Scope and Contents From the Collection: The G. Edward Cassady, M.D. and Margaret Elizabeth Cassady, R.N. Lewis Carroll collection consists of photographs, correspondence, ephemera, realia, graphic materials, games, reference works, material from stage and film adaptations, and other archival material relating to children's literature author, mathematician, and writer Charles Dodgson (1832-1898), better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll. Most well known for his first children's novels, Alice's...

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1st Edition, 1st Issue. Buff stiff illustrated paper wraps, stapled; no dust jacket; no endpapers; [2], 3-23, [1] pages; both color and b&w illustrations; 24.5 x 16.3 cm. This was the 1st of the Guinness 'Alice' booklets. [Parrish No. 893 records a 1933 issue as a second edition].

Scope and Contents 1st Edition, 1st Issue. Cream stiff paper wraps, color illustrations both side both covers, edges yapped, stapled; no dust jacket; no endpapers; [20] pages, heavy-weight, cream; color illustrations each page; covers 23.8 x 15.5 cm. (23.0 x 15.2 cm. leaf). Single quire with 10 leaves. Presentation card from the publishers is included. This was the 3rd Guinness 'Alice' booklet. There are 9 named parodies: Alice Through the Guinness-Glass, The Three Little Sisters, Humpty Dumpty Re-Cited, The...

Scope and Contents Playbill, for the Premier Performance, 26-Nov-2008, at the Round House Theater, Bethesda, MD. Glossy paper wraps, stapled, front illustrated with multicolored Alice; no dust jacket; no endpapers; [4], 5-29 pages, coated; 21.5 x 14.1 cm. Tony Cisek (set design), Veronika Vorel (sound design), Marianne Custer (costume design), Casey Sams (choreography), Kenton Yeager (lighting design), Martha Knight (stage manager). Cast included Meghan Grady, Lise Bruneau, Marcus Kyd, Bill Largess, Hugh Nees,...

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[13] leaves, glossy, spiral-bound, illustrated, measure 33.5 x 22.0 cm.

Scope and Contents Single leaf, measures 27.8 x 21.5 cm., typewritten both sides, with handwritten corrections and signature. Letter from Aldous Huxley, 145 1/2 South Doheny, LA 36 CA, to 'Dearest Anita' (Loos), dated 13-Oct-1945. The letter primarily concerns Huxley's ideas concerning his work on Brave New World. The penultimate paragraph changes the topic and says, "..Meanwhile, as Donald Hyde has probably told you, I am about to sign up with Disney for the script of an...

Scope and Contents Autographed Letter Signed. Nov. 29, 1882. 1 page, on a note card with Rev. C.L. Dodgson, Christ Church, Oxford stamped in purple on the top. To Evey. My dear Evey, I find Miss Leith's Birthday-Book contained only one versefrom "Alice"! So it will not inteifere with your friends' publication. I hope the enclosed will improve your mind. Yours affectionately, C.L. Dodgson B & L Rootenberg was unable to find a...

Scope and Contents Autographed Letter Signed. April 25, 1874. Four pages (1 sheet, folded). To [Henry Frederick] Rivers. In purple ink. My dear Rivers, The matter I spoke to you about (the undergraduate here who is a bad stammerer, & whose father is too poor to pay you the full fee) has now taken a practical shape. The father is willing to make the effort to pay 10 guineas (according to your kind offer), & 3 guineas a week board, & I am requested to ask you whether you...