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<p>[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 995071, member: 8267"]Allright, my partner has done some more research on this:</p><p><br /></p><p>"I have checked Arthur Rackham: A Bibliography by Latimore & Haskell, 1936, as well as Arthur Rackham by James Hamilton, 1990.</p><p>Alice was going to come out of copyright in 1907, so Heinemann decided to commission the then-very popular illustrator Rackham (on the heels of his Peter Pan and Rip Van Winkle) to do new illustrations. This was controversial because the original Tenniel illustrations were considered perfect, a beloved part of the story. Anyway, the original edition was co-published by Heinemann & Doubleday (a common practice at the time, to have a British & an American publisher share expenses) in white cloth with gilt titling & decorations, limited to 1130 numbered copies, no date on title page, page size 9" x 11", 13 full color illustrations mounted on brown paper, 14 b/w drawings, pictorial endsheets. The trade edition has the same number of illustrations, but none are mounted on different paper, and the page size is 5¾" by 8"; it is bound in green cloth with dark green titling, but the same gilt cover design as the limited edition [with the griffon and mock turtle on the front]. The American edition is in red cloth with white titling and a color plate on the front cover, though there was also an American edition of 550 copies signed by the publishers in green cloth with gilt titling, the same size as the British limited edition, with mounted plates. There is no edition noted in leather, so I think the OP's copy is rebound - which has a complicated effect on value, depending on the condition & quality of the binding. There is no note on the number of copies in each trade edition, but it would have been, I think, in the high thousands, and there were numerous later printings. The trade editions were issued with dust jackets; the limited editions might not have been - the bibliography does not specify."</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I was confused by the fact that none of the first editions I found on ABE bothered to mention that the publisher was both Heinemann and Doubleday Page. But I double checked some with more images, and they do show both publishers on the title page. </p><p><br /></p><p>So, it sounds like you may have a copy of the first "trade" edition (not one of the limited editions), that may have been rebound to include some leather. This may explain why it looks like new, but it complicates arriving at a fair value.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a good example of the first trade edition:</p><p><a href="https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22678097642&searchurl=xpod%3Don%26bi%3Dh%26ds%3D30%26bx%3Doff%26pics%3Don%26sortby%3D1%26tn%3Dalice%2527s%2Badventures%2Bin%2Bwonderland%26kn%3Drackham%26an%3Dcarroll%26recentlyadded%3Dall&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-image11" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22678097642&searchurl=xpod%3Don%26bi%3Dh%26ds%3D30%26bx%3Doff%26pics%3Don%26sortby%3D1%26tn%3Dalice%2527s%2Badventures%2Bin%2Bwonderland%26kn%3Drackham%26an%3Dcarroll%26recentlyadded%3Dall&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-image11" rel="nofollow">https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22678097642&searchurl=xpod=on&bi=h&ds=30&bx=off&pics=on&sortby=1&tn=alice%27s+adventures+in+wonderland&kn=rackham&an=carroll&recentlyadded=all&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-image11</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a list from abebooks of listings with seller images, sorted in descending order with the expensive limited editions first:</p><p><a href="https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=carroll&bi=h&bx=off&ds=30&kn=rackham&pics=on&recentlyadded=all&sortby=1&tn=alice%27s+adventures+in+wonderland&xpod=on&cm_sp=pan-_-srp-_-pics" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=carroll&bi=h&bx=off&ds=30&kn=rackham&pics=on&recentlyadded=all&sortby=1&tn=alice%27s+adventures+in+wonderland&xpod=on&cm_sp=pan-_-srp-_-pics" rel="nofollow">https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=carroll&bi=h&bx=off&ds=30&kn=rackham&pics=on&recentlyadded=all&sortby=1&tn=alice's+adventures+in+wonderland&xpod=on&cm_sp=pan-_-srp-_-pics</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Without more photos of your specific copy, I don't think we can say more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 995071, member: 8267"]Allright, my partner has done some more research on this: "I have checked Arthur Rackham: A Bibliography by Latimore & Haskell, 1936, as well as Arthur Rackham by James Hamilton, 1990. Alice was going to come out of copyright in 1907, so Heinemann decided to commission the then-very popular illustrator Rackham (on the heels of his Peter Pan and Rip Van Winkle) to do new illustrations. This was controversial because the original Tenniel illustrations were considered perfect, a beloved part of the story. Anyway, the original edition was co-published by Heinemann & Doubleday (a common practice at the time, to have a British & an American publisher share expenses) in white cloth with gilt titling & decorations, limited to 1130 numbered copies, no date on title page, page size 9" x 11", 13 full color illustrations mounted on brown paper, 14 b/w drawings, pictorial endsheets. The trade edition has the same number of illustrations, but none are mounted on different paper, and the page size is 5¾" by 8"; it is bound in green cloth with dark green titling, but the same gilt cover design as the limited edition [with the griffon and mock turtle on the front]. The American edition is in red cloth with white titling and a color plate on the front cover, though there was also an American edition of 550 copies signed by the publishers in green cloth with gilt titling, the same size as the British limited edition, with mounted plates. There is no edition noted in leather, so I think the OP's copy is rebound - which has a complicated effect on value, depending on the condition & quality of the binding. There is no note on the number of copies in each trade edition, but it would have been, I think, in the high thousands, and there were numerous later printings. The trade editions were issued with dust jackets; the limited editions might not have been - the bibliography does not specify." So, I was confused by the fact that none of the first editions I found on ABE bothered to mention that the publisher was both Heinemann and Doubleday Page. But I double checked some with more images, and they do show both publishers on the title page. So, it sounds like you may have a copy of the first "trade" edition (not one of the limited editions), that may have been rebound to include some leather. This may explain why it looks like new, but it complicates arriving at a fair value. Here is a good example of the first trade edition: [URL]https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22678097642&searchurl=xpod%3Don%26bi%3Dh%26ds%3D30%26bx%3Doff%26pics%3Don%26sortby%3D1%26tn%3Dalice%2527s%2Badventures%2Bin%2Bwonderland%26kn%3Drackham%26an%3Dcarroll%26recentlyadded%3Dall&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-image11[/URL] Here is a list from abebooks of listings with seller images, sorted in descending order with the expensive limited editions first: [URL]https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=carroll&bi=h&bx=off&ds=30&kn=rackham&pics=on&recentlyadded=all&sortby=1&tn=alice%27s+adventures+in+wonderland&xpod=on&cm_sp=pan-_-srp-_-pics[/URL] Without more photos of your specific copy, I don't think we can say more.[/QUOTE]
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