Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana. Part 2

Dalí, Salvador (ill.) — Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)

Dalí, Salvador (ill.) — Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. New York: Random House and Maecenas Press, 1969 Folio (470 mm x 318 mm). Unbound as issued, signed on the title page in pencil (“Salvador Dalí”), original etched frontispiece, 12 illustrated heliogravures. Original half straight-grained morocco and linen-covered clamshell portfolio, spine gilt-lettered; rubbed with minor loss, upper joint splitting, some toning and soiling, ties perished. Signed, limited edition of Dalí's Surrealist interpretation of Carroll's classic—number 1,826 of 2,500 copies. There are many parallels between Carroll’s literary style and the Surrealist movement, making Random House’s collaboration with Dalí for this limited edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland particularly fitting. The present work “seems not so much to translate a literary text into another medium as to provide a complementary experience, one in which Alice herself is not really involved and very few characters are depicted” (Burnstein). Here, the figure of Alice evokes Dalí's early sketch and later painting, Landscape with Girl Skipping Rope, 1936. REFERENCES Burnstein in Carroll, XIV; Crutch, 246

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dalí, salvador (ill.) — charles lutwidge dodgson (lewis carroll) | alice’s adventures in wonderland, illustrated and signed by dalí

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Lewis+Carroll&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lewis Carroll</a>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">inscribed</a> to political cartoonist <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=John+Proctor&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">John Proctor</a>.<ul><li>Lewis Carroll (English).</li><li>Illustrated by John Tenniel.</li><li>London: Macmillan &amp; Co., 1868.</li><li>Thirteenth thousand.</li><li>Inscribed by Dodgson in black ink on the half-title "John Proctor, Esq/ from the Author/ Oct. 1868".</li><li>Bound in the publisher's gilt stamped red cloth, dark green pastedowns and endpapers, all edges gilt, Burn binders ticket to rear pastedown.</li></ul> Proctor was a political cartoonist, working profusely for Judy and later Fun. John (Puck) Proctor was mentioned as an artist approached by Dodgson to illustrate Through the Looking-Glass after Tenniel's initial refusal (he finally relented). There is a letter from Proctor to Dodgson (Carroll) turning down the offer in the Dodgson Family archives.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Presentation Copy to John Proctor

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