Ernst bought out his partner, who wanted to retire, and was able to establish a new bindery. Each of Taylor's Alice's is a different Victorian Alice, reimagining her as "every girl". An equally talented director, he composed plays and once had a puppet theatre built by the carpenter in his family village.
Page 2 and Page 3 of this collection have reviews of earlier illustrated editions of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass books – most of which are now out of print – while Page 4 has some fun gifts and the best of the Alice spin-off series and Page 5 has several interesting foreign editions). It has been called the 'Odyssey of the Nonsensical'... An affordable bright pink flexibound edition with decorative endpapers, ribbon bookmark and classic Tenniel illustrations. The seller of the copy, located in New York, is not auctioning it through an auction house. Colour frontis in red and black plus 8 ethereal b/w line drawings. A very nice copy of this much sought-after publication. More from Wonderland... Long before she was the Queen of Hearts, Catherine Pinkerton was just a girl who wanted to fall in love. Alice was the first important and popular work to be submitted to a public process of re-illustration having come out of copyright in 1907. 1885 Rare Victorian Book - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis C –. Bound in fine full red morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, covers ruled and paneled in gilt, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, housed in a matching red morocco edged open ended slipcase, by John Vivian. Stated as first impression, November 1907 to the edition page.? Look for the 'sold stock' filter at the bottom of the filter options. Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, U.
HarperCollins, 2011. Covers are damp stained. Did you know that you can now search our sold stock? The recipient was Olive Augusta Langton Clarke who Carroll met in September 1883. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | Second first published edition. A lovely edition with a laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping and collectible bookmark. Numbered from 1 to 1, 000, this carmine red edition is presented in a large format handmade slipcase. Stunning, but now OOP.
Item #152087 Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. The Nursery Alice, originally published by Macmillan & Co. in 1890, was the very first colour edition of Alice. Rare alice in wonderland books. Edited by Gavin Delahunty. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Every bit as iconic are Sir John Tenniel's remarkable illustrations, perfectly capturing the combination of the ordinary and the extraordinary at the heart of Wonderland. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a timeless classic. The book that forever changed the face of children's literature. A nice copy of an early reprint.
Illustrated by Maggie Taylor. The volume is still available to post-auction inquiry. Note: I have not physically seen or appraised this book myself and I am not involved in the selling process. The final result was Heathcote 1331, Gathorne-Hardy 767, and Gladstone 735 votes. Rare alice in wonderland book review. Name in ink to front free-endpaper. Minimal browning to spine and cover edges. It features 42 black and white illustrations by John Tenniel. In thirty years of selling Lewis Carroll desiderata, this is the first time we've ever seen the Doubleday Edition De Luxe in its original glassine DJ (much less with its original gift box). A brightly illustrated edition with an embossed canvas cover, foil detailing and a ribbon bookmark. ISBN: 9781743003787.
"There were auctions during his lifetime, similar to how J. K. Rowling's books are now, " bookseller Peter Harrington told The Telegraph.