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Sylvie and Bruno [with] Sylvie and Bruno Concluded - PRESENTATION Copies Inscribed to the Mother of Enid, Dodgson's Last Child-Friend

Sylvie and Bruno [with] Sylvie and Bruno Concluded - PRESENTATION Copies Inscribed to the Mother of Enid, Dodgson's Last Child-Friend by CARROLL, Lewis [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]

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Seller: Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Title
Sylvie and Bruno [with] Sylvie and Bruno Concluded - PRESENTATION Copies Inscribed to the Mother of Enid, Dodgson's Last Child-Friend
Author
CARROLL, Lewis [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]
Seller
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
London and New York: Macmillan and Co, 1893. First Editions. Original cloth with both vols. housed in a morocco slipcase with chemises. Very Good/Case: Fine. Harry Furniss. Titles for both volumes continue: "With Forty-Six Illustrations by Harry Furniss." Two 8vo volumes. Pp. xxi, [4], 2-400, followed by three page of publisher ads, [1]; [4], x-xxxi, [1], 2-423, [2], followed by four pages of publisher ads, and then a facsimile of one page of Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Frontis. illustration to each, with tissue guards. Original red cloth, gilt. All edges gilt. General index in Vol. Ii. Light scattered foxing on first and last few leaves of both volumes. Both volumes a bit cocked, with spines faded; first volume with a few small spots on the front board. Armorial bookplate (Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester) on front pastedowns. Both volumes inscribed to "Mrs. Stevens" (Edith Stevens), the mother of Dodgson's last "child-friend," Enid Stevens.Both volumes presented in cloth chemises within three-quarter red morocco clamshell boxes, felt-lined, within a red linen slipcase. Inscriptions read, respectively, "Mrs. Stevens, from the Author. Feb. 28, 1891" and "Mrs. Stevens, with sincere regards, from the Author. Dec. 27, 1893."Edith Stevens (1841-1919) was the mother of Enid Stevens, considered by Dodgson to be the last of his "child-friends." On the very day of the first inscription Dodgson wrote to Edith, stating, "I have lost a considerable fraction (say .25) of my heart to your little daughter: and I hope you will allow me further opportunities of trying whether or no we can become real friends. She would be about my only child-friend in Oxford" (The Letters of Lewis Carroll, p. 825). Dodgson's warm feelings of his friendship with Enid was reciprocated by Enid who, later in life, wrote "we were the very greatest friends," and "I don't think anybody else ever had so much of him as I had ... I was the last child-friend."The introductory poem in Sylvie and Bruno contains a double acrostic of the name "Isa Bowman", who was another of Carroll's child-friends; the dedicatory poem in Sylvie and Bruno Concluded contains a single acrostic, "enidstevens" using the third letters of each line. Provenance: Edith Stevens (née Headland, 1841-1919); Sotheby's, 1929; Christies; Christies, 2006.
THE PYGMY'S ARROW

THE PYGMY'S ARROW by Fleming, Waldo

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Seller: Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
Title
THE PYGMY'S ARROW
Author
Fleming, Waldo
Seller
Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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Fine
Description
Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1938. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Frank Dobias. NY: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Company, 1938. First Edition. 310pp, illustrated Frank Dobias, illustrated end papers. 8vo. Yellow cloth with illustrated front cover, black titles on spine. Scattered light spotting on outer edges of textblock, else fine bright hardcover in near fine d/j with only minor edgewear on d/j.

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