LEWIS CARROLL by Lennon, Florence Becker - 1947

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Cassell & Co., Ltd, 1947. First Australian Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. First Australian Edition, having been published first in London in the same year. Bound in blue cloth, slight forward cock to spine, bumping to spine head and foot, with only barely rubbed gilt lettering. Laid in is the flap from the else absent dust jacket. With six black-and-white illustrations including of the last known photograph of Alice, circa 1874. [6], 7-358 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

London: Cassell & Co, 1947 Copy in blue cloth on boards with gilt title on spine. Previous owners inscription and bookplate on FFESlight offsetting to front and rear end papers. Sporadic light foxing to folio edges. Some light internal cracks. Clean text with b/w plates.

Cassell. Collectible - Very Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Very Good. Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. Dust jacket price clipped. (literature, biography)

London: Cassell & Co, 1947. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 358pp. HARDCOVER Very clean copy internally. No inscriptions. Light foxing to external edges. Strong binding. D/w is present & complete, but has some edgewear top/bottom with the tiniest amount of loss. D/w will be improved where possible & supplied in protective sleeve. Will appear smart when work completed. Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" tall.

London: Cassell and Co., 1947. 358pp. Six, unpaginated, b/white halftone plates (all called-for plates extant and attached), plus several intext sketch-drawings. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over minimally bumped spine. Plain blue cloth boards bumped on foredge corners of upper board. Endpapers lightly foxed, else textblock edges minimally flecked. No dustjacket. Florence Becker Lennon (b.1895-d.1984) has produced an interesting biography of Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, b. 1832-d.1898), whose 'Alice' books have remained best sellers for more than a century. But there was much more to Lewis Carroll . . . Contents include: Prelims., Time-Table of Dodgson's Life. 19 chapters. Appendix. Bibliography (works by Lewis Carroll and works by Charles L. Dodgson). Author's Acks., Index. Book weight approx. 625g. . First U.K.. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good+. 8vo - (approx. 22cm x 14.5cm).

London, Toronto, Melbourne & Sydney: Cassell & Company, 1947. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Matt paper dust wrapper has insignificant edgewear and is a touch faded with heavier fading to the spine. Age-toning/spotting to the edges of the text block and the lining papers.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (blue boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 8¾” x 5¾” (1 kg); 358pp; Index; Bibliography; Includes: Black & white photographs on individual leaves; Black & white drawings; Title page vignette; Appendix; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #197629|| Condition:

London: Cassell and Co. , 1947. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Not Stated . The first UK edition of Lewis Carroll's illustrated biography by Florence Becker Lennon. The first UK edition of this work by Florence Lennon. A detailed biography of the acclaimed author, Lewis Carroll, a notably a peculiar personality of immense talent since childhood. He is mainly known for his works Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, and for his mastery of word play, logic and fantasy in his works. With six full plates illustrations. In the unclipped dust wrapper.  In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally very smart with only minor shelf wear and a slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. The dust wrapper is unclipped and very smart with some shelf wear and a slight sunning to the spine./ Internally, fimrly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Illustrated with six full plates. Very Good Indeed