Carroll, Lewis [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]
Alice's Adventures Under Ground
£555
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Being a Facsimile of the Original MS. Book afterwards developed into “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”. London: Macmillan and Co., 1886. First edition, 8vo, viii [8] 95 pp., original red cloth decoratively lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, small abrasion to fore edge of front board, tips very slightly bumped;
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan and Co., 1886. First edition, 79th thousand, 8vo, 192 pp., original red pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt, illustrations throughout by John Tenniel, 2 pp. advertisements to rear, general soiling, spine rolled, quire K working loose (held by top cord), stitching strained between quires M and N;
The Hunting of the Snark, an Agony, in Eight Fits. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. First edition, 8vo, 83 pp., original buff cloth decorated in black, all edges gilt, wood-engraved frontispiece, similar illustrations throughout (full-page but counted in register), tissue-guards, bookplate (Sir Charles Philip Huntington, 3rd Baronet), spine rolled, light cockling to cloth in places;
Together with 6 others including G. K. Chesterton, Greybeards at Play, 1900 (first edition, original cloth-backed pictorial boards) (9)