‘It was given to a little girl by her father, who had a position at Oxford, and it stayed with her for her entire life.’ ‘This copy (estimate: $2,000,000-3,000,000) is interesting because we can trace its history back to the Oxford days,’ he notes. It will be offered in a stand-alone sale taking place at 12pm on 16 June, immediately following the Books & Manuscripts auction at Christie’s New York.Ī lecturer in mathematics at Oxford, Carroll’s real passion was for storytelling, says Wahlgren. ‘This is a true first edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ,’ says Francis Wahlgren, Christie’s International Director of Science & Books, of an original 1865 edition of the Lewis Carroll fantasy that went on to become one of the most famous works in children’s literature. ‘Extremely rare’: A first edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderlandīooks specialist Francis Wahlgren on a remarkable true first edition published in 1865 - one of only 23 surviving copies
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