Nov 10, 2016 - Sale 2430

Sale 2430 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) CARROLL, LEWIS [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge]. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland * Through the Looking Glass. Together, 2 volumes. 42, and 50 illustrations by John Tenniel. Half-titles. 8vo, contemporary full tan calf by Riviere, gilt-paneled, spine and all edges gilt, rear cover of second title with spot staining; inner dentelles, original covers bound in at end of each volume. London: Macmillan, 1866; 1872

Additional Details

Alice's Adventures is a later printing ("Ninth Thousand"); Looking Glass a first issue, with "wade" for "wabe" on page 21. With the leaflet "To All Child-Readers of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" laid-in to first title.