London: Collins Clear-Type Pres1s, (1930's); dark red fine corded silk boards, maroon endpapers, colored frontis and many black and white illustrations; 4x6" ; 318 pp. Small hardback. A very nice and compact little book of both Alice stories with pleasant sized type and many illustrations A nice present for a...... more
London: Richard Clay, no date, recent printing ; red cloth boards, gilt rulings and cartouche with Alice and the baby pig, blue endpapers, 42 Tenniel illustrations and reproduction of Dodgson's signature, 192 pp. Juvenile hardback. A nice, inexpensive reproduction of the 19th c Alice, perhaps a copy of the original..... more
NY: Harper and Brothers, 1903/1876, 1st printing as to illustrator Ivory vellum boards with gilt figure and title, script titles, coloured frontis and 39 half tone umber plates, as issued, top edge gilt, deckle edges, green page border decorations by Robert Murray Wright; xii + 248 pp. Juvenile hardback. A...... more
Artia (1973) ; Printed in Czechoslovakia, Octopus pop-up Picture Stories,, top and bottom green boards with Alice with a dark pink thistle and a large orange dog.with unattached center pages accordian folded to make a pop-up panorama.8.25 sq.; np. Novelty book hardback pop-up. With no attempt at Tenniel or Rackham..... more
Prague, Artia (1973) probably a later reprint; Printed in Czechoslovakia, Murray's Sales and Service, Treasure Hour distributors, white boards with Alice with a dark pink thistle and a large orange dog. with unattached center pages accordian folded to make a pop-up panorama.8.25 sq.; np. Novelty book hardback pop-up. With no..... more
Lothrop, 1987, 1st printing; 4to; 118 pp. Reference biography, hardback. more
Fisher Unwin, 1898, 1st; olive cloth with gilt decoration, teg; tissue guarded frontis and many illustrations, bevelled boards; 448 pp. Reference biography, hardback. more
London: Fisher Unwin, 1899/1898, Third impresson, Eleventh thousand; olive cloth 4 dark green flowers and red titles; tissue guarded frontis and many illustrations, 8vo; 448 pp including bibliography, plus publisher's catalogue. Reference biography, hardback. A classic work on Carroll. more
Schocken, 1979, 1st; large 8vo; 284 pp. Reference biography, hardback. A biography of Lewis's life using information up to date as of the writing. more
Charlottesville, VA; University Press of Virginia, 1980, 1st, "First published"; for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia and the Lewis Carroll Society of North America; brown cloth boards, maroon endpapers, in brown jacket with pirtraut of a young Carroll; 8v0; 253 pp incld. index. Reference biography, hardback. Full..... more
Meridian, 1978/1977, 1st printing paperback; small 4to; 272 pp. Reference biography, hardback. more
Simon and Schuster, 1945, 1st sea green endpapers illustrated with animals and ships; 387 pp. Reference biography, hardback. more
Foyle, 1932, 1st printing; 142 pp. Reference biography, hardback. more
Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1979/1970/1962/1931, revised; 8vo.; 340 pp, incld index. Reference biography, hardback. With much new material added and the features of the previous edition retained, by a Chairman of the Lewis Carroll society. more
New York: Simon & Schuster, Wanderer Books, Simon & Schuster Classic, 1982/1978 Schocken, reprint; red boards with dark brown leatherette spine and circular plate with Alice and the White Rabbit encircled with stamped gilt design, grey endpapers, gilt all around, ribbon; coloured plates and many illustrations in text and around..... more
G (Sam'l Gabriel) no date, (1930's?), Linenette, #433, with one staple, as bound,, this edition with a front cover illustrated by Burley and back and interior illustrations by Gordon Robinson, probably from his 1916 Alice. Toploader medium softcover story. A thoughtful Alice in the midst of outrageous characters. Robinson line..... more
Los Altos, CA: William Kaufmann, Inc., In Cooperation with Bryn Mawr College Library (1981) Limited Collector's Edition of 1995 copies; red cloth with black leather spine title label, without jacket as issued, fine paper; 21.5 x 28.5 cm; 129 pp. Reference biography, hardback. Also includes, The Annotated Snark by Martin..... more