Jun 20, 2013 - Sale 2319

Sale 2319 - Lot 40

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(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. 8vo, publisher's red cloth gilt, both rebacked retaining original backstrips, soiled, edges worn, tips bumped, cocked; Alice's Adventures is a first issue with inverted "S" in last line of Contents, renewed endpapers, browned blanks, mounted and browned copy of "An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves Alice" to front endpaper; scattered foxing, occasional soiling, a few short clean marginal tears, contemporary owner's penciled note on frontispiece verso. Looking Glass is a first issue,American edition, with "wade" for "wabe" on page 21, endpapers re-laid, condition similar to Alice but with more foxing. London: Macmillan, 1866; Boston: 1872