DALÍ'S LARGE FOLIO ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, SIGNED BY HIM, WITH AN ORIGINAL ETCHING AND 12 FULL-PAGE COLOR PHOTOGRAVURES

(DALÍ, Salvador) CARROLL, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. New York: Maecenas Press, 1969. Large folio (13 by 18-1/2 inches), loose signatures laid into brown cloth portfolio as issued, original half morocco clamshell box with leather and bone fore-edge ties. Housed in the original shipping carton. $16,500.

Beautifully printed limited edition of the brilliant and beloved children's classic, number 1638 of 2500 copies signed by Salvador Dalí on the title page, with an original etching and 12 full-page color photogravures after his paintings—as breathtakingly imaginative as the text they illustrate.

Dalí's twisting dreamscapes and semi-hallucinatory images superbly complement Carroll's astonishingly inventive fantasy (first published in 1865) and exemplify the artist's entire oeuvre. "Dalí's images have become icons of the fantastic, signposts (not maps) that point the way inward to that realm" (Clute & Grant, 246). This magnificent production, printed on Mandeure paper, contains an original three-color etching as a frontispiece and 12 striking full-page color photogravures (heliogravures) after Dalí's original gouache paintings. Michler & Löpsinger 321-333. Field 69-5.

A beautiful copy in fine condition, with the original shipping carton.