New York: Battledore Ltd., 1990. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover. 111 pages. Collectors and those interested in children's books will find this work fascinating as it unearths information about the first actual printing of Alice in Wonderland. Encouraged by his friends, Reverend Charles Dodgson, otherwise known as Lewis Carroll, first had Alice published by Macmillan & Co. and printed by the Clarendon Press in June 1865, arranging to have a specially bound copy delivered to... READ MORE

Price: $75.00  other currencies  Order nr. 49189

New Castle and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 1999. 6 x 9.5 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 135 pages. This comprehensive new work not only provides bibliographical details lacking from previous studies, but it describes Dodgson's letters, articles, games, mathematical problems, and stories in such a way that the scholar without access to these rare items will gain an understanding of where Dodgson stood on various subjects and the nature of his relationship... READ MORE

Price: $35.00  other currencies  Order nr. 53904

New Castle and London: Oak Knoll Press and the British Library, 2008. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 274 pages. First edition. Byron Sewell and Clare Imholtz have compiled a comprehensive international bibliography of over 1000 entries listing all known editions of Lewis Carroll's Sylvie & Bruno books, their translations into foreign languages, excerpts from them, the appearance of their poems in anthologies, critical articles and studies, parodies, and much more. This book establishes... READ MORE

Price: $95.00  other currencies  Order nr. 94203

New Castle, Delaware and Pinner, Middlesex, England: Oak Knoll Press & Private Libraries Association, 2016. 7.17 x 10.75. cloth, dust jacket. 216 pages. "Quite simply, a revelation. Lucidly written, with useful illustrations, exploding the myth that dust jackets only came into use in the late nineteenth century." - James Murray, Adrian Harrington Rare Books, London "A fascinating, well-illustrated excursion into the evolution of dust-jackets and the sheaths and wrappers that preceded them." - Jeffrey Mifflin... READ MORE

Price: $75.00  other currencies  Order nr. 127223

New York, NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1932. 8vo. gilt-stamped leather. xiv, 182, (4) pages. Limited to 1500 numbered copies, signed by typographer and binder Frederic Warde (Lovett and Lovett 90) and the original 'Alice', Alice Hargreaves. Introduction by Henry Seidel Canby, table of contents. Frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel engraved on wood by Bruno Rollitz. Printed by the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge, Mount Vernon, New York. Slipcase stained, rubbed and scuffed... READ MORE

Price: $1,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 130067

New York, NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. 8vo. leather, covers and spine gilt-stamped, all edges gilt. xiv, 182,(4) pages. Limited to 1500 numbered copies, signed by Alice Hargreaves (neé Liddell) on colophon. (LEC 65; Lovett and Lovett, 90a). Published on the centennary of Carroll's birth, with the signature of Hargreaves (1852-1934) as noted. Alice Liddell Hargreaves was the "original Alice" for whom Carroll wrote the book. Introduction to Through the Looking Glass by Carl... READ MORE

Price: $1,750.00  other currencies  Order nr. 132763

Leipzig, Germany: Miniaturbuchverlag, (2014). miniature book (6.2 by 4.8 cm.). leather, inlaid front cover illustration, paper-covered slipcase. 319, (3) pages. First edition. Black and white illustrations throughout. READ MORE

Price: $29.00  other currencies  Order nr. 130859