Carroll, Lewis
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
£530
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
London: Macmillan and Co., 1867. First edition, eighth thousand, 8vo [10] 192 pp, original red pictorial cloth gilt, half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece by John Tenniel, similar vignettes throughout the text, binding rubbed and soiled overall, spine rolled, splitting to cloth along joints, wear to head and foot of spine, gift inscription to half-title, pp. 75-9 working loose, pp. 171/2 creased, a few other spots and blemishes to contents;
Together with 4 others (2 copies of Alice Through the Looking Glass, 2 copies of The Hunting of the Snark, poor condition, not collated) (5)
Provenance
From the library of the late Robert Bogdan (1950-2023), of Boghead of Torries and Dykehead of Avochie, Aberdeenshire, geography master at Charterhouse and sometime chairman of the Scottish Castles Association.