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Shortlist No.9Alice.

From the Christopher Smith Collection

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Christopher Smith (1953 - 2016) was a NIDA trained theatre designer who worked in Brisbane for over thirty years. He was a curator and exhibition designer at the QPAC Museum and Tony Gould Gallery at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre for over twenty years. His flamboyant imagination influenced numerous productions for theatre, ballet and opera and his library reflects his inspiration and influences. One senses from the books he left behind his deep love of and appetite for art, design, illustration, architecture, theatre history, and his sense of humour. We’ve started our cataloguing by choosing Chris’s micro-collection of Alice in Wonderland material, which includes several different illustrated editions, annotated editions, the Alice in Wonderland Tarot Deck and Alice 125, a collection of Australian artists chosen in 1990 to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s enduring classic (Christopher himself is featured in Alice 125 on p.97, as shown above).

1. Abbey and Morgan. The Wonderland Tarot Deck.

U.S. Games Systems INC, Stamford CT. Complete 78 card deck: 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor. Based on the illustrations by Sir John Tenniel for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Designed by Christopher Abbey and Morgana Abbey. Drawn by Morgana Abbey. Complete with instruction booklet. Top of box shows minor edgewear. Fine in Very Good. $250.

2. Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures Under Ground.

London: Pavilion Books, 1985. Facsimile. With a Foreword by Mary Jean St Clair, Alice’s granddaughter. Small octavo (20cm x 13.5cm), glossy illustrated boards with green linen spine, top edge speckled and striped, brown endpapers, printed in sepia on cream coloured paper, 20pp (92 unpaginated). Bottom fore-corner lightly bruised, ‘Christopher Smith’ stamp on f.f.e.p. Almost Fine. $35.

3. Carroll, Lewis and Browne, Anthony. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

London: Julia MacRae Books, 1988. Illustrations by Anthony Browne. Octavo (28cm x 19cm), red buckram with gilt title to spine, in unclipped dust jacket also illustrated by Browne – On the front Alice in a green frock is falling past shelves of books, teacups, a flaming key, etcetera, and on the back the Mad hatter drinks a cup of tea before a jury of anthropomorphised animals – (10, unpaginated) + 118pp. Fine in Fine. $25.

4. Carroll, Lewis and Hall, David. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

London: Methuen, 1986. With David Hall’s previously unpublished illustrations for Walt Disney Productions. Octavo (25cm x 21cm), cream buckram with rose coloured lettering, in unclipped dust jacket illustrated by Hall – On the front Alice, the Mad Hatter and a Brown Hare, and on the back the White Rabbit with umbrella and pocket watch – illustrated endpapers, 160pp. Slight sunning to the spine of the jacket and edge-wear to the head of jacket spine. Fine in Almost Fine. $45.

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5. Carroll, Lewis and Morell, Abelardo. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

New York: Dutton’s Children’s Books, 1998. Illustrated with photographs by Abelardo Morell; With an Introduction by Leonard S. Marcus. Octavo (26.5cm x 22cm), gold buckram boards with black lettering on spine, unclipped dust jacket illustrated with a Morell photograph of Alice peering into a book, (xi) [1] 115pp [1]. Bottom fore-corner bruised. Barely discernible edge- wear to dust jacket. Almost Fine in Almost Fine. $45.

6. Carroll, Lewis and Peake, Mervyn. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass.

London: Bibliophile Books, 1984. With sixty-six illustrations by Mervyn Peake. Octavo (23cm x 15.5cm), blue buckram boards with gilt illustration on the lower fore-corner and gilt titles on the spine, unclipped dust jacket illustrated by Peake showe Alice asleep on the forest floor watched over by various other characters, blue endpapers, tope edge speckled, (8) 221pp (3). Fine in Fine. $55.

7. Carroll, Lewis, Peake, Mervyn, Self, Will and Smith, Zadie. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.

London: Bloomsbury, 2001. Two volumes. Both small octavo (18.5cm x 13cm), white linen boards with gilt titles on the spine, white unclipped dust jackets with Peake illustrations on the front – Alice propped up on her elbows on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Alice with the two queens on Through the Looking Glass, both with silver ribbon markers. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, with an introduction by Will Self, xvi (4) 169pp (3); Through The Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, with an introduction by Zadie Smith, xvii (1) 201pp (5). Bottom corners of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland bruised, faint fingerprint on cover of Through The Looking Glass. Almost Fine in Almost Fine. $95.

8. Carroll, Lewis and Rackham, Arthur. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

London: Heinemann, 1972. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (first published in 1907). Octavo (20cm x 15cm), blue buckram boards with argent floral motif to the centre of the front boards and argent title on spine, price-clipped dust jacket with Alice illustration by Rackham, illustrated endpapers, speckled top-edge, 13 colour plates including frontispiece, numerous black and white in-text illustrations, (12) 162pp (2). Long light diagonal scratch across the front board, slight edge-wear to food of spine, 3mm lean to spine, dust jacket slightly age-toned across the top edge and with a small 5mm nick to the middle of the spine (corresponding dint in spine of book, slightly obscuring the letter ‘A’ in ‘Arthur’), fine throughout. Very Good in Very Good. $65.

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9. Carroll, Lewis and Steadman, Ralph. The Complete Alice and the Hunting of the Snark.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1986. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman. Tall octavo (28.5cm x 20cm), navy blue cloth boards, with title on spine in argent, unclipped dust jacket illustrated by Steadman shows Alice peering into a space where a pair of legs are crossed and dangling above, chess board illustrated endpapers, 336pp. Dust jacket creased and chipped at the head of the spine and beginning to show edge-wear at the base of spine, two small fox marks on the inside of the jacket, one small stain on the top edge and another on the fore-edge, corners sharp, clean throughout but pp 23-35 have a distinct crease. Very good in Very Good. $55.

10. Carroll, Lewis and Todd, Justin. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1984. Illustrated by Justin Todd. Octavo (24.5cm x 18.5cm), navy blue canvas boards with title on the spine in argent, price-clipped jacket illustrated by Todd shows a dark-haired Alice holding a jar and falling past a circular set of shelves, light blue endpapers, 22 colour illustrations, 160pp. Bottom corners and foot of spine slightly bruised, some light smudges and ‘Christopher Smith’ stamp to the f.f.e.p., fine throughout, jacket shows minor edge-wear to the head and tail of the spine. Almost Fine in Very Good. $25.

11. Carroll, Lewis and Todd, Justin. Through The Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1984. Illustrated by Justin Todd. Octavo (24.5cm x 18.5cm), navy blue canvas boards with title on the spine in gilt, unclipped dust jacket illustrated by Todd shows dark-haired Alice climbing a mantelpiece over which hangs a large mirror, light blue endpapers, 16 colour illustrations, 176pp. Moderate sunning to the spine of the dust jacket.Fine in Almost Fine. $35.

12. Carroll, Lewis and Weevers, Peter. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

London: Hutchinson, 1989. Illustrated by Peter Weevers. Octavo (25cm x 18cm), blue buckram boards with title in gilt on spine, unclipped jacket illustrated by Weevers shows Alice swimming with birds, goose, dodo and rat, top-edge speckled, teal endpapers, 128pp. Jacket sunned along the spine and with two tiny (2mm) tears to the head of the spine, clean throughout. Fine in Almost Fine. $25.

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13. Carroll, Lewis, Woodward, Alice B. and Shields, Sue. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Australia: Edward Arnold, 1985. Illustrated by Alice B. Woodward and Sue Shields. Octavo (24.5cm x 18cm), illustrated glossy boards show Alice sighting the White Rabbit, unclipped dust jacket shows the same, speckled top edge, pale cream endpapers, 16 colour plates, 128pp. Jacket slightly sunned, with very minor edge wear at head and tail of spine, bottom corners slightly bruised, clean throughout. Almost Fine in Almost Fine. $45.

14. Gardner, Martin. More Annotated Alice.

New York: Random House, 1990. First edition. Illustrations by Peter Newell. Octavo (27cm x 20.5cm), russet buckram with peacock design in argent in centre of front board, gilt title on spine, unclipped dust jacket illustrated by Newell shows Alice reflected in a hand mirror wearing a crown and raising a hand to a flying deck of cards, russet endpapers, xxxiii + (1) blank + 363pp + (1) blank. Fine in Fine. $35.

15. Gardner, Martin. The Annotated Alice. The Definitive Edition.

New York & London: W.W. Norton and Company, 2000. With original illustrations by john Tenniel. Octavo (25.5cm x 21.5cm), red canvas boards gilt double-ruled gilt with White Rabbit enclosed in a gilt circle on the front board and title on spine, unclipped dust jacket with elaborate gilt border and small illustration of Alice enclosed in a circle at the centre, cream endpapers, xxviiipp + 312pp + (6) blank. Fine in Fine. $35.

16. Paul, John (Ed.). Alice 125.

A Carroll Foundation Project curated by Gryphon Gallery, University of Melbourne, 1990. Octavo (27.5cm x 21cm), soft cover, 272pp. Slight creases to both fore-corners. Very Good. $95.

A collection of 125 Australian artists chosen to celebrate 125 years since the publication of Alice in Wonderland. Includes Charles Blackman, Pro Hart, and Pixie O’Harris among others. Christopher Smith is featured on p.97.

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