Pre-publication presentation first edition, first issue of Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There inscribed by Carroll.<ul><li>Lewis Carroll [Charles L. Dodgson] (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Sir John Tenniel (English).</li><li>London: Macmillan &amp; Co., 1872.</li><li>Inscribed by Dodgson on the half-title "Joanna de Morlot Pollock / from the Author / Christmas 1871" in purple ink.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in full red morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, spine panels tooled with characters from Alice, covers ruled in gilt, covers center panel tooled with the queens, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, original cloth covers and spine bound in rear by Bayntun.</li></ul>

Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (Signed Pre-publication Presentation First Edition, First Issue)

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

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> presentation copy of Notes by an Oxford Chiel by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Lewis+Carroll&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lewis Carroll</a>.<ul><li>Charles L. Dodgson [Lewis Carroll] (English).&nbsp;</li><li>Oxford: James Parker and Co., 1865-74.</li><li>6 parts in 1.</li><li>Inscribed on the front pastedown "General Rigaud / from the Author. / March. 1882", with Gibbes Rigaud ownership stamp below inscription and to front endleaf.</li><li>Bound in the original publisher's gilt stamped green cloth, all edges gilt.</li></ul> The work includes 1) Evaluation 2) Dynamics 3) Facts, &amp;c. 4) New Belfry 5) Three T's 6) Blank Check. Major-General Gibbs Rigaud, served in the Kaffir War and in China.&nbsp;Dodgson from time to time applied to John Rigaud, Gibbs' brother, who was a Fellow at Magdalen College for permission to take visitors to Magdalen Chapel.&nbsp;Gibbs on one occasion called on Dodgson with a niece to look at photographs.&nbsp;There is also one letter, dated 1875, to John inquiring about his brother who hearing he had some "beautiful Indian (or Japanese?) shawls or other articles of dress" that he would like to borrow.

Notes by an Oxford Chiel | Inscribed First Edition

First edition, first issue presentation copy of Phantasmagoria and Other Poems signed by Lewis Carroll.<ul><li>Lewis Carroll [Charles L. Dodgson] (English).</li><li>London: Macmillan &amp; Co., 1869.</li><li>Inscribed from Dodgson to his friend Duckworth "Rev R. Duckworth, with the Author's sincere regards. Jan 1869."</li><li>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.</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped blue cloth with all edges gilt.</li><li>Housed in half red morocco slipcase with ribbed gilt lettered spine.</li></ul>

Phantasmagoria and Other Poems (Signed First edition, First issue)

Inscribed first edition, first issue presentation copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as the first foreign language translation of the work.<ul><li>Lewis Carroll [Charles L. Dodgson] (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Sir John Tenniel (English).</li><li>Alice's Abenteurer im Wunderland.</li><li>London: Macmillan &amp; Co., 1869.</li><li>Inscribed on the half-title "Georgina Balfour from the Author."</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped green cloth, all edges gilt, with the original "Burn" binders tick to lower corner of rear pastedown.</li></ul> Georgina Balfour belongs to the northern Balfours who had been family friends since Dodgson's boyhood.

Alice's Abenteuer im Wunderland

First edition pre-publication presentation copy of The Hunting of the Snark inscribed by the author.<ul><li>Lewis Carroll [Charles L. Dodgson] (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Henry Holiday (English).</li><li>London: Macmillan &amp; Co., 1876.</li><li>Inscribed in black ink on the half-title "James Hessey from the Author. Mar. 19. 1876."&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in the publisher's special pre-publication binding of red cloth,&nbsp;all edges gilt,&nbsp;"Burn" binders ticket to rear pastedown.</li></ul>

The Hunting of the Snark (Signed First Edition)

An inscribed presentation copy of Lewis Carroll's Through The Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There.<ul><li>Lewis Carroll (English).</li><li>Illustrated by John Tenniel.</li><li>London: Macmillan &amp; Co., 1877.</li><li>Inscribed by Dodgson on the half-title "Mariella York Powell, from the Author. Nov. 23, 1897", in black ink.</li><li>Bound in the scarce white paper and leatherette binding, reproducing the gilt decoration of the red cloth editions, all edges gilt, black pastedowns and endpapers, housed in a quarter red morocco slipcase.</li></ul> Mariella York Powell was the daughter of Frederick York Powell who was close friends with John Butler Yeats whom the artist first met on his move to Bedford Park, London in the late 1880s.

Through The Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (Signed)

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