‎Wilde oscar‎

‎Wilde Oscar‎

‎An Ideal Husband. A Woman of No Importance‎

‎New York: Boni & Liveright 1919. First Modern Library edition. Limp leather lightly rubbed. Fall 1919 publisher's catalogue. Initialled by Ira Gershwin on endpaper. <br/><br/> Boni & Liveright hardcover books‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 31863

‎WILDE Oscar‎

‎BALLAD OF READING GAOL‎

‎NY DUTTON 1930. NY, DUTTON, 1930 unknown books‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 7584

‎Wilde Oscar‎

‎BIRTHDAY OF THE INFANTA‎

‎Paris: Black Sun Press Editions Narcisse 1928. Of an edition limited to 113 this is # 23 of 100 copies on Van Gelder Zonen paper. Softcover. Very good/Very good. Paris: Black Sun Press Editions Narcisse 1928. Of an edition limited to 113 this is # 23 of 100 copies on Van Gelder Zonen paper. Frontispiece and 8 plates in color and metallic inks by Alastair. 30 pp. Softcover. 4to. Cream stiff wrappers. Light scattered foxing else very good in a glassine wrapper with a small chip at the heel and the tip of the corners worn through. Errata slip tipped-in at back. Housed in a completely restored silver chemise and slipcase. Very good/Very good. Insurance required to ship this item. Black Sun Press, Editions Narcisse paperback books‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 44546

‎Wilde Oscar‎

‎Children in Prison and other cruelties of prison life‎

‎London: Murdoch & Co 1898. Pamphlet. 16p. first separate appearance plain printed softbound stapled as issued in textured buff wraps. Covers are split along the spinefold and detached and show mild dust- and handling-soil; the single staple is rusted without significant migration. Text is clean except for earlier booksellers' notes on titlepage. As is; should be quite amenable to restoration. This letter originally appeared in "The Daily Chronicle" on May 28 1897 and is here reprinted with an additional publisher's note; Wilde's name appears at the end of the letter not in the titling. Murdoch & Co unknown books‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 183426

‎Wilde Oscar‎

‎Complete Works of . Edited by Robert Ross‎

‎New York: Bigelow Brown & Co 1921. Authorized edition. Frontispiece to each volume. 10 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarters red morocco and cloth sides. Some toning to spines else VG. Authorized edition. Frontispiece to each volume. 10 vols. 8vo. Bigelow, Brown & Co unknown books‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 258789

‎Wilde Oscar‎

‎Complete Writing of Oscar Wilde‎

‎<p>1905-1909. Edition de Luxe. Number 430 of 1000 copies. Title pages in red and black. Thick octavo. Original grey linen t.e.g. others uncut and some unopened; spine labels. 15 illustrations including two portraits of Wilde. 10 volumes complete. No dust jackets. Very good.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Pagination in some volumes is continuous and in some volumes it is separate for each work.</b></p><p><b>A stout set on fine paper.</b></p><p><b>Light pencil owner's signature on fly leaf of each volume dated 1910 of JNO V. Forbes.</b></p><p><b>Extra shipping required.</b></p><p><br /></p> The Nottingham Society hardcover books‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 2222336

‎WILDE Oscar‎

‎DAS BILDNIS DES DORIAN GRAY‎

‎Berlin: Martin Maschler. Small 8vo pp. 332. In German. Coverr little soiled o/w VG. Martin Maschler unknown books‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 30147

‎WILDE Oscar‎

‎DE PROFUNDIS‎

‎NY PUTNAM/KNICKERBOCKER PRESS 1909 1909. BLUE CLOTH OVER GRAY BOARDS; 2/2 SECOND AMERICAN EDITION VERY GOOD. Hardcover. NY, PUTNAM/KNICKERBOCKER PRESS, 1909 hardcover books‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 7593

‎WILDE Oscar‎

‎DE PROFUNDIS‎

‎NY PUTNAM/KNICKERBOCKER PRESS 1909 1909. BLUE CLOTH OVER GRAY BOARDS; 1/2 SECOND AMERICAN EDITION VERY GOOD. Hardcover. NY, PUTNAM/KNICKERBOCKER PRESS, 1909 hardcover books‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 7592

‎Wilde Oscar‎

‎De Profundis‎

‎London: Methuen and Co. 1905. 2 prior owner bookplates on front endpapers. Preliminaries offsetting including from laid-in newspaper clipping regarding a falsified De Profundis manuscript. Clipping source and date not present. Pencil notation on read pastedown that this is first edition first issue. 40 page Methuen catalogue dated February 1905 at rear. Ink handwritten underlined quotation beneath title as follows: "Rien n'est vrai que le beau". Some soiling of title page but text quite clean. TEG other edges untrimmed. Spine ends and corners bumped with minor loss of cloth. . First Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Methuen and Co. Hardcover books‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : WN31426

‎Wilde Oscar‎

‎DE PROFUNDIS BEING THE FIRST COMPLETE AND ACCURATE VERSION . WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY VYVYAN HOLLAND‎

‎London: Methuen 1950. Cloth. Second "edition" of this version. A nice copy in lightly worn dust jacket with short tear and crease. Methuen hardcover books‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : WRCLIT45289

‎WILDE Oscar‎

‎DE PROFUNDIS.FIRST."EPISTOLA‎

‎NY PHILOSOPHICAL 1950. UNEXPURGATED FIRST EDITION THUS VERY GOOD. F. NY, PHILOSOPHICAL, 1950 unknown books‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 7595

‎WILDE OSCAR‎

‎DER JUNGE KONIG‎

‎1918. FT. WILDE Oscar. DER JUNGE KONIG. Weimar: Gustav Kiepenheuer 1918. 1/1000 copies. With original lithographs vignettes and initials by Charlotte Christine Engelhorn. Cloth-backed paper boards slightly faded and worn at corners otherwise a fine copy. unknown books‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 24369

‎WILDE Oscar‎

‎DUCHESS OF PADUA AND SALOME‎

‎NY BUCKLES 1906 1906. BLACK CLOTH PIRATED EDITION GOOD-VERY GOOD. Hardcover. NY, BUCKLES, 1906 hardcover books‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 7596

‎WILDE Oscar‎

‎ERZAEHLUNGEN UND MAERCHEN VON OSCAR WILDE‎

‎LEIPZIG INSEL 1912. GERMAN TEXT THIRD EDITION VERY GOOD. LEIPZIG, INSEL, 1912 unknown books‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 7597

‎WILDE Oscar‎

‎For Love of the King: A Burmese Masque‎

‎<p>First edition. Octavo. Original gilt stamped white cloth t.e.g. uncut. Dust jacket unclipped; 3" chip on spine; few small chips; some separation at fold on flap. Very good. 39 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Printed by Jarrold & Sons Norwich. One of 1000 copies on handmade paper.</p> Methuen & Co., Ltd. hardcover books‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 228889

‎Wilde Oscar‎

‎Four Letters: Which Were Not Included In The English Edition Of "De Profundis"‎

‎<p>Second edition. Small octavo. Original green stiff stapled wrappers stamped in black. No dust jacket. Very good. 34 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Mason 592.</p> Privately Printed paperback books‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 2221794

‎Wilde Oscar‎

‎Impressions of America. Edited with an Introduction by Start Mason‎

‎Sunderland: Keystone Press 1906. First edition. Number 92 of 50 copies printed on hand-made paper. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue printed wrappers stitched. Faded some chipping of corners and edges light browning of leaves else a good copy. First edition. Number 92 of 50 copies printed on hand-made paper. 1 vols. 8vo. The lecture Wilde presented in 1883 shortly after his two American trips of 1882 and 1883. Ransom p. 261 Keystone Press unknown books‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 212404

‎WILDE Oscar‎

‎INTENTIONS BY.; The decay of lying. Pen pencil and poison. The critic as artist. The truth of masks‎

‎NY: Brentanos 1905. Reprint first issued in 1891. 8vo pp. 263. Bound in some soiled tan cloth bookplate and former owner's name on end paper. Brentanos unknown books‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 55806

‎Wilde Oscar‎

‎Intentions The Decay of Lying Pen Pencil and Poison The Critic as Artist The Truth of Masks‎

‎London: James R. Osgood McIlvaine & Co. 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo. Rebound in plain olive cloth leather spine label lettered in gilt. 258 pp. Title page and premilinary blanks detached. Sold as is. <br/><br/> James R. Osgood McIlvaine & Co. hardcover books‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : BB17290

‎Wilde Oscar‎

‎INTENTIONS. The Decay of Lying Pen Pencil and Poison The Critic as Artist The Truth of Masks‎

‎1891. London: James R. Osgood McIlvaine & Co. 1891. Original yellow-green cloth decorated in gilt.<br/><br/> First Edition of this group of four essays on literature art society and criticism -- which consisted of 900 copies plus 600 printed for America with the Dodd Mead imprint. Published just a week after Wilde's only novel THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY INTENTIONS precedes all of his famous plays which came out during the span 1893-1899. In the opening essay Wilde laments the "decay of Lying as an art a science and a social pleasure." He takes to task modern literary realists like Henry James and Émile Zola for their "monstrous worship of facts" and stifling of the imagination. What makes art wonderful he says is that it is "absolutely indifferent to fact." The next essay "Pen Pencil and Poison" is a fascinating literary appreciation of the life of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright a talented painter art critic antiquarian friend of Charles Lamb and — murderer. The heart of the collection is the long two-part essay titled "The Critic as Artist." In one memorable passage after another Wilde goes to great lengths to show that the critic is every bit as much an artist as the artist himself in some cases more so. A good critic is like a virtuoso interpreter. Finally in "The Truth of Masks" Wilde returns to the theme of art as artifice and creative deception. This essay focuses on the use of masks disguises and costume in Shakespeare Goodreads. Charles Ricketts created the Fin-de-Siècle binding design and lettering -- in the same year that he also designed for the same publisher the binding of TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES. This is a near-fine copy -- there is faint mottled fading that always seems to afflict this book's cloth but there is little wear other than minor rubbing at the extremities small partly-erased signature on the endpaper. INTENTIONS has become a difficult title to acquire in better condition. Mason 341. unknown books‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 14525

‎WILDE Oscar‎

‎Intentions: The Decay of Lying Pen Pencil and Poison The Critic as Artist The Truth of Masks‎

‎NY:: Albert & Charles Boni. Very Good. 1930. Paperback. First edition thus paperback. Age toning else very good in illustrated wraps.; 263 pages . Albert & Charles Boni, paperback books‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 74756

‎Wilde Oscar‎

‎Lady Windermere's fan‎

‎Girard KS: Haldeman-Julius Company n.d. 88p. wraps slightly browned. Little Blue Book 8. Haldeman-Julius Company unknown books‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 138678

‎Wilde Oscar‎

‎Lady Windermere's Fan Presentation Copy‎

‎London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane 1893. First edition. Near Fine. Original publisher's clothing binding with gilt to spine and boards. A Near Fine copy with the spine slightly toned. Bookplate of Governour Morris Esquire to front pastedown. Light scattered foxing throughout. Collates: 12 132 14 2: complete including the publisher's catalogue with pages uncut. Inscribed by Wilde on the first blank to the business manager of the St. James's Theater: "R. V. Shone with the author's compliments and sincere thanks. Nov. 93." Under the management of George Alexander and R. V. Shone The St. James's Theater staged Lady Windermere's Fan Wilde's first produced play in 1892 the year before the book was released.<br/><br/>First editions signed by Wilde are scarce on the market with Lady Windermere being particularly rare as only 500 copies of the first edition were printed Mason. Auction records show that the six known association copies of this play were all signed trade editions as the run of 50 large paper copies came out after. The most recent presentation copy of Lady Windermere also presented to someone involved in the production sold in 2018 at Leslie Hindman for $40000. An exceptional example of Oscar Wilde presenting a first edition of his first produced play with "sincere thanks" to the theatre manager who throughout his career would assist Wilde in dodging scandal and bad publicity.<br/><br/>Critics and scholars consider Lady Windermere's Fan to be Wilde's "first successful dramatic production" as well as an enduring masterpiece Mendelssohn. Its success not only relied on his update to French comic models and tropes including blackmail revenge attempts and the discovery of a lost child; success also came as a result of Wilde's own management of the premier. "What we want to do is to have all the real conditions of a success on our hands.Success is a science; if you have the right conditions you get the result" he informed one of the actors Mendelssohn. In addition to pulling on popular stars to perform Wilde had the young men of his entourage arrive at the premier wearing green carnations in their buttonholes -- something that scandalized attendees when in a metatheatrical moment one of the characters onstage appeared with one as well referencing its cost and symbolism for decadent immorality. Prim attendees were in fact surrounded by a generation of young men devoted to such aesthetic ideals and wearing the same flower. This very symbol born out of Lady Windermere would lead to a strong and important professional relationship between Wilde and this book's recipient R.V. Shone the business manager at the St. James. <br/><br/>In 1894 an anonymously published novel The Green Carnation exposed the sexual relationship between Wilde and Bosie son to the Marquess of Queensbury -- a man who would become Wilde's nemesis to the end of his life. Though Wilde sought to dodge Queensbury socially the marquess was roiling for public confrontation. "There was one place and time where he could be sure of seeing Wilde -- the St. James' Theatre on the opening night of The Importance of Being Earnest when as was his custom he would take the stage after the performance to enjoy the acclaim of the audience. It was too good a chance to miss. Queensbury bought a ticket 'by fraud' Wilde suggested --as orders had been given not to sell him one -- and some vegetables.His intention was to greet Oscar's appearance with a shower of vegetation and then stand up and make a public announcement" Stratmann. Fortunately for Wilde supporters including Shone prevented this from happening. Rumor about Queensbury's plan spread notes were sent to Wilde and Wilde appealed to Shone for assistance. Reaching out to Queensbury with apologies Shone returned the marquess's money and explained that his seat had mistakenly been double-booked. Yet Shone and Wilde suspected this would not be the end and so Shone arranged not only to refuse the marquess admission at the door but to have police waiting at the entrance. It was this decision that prevented a disguised Queensbury and a paid prizefighter from sneaking in to pummel Wilde. Thwarted by Shone "he contented himself with having a bouquet of vegetables addressed to Wilde delivered to the stage door" Mikhail. Throughout his career staging work at St. James's Wilde would rely on Shone's business sense to make performances a success regardless what scandals they faced. An exceptional and rare association. Near Fine. Elkin Mathews & John Lane unknown books‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 2958

‎WILDE Oscar‎

‎Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman‎

‎London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head 1893. First Edition. Small quarto 21.75cm.; original reddish-brown gilt-embossed cloth; 1413214adspp. Straight and tight with the boards slightly faded at margins as is typical and a few spots where cloth has begun to lift. The text is slightly tanned but foxing is contained to endpapers. In all a pleasing and well-preserved copy of a fragile book. 500 copies issued MASON 357. Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head unknown books‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 50532