Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1914 — Prizes for Bibliophiles. [ARTICLE]

Prizes for Bibliophiles.

A first edition of “Alice's Adventures In Wonderland.” by Lewis Carroll (C. L. Dodgson), fetched >I,OOO at Sotheby’s In London. It was bought by Mr. 3. D. Smith of New York, who also paid 1000 for Keats* “Poems,** and 1300 for the same author’s “Lamia." with. Harrison Ainsworth’s signature on the fly leaf, >B4O for Byron’s “Poems on Various Occasions'’ (privately printed, and a great part of the edition destroyed by the author), and <550 for Defoe’s “Robinson Crusoe."