Lot 217
£938
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.,1946. First edition thus, 8vo, original patterned paper boards, slipcase with pictorial onlay;
Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, [1909]. First edition thus, trade issue, square 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, 13 colour plates;
Idem. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Illustrated by Gwynedd M. Hudson. [London]: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, for Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., c.1930. 4to, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, 12 mounted colour plates;
Idem. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. London: Walker Books, 1999. First edition thus, deluxe issue, one of 1000 copies signed by the illustrator, 4to, original cloth-backed boards, slipcase;
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Little Pig Robinson. London: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., 1930. First edition, 4to, original blue cloth, 6 colour plates;
and 13 others including Joel Chandler Harris, Daddy Jake the Runaway and Other Stories, 1890 (first UK edition, 4to, original pictorial cloth), 9 others by Beatrix Potter (later issues or Centenary editions), and similar (18)