New Acquisitions Spring 2022 – 13 – Bauman Rare Books First Editions Of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland And Through The LookingGlass, In Full Morocco-Gilt By Zaehnsdorf 14. CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. WITH: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. London, 1866, 1872. Two volumes. Octavo, modern full red morocco gilt, custom cloth slipcase. $31,000. First editions of “the greatest of all English stories for children” (Muir, 139), handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf. “Historians of children’s literature universally agree that the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland marks the liberation of children’s books from the restraining hand of the moralists… The two Alice books… completed the reinstatement of the imagination, so long disapproved of by the opponents of fairy stories, to its proper place. Alice is, in a word, a book of that extremely rare kind which will belong to all the generations to come until the language becomes obsolete” (Carpenter & Prichard, 102). First published and authorized English edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, preceded only by the extraordinarily rare suppressed 1865 London edition, of which only about 20 copies are known to exist, and the scarce New York edition of 1866. First edition, first issue, of Through the Looking-Glass, with “wade” on page 21. Lewis Carroll Handbook 46 and 84. Only a few spots of isolated foxing to interiors, mild toning to spines. A beautiful set in near-fine condition. “So many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.”
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