Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge ["Lewis Carroll"]
£450
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 4 September 2013 at 12:00 BST
Description
Alice in wonderland. London: Macmillan and Co., 1871. 'Twenty-seventh thousand', 8vo, red morocco gilt by Bayntun with the White Rabbit inspecting pocket watch to upper cover and rabbit and playing card motifs along spine, g.e., original cloth bound in at end, large 20th centuryy bookplate, 8cm. closed tear to title-page, tissue guard to frontispiece torn out leaving part still present; Dickens, Charles] Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. London: Richard Bentley, 1838. First edition, first issue, 2 volumes, portrait and 12 plates, red half morocco gilt, large 20th century bookplates, g.e., lacking advert leaves, without the border on plate 'The Last Song' (3)