May 18, 2016 - Sale 2416
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Sale 2416 - Lot 65

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Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 25,000
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) CARROLL, LEWIS [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge]. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland * Through the Looking-Glass. Together, 2 volumes. Half-titles. Frontispiece in each volume and illustrations throughout by John Tenniel. 8vo, publisher's red cloth gilt, rebacked with original spines laid-down, all edges gilt, scattered soiling, corners soft; Alice's Adventures is a first issue with inverted "S" in last line of Contents, bound in copy of "An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves Alice" to front endpaper; closed tear touching letters repaired on pp. 121-22, Pamela and Raymond Lister bookplate to front pastedown. Looking-Glass also a first issue, with "wade" for "wabe" on page 21; bound by Burn & Co. with their ticket, 1-page publisher advertisement and 3-page copy of "To All Child-Readers of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" bound in at end; preserved in folding cloth case. London: Macmillan, 1866; 1872
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first editions, first issues, signed presentation copies to bessie slatter in the original cloth. Each copy inscribed on the half-title, "Bessie Slatter, from the Author" (Alice), and "Elizabeth Anne Slatter, from the Author, Christmas 1871" (Looking-Glass). One of 100 presentation copies Carroll sent on 8 December 1871. John Slatter, Curate of Sandford-on-Thames, Vicar of Streatley, and Rector of Whitchurch; his wife, mother, and daughter Elizabeth ("Bessie") were close friends of the author, who visited and photographed them (Letters, Cohen ed., I:46, note 4).