I’m currently on a remote Island in Indo Pacific Asia, trading land for beads with the locals, with little success, so far. I am far away from my Alice book collection, and can’t simply turn to the shelves and pull off a book for your amusement. This post here will be dedicated to the missing, the unspoken, the ghosts, the holes in my collection. The ones I covet most, and haven’t managed to get yet.
This post will be a work in progress. You can all chip in and get me any of the following for my birthday:
I’m starting with the one I covet most, John R. Neill.
Neill is mostly known for his beautiful Oz books.
His Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland came out in 1908.
There’s a charming separate add-on in the form of Humpty Dumpty’s story.
Why don’t I have it yet, well, it is rather rare, and copies go for $300 and upwards. I will be slightly more relaxed when I ultimately get one.
The very first set of alternative illustrations of Alice in Wonderland after John Tenniel, was a Dutch 1887, ‘Alice in het land der droomen’,
translated by Eleonora Mann. Mann is sometimes wrongfully credited for the illustrations, although the artist goes uncredited unfortunately.
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Is that it? Oh no, plenty more, and i’ll gradually add more to this one.
For the John R Neill do you require a mint copy with DW? If not you should be able to find one for less than $300.
Dear Joel, Yes, well, I’m ok with an edition withough the DW and in a good condition, and am keeping a regular eye out in ebay for a copy, but, they are either over $500, or with issues (tears, scribbles on covers, etc.). One of these days, ill find one thats right for me. I like that, like in Looking Glass’s Sheep and Wool episode, where Alice reaches for items that disappear from her, there are editions that are always seemingly reachable but manage to evade me.