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CARLSON, David and Jeffery EGER, compilers. Dodgson at Auction, 1893-1999. With a foreword by Charlie Lovett. Somerville, NJ: D&D Galleries, 1999.
4to. Original gilt-lettered blue cloth; original slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 28 of 97 copies CONTAINING AN ORIGINAL LEAF FROM THE SUPPRESSED 1865 FIRST EDITION OF ALICE. The leaf, supplied from a disbound copy, is the first page of Chapter V (pp. 59-60) with a vignette illustration heading by Tenniel of the Caterpillar character smoking a hookah atop a mushroom with a seated Alice below.
[With:] SCHILLER, Justin G. and Selwyn H. GOODACRE. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland…with a revised and expanded census of the suppressed 1865 “Alice”. Fairfield, NJ: Horowitz/Rae Book Manufacturers for The Jabberwock, 1990. 8vo. Illustrated with facsimiles. Original decorative boards reproducing the binding of Schiller’s 1865 suppressed Alice. FIRST EDITION.