brown cloth boards, corners a trifle rubbed, spine faintly creased; top edges brown, others uncut and partly unopened; upper hinge starting, lower free endpaper offset, occasio…