"CARROLL, Lewis" (1832-98). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, London, 1872, 8vo, illustrations by John Tenniel, original red buckram, "Twenty-Ninth Thousand". With the same author's Through the Looking-Glass (London, 1872, "Thirty-Second Thousand"). (2)

"CARROLL, Lewis" [i.e. Charles Lutwidge DODGSON (1832-98)].  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan and Co., printed by Richard Clay, 1872 [but October 1871]. 8vo in 4s (183 x 125mm). Half title, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel, one-page of publisher's advertisements at the end (some light mainly marginal staining, a few darker spots). Original red pictorial buckram gilt with a portrait of Alice stamped in gilt on the upper cover and the Cheshire Cat on the lower, gilt edges (some staining and minor damp-blistering to the covers, corners bumped, spine darkened, inner hinges split). "Twenty-Ninth Thousand". "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its hardly less famous sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1872), although ostensibly written for children (in particular, for one child, Alice Liddell, afterwards Hargreaves), are unique among 'juveniles' in appealing equally if not more strongly to adults. Written by an Oxford don, a clergyman, and a professional mathematician, they abound in characters - the White Knight, the Red Queen, the Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty - who are part of everybody's mental furniture. And the philosophic profundity of scores, if not hundreds, of these characters' observations, long household words wherever English is spoken, gains mightily from the delicious fantasy of their setting" (PMM). cf. PMM 354; Christianson & Slater 100 Books that Changed the World pp.124-125: "... an icon of children's literature ..."; Miller (ed.) Literary Wonderlands pp.82-87; Muir English Children's Books 1600-1900 pp.139-142: "... the greatest of all English stories for children ..."; Williams, Madan, Green & Crutch The Lewis Carroll Handbook 46d (citing the sixth edition of 1868, "commencing with 12th thousand", then jumping to 46e, the seventh edition, "commencing with 79th thousand" [i.e. without a specific mention of the present "Twenty-Ninth Thousand" printing]). With the same author's Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (London, 1872, 8vo, frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel, original red pictorial buckram gilt, in similar condition to the first book in the lot, "Thirty-Second Thousand"). (2)