WILDE, Oscar.Livre Rare Book
Best.-Nr. 98478Paris, Georges Crès et Cie. 1917, 210x150mm, frontispice, 144pages, reliure cartonnage. Couvertures conservées. Edition originale sur papier vélin des Manufactures de Rives, numérotée n.° 600 / 1028.
Best.-Nr. 83301Paris, Les Fermiers Généraux 1956, 213x155mm, 68pages, reliure d'éditeur. Bel exemplaire.
190751p. Title page printed in red and black. Printed on Japan vellum. Bookplate of Albert David Hutzler and Gretchen Hochschild Hutzler, of the powerful Baltimore department store families. Small 24mo. Original stiff printed Japan vellum wraps with large red initial on front cover. Original floral pattern slip case, loss at top and bottom. Limited Edition of only 425 copies. Second Edition. Nice example. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. PRESS/W39. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
Best.-Nr. 69790No place, Giancarlo Beltrame no year, 265x180mm, 47pages, 90 copies with multi-colored aquatint and illustrations by Giovanni Grasso Fravega. Text composed in monotype and printed with flat machine by Rodolfo Campi and seven colors on Japon Torinoko-Kozu paper. Book in good condition.
1998255 p. 24 mo. 145mm. Original pictorial glossy binding. Hardbound. Fine. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. LIT BX 6
190875p. Title page printed in red and black. Printed on Japan vellum. Partially unopened. Small 24mo. Original stiff printed Japan vellum wraps with large red initial on front cover. Slightly soiled. Limited Edition of only 425 copies. Third Edition. Nice example." The story is about an attempt to uncover the identity of Mr W.H., the enigmatic dedicatee of Shakespeare's Sonnets. It is based on a theory, originated by Thomas Tyrwhitt, that the Sonnets were addressed to one Willie Hughes, portrayed in the story as a boy actor who specialized in playing women in Shakespeare's company. This theory depends on the assumption that the dedicatee is also the Fair Youth who is the subject of most of the poems. The only evidence for this theory is a number of sonnets (such as Sonnet 20) that make puns on the words 'Will' and 'Hues." - Wiki. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. - Wiki. PRESS/W39. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
1913Best.-Nr. 30862Paris, L'Edition Moderne - Librairie Ambert, -1913, Broché, 312 pages. Portrait en frontispice et fac-similé d'une lettre d'O. Wilde. Exemplaire solide. TABLE DES MATIÈRES I La Décadence du Mensonge, dialogue. II Plume, Pinceau et Poison, étude de vert . III De la Critique considérée comme un art, avec quelques remarques sur l'importance de ne rien faire, dialogue . IV De la Critique considérée comme un art, avec quelques remarques sur l'importance de discuter toute chose, dialogue . V L'Ame humaine et le Socialisme.
1988Wilde, Oscar/Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills/Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills (Marco, Amante: Traduzione di - Marenco, Franco: Introduzione di) Il ritratto di Dorian Gray. Milano, Garzanti Editore s.p.a. 1988 italian, in sedicesimo pp. (2)+XXIV+318=344 XI ed. Garzanti: 14 giugno 1988 (ed. originale: The Picture of Dorian Gray, in « Lippincott's Monthly Magazine », luglio 1890 e in volume nel 1891 - I ed. italiana: Mattioli 1885 I ed. Garzanti: agosto 1976). Traduzione dall'inglese di Marco Amante. collezione i grandi libri Garzanti, 166. XVI/(2)+XXIV+318=344/brossura in cartoncino bianco goffrato effetto tela con grafica in tortora, arancione e nero e con illustrazione a colori al primo piatto (La voix du mal, di Georges De Feure, part.). Con un ritratto fotografico in b/n dell'A. f.t.. Stato buono (leggera usura della copertina - copertina e pagine brunite - inizio distacco delle pagine: il volume è completo).
Best.-Nr. 129126aaf24 S. + 2 Blatt (Colophon). Druck auf Butten; Mit 12 ganzseitigen Holzschnitten und Einbandillustration von Edwin Keller-Venton (Basel); Nummerierter Band: Vorliegend Nr.484 aus der Geschenkauflage fur Freunde des Hauses. 29. Band der Basler Drucke, bedruckter OButtenbezug-Einband, Blockbuch-Bindung; Schönes Exemplar.
1950Best.-Nr. 5029BBWinterthur. Geschwister Ziegler & co. 1950. 4°. (20) S. Mit 3 Lithographien und einer signierten Wachskreidezeichnung von Fred Riz à Porta. Orig.-Broschur mit 1 farb. (wiederholter) Lithographie von Fred Riz à Porta. (gebräunt. Rücken leicht wasserfleckig).
1924Best.-Nr. 54467BBParis, Henri Jonquières & Cie. 1924. In-8°. VII, 201 p., 6 p. n.ch. Avec frontispice, 22 gravures coloriés et quelques vignettes par Constant Le Breton. broché, couverture rempliée.
1996Best.-Nr. 56660ABParis, Gallimard 1996. Petit in-8°. LVI, 1904 p., 7 f. Reliure plein cuir, rhodoïd, etui.
1948Best.-Nr. 57081ABLondon, Castle Press, 1948. 8°. 63 S. Originalleinwand mit Schutzumschlag.
Best.-Nr. 129223aafPortland Maine, Thomas B Mosher MDCCCCV, (1905), sm. in-8vo, frontispice in color ‘ Oscar Wilde from a drawing by Thomas Maitland Cleland ’ + 4 leaves (2 white + half-tite & title) + 90 p. + 1 leaf (colophon). stiff, overlapping full vellum, over original printed wrappers (in red & black), fine end-papers, on foot of spine G.V. (copy of Gilbert de Voisins (1877-1939)).
Best.-Nr. 24943London, Methuen, 1917 Bound, green cloth, gold impression on back, 110 x 180mm., 180pp.
1894Best.-Nr. 140949078London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane 1894. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition in English of Wilde's seminal one-act tragedy and the first to feature Aubrey Beardsley's lavishly unrestrained illustrations. One of 500 copies. xii 67 1 16 ads illustrated with frontispiece 9 full page plates and singular tailpiece. Bound in publisher's blue canvas cloth decoratively stamped in gilt after design by Beardsley. Near Fine with light sunning to spine and edges light foxing to cloth. Offsetting to front endsheets and armorial bookplate to pastedown there contents lightly tanned. A beautiful copy of a definitive work of the Decadent movement. Composed initially in French Wilde allegedly intended for Sarah Bernhardt to play Salome in hopes of bypassing strict British censors although it was inevitably banned by Lord Chamberlain due to the depiction of biblical characters. The play premiered on February 11 1896 at the Theatre de l'Oeuvre in Paris starring Lina Munte and directed by Lugne-Poe. Rave reviews ensued and later adaptions followed most notably Richard Strauss' Dresden production which premiered in 1905. The radical work served as a direct affront to Victorian moral standards and cemented the femme fatale archetype for future avant-garde luminaries. Mason 350. Elkin Mathews & John Lane unknown books
1907Best.-Nr. 4982Leipzig: Im Inselverlag 1907. # 350 in an edition limited to 725 copies. Acceptable. 25 cm; 24 leaves text on Insel hand-made paper and 15 full-page illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley on Strathmore Japan including title page and dramatis personae. Bound in original boards worn spine perished boards loose. Several plates somewhat foxed. The first German appearance of Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations to Oscar WIlde's play. Wilde first published the play in French in 1896 before the English and later German editions appeared. Wilde's play with Beardsley's iconic illustrations inspired Richard Strauss's opera of the same name. Im Inselverlag hardcover books
1920Best.-Nr. 46822Boston: John W. Luce & Co 1920. Reprint. Slim octavo 19cm; dark red publisher's cloth stamped in gilt front; 53pp 12 plates missing one. Boards mildly worn and soiled some rubbing to extremities; textblock toned along edges and page margins; foxing and soiling intermittent throughout; some passages marked in pencil; gift inscription on ffep. Else Very Good scarce. Wilde's Salomé was published in 1891 originally in French. An English version came about in 1894 but not before a tiff over the translation work done by Lord Alfred Douglas who was Wilde's paramour at the time. This 1920 reprint retains the iconic artwork by Aubrey Beardsley and all sixteen original illustrations are listed in the index; however the plate with illustration 4 "The Woman in the Moon" is presumed missing with evidence of its loss between pgs. 6 and 7. John W. Luce & Co unknown books
1907Best.-Nr. 12964London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1907. First Edition Stated. Publisher's cloth. Very Good. First Edition Stated. Publisher's cloth. First published with Beardsley's illustrations in 1894 the first uncensored edition did not appear in full until 1907; this edition contains all of Beardsley's intended illustrations which were previously cancelled uncensored version of Enter Herodias both versions of The Toilet of Salome. Includes the casts for the first performance of the play in England in 1905 and for the première of Richard Strauss's opera. Fraying to head and tail bumped corners rubbing discoloration and toning to ffep and removed exlibris ep transferred images else tight bright and unmarred. Bound in green cloth with gilt stamped peacock design to front board gilt title to spine gilt top edge with 16 black and white plates including suppressed frontispiece title page on Japanese vellum. Royal 8vo. xx 4 66pp. 2 adverts. Illus. b/w plates. Pencil marks notations on ep bookseller ticket. John Lane, The Bodley Head unknown books
2015Best.-Nr. UWILBEA00lhNotting Hill 2015. Very Good. Wilde Oscar. Beautiful and Impossible Things: Selected Essays of Oscar Wilde. Brandreth Gyles. London: Notting Hill 2015. 202pp. Bibliography. 12mo. Purple cloth. Book condition: Very good. Notting Hill hardcover books
1976Best.-Nr. 2353650Norwalk Connecticut: The Heritage Press 1976. Reissue. Large Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 18x13x2. Hill James. Includes publisher's slipcase and Sandglass insert. Spine a bit faded and lightly soiled edges foxed. Binding tight and square text clean bright and unmarked. 1976 Large Hardcover. xii 313 pp. Red cloth gilt titles color illustrations from paintings by James Hill introduction by Robert Gorham Davis. A collection of short stories by the poet playwright and humorist best known for The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest. Includes: Introduction; The Portrait of Mr. W.H.; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Sphinx Without a Secret; The Canterville Ghost; The Model Millionaire; A House of Pomegranates: The Young King The Birthday of the Infanta The Fisherman and His Soul The Star-Child; The Happy Prince and Other Tales: The Happy Prince The Nightingale and the Rose The Devoted Friend The Selfish Giant The Remarkable Rocket. The Heritage Press hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 9782070632084Gallimard
1938Best.-Nr. 1409575The Limited Editions Club 1938. Limited Edition #609/1500. Softcover. Quarto 72 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in soft black paper covers with pale pink lettering to spine. 10 Gauche drawings on black paper. Warping to paper covers. Chipping with material loss at head and tail of spine. General edge wear. Light foxing and discoloration to endpapers. Signed by Derain and enumerated on limitation page in rear. Shelved in Case 0. 1409575. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
1919Best.-Nr. 47472Hannover: Der Zweemann Verlag Robert Goldschmidt 1919. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. 76/100. Signed and numbered by the artist on colophon. Quarto. Original half vellum over decorative handmade paper. Frontispiece. Second German translation of "The Priest and the Acolyte" by E. Sander with illustrations by Ernst Schütte. This short story was first published with the German translation of Wilde's "Teleny" the homoerotic story of the French dandy Camille and the Hungarian pianist René Teleny. This work was originally credited to Oscar Wilde however the presumed author is John Francis Bloxam. In his trial against Queensberry Wilde contested the authorship and deemed the story "tasteless." This work contains two stunning lithographically reproduced Art Nouveau images of Ernst Schütte's work. Text in German. Spine with some light wear small chips and closed tears. Borads slightly bent outwards. Binding in overall good interior in very good condition. Der Zweemann Verlag Robert Goldschmidt hardcover books
2007Best.-Nr. UWILCOL01drpBarnes & Noble 2007. Very Good. Wilde Oscar. Collected Oscar Wilde. Fletcher Angus. NY: Barnes & Noble 2007. 628pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with rubbed edges. Barnes & Noble paperback books
