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1908rif. 606515London: Chappell & Co 1908. Softcover. Good. First edition. Folio. 20pp. Wrappers. Edgewear to the wrappers including chips and tears with old external tape repairs along the edges of the wrappers publisher's stamp and composer's name stamp on the title page just a good or better copy. For voice and piano no vocal melody. Oscar Wilde's story accompanied by incidental music composed by Liza Lehmann. Plate number 23793. Of course Wilde needs no introduction but Liza Lehmann was a successful singer in the late 19th century eventually leaving the stage to focus on composition. She wrote many songs and even a few pieces for theater; she was the first president of the Society of Women Musicians and a professor at Guildhall School of Music. Chappell & Co unknown books
1911rif. 525331London: Chappell & Co 1911. Softcover. Good. First edition. Folio. 18pp. Stapled wrappers. Lacking the wrappers edgewear including a tear at the bottom of the last page appearing to affect just a single note soiling to the exterior and a faded composer's name stamp and publisher's stamp on the front cover a good only copy. For voice and piano with pedal marks. Plate imprint 24844. A story by Oscar Wilde with incidental music by Liza Lehmann. Of course Wilde needs no introduction but Liza Lehmann was a successful singer in the late 19th century eventually leaving the stage to focus on composition. She wrote many songs and even a few pieces for theater; she was the first president of the Society of Women Musicians and a professor at Guildhall School of Music. Chappell & Co unknown books
1927rif. 587725Boston: White-Smith Publishing 1927. Softcover. Very Good. First edition Professional Copy. Quarto. Two nested bifoliums making eight pages. Light foxing and soiling to the exterior name stamp on the front cover and light bumping to the corners very good or better. For high voice and piano. Plate number 15694 - 5. the back cover features a short sample of "Thou Wouldst Not Stay" by Eberhart and Cadman. The name stamp is that of prolific American composer and pianist Fay Foster who took first place in the American Composers Competition of 1913. OCLC locates two physical holdings and it appears to be equally uncommon in the trade. White-Smith Publishing unknown books
1927rif. 524745Boston: White-Smith Music Publishing Co 1927. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Two nested bifoliums making eight pages. Owner name stamp on the front cover light soiling to the exterior and light edgewear a very good or better copy. For high voice and piano. Plate number 15694-5. The owner stamp is that of prolific American composer and pianist Fay Foster who took first place in the American Composers Competition of 1913. The back cover features a short sample of "Thous Wouldst Not Stay Nausicaa's Song from Three Songs to Odysseus by Charles Wakefield Cadman. OCLC locates two holdings. White-Smith Music Publishing Co unknown books
1950rif. 591270New York: Carl Fischer 1950. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single sheet insert making six pages. Music shop sticker on the front cover along with a small abrasion from a removed price sticker and the printed price canceled in black marker edgewear and toning still a very good and complete copy. For voice and piano. Plate number 30704 - 4. The back cover features short samples of "My Eternity" "My Lovely One" "My Heart is a Silent Violin" and "Listen! Do You Hear!" The lyrics for this song come from Oscar Wilde's story The Happy Prince. OCLC locates only three holdings and it appears to be equally uncommon in the trade. Carl Fischer unknown books
195118 cm, rilegatura editoriale cartonata con titolo su targa impressa in oro al piatto e dorso, p. 193. Timbro exlibris al frontespizio. Complessivamente assai ben conservato.
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!
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!
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).
1894rif. 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
1907rif. 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
1920rif. 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
1907rif. 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
2015rif. 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
1976rif. 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
1938rif. 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
1919rif. 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
2007rif. 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
1954rif. 2347030Emmaus Pennsylvania: Story Classics 1954. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 0x0x0. Braby Dorothea. Limited edition #1558 of 3000 copies. Includes publisher's slipcase and original clear acetate jacket. Jacket fair slipcase good: Large chip from rear jacket panel jacket slipcase and endpapers foxed. 1954 Hard Cover. 99 pp. Includes afterword by Edward J. Fluck woodcut illustrations by Dorothea Braby frontispiece and four plates in text. A novella by the author of The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray also notorious as the focus of one of the first celebrity trials in which he was convicted of gross indecency for homosexual acts. Originally published as part of a collection of four short works. Story Classics hardcover books
1973rif. 2353963Norwalk Connecticut: The Heritage Press 1973. Reissue. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Walton Tony. Includes publisher's slipcase and Sandglass insert. Slipcase edges a bit faded otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1973 Hard Cover. 125; 114 pp. Bound in imitation of the dos-a-dos style binding the reader can flip the book over to read the second of the two books included in the volume though there is no middle board present as would be the case in an actual dos-a-dos. Introduction by Sir John Gielgud color plates and woodcut illustrations by Tony Walton. Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. This collection offers newly edited texts of Lady Windermere's Fan A Woman of No Importance Salome An Ideal Husband and arguably the greatest farcical comedy in English The Importance of Being Earnest. The Heritage Press hardcover books
1904rif. 55531Berlin: Karl Schnabel Axel Junckers Buchhandlung 1904. First German edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Octavo. 146 6pp. Bound in three-quarter leather over burgundy cloth with gilt ruling on covers gilt lettering ruling and tooling on spine with raised bands retaining original wraps. Marbled endpapers. In addition to the three essays named in the title the publication contains the "Sonnet to Liberty" at rear and three pages of publisher's advertisements. Text in German. Cover with very light wear along edges and some light water staining to bottom front cover. Karl Schnabel Axel Junckers Buchhandlung hardcover books
2003rif. 54590Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 2003. Limited edition. Hardcover. New in publisher's box and shrink wrap. Quarto 8" x 10½" 314pp. Bound in full blue leather with the 22k gold title in gilt on the spine. Features decorative gilt illustrations on both the cover and spine. Finished with gilt-edged pages silk endpapers and a silk bookmark. In the history of literature few authors match the standard for wit and wry observation as the immortal Oscar Wilde. This delightful work collects the best of the great master's short storie. Easton Press hardcover books
1930rif. 61005New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc 1930. Early printing of the edition illustrated by John Vassos. Hardcover. Very good/very good. John Vassos. 124pp. Small quarto 24 cm 1/4 black cloth with blue patterned paper over boards. The edges of the boards are a bit faded. There is a very brief gift inscription on the recto of the frontispiece and there is a semi-lengthy poem in pen on the recto of the rear free endpaper. In a very attractive dust jacket with clipped corners chipping to the ends of the spine and a small chip along the front fold of the spine. Includes sixteen black and white illustrations by the illustrator of Salome John Vassos. John Vassos was a 1930's book illustrator and long-term industrial designer. Vassos' interpretation of Wilde's masterpiece illustrating the emotional experiences of a condemned prisoner in his last days. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc hardcover books
1928rif. 47487New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc 1928. First edition illustrated by John Vassos. Hardcover. Very good/very good. John Vassos. 124pp. Small quarto 24 cm 1/2 black cloth over blue striped paper covered boards. The title is stamped in gilt on the backstrip and there is an ornamental design stamped in black and gilt on the lower fore edge corner of the front board. With a slight lean to the spine and mild bumping and fading at the extremities. Age-toned pages. The jacket has periodic short closed tears and chips in the edges and there is a small loss from the paper at the foot of the jacket's spine measuring 1" wide by 3/4" deep. Includes sixteen black and white illustrations with tissue guards by John Vassos. From the dust jacket- "Vassos' interpretation of Wilde's masterpiece illustrating the emotional experiences of a condemned prisoner in his last days. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc hardcover books
