The Spirit Lamp. Vol. IV No. 2. June 1893 1893. Book. Fair. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. Lettered sewn card wrappers both of which are detached and somewhat nicked and chipped with some edge loss and with portions of the unprinted paper spine absent. Some discolouration to the margins of the first and final leaves where the wrappers are defective yet really a very crisp copy thereafter. This constitutes the first appearance in print of Wilde's prose-poem predating its appearance with the other five examples in July 1894 issue of 'The Fortnightly Review'. Other contributors to this issue include Eric Stenbok his essay 'The Other Side. A Breton Legend' A.R.Bayley his essay 'The Defence of Posey' and his poem 'In Lyonesse' Gleeson White his essay 'In Praise of Idleness' Max Beerbohm his essay 'The Incomparable Beauty of Modern Dress' contributed as 'H.M.Beerbohm' John Addington Symonds his brief poem 'From the Arabic' and the editor his poems 'In Summer' and 'Apologia Pro Classe Sua'. A somewhat distressed example and yet most uncommon. Mason 265. The Spirit Lamp. Vol. IV, No. 2. June 1893 Paperback
Insel Verlag Gmbh Insel Verlag 2015. 2015. Softcover. Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray <br/><br/>Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Insel Verlag Gmbh, Insel Verlag paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : BN267755 ISBN : 3458360840 9783458360841
Berlin: Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft 1925. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Owner name and date inked on front pastedown. Open tear on spine crown. Edgewear on spine heel. Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft hardcover
<p>First German edition of The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde's first published short story about a family who moves to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead nobleman who killed his wife and was starved to death by his wife's brothers. Translated by Franz Blei. Preliminary leaves 88 pages with frontispiece and plates by famed German painter and illustrator Heinrich Vogeler of the Worpspede Artist's Colony. On vellum paper. Signs of wear: Cover loose from binding. Some soiling on front and back cover; chipping on bottom edge of binding no tears no missing pages. </p> LEIPZIG: IM INSEL paperback
London: Methuen 1908. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. One of a limited edition of 1000 copies on handmade paper. Green cloth with titles in gilt to spine. Top edge gilt other edges uncut. One or two minor marks to cover. Contents clean and unmarked with minor age-fading. In excellent order overall. xvi 211 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Wilde Oscar 1854-1900; England--Reading; Prisoners; Authors Irish; Prisoners' writings English; Suffering; Add. Inventory No: 231112NAZPBUPC085. . Methuen hardcover