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Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]

Phantasmagoria and Other Poems

Macmillan & Co.

1869

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First edition, first issue presentation copy of Phantasmagoria and Other Poems.

  • Lewis Carroll [Charles L. Dodgson] (English).
  • London: Macmillan & Co., 1869.
  • Inscribed from Dodgson to his friend Duckworth "Rev R. Duckworth, with the Author's sincere regards. Jan 1869."
  • The chapter "Melancholetta" is incorrectly numbered 78 in the Table of Contents, with no cancel title page and without "Author of Alice in Wonderland" to the title page.
  • Bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped blue cloth with all edges gilt.
  • Housed in half red morocco slipcase with ribbed gilt lettered spine.

Provenance

Sold at Anderson Galleries in NY in 1926 as part of the collection of Harry Glemby.

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Leather bookplate of Harry Glemby to front pastedown.

Spine slightly darkened.

Spine with minor rubbing.

Feature(s)

First Edition, Signed

Language

English

Subject

Childrens, Poetry, English literature and history, Modern first editions

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