1939 Nonesuch Complete Works of Lewis Carroll - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Author: Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by John Tenniel. Introduction by Alexander Woollcott.
Title: The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll.
Publisher: London: The Nonesuch Library, 1939. First complete collected edition of Lewis Carroll’s works published by the Nonesuch Press in 1939.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 8 x 5 inches.
Pages: xiv-1165 pages.
Binding: Near fine original publisher’s red cloth binding, gilt lettered spine, square and tight (hinges fine - as shown), in the original red and cream very good pictorial dust jacket (dust jacket shows moderate wear, small edge tears, minor chipping, price-clipped on the front flap) under a protective removable mylar cover. 
Content: Near fine content (bright, tight and clean - as shown).  Endpapers fresh, bearing the U.S. publisher’s Dufour Editions sticker to front pastedown. 
Illustrations: Complete with John Tenniel’s famous illustrations faithfully reproduced throughout the volume, including the iconic images from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.

The book: This is the first complete collected edition of Lewis Carroll’s works published by the Nonesuch Press in 1939, a landmark edition that gathered the full range of Carroll’s writings into one substantial volume. The set includes Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Sylvie and Bruno (both parts), The Hunting of the Snark, Carroll’s early and late poetry, miscellaneous essays, and shorter works. Notably, this edition contains at least ten shorter pieces that had previously appeared only in their original editions. The careful reproduction of Tenniel’s illustrations preserves the original magic of Carroll’s best-loved works, while Alexander Woollcott’s introduction provides valuable contemporary commentary.

The author: Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832–1898) remains one of the most influential authors of children’s literature, mathematicians, and logicians of the Victorian era. Best remembered for his Alice books, Carroll’s works combine playful nonsense, sharp logic, and enduring whimsy, continuing to delight both children and adults.

The illustrator: Sir John Tenniel (1820–1914), political cartoonist for Punch, is immortalized as the original illustrator of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. His illustrations shaped the visual identity of Carroll’s works and remain definitive interpretations, with this Nonesuch edition presenting them in crisp reproduction.