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Lot 66

Sale 2635 - Books and Manuscripts
May 3, 2023 7:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$2,772
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[Children's & Illustrated] [Rackham, Arthur] Carroll, Lewis Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

London: William Heinemann/New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., (1907). First and limited edition, #658/1,100 numbered copies, unsigned as issued (from a total edition of 1,130). 4to. (xii), (162), (2) pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 12 tipped-in color plates, all tipped-in and all with tissue guards, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Date inked onto title-page; some finger smudges to text block, offsetting from heavy brown paper, as usual. Full red goatskin, decorated in gilt; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; original illustrated endpapers bound in, book-plate sellotaped to same; by Zaehnsdorf for E. Joseph. Latimore & Haskell, pp. 28-29; Riall, pp. 78-79; Williams, p. 133

The first book in which Rackham's plates were distributed at the appropriate places throughout the text.

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