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1991rif. 1400677London: The Folio Society 1991. Hardcover. Octavo xiii 112 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in publisher's quarter black cloth and black-and-white printed paper boards with gilt lettering to spine. Mild general shelf wear. Top edge of textblock gilt. Fore edge of textblock deckled. Interior pages clean. Shelved in Case 9 3/4. Folio Press. 1400677. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Folio Society 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
1906rif. 38828Boston: Luce 1906. BEARDSLEY Aubrey illus. 8vo pp. 36. Black cloth stamped in gilt. Cover and 13 illustrations by A. B. Untrimmed Cover slightly worn at corners and ends of spine one hinge tender o/w VG. Samuels-Lasner 59G. Luce unknown books
1929rif. 7598New York Dutton 1929. 1929. First edition thus. Small 4to. 16 full-page b/w illustrations title vignette and jacket design by John Vassos. Dust jacket large chip center of spine. Very good. Small neat signature of Ruth Seoan on the front free endpaper. Text of 16 poems of Wilde "interpreted" in art by Vassos famous for his previous efforts with "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" and "Salome". 1st Edition. Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1929. hardcover books
2022rif. 139828Tualatin OR: Clinker Press The 2022. quarter cloth over paper=covered boards. Clinker Press. 8vo. quarter cloth over paper=covered boards. 12 pages. Limited to 35 copies designed and printed by Andre Chaves. A fine copy. Printed in Intertype using Dwiggins designed Electra and bound by Mariana Blau. Features a illustrated portrait of Oscar Wilde on the title-page. Clinker Press, The unknown books
1911rif. 47077Portland: Thomas B. Mosher 1911. Edition limited to 500 copies printed on Van Gelder 8vo pp. xxiii 1 75 3; 1 plate by Beardsley; boards toned else a fine copy in a toned else near fine dust jacket and publisher's slipcase. Hatch 530. Thomas B. Mosher unknown books
1946rif. 71001Buenos Aires:: Privately Issued. Very Good. 1946. Paperback. Volume II only. Text is in Spanish. Limited edition: this copy is number 17 of 28 copies. SIGNED by Anibal Bargas Nigoul. Fine unbound folio sized sheets in near fine age toning illustrated wraps with glassine cover. Housed in a very good three inch tear at the top of the front joint moderate shelf wear blue cloth slipcase. ; 97 pages . Privately Issued, paperback books
1956rif. 149312Culver City CA: Hemisphere Productions 1956. Vintage reference photograph taken on location during production of the 1956 film showing director George Marshall cinematographer Freddie Young and other crew members. With manuscript pencil annotations to the verso. Seeking an explanation for his brother's disappearance an American travels to Kenya where he learns his brother has been killed by members of the mysterious "Leopard Men" cult. Set and shot on location in Kenya. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased to the top right corner. Hemisphere Productions unknown books
1903rif. 55532Paris: Publisher not identified 1903. Limited edition. Hardcover. Good to very good condition. 1/250 unnumbered out of series. Octavo. 14 132pp. Bound in pink cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Bound script for the performance at the St. James Theatre London starring George Alexander and Lily Hanbury as Lady and Lord Windermere. Pirated copy by the London bookseller and publisher Leonard Smithers. The original was published without subtitle Nelson 1903.2. Spine sunned covers lightly worn along edges and rubbed. Block lightly age-toned. Publisher not identified hardcover books
rif. 7611NY KENNERLEY 1921. #354/1000; GRAY BOARD SLIPCASE FIRST EDITION THUS VERY GOOD. F. NY, KENNERLEY, 1921 unknown books
1963rif. 40563New York: Ernest Rathenau 1963. First edition. Hardcover. vg to fine. 385/600. Large Quarto. Unpaginated. Original gray cloth with black reproduction of Erich Heckel's title page on cover and black lettering on spine housed in a plain cardboard slipcase. Second title page woodcut by Erich Heckel with German text. Wilde wrote this ballad in Berneval-le-Grand France where he spent time with Robert Ross. The poem narrates the execution of Charles Thomas Wooldridge who had been a trooper of the Royal Horse Guards and was convicted of murdering his wife. Illustrated with 12 impressive etchings including title page after woodcuts by Erich Heckel from 1907. Printed in Walbaum Antiqua on Hahnemühlen handmade paper at the letterpress of the Brothers Hartmann Berlin. Text in English. Light sunning of slipcase and spine. Slipcase and binding in very good interior in fine condition. Ernest Rathenau hardcover books
1903rif. 1430Paris: Leonard Smithers 1903. Hardcover. Very good. Limited to 250 copies of which this is number 115. About very good in the original plain brown cloth toned in spots rubbed at the edges and corners. Square bound with some reading wear on the binding a semi-circle in the lower quarter of the front endpaper has been removed for reasons unknown. Pirated edition published by Leonard Smithers. [Leonard Smithers] hardcover books
rif. 127159New York: Limited Editions Club. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Special. Very good/ Very good minus slipcase. Rubs to edges and corners of boards and slipcase. Limited Editions Club hardcover 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
1902rif. 224721Paris Privately Printed 1902. 1902. First edition. Small 8vo. Foreword. Original gilt stamped vellum stamped in black; top edge stained red uncut slight rubbing. Very good. One of 500 unnumbered copies "for private circulation." Translated by Oscar Wilde. F. Hardcover. Paris, Privately Printed, 1902. hardcover books
rif. 2222744Depicting Adelaide Neilson 1848-1880 promoting Mme. Marie Fontaine's complexion skin cream. Buffalo New York circa 1882. Circular portrait of Oscar Wilde with group of sun flowers and lily with larger image of actress Adelaide Neilson. Nice vintage condition short closed tear. 5 ½" x 3". Descriptive text on the verso. Wilde lectured in Buffalo New York on February 8 1882 at the Academy of Music. books
1905rif. 229097London Arthur L. Humphreys 1905. 1905. Later printing. 8vo. Contemporary 3/4 vellum over light blue cloth gilt stamped decorations of lines and crosses on the spine two green leather gilt stamped spine labels t.e.g. others uncut front free endpaper missing. Fine. 222 pages. No bookplates. A collection of Wilde's aphorisms and bon mots first published the previous year. See - Mason 634. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. London, Arthur L. Humphreys, 1905. hardcover books
1914rif. 13342OSCAR WILDE AND MYSELF Duffield & Company 1914 first American edition some age toning to the page edges else a fine bright copy. Illustrated. Duffield & Company unknown books
1937rif. 21585New York: The Crowell Publishing Company. Very Good. 1937. Vol. 99 No. 15. Magazine. nice clean copy light edgewear tiny nick in front cover at left end of bottom edge old subscription label at lower right corner of front cover. Undoubtedly one of the best or at least most fruitful single issues of an American popular magazine ever published by virtue of its inclusion of the first printings of two stories that became the basis for two acknowledged classics of Hollywood movie-making: "Bringing Up Baby" by Hagar Wilde filmed under that title by Howard Hawks a high-water mark of screwball comedy with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant and "Stage to Lordsburg" by Ernest Haycox adapted by screenwriter Dudley Nichols for John Ford's great Western STAGECOACH which made a star of John Wayne. Additional short stories in this issue are by Matt Taylor "Loser's End" Sidney Herschel Small "Mountain of Gold" Harold Lamb "The Devil's Song" and Frederick Hazlitt Brennan "A Matter of Sentiment" a short-short. There are also installments of serials by Max Brand "Six Golden Angels" Part I and Dwight Mitchell Wiley "Castle Key" Part VII. Feature articles include a profile of actor Burgess Meredith and an article about flooding in Cincinnati. . The Crowell Publishing Company unknown books
1927rif. 495New York. E.P. Dutton and Co. 1927. 57 pp. of text and 12 Illus. by John Vassos. Quarto. First edition. Bound in boards. Embossed gilt lettering on spine and cover. Gold & black endpapers. . Good. E.P. Dutton and Co books
1895rif. 215072London: Elkin Mathews. Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co. Limited 1895. First edition. xiii 1 140 4 20 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth. Fine. First edition. xiii 1 140 4 20 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With 4 poems by Oscar Wilde and poems by Douglas Hyde Aubrey de Vere John Todhunter William Wilde. Elkin Mathews. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., Limited unknown books
1963rif. 519247Dublin / London: The Dolmen Press / Oxford University Press 1963. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Hilton Edwards. A fine bright copy in very good publisher's printed glassine dust jacket printed in red on front panel with a small chip and a few short tears. An elusive title in the clothbound issue; the jacket is extremely ephemeral. The introduction states: "Under this title Micheal Mac Liammoir has selected and arranged in a chronological pattern excerpts from the poetry prose letters and dramatic writings of Oscar Wilde. The Dolmen Press / Oxford University Press hardcover books
1927rif. 49809New York: E.P. Dutton & Company 1927. Very Good/Very Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company 1927. First Trade Edition. Small Quarto; black boards stamped in gilt; decorative endpapers; illustrated dust jacket; 57pp. Thirteen plates featuring illustrations by Vassos including frontispiece complete. Mild shelfwear to boards and spine very slightly cocked; binding sound and pages unmarked. Dust jacket chipped with several tears and tape mending to verso; colors remain bright; still about a Very Good copy. E.P. Dutton & Company unknown books
