The Lewis Carroll Handbook... Now Further Revised by Denis Crutch [1979, most recent revision, and best edition]

Folkestone, Kent / Hamden, Connecticut: Dawson / Archon Books, 1979. This is the first printing of the 1979 edition -- the MOST RECENT REVISION and the BEST edition of the standard Lewis Carroll bibliography. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh and crisp -- probably never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. It provides collations, transcribes title pages, identifies variants, etc. Expertly annotated. Illustrated with 12 plates. Bound in the original gilt-stamped brown cloth. From the dust jacket: "The first edition of the HANDBOOK… was published in 1931, and an extensive revision by Roger Lancelyn Green appeared in 1962… This later version was reissued in 1970, and has now once more been revised and extended… In the main section, to 1898, there are over forty entirely new articles -- twenty referring to previously unrecorded pieces -- and some sixty editions are individually numbered for the first time. All the articles have been brought up to date. The most valuable and characteristic features of the original , however, are retained… A supplement is included… which records new and previously unreprinted work by Dodgson, and important biographical and critical matter." Full title: "The Lewis Carroll Handbook : Being a New Version of a Handbook of the Literature of the Rev. C. L. Dodgson by Sidney Herbert Williams and Falconer Madan, Revised and Augmented by Roger Lancelyn Green, Now Further Revised by Denis Crutch.". 1979 revised edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. xix, 340pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.