Carroll, Lewis

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

New York, Garden City, 1935. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. A.E. Jackson. 216pp. No date, c1930s. Contains 8 color plates by Alfredto Edward Jackson. Book is in very good condition, faint dampstain front endpapers, cover is unworn, contents are clean. Dust jacket is chipped along edges and lightly worn. Beautifully illustrated by A. E. Jackson. Dust jacket illustrated by Charles A. Federer. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 004308

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction, Illustrated, Children's

Keywords: Fantasy

Carroll, Lewis

Alice in Wonderland

Lafayette, Louisiana, Peter Pauper Press, 1960. 2nd Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. John Tenniel. 161pp. No date, c1960. Pictorial covers with playing card motif. Book is unworn, spine darkened, interior is very clean and unmarked. Slipcase has 2 small chips at top and bottom, and very little other wear. Very Good.

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Book number: 004150

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction, Children's

Keywords: "Mock Turtle" Duchess "March Hare" Caterpillar Fantasy

Carroll, Ludovici (Carroll. Lewis)

Alicia in Terra Mirabili

1964, St. Martin's Press Inc. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 116pp. Red cloth , gilt rabbit to front baord, gilt lettering to spine. Very good unworn book in good unclipped dust jacket. Amusing Latin translation by Clive Harcourt Carruthers with black and white illustrations. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 004289

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction, Children's

Keywords: Latin Fantasy

Carroll, Lewis

Alis Harikalar Ulkesinde

Ankara, Varlik Yayinevi, 1961. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Soft cover. 119pp. Text is in Turkish. Pictorial wraps. Covers lightly worn, contents are age-toned, and pages are uncut. Black and white illustrations. Good.

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Book number: 004285

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction, Children's

Keywords: Turkish Fantasy

Carroll, Lewis

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1928. Children's Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. John Tenniel. 235pp. Green cloth, black lettering, red and black pictorial decoration, 16 color plates. Spine darkened but readable, spine ends chipped, 2 minor archival tape repairs, contents age-toned, former owner's name and bookplate on front endpapers. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004265

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction, Children's

Keywords: Fantasy

Carroll, Lewis

Useful and Instructive Poetry

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1954. First Printing, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. Lewis Carroll. 45pp. Tan paper covered boards. Age-toning to cover, unworn, contents clean. Dust jacket is clipped, but curiously original price ($2.50) still shows, darkened along spine and folds. Authhor's first book written at age 13, a remarkable work. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 004141

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction, Poetry, Children's

Keywords: "Charles Dodson" Riddles

Carroll, Lewis

The Wasp in a Wig

New York, The Lewis Carroll Society of America, 1977. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft cover. 21pp + facsimile of galley proofs of suppressed portion of Through the Looking Glass. Textured red heavy stock wrapper. Clean and unworn, spine slightly faded, galley proof pages unopened Near Fine.

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Book number: 004106

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction, Books About Books

Keywords: Fantasy Proof

Chateaubriand, Vicomte de

Atala, René

New York, George R. Lockwood, 1866. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. 155pp. Half-bound brown textured cloth, marbled edges, gilt lettering to spine, former owner's name on front free endpaper, text in French. Light wear to extremities, spine sunned, text is clean and the binding is tight, and in overall very sound condition. Very Good.

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Book number: 003979

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction, Social History, Travel and Geography

Keywords: Novella Indians

Clemens, Samuel L.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

New York, The Heritage Reprints, 1936. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Norman Rockwell. 283pp. Green cloth, gilt lettering and Tom Sawyer image to front board. Spine and board edges faded, contents lightly age-toned but clean and no markings, tight binding. 8 color plate illustrations by Norman Rockwell. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004251

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction, Children's

Keywords: "Mark Twain"

Clifford, W.G.

Books in Bottles ; The Curious in Literature

New York, Lincoln Macveagh The Dial Press. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 185pp. Brown paper covered boards, linen backed. Corners lightly rubbed, text age-toned, foxing to preliminary pages, no marks, some pages still unopened. Author's musings on books. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003062

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction, Books About Books

Keywords: "Literary Criticism" Libraries

Courtteline, Georges

La Philosophie de George Courteline

PriS, Ernest Flammarion, 1917. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Leather. 191pp. Soft flexible leather, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, text in French. Couverture en cuir souple. Bon état. Spine is slightly faded, covers otherwise clean and unworn, contents age-toned. Very Good.

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Book number: 003568

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction, Philosophy, Biography

Cruikshank, George, Illustrator

The Humourist: A Collection of Entertaining Tales, Anecdotes, Epigrams, &c. (Volume I)

London, John C. Nimmo, 1892. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. George Cruikshank. 220pp. Marroon cloth boards, paper label on spine, top edge gilt. One of 260 copies printed and numbered. This volume contains 10 hand-colored illustrations with tissue-guards. Extremities rubbed, a few small spots on cover, label darkened and foxed but very legible. Endpapers darkened, but interior is otherwise clean and illustrations are bright and fresh-looking. Some pages still unopened. Very Good.

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Book number: 000598

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction, Illustrated

Keywords: Alfieri Foote "Jemmy Wright"

Daly, Carroll John

The Hidden Hand

New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Hardcover. 319pp. Orange cloth. Cover and binding are clean and sound, a few foredges are lightly chipped, illustrated dust jacket is chipped along edges and creased, and moderately soiled. Daly was among the earliest of the "hard-boiled" fiction writers. Good/Fair.

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Book number: 001566

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction, Mystery

Keywords: Crime Detective "Race Williams"

Darton, F.J. Harvey

Vincent Crummles His Theatre and His Times With an Historical Introductory Note and Appendices

London, Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd. 1926. Limited Edition, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 230pp. Grey cloth, black backing. Light soil to boards, spine sunned, corners bumped, text age-toned, some pages still unopened. There is a a personal inscription on the front free endpaper : "Mitchell Kennerley from F.J. Harvey Darton All Saints Day 1928." A Limited Edition of 400 copies with a hand-colored frontispiece. Very Good.

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Book number: 002683

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction

Keywords: Crtiicism "Charles Dickens" "Nicholas Nickleby"

Dean, Oliver Stone

What I Saw in My Garden ; An Interpretation

Boston, The Pilgrim Press, 1923. First Edition, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). Stapled heavy card stock. Cover detached but present, cover soiled, contents are age-toned. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on half title page. Prefaced by S. Parkes Cadman. Laid-in is a publisher's promotional piece for the book. Musings in his garden Fair/No Jacket.

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Book number: 001933

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction, Gardening

Keywords: Essays