‘Alice’ Edition Fetches $1.54 Million

Lewis Carroll’s copy of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” one of six original 1865 editions known to exist, fetched $1.54 million at auction, a record for a 19th-century work of literature. The book was among several “Alice”-related items that went on sale at a Christie’s auction marking the 100th anniversary of the death of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the Oxford University mathematician who wrote under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.