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Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ) | First Editions
1832 - 1898
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. He is most fondly remembered for the children's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (which includes the celebrated poem "Jabberwocky"), and the often reproduced poem, The Hunting of the Snark. His work falls under the genre 'literary nonsense', and he is defined by his excellent word play, twisted logic, and fantasy elements. Carroll also devised a number of games which remain popular, including an early version of what today is known as Scrabble. He is also considered to have pioneered the game "doublet" (word ladder), a form of brain-teaser involving letters.
There are two major sites dedicated to Carroll's memory - one on Copenhagen Street in Islington (the Lewis Carroll Children's Library), and one established in 1982 by his great-nephew (a memorial stone in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey.)
See below our stock of Lewis Carroll First Editions, and fine bindings.
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The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony in Eight Fits.
London: Methuen 2000. Illustrations by Mervyn Peake, including the previously unpublished 'Snark Sketchbooks'. Slim octavo. Publisher's cloth in dustwrapper. Fine throughout. This new edition is SIGNED and inscribed by Sebastian Peake, who released his father's drawings for this publication. A glorious review of Mr. Carroll's nonsense by the scintillating and..... More
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Alice I Underlandet. [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland].
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1966. FIRST JANSSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo, pp.112. All text in Swedish. With frequent illustrations by Tove Jansson, some full page, including 11 in colour. In publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original colour-illustrated cream dust-jacket. Green endpapers. Jacket lightly browned; near-fine. The elegant..... More
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Snarkjakten [The Hunting of the Snark]. Illustrated by Tove Jansson.
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1959. FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.56. Publisher's illustrated wraps. Pictured throughout by Tove Jansson. Very clean within; one small tear and brown mark to foot of spine. A near fine copy. The elegant, scarce and desirable Swedish translation of 'The Snark', being illustrated by..... More
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Snarkjakten [The Hunting of the Snark]. Illustrated by Tove Jansson.
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1959. FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.56. Publisher's illustrated wraps. Pictured throughout by Tove Jansson. A fine copy. The elegant, scarce and desirable Swedish translation of 'The Snark', being illustrated by the much-loved and award-winning creator of the Moomins. More
The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1939. [Classic literature] FINELY BOUND. First Nonesuch Press edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xiv; [2]; 1165; [1]. Handsomely bound in recent red half morocco over marbled boards, top edge red. With occasional in-text illustrations. Textblock a little toned, edges a little more so, else a fine..... More
Alice in Wonderland.
London: John F. Shaw and Co., no date [circa 1933]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST SEXTON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.192. With eight chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece, 23 full page wood engravings, and numerous in-text illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards. With the matching colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Some spotting to preliminaries..... More
The Nursery Alice.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. [Children's illustrated] FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[viii]; 56; [1], blank; [3], An Easter Greeting; [1], Christmas Greetings; [2], ads; [1], Specimen Page. Priced at Four Shillings. With twenty coloured enlargements from Tenniel's illustrations to Alice in Wonderland. Handsomely bound in deep red..... More
Alice in Wonderland.
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, no date [circa 1920]. [Children's Illustrated] EARLY ATTWELL-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.148. With 12 colour plates, including a frontispiece, as well as frequent in-text illustrations by Attwell. Recently re-bound with a robust red cloth spine, plain paper title label, and original boards..... More
Rhyme? and Reason?
London: Macmillan and Co., 1888. [Children's Illustrated] SECOND EDITION, the fourth-thousand. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xii; 214 [6]. With sixty-five wood engraved illustrations by Frost and Holiday including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt illustration to upper board. All edges gilt; black coated..... More
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