Symbolic logic. Part I: elementary
by CARROLL, Lewis [DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge]
London & New York: Macmillan and Co., 1896. THIRD EDITION. Addendum slip tipped in before the start of the text. Original publisher’s cloth with the author and title in black on the front cover. Second edition of Carroll’s early work of logic with the introduction dated January 1896. The first three editions were all published in 1896; the fourth (and final) edition was printed the following year. Intended to supply “for a most interesting mental recreation,” this work anticipates... Read More
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The hunting of the snark
by CARROLL, Lewis
London: Macmillan & Co, 1874. FIRST EDITION. With 9 illustrations by Henry Holiday. Contemporary green pebbled cloth, title in gilt on spine; interior with spots and soiling, fly-leaf browned (perhaps something removed?), inner joint cracked. Bookplate of F.D. Westcott, Subscription Library, Avenue Road, Beckenham. First edition, first issue of Carroll's whimsical nonsense poem with “baker” on p. 83 which was later corrected to “butcher”. The poem describes a voyage to find the Snark (combination snail and shark?), a boojum... Read More
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Doublets: a word-puzzle
by CARROLL, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge]
London: Macmillan and Co., 1879. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Original red publisher's cloth paneled in blind, gilt title on upper cover, slight soiling. An excellent presentation copy inscribed in purple ink, "Mrs. Neate from the Author." Preserved in a modern burgundy cloth box with red morocco sides, gilt lettered. First edition, first issue of this most popular word puzzle, invented by Carroll, that became a parlor craze in its time. "The rules of the puzzle are simple enough. Two... Read More
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Christmas greetings. [From a fairy to a child.] (offered with) An Easter greeting to every child who loves “Alice.”
by CARROLL, Lewis
Oxford: for the author, 1884. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION; FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. I: Printed on recto only within double-ruled border. In excellent condition. II: Text printed within double borders on E. Towgood’s cream-laid large post fine paper, as watermarked. Issued without wrappers; other than some minor stain on the inner edge of the fourth (blank) page, an excellent copy. I: First separate edition. A short holiday poem, written in 1867 which was first included in Phantasmagoria in 1869.... Read More
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Alice’s adventures in wonderland
by CARROLL, Lewis; RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator)
London: Heinemann, 1907. FIRST TRADE EDITION WITH RACKHAM ILLUSTRATIONS. White and green illustrated endpapers, multi-colored title page, 13 plates with tissue guards, each with printed caption, and numerous text illustrations. Advertisement for Rip Van Winkle on the verso of the half title and advertisement The Children & The Pictures by Pamela Tenant on the rear flyleaf. Publisher’s cloth, author, illustrator and title in black and decorations in gilt on front cover, some soiling and spotting to covers; interior very... Read More
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Sylvie and Bruno. (Offered with) Sylvie and Bruno concluded
by CARROLL, Lewis
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. FIRST EDITIONS. Laid into Volume II is a printed leaf entitled “Advertisement” which is an announcement from Carroll dated Christmas, 1893. With 46 illustrations by Harry Furniss in each volume. Each frontispiece with tissue guard. Both volumes in original publisher’s red cloth, gilt illustration on each over, title in gilt on spines; the second volume is a fine and bright copy in the original green/grey dust jacket from the library of Caryl Liddell Hargreaves... Read More
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Rhyme? and Reason
by CARROLL, Lewis
New York: Macmillan, 1884. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. With 65 illustrations by Arthur B. Frost and 9 by Henry Holiday. Publisher’s red binding, author and title in gilt on front cover (with double-ruled borders) and spine; interior excellent. First American edition, published in London the prior year. The text is made up of poems chiefly republished from Phantasmagoria but renewed with the wonderful Frost illustrations. Included are a few newly published poems and riddles. See Williams, Madan, Green, 160.... Read More
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Christmas greetings. [From a fairy to a child.]
by CARROLL, Lewis
Oxford: Macmillan, 1884. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. printed on recto only within double-ruled border. In excellent condition. First separate edition. A short holiday poem, written in 1867 which was first included in Phantasmagoria in 1869. Williams, Madan, Green, 162.
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Alice’s adventures in wonderland
by CARROLL, Lewis; NEWELL, Peter (illustrator)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1901. FIRST EDITION WITH NEWELL ILLUSTRATIONS. With frontispiece photographic portrait of Carroll and 41 plates by Peter Newell, each page printed within exotic decorations by Robert Murray Wright. White parchment-covered boards with title and pictgure of Alice in gilt on front cover; interior excellent. A fine uncut copy. First edition with Newell’s wonderful artwork. In addition to Alice, Newell (1862-1924) was an American artist who, in addition to his own books, illustrated a number... Read More
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Fantasmagorie
by CARROLL, Lewis; PARISOT, Henri, tr
Paris, 1939. Original printed wrappers, preserved in glassine. Presentation inscription from the translator on note card laid in. In very good condition. First edition of the first French translation of Carroll’s longest poem, one of an edition of only 155 copies. The text is divided into 7 cantos of discussion between a human narrator and a ghost. Each canto is comprised of 5-line verses with a variable rhyme scheme. For words that do not easily translate to French but... Read More
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Notes by an Oxford chiel
by CARROLL, Lewis
Oxford: James Parker and Co., 1874. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Publisher’s cloth, title in gilt within gilt border on front cover; flyleaf detached. From the library of William Buller Heberden with his bookplate on the paste-down and signature dated January 1875 on the flyleaf. First collected edition and first printing under this title. This work comprises a group of Carroll’s pamphlets printed between 1865-1874. The six parts are for the most part good natured satires, usually of a local political... Read More
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Clara in Blunderland. (offered with) Lost in Blunderland. The further adventures of Clara
by CARROLL, Lewis LEWIS, Caroline [pseud of BEGBIE, E. Harold]
London: Heinemann, 1903. FIRST EDITIONS. Frontispieces and illustrations by S.R. (Stafford Ransome). Pictorial green cloth stamped in red and black. A fine set with the bookplate of Hugh Charles Knowles in the first volume (some offsetting on the fly-leaf). First edition of these parodies of Alice by Begbie (1871-1929), the English journalist and poet. Dedicated to Lewis Carroll, the story is an unrepentant criticism of the British government’s engagement in the second Boer war. A number of politicians are... Read More
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Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there
by CARROLL, Lewis
London: Macmillan, 1913. SIXTY-FIFTH THOUSAND. Frontispiece and 49 text illustrations by John Tenniel. Publisher’s red cloth, title in gilt on spine, gilt roundels with motifs from the book to covers inside triple gilt ruling. An absolutely immaculate copy with all edges gilt. Later edition, sixty-fifth thousand. This is Carroll’s sequel to Alice’s adventures in Wonderland. Once Alice climbs through the mirror, she finds that everything is reversed, including all logic. It is in this work that Carroll introduces his... Read More
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Alice’s adventures in Wonderland
by CARROLL, Lewis
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1866. FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE. Frontispiece and 41 illustrations by John Tenniel. Exquisite full morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, covers ruled in blind with the same gilt designs as on the original cover (Alice on the front, the Cheshire Cat on the back), spine in compartments with gilt designs and the author, title and date in gilt, intricately decorated gilt dentelles, with the original binding bound in on 3 separate leaves (front,... Read More
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Sylvie and Bruno concluded
by CARROLL, Lewis
London: Macmillan & Co, 1893. FIRST EDITION. With 46 illustrations by Harry Furniss. Original red cloth with a small circular gilt decoration on the both boards. A fine and bright copy in the original green/grey dust jacket. From the library of Caryl Liddell Hargreaves (1887-1955), the third son of the original “Alice” (and the only one to survive, his two older brothers having been killed in World War I). (Alice always denied that her son’s name was associated with... Read More
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Three sunsets and other poems
by CARROLL, Lewis
London: Macmillan, 1898. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. With 12 black and white illustrations by E. Gertrude Thomson. Publisher’s green cloth, gilt titles and decorations on covers, all edges gilt. A fine copy. First edition, first printing. Of the fifteen poems here, ten have been reprinted from the serious portion of Phantasmagoria, three from Sylvie and Bruno, and two additional acrostic poems. The twelve engravings of “fairy-fancies” are wonderful but have little to do with the poems themselves. An interesting... Read More
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Symbolic logic. Part I: elementary
by CARROLL, Lewis [DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge]
London & New York: Macmillan and Co., 1896. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Original publisher’s cloth with the author and title in black on the front cover, edge of back cover just starting to fray; overall a wonderful copy with the bookplate of J. Steele, Coldstream Guards on the pastedown. First edition, first issue of Carroll’s early work of logic with the introduction dated January 1896. Intended to supply “for a most interesting mental recreation,” this work anticipates his later... Read More
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Le avventure d’Alice nel paese delle meraviglie
by CARROLL, Lewis
Torino: Ermano Loescher, 1872. FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE IN ITALIAN. Frontispiece and 42 text illustrations by John Tenniel. Publisher’s orange cloth, a bit soiled, triple borders in gilt, circle with image of Alice in gilt on front cover and circle with image of the Cheshire Cat in gilt on rear cover; other than some very minor spotting, interior excellent. First edition, second issue in Italian, translated by T. Pietrocòla-Rossetti.
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An index to “In Memoriam”
by CARROLL, Lewis
London: Edward Moxon, 1862. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Original black limp cloth ruled border in blind over yellow endpapers, title in gilt on top cover. The issue without the publisher’s advertisements. An excellent copy from the library of Harcourt Armory. First edition, first issue. “This anonymous index to Tennyson’s well-known elegy on Arthur Hallam refers to each clause of the poem under the most important noun, verb, &c., in it, and contains about 3000 references in double columns.” It... Read More
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Symbolic logic. Part I: elementary
by [CARROLL, Lewis] DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge
London & New York: Macmillan and Co., 1896. FIRST EDITION, PRE-PUBLICATION PRESENTATION COPY. Original publisher's cloth over boards, cut flush, front cover lettered and ruled in black; presentation inscription, "G.E. Jelf, with the Author's sincere regards. Feb. 22, 1896." Preserved in a red morocco-backed slipcase and chemise. First edition of Carroll's early work of logic, the first issue with the introduction dated January 1896. Intended to supply "for a most interesting mental recreation," this work anticipates his later Game... Read More
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The Wonderland postage-stamp case. (offered with) Eight or nine wise words about letter-writing
by CARROLL, Lewis
Oxford: Emberlin and Son, 1915. Stamp case is a detachable cover of cardboard into which slips the stamp-holder which is made of stiff paper backed with canvas. The stamp-holder consists of 12 little sewn pockets to hold 12 stamps, each with a printed value (½ d. to 1 s.). The case and cover each bear colored pictures of Alice on one side, with Alice holding the Duchess’s baby on the stamp case and Alice holding a pig on the... Read More
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An Easter greeting to every child who loves “Alice.”
by CARROLL, Lewis
Oxford: for the author, 1876. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Text printed within double borders on E. Towgood’s cream-laid large post fine paper, as watermarked. Issued without wrappers; other than some minor stain on the inner edge of the fourth (blank) page, an excellent copy. First edition, first issue, with “Dear Child” on the second page and “gray-headed” and “Righteousness shall arise” on the third page. Williams at one time called this is “the rarest of the Carroll items with... Read More
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Symbolic logic. Part I: elementary
by CARROLL, Lewis [DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge]
London & New York: Macmillan and Co., 1896. SECOND EDITION. Original publisher’s cloth with the author and title in black on the front cover. Second edition of Carroll’s early work of logic with the introduction dated January 1896. The first three editions were all published in 1896; the fourth (and final) edition was printed the following year. Intended to supply “for a most interesting mental recreation,” this work anticipates his later Game of logic (1897), and introduces his inventive... Read More
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“Sur une définition géométrique du tenseur d’énergie d’Einstein”; “Sur une généralisation de la notion de courbure de Riemann et les espaces à torsion”; “Sur les espaces généralisés et la théorie de la Relativité”; “Sur les espaces conformes généralisés et l’Univers optique”; “Sur les équations de structure des espaces généralisés et l’éxpression analytique du tenseur d’Einstein”. In Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L’Academie des Sciences, Volume 174, January-June 1922, pp. 437-439; 593-595; 734-737; 857-860; 1104-1107
by CARTAN, Élie
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1922. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, edges worn, otherwise a fine copy. First edition of the five papers that comprise the Einstein-Cartan theory of gravitation. In theoretical physics, the Einstein–Cartan theory is a classical theory of gravitation similar to general relativity. The theory differs from general relativity in two ways: (1) it is formulated within the framework of Riemann–Cartan geometry, which possesses a locally gauged Lorentz symmetry, while general relativity is formulated within the... Read More
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The decisive moment
by CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri
New York: Simon & Schuster, New York, 1952. FIRST EDITION. With 126 photographic illustrations. Publisher’s decorated cloth designed by Cartier-Bresson, and in the original dust jacket. Laid in is the separate leaflet (4to., 12 pp.) containing the captions to the photographs in English. A fine copy. First edition of this landmark work in the history of photography. This is the American issue, though printed in France in collaboration with Éditions Verve. Though many people assume that his “decisive moment”... Read More
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