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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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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
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 Complete Works of Lewis Carroll. Includes: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass; Sylvie and Bruno; Sylvie and Bruno Concluded; The Hunting of The Snark; Puzzles From Wonderland; Phantasmagoria; Acrostics, Verse, Stories and A Miscellany.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1939. [Children's] FIRST NONESUCH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 1165; [3]. With Tenniel's original in-text illustrations to the Alice books. Handsomely bound in full red oasis morocco, with gilt-stamped 'Wonderland' characters to the spine, 'White Rabbit' blocked in gilt to upper board, black and green..... 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
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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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [together with] Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1888-9. [Children's classics] Fifteenth thousand and Twelfth thousand respectively. THE PEOPLE'S EDITION. Two volumes, octavo (20 x 14cm). With illustrations by John Tenniel. Handsomely bound in modern half dark green morocco over original mid-green cloth covers pictorially stamped in black and red, with 'Mad Hatter'..... More
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