Editore: Simon & Schuster, 1973
ISBN 10: 067121604X ISBN 13: 9780671216047
Da: Your Online Bookstore, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good.
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Editore: Nelson, 1973
ISBN 10: 0171350022 ISBN 13: 9780171350029
Da: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Regno Unito
Paperback. Condizione: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
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Editore: Bramhall House (New York), 1973
ISBN 10: 0517188910 ISBN 13: 9780517188910
Da: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Condizione: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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Editore: Penguin Books, 1975
ISBN 10: 0140040641 ISBN 13: 9780140040647
Da: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Regno Unito
Paperback. Condizione: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Editore: Bramhall House, 1973
Da: Quicker than the Eye, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Condizione: Very Good. Green cloth with gilt stamping on spine, pictorial dust jacket. Mild toning to jacket, else in very good condition.
Editore: Simon & Schuster, U.S.A., 1973
ISBN 10: 067121604X ISBN 13: 9780671216047
Da: Arch Bridge Bookshop, Bellows Falls, VT, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition hardcover book i near fine condition. Black and white illustrations. Uncommon.
Editore: Simon & Schuster
Da: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, U.S.A.
Condizione: Very Good. Publisher: Simon & Schuster, NYC., 1973. First Edition, First Printing. VERY GOOD hardcover book in NEAR FINE dust-jacket. Remainder marked. NOT price-clipped. NOT faded. NOT a book club edition. NOT an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.
Editore: Bramhall House, 1973
ISBN 10: 0517188910 ISBN 13: 9780517188910
Da: Pistil Books Online, IOBA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 288 pages. Yellowing paper.
Editore: Bramhall House (New York), 1973
ISBN 10: 0517188910 ISBN 13: 9780517188910
Da: Southampton Books, Sag Harbor, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Bramhall House, 1973. Octavo. Book is very good with the previous owner's name written on the inside of front cover. Dust jacket is very good. Binding starts at page 85. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.
Editore: Simon and Schuster, New York, 1973
Da: Eyrie House Books, Tyngsboro, MA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good+. First Edition. Mathematician Lewis Carroll's games and puzzles.
Editore: Bramhall House, New York, 1973. b c d e f g h., 1973
Da: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Hardback, 16x23.5cm, 288pp. Good condition (general light wear; yellowed pages; foxed edges, endpapers and prelims) in good dustwrapper (light wear and foxing; chipped at head of spine; price-clipped). ISBN: 0517188910.
Editore: Simon & Schuster, New York, 1973., 1973
Da: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
8vo (24x16cm), hardback, 288pp. Good condition in good dustwrapper (bumped, curling a little at upper front, some creasing, 1cm closed tear to upper right rear edge, some foxing on the upper inside edge). Bumped, foxed edges, remainder mark at lower edges. B&w diagrams & illustrations. Pictures available on request.
Editore: New York, Simon and Schuster 1973., 1973
Da: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
Prima edizione
288pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper. Black and white illustrations. A very good copy. A study of Lewis Carroll as an inventor of games, puzzles and conjuring tricks. First US edition.
Editore: London, Thomas Nelson and Sons 1973., 1973
Da: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
Prima edizione
288pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper. Black and white illustrations. A very good copy. A study of Lewis Carroll as an inventor of games, puzzles and conjuring tricks. First edition.
Editore: Simon & Schuster, New York, 1973
Da: Abstract Books, Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Illuminates certain aspects of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, plus presnts a comprehensive collection of Carroll's games and puzzles. 288 pages, bibliography, acknowledgments, index, b/w illustrations and diagrams; green boards. Very good, spine ends, bottom edge bumped, name front endpaper; priced dust jacket very good, light edgewear.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. .Aside from his work as lecturer in mathematics and writer of fantasy for children, Lewis Carroll was a prolific inventor of games and puzzles and an adept amateur conjuror.this book explores these activities and attempts to illuminate aspects of his literary work in their light as well as bringing together the most comprehensive collection of his games and puzzles yet compiled. Published in h/back with d/j by Nelson, first edition 1973.ex-library copy with ticket removed and small stamp-mark to front e/paper.numerous sketches throughout.vg clean firm interior - boards also in good clean unworn condition just minor tape-marks to edges (due to former library protector sleeve) d/j of very good appearance showing just very slight usage, small faint stain to lower rear corner - no tears or nicks and not price-clipped - good quality book./.
Editore: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., London,, 1973
Da: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine-titling; 288pp., with many monochrome illustrations and diagrams. Moisture damage to the lower board edges, not extending to the text block; board top edges sunned; previous owner's ink inscription to the half title; minor offset to the endpapers and scattered spotting to the preliminaries; text block edges toned with some spotting; light bumping to the corners and spine extremities. Price-clipped dustwrapper is lightly rubbed with some minor edgewear and spotting to the verso; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Newspaper article 'The Curious Case of Lewis Carroll' by Morton N. Cohen laid in. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. There is a good story about Queen Victoria enjoying Alice's Adventures in Wonderland so much that she asked for a first edition of the author's next book. Two years later a beautifully wrapped package arrived, containing an inscribed copy of An Elementary Treatise on Determinants: With Their Application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and Algebraical Geometry. Sadly, the story isn't true. To his adoring readers he was Lewis Carroll, the sweet-natured writer who wandered through life with a head full of stories. To his long-suffering colleagues in Oxford he was the Rev Charles Dodgson, the prickly mathematician who walked around with a poker-straight back and a head full of algebra. The two were like strangers who merely happened to inhabit the same skin. This book is its own definition of the sense of wonder first evident in the activities of the boy wizard and later providing the protective cloak essential as refuge from an adult life that came to encompass loneliness and left-handedness, a stutter and seemingly unconquerable shyness. In amassing for this purpose as comprehensive a collection of Carroll's original games and puzzles as possible including various magic tricks and gambits, which, while not originated by himself, would certainly have been familiar and therefore of some influence on him, manifestations of that same basic desire to fascinate and intrigue, whether his audience be young friend or high-table colleague. In 1885, Carroll's diary entry admits that 'never before have I had so many literary projects on hand at once'. He then proceeds 'for curiosity' to list fifteen separate projects from mathematical treatises with titles like Supplement to Euclid and Modern Rivals and Plain Facts for Circle-Squarers to a projected bowdlerised edition of Shakespeare for young girls to 'A Collection of Games and Puzzles of my devising, with fairy pictures by Miss E G Thomson. This might also contain my "Memoria Technica" for dates, etc., my "cipher-writing", scheme for Letter-registration, etc, etc.' Editor John Fisher was himself a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians and has previously published his own Magic Book.
Editore: Simon and Schuster, New Yok, 1973
Da: VANESSA PARKER RARE BOOKS, Westport, MAYO, Irlanda
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Prima edizione
Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good in Protector Clipped. Ills (illustratore). First. This realy is a seriously good look at the magic of Carroll by a british magician.
Editore: Simon & Schuster, New York, 1973
Da: C.P. Collins Booksellers, Leichhardt, NSW, Australia
Boards. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. (288pp). Illustrated. Owner's name inscribed, small remainder mark bottom edge, otherwise clean unused copy Size: Royal Octavo. Hardcover.
Editore: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973., 1973
ISBN 10: 067121604X ISBN 13: 9780671216047
Da: Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller, ABAC, Montreal, QC, Canada
Prima edizione
First US edition. A fresh look at LC's word games and puzzles. A fine copy in striking pictorial dust jacket.
Editore: Bramhall House (New York), New York, 1973
ISBN 10: 0517188910 ISBN 13: 9780517188910
Da: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. First Edition; Second Printing. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Open tears throughout. Chipping at spine crown. Text lightly toned throughout. ; 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.2 inches; 288 pages.
Editore: Nelson, London, 1973
ISBN 10: 0416552803 ISBN 13: 9780416552805
Da: Durdles Books (IOBA) (PBFA), Birmingham, Regno Unito
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition first printing. Hardback book is tight and clean with slight lean. Boards sharp and clean, title gilt perfect. Text block clean, with spotting to edges. Feels read. Minor bump to foot of spin. Previous booksellers pencil price to FEP, and gift inscription to half title page. Very good condition. Price clipped jacket has some crimping to top edge, and has some light toning to white areas. Grades very good. This book is fitted with a non adhesive archival quality book protector to make a quality addition to your collection. Note we do not use stock images, the book pictured is the book described. A very solid example of this fascinating title, looking at Carroll's Alice stories and his other works to illustrate the puzzles, both mathematical and logical that peppered his writings. Also examines his famous parlor tricks, many B&W illustrations from Tenniel and Carroll himself. One for the Alice collector.
Editore: Simon & Schuster, 1973
ISBN 10: 067121604X ISBN 13: 9780671216047
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Tenniel, John (illustratore). First Edition First Printing. Explores an unknown side of the man who created "Alice in Wonderland,'' --that of a "prolific inventor of games & puzzles & an adept amateur conjurer." Ways that these side hobbies influenced the "Alice" books are discussed, in 288 pages with Index & Bibliography, with Tenniel's original pen-and-ink sketches throughout text. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing (with LOC & SBN numbers only, not the later ISBN) from 1973, this hardcover small quarto is in Near Fine condition: exceptionally clean & bright, binding strong & straight, pages creamy white & completely unmarked. Mild corner bumping, sticker pull to ffep where it looks like old address label was removed, & a few small dark blotches to a couple of early pages. The unclipped DJ (with orig. 9.95 price crossed out at bottom of front flap) is also Near Fine, with very mild wrinkling/rubbing to extremities & slight darkening to spine/bottom edges; nicely protected in new clear mylar cover free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Editore: London Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1973
Da: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A., Oxford, Regno Unito
Membro dell'associazione: PBFA
Prima edizione
FIRST EDITION 1973. 8vo approximately 240 x 160 mm, 9½ x 6½ inches, illustrations in the text, 288 pages, original publisher's cloth binding, gilt lettering to spine, green endpapers, dustwrapper. Slight wear to top edge of dustwrapper, pale browning to dustwrapper, otherwise a very good copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
Editore: London: Thomas Nelson, 1973, 1973
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
[Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.288. With in-text illustrations and diagrams. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and green endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket drawn by Victoria Burroughs with printed price £3.00 to flap. Clean pages with spotting to top edge of textblock, sunned top edge of boards, dust-jacket lightly handled. Very good. Explores aspects of Carroll's literary work and his games and puzzles.
Editore: Simon and Schuster, 1973
Da: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. FISHER, John [edited by] [288] pp. Simon and Schuster 1973 9.5" x 6.5" Jacket drawn by Victoria Burroughs.
Editore: London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1973, 1973
ISBN 10: 0171350022 ISBN 13: 9780171350029
Da: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. SIGNED BY PAUL MAGRIEL inside front board. ISBN: 0171350022. London: Nelson, 1973. First edition. An exploration of Carroll as a puzzle and game master and amateur magician. Very good in very good dustjacket, protected with mylar cover. [b533].
Editore: Bramhall House c. 1973, New York, 1973
Da: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Original publisher?s full green cloth with gilt text on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. , An in depth exploration of Carroll's games and puzzles (mazes, anagrams, Wonderland puzzles etc.) in relation to his work. , Size : 8vo (226x152mm). The book and dust jacket are in very good condition.