WILDE, OSCARABAA
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1930rif. 4964to. New York. E.P. Dutton and Co. 1930. Uncut bright and clean copy includes DJ in fine condition. Quarterbound coated black cloth spine gilt lettering and decorative elements patterned blue paper boards frontispiece tissue guards. 124pp. Illus. b/w plates. Conceptions by John Vassos. Vassos second work following his breakthrough work with Salome in 1927. E.P. Dutton and Co books
1942rif. 171539New York: Samuel French 1942. First Edition. First Edition. Basis for the 1954 film noir starring Anne Baxter and Ralph Bellamy. Archival repair to the front hinge see image else Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket spine moderately toned with a small splash to the center. Scarce. Johnson The Dark Page I pp. 268-269. Samuel French unknown books
1955rif. 138056Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1955. Original scenario artwork for the 1955 film depicting two men and a woman each well dressed and on horseback meeting in front of a large mansion. Historical costume drama set during the Revolutionary War. American Major John Boulton feigns desertion in order to uncover a British plot to seize the stronghold of West Point. Gouache artwork 26.5 x 12 inches within with an unpainted border of roughly 1 inch. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1991rif. 163221New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux FSG 1991. First Edition. First Edition. Association Copy INSCRIBED on the title page to author Chris Offutt: "July 97 / To Chris / with admiration and in hopes of having a real conversation one of these days / Luc." About Fine in a price-clipped Near Fine dust jacket. Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG] unknown books
1910rif. 16692Frankfurt am Main: Franz Benjamin Auffarth 1910. Softcover. vg. 8vo. Unpaginated. Original wrappers. Minor foxing and pulling to wraps. Stamp of previous owner on title-page. "Eine Auswahl vorbildichler Entwürfe für Reihengräber. Zugleich ein Führer durch die Grabmalkunst-Ausstellung auf dem neuen Frankfurter Hauptfriedhofe." Illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs by H. Collischonn. Includes 32 advertisement pages. Text in German gothic script. Very good condition. Franz Benjamin Auffarth unknown books
1922rif. 228889First 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. Methuen & Co., Ltd. hardcover books
rif. B172350-1Paris Éditions de La Banderole 1926. 151 5pp. 8 etched plates. Sm. 4to. Wraps. Glassine d.j. One of 200 numbered copies on vélin de Rives with an extra suite of the etchings from the limited edition of 230 printed by Coulouma. Paris (Éditions de La Banderole), 1926. paperback books
1905rif. 40552London: Printed for private circulation 1905. First edition. Original wrappers. Good. 35/75. Octavo 19.3 by 12.9 cm. 11 pp. Original gray wrappers lettered and bordered in navy blue. Black and red lettered title page. Decorative head- and tailpiece with historiated initial letter. Mild touch of soiling at bottom margin title Faint fold 7 cm at bottom outer corner upper cover creasing at fore-edge throughout 3 by 4 cm extending to rear cover. A good or slightly better copy. This collection of aphorisms was originally written for and published in the first and only issue of the Oxford University magazine The Chameleon Vol. 1 No. 1 December 1894 the successor to "The Spirit Lamp." One of Wilde's recent biographers Joseph Pearce notes that these aphorisms undoubtedly have "an air of subversive decadence that undermined conventional values." Mr. Wilde's opening observation is a good example: "The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered." The present work is in fact a pirated edition see Mason of which several variations are known. The limitation notes: "of this work seventy-five copies have been printed for private circulation" this being copy no. 35 noted in black ink. Mason Bibliography of Oscar Wilde no. 602; pp. 540-542; cf. no. 11 The Chameleon issue no. 1. Printed for private circulation unknown books
1912rif. 510022Riverside Connecticut: The Hillacre Bookhouse 1912. Softcover. Near Fine. First separate American edition. 16mo. 34pp. Sewn printed wrappers. Binding a touch loose with very light toning and wear printed paper label with a bit of light soil close to near fine. One of 1000 copies printed. Not in Mason; collected editions of The Happy Prince and Other Tales were published prior to this edition but Mason does not seem to list any earlier separate editions. An attractive little volume published by Frederick C. Bursch surprisingly uncommon given the limitation; OCLC locates two copies NYPL University of Tulsa. The Hillacre Bookhouse unknown books
1962rif. 398410New York: Macmillan 1962. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition thus with Introduction by John Updike. Illustrated by Sandro Nardini and Enrico Bagnoli. Folio. Cloth. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing along the top extremities. A nice copy of this volume of Wilde's fairy tales prepared for children. Also issued in glossy boards without jacket this issue is much less common. Macmillan hardcover books
1930rif. 02501THE LITTLE THEATRE IN SCHOOL Dodd Mead 1930 first edition faint moisture stain to the rear panel and sections of the top and bottom page edges of the text block which have for the most part faintly bled onto the fore mentioned margins in various degrees most all of which are minor else a vg copy in a vg color pictorial dust-wrapper with some wear and tear and some tape reinforcement to the head of the dust-wrapper spine. Illustrated with photos with 2 of the 4 plays printed herein based on the works of Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde. The pioneering / ground breaking book of children and the performing arts in school. Dodd Mead unknown books
1920rif. 13857Otto v. Praze 1920. Limited ed. Softcover. vg. 1/300. 16mo. 28pp. Gray paper board wrappers with black illustration and lettering to cover in mylar jacket. An Oscar-Wilde-classic magnificently translated and delightfully illustrated with a b/w painting to each page. Czech. In fine condition. Otto v. Praze unknown books
1906rif. 264810London: Privately Printed Leonard Smithers 1906. First edition one of 400 copies. 20 2 pp. 8vo. Printed tan wrappers. Fine in custom red morocco-backed slipcase and chemise. First edition one of 400 copies. 20 2 pp. 8vo. The penultimate Smithers publication our copy with the "Shelley" bookplate of H. Buxton Forman. Mason 626; BAL 21346 Whistler; Nelson 1906.3 Privately Printed [Leonard Smithers] unknown books
rif. B243967-1N.p. Privately Printed 1923. 16pp. Printed on rectos only. Two color illus. Sm. 4to. Boards 1/4 cloth. Spine label. Dec. paper label on front board. Slipcase back panel loose. A piracy of a manuscript parody of Oscar Wilde originally written for inclusion in The Yellow Book. The unsigned introduction is by Ernest Boyd. Edition limited to 300 copies. N.p. (Privately Printed), 1923. hardcover books
1879rif. 259339Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son 1879. First appearance of Wilde's poem. P. 2 in WAIFS AND STRAYS. A TERMINAL MAGAZINE OF OXFORD POETRY Vol. I No. 1 June 1879. 1 vols. Original wrappers. Fine. First appearance of Wilde's poem. P. 2 in WAIFS AND STRAYS. A TERMINAL MAGAZINE OF OXFORD POETRY Vol. I No. 1 June 1879. 1 vols. Mason 275 Thos. Shrimpton and Son unknown books
1906rif. 212404Sunderland: 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
1930rif. 12884London: John Lane the Bodley Head 1930 Red cloth with front cover design stamped in blind in an all-over design by Bearsley spine stamped in gilt. Quarto. Light shelfwear. Near fine in dust jacket. The jacket is browned at the spine and there is a tear along the front hinge rendering it in two pieces but the image of the Beardsley design on the front cover is bright and attractive. A few short tears on the jacket otherwise. John Lane the Bodley Head, hardcover books
1927rif. 55708New York: E. P. Dutton & Company 1927. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good minus. John Vassos. SIGNED. 57pp. Small quarto 23 cm Black boards with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Decorative endpapers. The backstrip is faded and the boards are also discolored at the edges more so the rear board. The front board is a bit marked with the most prominent mark measuring roughly 2". There is a previous owner's name in the inside margin of the terminal leaf. "Salome" was the first of nine books that would be illustrated by Vassos between 1927 and 1935. Includes thirteen black and white illustrations by John Vassos who also designed the endpapers. Number 242 in an edition limited to 500. Signed by Vassos on the limitation page. E. P. Dutton & Company hardcover books
1899rif. 54608NY: Benj. R. Tucker 1899. Early US edition. 44 pp. Small tear to the fore-edge of one leaf else very good plus in two part gilt-stamped cloth with darkened spine. NY: Benj. R. Tucker, hardcover books
1906rif. 38779London: John Lane 1906. First Trade Edition. BEARDSLEY Aubrey illus. Small 8vo pp. 66. Cover by Aubrey Beardsley. Ivory paper over boards stamped in green. Cover worn interior foxed o/w VG. Not in Gallatin. Samuels-Lasner 59C. John Lane unknown books
1949rif. 154500Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1949. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1949 film showing actor Cary Grant attempting to sleep in a bathtub. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with a date stamp reading JUL 1949. After marrying an American lieutenant in postwar Germany a French captain tries to find a way to immigrate under the War Bride Act in order to join her in the US. Shot on location in Germany and England. 7.5 x 9.25 inches. About Fine. Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1994rif. 16855Illustrated with wood engravings by Garrick Palmer. Two attached ribbon bookmarks. Slipcase covered in a pattern by Palmer. Old Stile Press books
1928rif. 2221806First edition thus. 9 1/4" x 7 1/4". 16 illustrations by John Vassos. Original black cloth over blue boards t.e.g. Dust jacket clipped; small chips. Very good. 124 pages. No signatures or bookplates. No. 33 of 200 copies. This copy is not signed. Printed by Knudsen Process. E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. hardcover books
1952rif. 156679Amsterdam: Institut voor Filmdocumentatie 1952. Vintage reference photograph from the 1952 film showing director Cecil B. DeMille on a camera crane. Mimeo snipe and the stamps of a Dutch film institute on the verso. The manager of a traveling circus hires a flashy new trapeze performer but the new hire soon begins to butt heads with the manager's girlfriend the former trapeze star. Nominated for five Academy Awards winning two for Best Picture and Best Screenplay. Shot on location in Utah Pennsylvania Florida and Washington DC. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing on the edges. Institut voor Filmdocumentatie unknown books
1927rif. 171334N.p.: N.p. 1927. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1927 silent film one showing actor Harold Lloyd fearfully holding a stick like a machine gun the other showing a medicine show caravan. A sheriff's shy son is given the chance to prove his worth when a traveling medicine show run by shysters rolls into town. A remake of the 1924 Hal Roach film "The White Sheep." Widely considered one of Lloyd's finest films and the last of Lloyd's films to star Jobyna Ralston. Shot on location in rural California. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
