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The Raven and the Writing Desk: Available Copies

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05

Minor shelf wear may be present due to storage. Otherwise VG.

Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

dust jacket is mylar wrapped, title page has name and initials impressed on the title page

Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05

Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Stated 1st edition. 8vo. brown cloth covered boards, hardcover; black & white illustrations; intriguing and humorous investigation of the riddle, "Why is a raven like a writing -desk,?" asked by the Mad Hatter at the Tea-Party; many puzzles, codes and lots of information about Lewis Carroll; a very good clean, tight copy in a dust jacket that has a sunned spine else very good.

The Mad Hatter asked Alice "Why is a raven like a writing?" Then said he hadn't the faintest idea when Alice asked him, "What's the answer?" Here we learn that Lewis Carroll always wore black or gray gloves and usually a top hat but not a top coat. Fading toward DJ edges.

NY: Harper & Row, (1976). First U.S. Edition. 8vo. 191pp, Index and List of Illustrations. Title of inquiry comes from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Cloth, fine in ner fine dj. ISBN 0060121130; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 191 pages

Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

First American edition ed. hardback very good condition in a very good (price clipped) dust jacket

Illustrated. Includes index.

"Lewis Carroll wrote for children as though they were grown-ups. But the Nonsense that made them laugh has long been recognized by grown-ups to be disquietingly profound. .Huxley says Nonsense is a logical game played with feeling by at least two people, in a spirit of self-contradiction, to the mutual enjoyment and surprise of both parties. If we are to study it then we must ourselves obey the rules of Nonsense." --- Original burnt orange papered boards, lettered gilt on spine (22.2 cm height). Faint water damage lower edge - boards and rippling lower edge - no adhesion. Illustrated dustwrapper, now protected. Pp. 191 including Foreword, Object Lesson, Tailpiece, List of Illustrations, Index. Profusely illustrated from drawings by Carroll, Tenniel, reproductions of photographs from contemporary sources.

Illustrated in black and white. 191 pages, slim 8vo, brown cloth, dust wrapper, very good. New York: Harper & Row, (1976). A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. Musings on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and on Lewis Carroll.

Carroll, Lewis 1st. ed.not read or opened. new. d.j. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.

Very Good+ dust jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added. The Very Good+ binding is brown cloth over boards, gilt stamping on the cover and on the spine. The binding is tight and pages are clean. About the book: (from the dust jacket) THE RAVEN AND THE WRITING-DESK by Francis Huxley. As all readers of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland will know, when Alice sat down (uninvited) at the Mad Tea-party, the Hatter opened his eyes very wide and asked, "Why is a raven like a writing-desk? " The riddle is famous because when Alice in turn asked "What's the answer? the Hatter replied that he hadn't the faintest idea. It has provoked ingenious possible answers from many Great Minds, but in this utterly engaging Enquiry," Francis Huxley has undertaken the first investigation in depth. In his pages we learn a number of essential facts: that Lewis Carroll always wore black or gray gloves and usually wore a top hat but never a top coat; that he stuttered, especially on words beginning with P; that he created a private code in which numbers were represented by certain eccentrically chosen letters of the alphabet; that Nonsense which is game played with feeling by at least two people. expresses universal principle of convertibility and that Carroll is, therefore, a favorite author of people studying nuclear physics, Time, mirror-imagery logic and semantics, We also come to know certain Rules, i.e.: Rule 1. You can come and go simultaneously, as long as there are two of you; Rule 5. Players are obliged to create an appearance, but they score only if it deceives; and Rule 42 (or 20). All persons more than a mile high to leave the court. Alice addicts, puzzle-fanciers, code-breakers and readers who like to laugh will find here hours of unqualified delight.

The Raven and the Writing Desk by Francis Huxley (First U.S. Edition) A firm square copy with slight bumping to bottom corners otherwise sharp. A sharp bright dust jacket. Not price-clipped. First U.S. Edition, stated. Clothbound in pictorial dust jacket.

220x140: 192pp. black and white illustrations, index. Textured papered boards in dust jacket, Very Good/Very Good, jacket spine faded. ISBN: 0 500 01155 9 , 9780 500 01155 3 , Weight: 465g. .

Very Good books: Generally have minor surface flaws, such as store stickers and light soiling, to covers and/or jackets if so issued. Jackets may be price clipped and/or have light chipping and/or short tears as noted. Some bumping and shelf wear to be expected. May have prev. owner name, remainder mark, or occasional dog-earred page, but otherwise unmarked. Tight binding. Will have any accessory materials present.

first edition, red cloth, 191pp illus, VG+(v sl wear & sunning to extrems, prev owners inscr to ffep, v sl soiled ep's) d/w VG+(v sl internal foxing, v sl wear to extrems, v sl sunned spine)

hbk 191pp studies in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland an excellent clean tight unmarked copy iin sleeve-protected dj as new

191 pages.

Good condition. This is the average used book, that has all pages or leaves present, but may include writing. Book may be ex-library with stamps and stickers. 1.03