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DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll") (1832-1898). A group of items, including: Alices Abenteuer im Wunderland [in German]. Translated into German by Karl Köstlin. Stuttgart: Dr. Riederer-Verlag, [1949]. Tall 8vo. Color illustrations by Lilo Rasch-Nägele. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards (few tiny spots of rubbing). A rare post-WWII edition from an Allied-occupied territory of Germany. Rasch-Nägele was a well-known Stuttgart artist and book illustrator. Weaver, p. 122. -- An advertisement from Dodgson regarding the misprinted 1893 edition of “Through the Looking-Glass”. Christmas, 1893. 1-page, 8vo. -- Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing. Oxford: Emberlin and Son, 1890. 32mo. Includes: 32pp. booklet, color illustrated stamp case with detachable covers and with matching stamp-holder, original printed envelope. FIRST EDITION (second edition of stamp-holder). “A small but excellent work, full of sound sense and humour” (Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 223.1). [With:] a pair of later variants (1908 and ca. 1910-1915), each nearly complete with only one lacking the original envelope. -- Lewis Carroll. [Italy: Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1982]. Portfolio of all 12 loose photographic prints of Carroll’s photographs of children, including Alice Liddell, the inspiration for Alice from Alice in Wonderland. With publisher’s folding text leaf, and tissue guards. 16 x 12”. In publisher’s black paper folding portfolio with photographic label, pull-off slipcase and cardboard box. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, ONE OF 1,500 COPIES (this copy unnumbered).