Comments on: Charles Pears & Thomas H. Robinson – Poor Alice

By: CollectingAlice.com

CollectingAlice.com — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 06:01:02 +0000

In reply to Claire Fage. Hello, You can try in Ebay (the easiest way to sell it probably), or through Abe books. I would guesstimate this book would be in the region of $25-$50 (USD), depending on its condition.

By: Claire Fage

Claire Fage — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:01:56 +0000

Hi,
I have this edition and would like to sell it, can you give me advice on where I can sell it please.

By: CollectingAlice.com

CollectingAlice.com — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 08:04:37 +0000

In reply to Rebecca Watford.

Hi Rebecca,
On one hand taking out pages from a book should be a punishable crime. however, I have come across many shabby and tattered Alice’s that using them solely for framing their illustration makes all the sense in the world. Yes that random cover. I always think some publisher just had the plates ready or something and thought, yeah what the hell. They wouldnt mind.
Thank you for the comment, cheers,
Yonatan

By: Rebecca Watford

Rebecca Watford — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 17:43:44 +0000

I have an illustration from the book of Alice and the Rabbit. Someone gave it to me framed. I wouldn’t ever take an illustration from a book to frame. Thanks, your notes helped me identify the illustration - I love the strangeness of the cover

By: Karol Dzidek

Karol Dzidek — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 17:48:29 +0000

In reply to CollectingAlice.com. Very interesting. Who knows maybe in some parallel universe Alice plays a tennis match instead of croquet match.

By: CollectingAlice.com

CollectingAlice.com — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 15:17:52 +0000

In reply to Karol Dzidek. interesting take Karol, thank you! I looked into this a bit further, and there is an interesting Charles Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll connection to tennis. As it happened, he actually wrote an article, suggesting a tennis tournament elimination method. you can read about it here

By: Karol Dzidek

Karol Dzidek — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 10:08:42 +0000

I like this Alice edition. Regarding the cover I think the woman we can see is actually Alice, not from this edition though. Her hat reminds me of John R. Neill Alice. As for why she is playing tennis, it might be because this sport was born in victorian England; she is also wearing typical victorian female tennis player uniform. It might be unrelated to the story, but still it represents an activity Alice could do before her sister took her to the riverbank.