Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll. Bound By Kelliegram.
With Fifty Illustrations by John Tenniel. London: Macmillan and Co., 1927.

A spectacular Kelliegram pictorial binding, ca. 1927, stamp-signed “Kelliegram Binding London,” of full dark green crushed morocco. Covers decoratively panelled in gilt, with five characters from the story depicted in multi-colored morocco onlays on each cover. The front cover with central onlay of Humpty Dumpty in brown, red, pale green, black, blue and beige morocco and corner onlays of: the White Queen, the Red Queen, Haigha (the Messenger), and Hatta (the other Messenger). The lower cover reiterates the upper’s design with a central onlay of the Walrus in brown red, pale green and beige morocco and corner onlays of: the Carpenter, the Old Sheep, Tweedledum & Tweedledee, the Frog and the Carpener. Spine richly gilt in compartments with dots and pictorial devices. Five raised bands with gilt dots. Turn-ins with gilt corner devices. Amber silk endpapers. All edges gilt.

Aventures d’Alice au Pays des Merveilles. Traduit de l’Anglais par Henri Bué.
Lewis Carroll. London, Macmillan and Co., 1869.

First French edition. Contemporary full-grained dark blue morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, with gilt triple fillet borders on sides with gilt medallion portrait of the White Rabbit in centre on front cover, and of the Cheshire Cat on back cover, richly gilt inner borders, gilt edges (NOULHAC), and with the original publisher’s gilt blue cloth preserved, including the spine. With 42 wood-engraved plates and illustrations by John Tenniel.
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“First came ten soldiers carrying clubs; these were all shaped like the three gardeners, oblong and flat, with their hands and feet at the corners: next the ten courtiers; these were ornamented all over with diamonds, and walked two and two, as the soldiers did. After these came the royal children; there were ten of them, and the little dears came jumping merrily along hand in hand, in couples: they were all ornamented with hearts. Next came the guests, mostly Kings and Queens, and among them Alice recognised the White Rabbit: it was talking in a hurried nervous manner, smiling at everything that was said, and went by without noticing her. Then followed the Knave of Hearts, carrying the King’s crown on a crimson velvet cushion; and, last of all this grand procession, came THE KING AND QUEEN OF HEARTS.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson aka Lewis Carrol. London: Macmillan and Co., 1922,
With illustrations by John Tenniel,

With embossed and tinted calf by Riviere, 8vo, (light bumped, spine alligatored, hinges starting, age darkening, edge toning, scattered spotting).

The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony, in Eight Fits
Lewis Carroll. London, MacMillan & Co., 1876.

Illustrated with frontispiece (included in pagination) & 8 full-page wood engravings by Shain after Henry Holiday. 17.8x12 cm. (7¼x4¾”), period polished tree calf, spine tooled in gilt, raised bands, morocco lettering pieces, gilt inner dentelles, top edge gilt; original pictorial buff cloth bound in at rear. First Edition.

Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing [with] The Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case
Lewis Carroll. Oxford, Emberlin & Son, ca. 1843.

39-page pamphlet. 10.2x7.6 cm. (4x3”), wrappers. Plus the Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case with slots for nine stamps in color pictorial folder and color pictorial fabric-backed slipcase. Housed together in the original printed envelope.

Aventures d’Alice au Pays des Merveilles. Traduit de l’Anglais par Henri Bué.
Lewis Carrol. London, Macmillan and Co., 1869

Rare first French edition in a rich collector’s binding with an autograph letter in French by the author, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), bound in at the beginning. Beautiful copy, with a kind of ms. title-page added in front of the bound-in autograph letter by Dodgson, and with small gilt monogram A.C. of the French collector on first endpaper.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland * Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There Lewis Carroll. London: Macmillan, 1866; 1872 

42 and 50 illustrations by John Tenniel. Together, 2 volumes. 8vo, original red gilt-pictorial cloth.

Sir John Tenniel (28 February 1820 – 25 February 1914) was an English illustrator. He drew many topical cartoons and caricatures for Punch in the late 19th century, including his most famous political cartoon, dropping the pilot, but is best remembered today for his illustrations to Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.

DODGSON (CHARLES LUTWIDGE) “Lewis Carroll”
The Hunting of the Snark, FIRST EDITION, inscribed on verso of front free endpaper “Hartington from his sincere admirer Beaconsfield”, another ownership on front pastedown, 9 plates by Henry Holiday, without half-title, publisher’s pictorial buff cloth, g.e., bookseller’s label “Rice, Bookseller &c.” inside upper cover, 8vo, Macmillan, 1876

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Alice in Wonderland, illustrations.. Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge (1832-1898). — Dali, Salvador (1904-1989), illustrator. New York: W.U.C.U.A. and Maecenas Press - Random House, 1969. via Christie’s.

2o. Etched frontispiece and 12 colored plates by Dali. Loose as issued in original brown cloth chemise, quarter morocco folding case with bone clasps (joint slightly cracked, leather strap torn). LIMITED EDITION, number 1787 of 2500 copies signed by Dali and printed on mandeure paper.

B-A Note: Alice illustrations by Dali?!? Ah, if I only had a spare $6 grand lying around.

The Game of Logic. Carroll, Lewis. Macmillan, 1887.

FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on the half-title in his customary violet ink, ‘W. H. Laverty from the Author Mar./87’, including the original printed envelope for the game (with the title and imprint), the original ‘board’ to play, on buff card (the design of which is repeated on the frontispiece) the nine original counters, four pink and five grey, and a mourning card also addressed to Laverty (in another hand), pp. xii, 96, 8vo., original publishers’ red cloth, the backstrip lettered vertically in gilt, the upper cover title in gilt, the backstrip lightly soiled, lower edges touched by damp, red crushed morocco solander case, marbled lining, very good.

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