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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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Alice's Adventures Under ground (Alice in Wonderland). Being a facsimile of the original manuscript book afterwards developed into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
London: MacMillan and Co., 1886. [Children's fantasy] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[xvi], 91, [9], endmatter. Bound in modern half red calf, over marbled paper-covered sides, red calf gilt-lettered title label to spine, original cloth covers preserved at rear, all edges gilt with black endpapers. A few..... More
Doublets. A Word-Puzzle.
London: MacMillan and Co., 1879. [Word game] FIRST EDITION. Slim 18mo (15 x 10cm), pp. 39; [1]. blank. Publisher's decorative red cloth, titles blocked in gilt to upper, Macmillan monogram blocked in blind, with blind-stamped borders. Contents clean, first and final leaf toned as usual, pencil ownership to title, five..... More
Sylvie and Bruno. Together with Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. With illustrations by Harry Furniss.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1889, 1893. [Children's Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xxiii [1], blank; 400; [3], ads; [1], blank; pp.xxxi; [1], blank; 323; [2], blank; [5], ads; [1], blank. Two volumes. Illustrated frontispieces, with in-text illustrations throughout. Publisher's red cloth decoratively blocked in gilt, coated black endpapers..... 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. Bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to black morocco label, matching cloth sides, t.e.g., original cloth spine preserved at rear. Contents..... 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. Bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to red morocco label, marbled sides, sewn endbands. Contents and edges clean, exterior unmarked. Attractively..... More
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [and] Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1867 [and] 1873. [Children's illustrated] EARLY PRINTINGS, the seventh thousand and 37th thousand respectively. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 192; pp.[10] 224 [4]. With in-text illustrations and a frontispiece by Tenniel to each volume. No ads at rear of first volume; one leaf to second volume..... More
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [and] Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1932. [Children's illustrated] VINTAGE COPIES, the 98th thousand and 70th thousand respectively. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 195 [1]; pp.[2] xvi; 227 [5]. With in-text illustrations and a frontispiece by Tenniel to each volume. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt devices..... More
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [and] Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1881 [and] 1885. [Children's fantasy novels] VINTAGE COPIES, the sixty-fourth thousand and fifty-fifth thousand respectively. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[xii]; 192; [2]; pp.xii; 234; [4]. With in-text illustrations and a frontispiece by Tenniel to each volume. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, and..... More
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1884. [Children's illustrated] VINTAGE COPY, 'Seventy Fourth thousand' stated. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 192 [4]. With in-text illustrations and a frontispiece by Tenniel. One leaf of advertisements at rear. Publisher's red cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and gilt devices to boards, all edges gilt..... More
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1882. [Children's illustrated] VINTAGE COPY, 'Seventieth thousand' stated. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 192 [4]. With in-text illustrations and a frontispiece by Tenniel. One leaf of advertisements at rear. Publisher's red cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and gilt devices to boards, all edges gilt, dark..... More
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