Hey guys - I thought I would throw up a contest for the weekend. Up for grabs is a 1941 Heritage Press edition of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass," complete in one volume. Contains the Tenniel illustrations and comes in a nifty slipcase. Just leave a comment below to let me know you're interested in entering. I'll announce the winner on Monday around noon.Contest is closed. Thanks to all who entered.
SWEET !!! Yes, I know I didn't give this story the highest marks in my review. But...the more I discuss it with others, the more I learn and the more I like.
ReplyDeleteAm thinking I will have to do a...re-review. LOL
Thanks for the opportunity. Hope you're having a good weekend!
I would love to win this!!! One of my fave books!!
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YES! Count me in! I haven't read this. loony_balooga_91@hotmail.com
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Beautiful. Please consider me "interested." Enjoying your bookmark pics.
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ReplyDeletemost interested. it is a favorite text. I'm trying to get my daughter interested in a cheapo dover edition and I have a falling-apart-from-repeated-use Dial edition from 1931 that really needs to be retired or repaired or both.
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I'm interested
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Please count me in. I'm a member of a community on Livejournal that is all about literary tattoo's and so many people there get "We're all mad here" and i'm curious about it as i've never read the book before. I've watched the Disney movie edition but I hear the book is so very different and supposedly even better.
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Thanks!
I am also interested in entering. This would make the perfect gift for someone I know.
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Wow! Would LOVE to win these fantastic stories!
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Totally count me in—this is one of my favourite stories, and I'm a complete book design junkie.
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ReplyDeletei haven't read it yet but it's waiting for me in my collection.
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ReplyDeleteA real favorite--would be overjoyed to have it and love the binding.
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A very merry um-birthday to me (if I get this book!!)
ReplyDeleteOh man I want in. I love this book and love old books in general!
ReplyDeleteI'm totally interested in entering, but since you didn't announce rules--I'm assuming you're just picking the winner arbitrarily.
ReplyDelete=( Not a very good chance for me then.
Ooo I like this binding.
ReplyDeleteI have just found your site, but I have it bookmarked now :) I love this sort of thing, found objects and old books!
ReplyDeleteI have been looking for vintage Alice in Wonderland copies in used bookstores and antique stores with no luck, it is one of the books that got me introduced into reading.
Anyway, consider me interested in this giveaway, and I have added this to my list of blogs to check daily :]
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That's a beautiful book, and a great site.
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I would love this!
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ReplyDeleteThis is my all time favourite book, as you can see from my email... My current copy is from the early 40s and falling apart so much that I'm afraid to read it. You would make ma very very happy person if you considered my comment for your copy.
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ReplyDeleteIt occurs to me that I have never actually read these, and it looks like a very pretty edition. Call me interested. irony.or.death@gmail.com
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You sure know how to get me to comment!
ReplyDeleteI am so interested. It looks gorgeous and older books have so much character.
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ReplyDeleteI'm in this to win this! Is the answer "Eat me"?
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I would definitely love to have this book!
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ReplyDeleteKinda an odd story, but I'd like to enter the contest with the hope that this will be an amazing gift for a dear friend and mentor.
Jump back about a year. I went to college at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), where last year we did a production of Alice and Wonderland with a truly amazing director, Jim Orr. He worked with 60+ deaf students to build a world of Alice in Wonderland that was new and inviting, creative and funny. Yes, it was Lewis Carroll, but it had an air of freshness and playful spirit that I never saw in any other spoken or signed (ASL) production. I mean how do you take the genius of Carroll, translate it into another language (sign language), and then put it on stage and keep the youthful emotions and adventures of the original text on a page?
Jim is such a supportive, nurturing, and creative person that he touched me in a way I wasn't expecting. I've been hunting for a gift for him for a long time (nearly a year) that would be worthy, and this is the first thing I found that's right.
It's hard to find a single gift to thank one of your favorite mentors.
That said, if you chose to give me the book, you'll have made my year. Hopefully, his too.
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Thanks so much,
Adam
this sounds amazingly cool. also, a favorite book of mine. Entry, please! You've got a great thing going here.
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Would love to have this!!!!
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Count me in.
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I'm in! I'd love to have that book!
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Wow, very cool edition of one of the greatest books ever written. Count me in!
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Yes, please!
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Life, what is it but a dream?"
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I think that it was fate that I came here from a random Reddit link. These books are my all-time favorites. I would love to have a copy with the original illustrations. Sign me up for a chance!
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I have just discovered your site - I love it! I would love to be entered in this contest as well :)
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Yes, please.
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i'm in! that is a beautiful book.
ReplyDeleteWould love to win this, thanks so much for the contest.
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ReplyDeleteI love Alice in wonderland. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" are two of my favorite books of all time. I first read them in around 5th grade. I found the book (very old and beat up, not this edition but very similar, both books were combined in one volume, like this) in my elementary school library. I used to read a lot more back then, but I was very young. I read it again more recently, and it was better than the first time. But I've never actually owned a copy (:
What a beautiful edition - that spine, oh! - and the colours, the illustrations... I keep telling myself I'm going to make a feast of this story one day because I've never read it, seen it, or had it told to me, and I know there are lessons and laughs aplenty to be had. If I won this stunner, I'd be over the moon. But if I didn't, I'll seek it out eventually. This competition might just be the impetus I needed. I was saying just last week that I want to read it soon. Btw, you're very generous to give this up! I've only just found your blog and I've only read this post so far, but so far, so brilliant. :D
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:D
Incredible prize! Write me down in the "interested" column.
ReplyDeleteCom. Ment!!!! Definitely interested. That's a beautiful printing.
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ReplyDeletehow very generous of you! I just discovered the site through metafilter and saw that entry at the top :-D
ReplyDeletequite the collection of found objects, keep up the great posts!
Beautiful!! I would *love* to give these to my son!
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I just started reading this site, and noticed the giveaway. My wife is a huge Alice fan, and would love this book, so consider me interested. Bulgaroktonos2@gmail.com
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VERY INTERESTED!!! Love both of these classics.
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That would be amazing. I'd love to read this to my daughter. Love your style.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter just started reading 'in Wonderland and adores the story. I would to present her with an edition she could treasure.
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Oh, yes. Count me in, please.
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Please count me in as well! Lovely!
ReplyDeleteMy husband would positively freak out if I won this book.
ReplyDeleteThat's a gorgeous looking set. However, I wouldn't it so much for myself as much for my wife. After taking care of both my burns and our son, she deserves it.
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I don't think they play at all fairly, and they all quarrel so dreadfully one ca'n't hear oneself speak–and they don't seem to have any rules in particular: at least, if there are nobody attends to them–and you've no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive: for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground–and I should have croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming!
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Oh yes, please, I'd love to be in on this. That is a beautiful book.
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that would be wonderful. thanks
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What an exquisite book! Definitely interested to gift my niece this so we can read this together over at our tea-parties.
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Oh, I re-read these books every two years or so- love the Tenniel illustrations - they are permanently etched in my mind.
ReplyDeleteoh wow! love this book! directed to your site via metafilter and already i can tell that it's going to be goooooooood.......
ReplyDeleteCOOL PRIZE! I can't believe you want to give it away. And yet, I would happily accept it.
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I would love to win this.
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I'm very interested. It looks like a really lovely edition!
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Count me in!
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I'd love to play please! Thanks.
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I want this so bad it's not even funny.
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Entry number one million.
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ReplyDeleteI have dreams of opening up my own library (thousands of volumes), but, only to those whom treat books well. Having worked in 3 libraries and at a bookstore, I have seen the love of books and the abuse. This would make a wonderful addition! A boxed edition... (sigh and swoon)
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Two of my favorite things... old books and Lewis Carrol. Looks wonderful; thank you for the opportunity to win this.
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Would love to win this! Definitely interested.
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Love the books, just found but already love the blog, would love to win.
ReplyDeleteWhat a terrific site. Thanks for sharing these--tiny glimpses into the reading life of other people, which is usually so private...
ReplyDeleteAlice is one of my all-time favorites. Please consider me for the contest, too!
Cheers!
Certainly I'd love to be considered for such a fine copy of a fine book
ReplyDeleteGreat site, would love the book!
ReplyDeleteFound this link through Language Hat - love the site, and consider me entered in the contest!
ReplyDeleteUm, wow, that's lovely. Always been one of my favorite books. Please do consider this an entry in your giveaway.
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Please consider this my entry.
ReplyDeleteI have 300 plus editions of the Alice books. You should definitely give this one to someone else. But it's a nice prize. It is, as you may have guessed, my favourite book in the English language. If I were you, I'd give it to someone who has never read it.
ReplyDeleteOooo! Beautiful. My copy of Alice is an old beat-up paperback from the 70s ;)
ReplyDeleteTo fall through a tunnel into this strange and wonderful website and then to win the book, too, would be a dream dream too good to be true.
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That's a beaut!
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
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ReplyDeletePlease accept my entry as well. Wonderful book that I can read to my son.
ReplyDeletenever read this before. Looks like its in great condition.
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Wow! It looks in great condition. If I'm not too late I'd definitely like to throw my name in the hatter's hat for this one.
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ReplyDeleteSeveral years ago I found a note from Wallace Nutting in an old book. The note included a block print that Nutting used as his letterhead and a handwritten note about an upcoming Quaker meeting that he was to attend.
ReplyDeleteBeing a shameless capitalist I sold it on E-bay to someone who could enjoy it more than I...and forgot where in the book it had been placed as a page marker.
Yay, I'm interested. I love the book.
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Definitely interested, love the book.
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ReplyDeleteWonderful idea for a prize - even leaving aside the story, Tenniel's illustrations alone would make this worth winning!
ReplyDeleteThis is lovely; I've a collection of Alice in Wonderland books.
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I once found, in the library stacks of a religious college, a set of several dozen thick old (18-19th c.). That wasn't the interesting part. The interesting part was opening them -- apparently nobody had leafed through them in a long time, because I found pressed in them flowers, stems, and leaves, as well as bits of paper and things indicating they were bibles from a mission to China. I don't know if the botanica was Chinese or from "home," wherever that was for the missionaries. I wanted to take a flower, but I left them as I found them. I wonder if they are still there?
ReplyDeleteCount me in. I just found your site via languagehat - fun! Used to sort library donations in a wealthy area and found all manner of weird things.
ReplyDeleteWould love this volume for my oft-described-as-how-can-anyone-have-this-many-books collection.
ReplyDeleteAND, my birthday and wedding anniversary are this month. (Well, since you asked: Mumble-mumble years old; 36 years wedded.)
Thank you for your blog--the forgotten bookmarks and unfamiliar books are both intriguing--and I've made sure all my writer friends know about it.
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Please enter me to win. I love this book.
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ReplyDeleteFound someone's link to this while stuck in Bush Int'l. Love the bookmarks and would give multiple hugs to a copy of Alice.
ReplyDeleteThis looks really neat. I would like to enter your contest.
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Throw me into the pot, please!
ReplyDeleteHaha! Yep, count me in (along with the 200-or so other interested parties) :-)
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Oh, yes! Yes, please!
ReplyDeleteI love your site. I am the chief of leaving ephemera in books I love - four leaf clovers, favorite notes from relatives, old menus and quotes from events I attended. It is anthropology for today. And I certainly identify with Alice. I feel like I am always at the Mad Hatter tea party of life. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI'm tossing my hat into the ring.
ReplyDeleteBrand new subscriber. Love your kewl bookmarks. Would love to be entered in your giveaway too. Thanks and keep on keeping on!!!
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