Lewis Carroll

Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland [together with] Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1932, 1933. Illustrated by J...

Carroll, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Complete in One Volume). New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [n.d.] c. 1933. Octavo. In the original publisher’s dust jacket and blue cloth boards, with titles stamped in white and Alice illustration stamped in navy and white on the front board. Illustrated with stills throughout. Presented is a beautiful photoplay edition of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Complete in One Volume). Lewis Carroll’s classic children’s books of 1865 and 1871 were issued together in one volume by photoplay publishers Grosset & Dunlap, in concert with the 1933 Paramount Pictures film. The book is presented in its original blue cloth pictorial boards, stamped in navy and white, and the original pictorial dust jacket, which boasts “specially posed illustrations from the great Paramount picture.” The film Alice in Wonderland was produced by Paramount Pictures in 1933, directed by Norman Z. McLeod from a screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and William Cameron Menzies. Based on both of Lewis Carroll's books, Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking...

Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1872. Illustrated by John Tenniel. First US Edition. Octavo. Rebound in full white lea...

Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1885. Second edition printing. Illustrated by John Tenniel. Octavo. In original green cloth hardcover boards with decorative and lettered black and gilt inlay. With a new gilt-stamped archival slipcase. Presented is a stunning second edition printing of Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, by author Lewis Carroll and illustrated throughout by John Tenniel. The book was published by Macmillan and Co., based out of London and New York, in 1885. This 19th century volume has its original green cloth hardboards, with decorative and lettered black and gilt inlay on the front cover, as well as on the spine. It is presented with a new, gilt-stamped archival slipcase. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 1832-1898), better known by his pen name of Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, and mathematician. His famous children’s book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, was first published in July of 1865. Carroll then wrote Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There as its sequel. Through the Looking-Glass was first published by Macmillan in December of 1871. It was the first of the Alice stories to gain widespread popularity, and prompted a newfound appreciation for its predecessor when it was published. Through the Looking-Glass includes such celebrated verses as "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter", and the episode involving Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Set six months after the first tale, Carroll wrote Through the Looking-Glass as a mirror image of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. While Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland begins outside on a warm summer day, uses changes in size as a plot device, and the imagery of playing cards, Through the Looking-Glass begins indoors on a snowy November day, plays with time and spatial directions, and uses the imagery of chess...

Alice’s Adventures Underground is an original modern rare book written by Lewis Carroll (Daresbury, 1832 - Guiford, 1898) in 1886. Original First Edition. Original Cloth. Format: in 8°. Published by McMillan, London. The book includes 97 pages with 37 illustrations realized by the author. Mint conditions. Lewis Carroll, pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, (born January 27, 1832, Daresbury, Cheshire, England—died January 14, 1898, Guildford, Surrey) was an English logician, mathematician, photographer, and novelist, especially remembered for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871). His poem The Hunting of the Snark...

2 volumes. Early Editions! Bound in full red calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Original covers bound in rear with all edges gilt, raised bands, and gilt panels. Set includes box cover. Front and rear covers feature gilt vignettes of The Queen, Alice, etc. Illustrated by John Tenniel...

Alice's adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. Two volumes. [4], xi, [3], 182, [4]; xxii, [8], 211, [5] pp. With illustrations by John Tenniel. 8vo., each volume bound in recent full red and blue respective morocco bindings. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1932, 1935. Limited edition of 1500 copies, both signed by the original Alice, "Alice Hargreaves" in Adventures in Wonderland. The Tenniel illustrations have been re-engraved especially for this edition by Frederic Warde. Printed at the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge. Typography also by Frederic Warde. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its hardly less famous sequel Through the Looking Glass, although ostensibly written for children (in particular, for one child, Alice Liddell, afterwards Hargreaves) are unique among 'juveniles' in appealing equally if not more strongly to adults." (Printing and the Mind of Man, 354). This Juvenile Classic has survived as one of the great books...