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1893Best.-Nr. 371134Oxford: published for the Proprietor by James Thornton High Street 1893. 100 pp. Squarish 8vo. Blue printed paper wrappers. Some chipping and loss to covers; toning to pages. 100 pp. Squarish 8vo. Featuring "The Disciple" by Oscar Wilde and pieces by Lord Alfred Douglas H. M. Beerbohm and John Addington Symonds. published for the Proprietor by James Thornton, High Street unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 50211Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum 1969. First edition. Near fine. Scarce catalogue of the 1969 exhibition of Arte Povera and Conceptual Art less known but as innovative and groundbreaking as the same year's more-mythologized "When Attitudes Become Form" and similarly an expression of its own curator's personality and vision. "Op Losse Schroeven" and "When Attitudes Become Form" were conceived planned and exhibited more or less concurrently but independently: Stedelijk Museum director de Wilde though supervising one curator and friendly with the other apparently shared no information in either direction despite considerable overlap in vision. If the curators were not well informed on their peer's progress those artists invited to participate in both exhibitions were: one of those artists Ger van Elk "made the curious suggestion that the physical similarity of the two men - each was solidly built bearded and bohemian in style - made it interesting for an artist to work with them both as their quickly staggered studio visits turned into a kind of performance; that of a curator chased by his doppelgänger" Rattemeyer. With work by Carl Andre Giovanni Anselmo Joseph Beuys Bill Bollinger Gerrit Dekker Barry Flanagan Bruce Nauman Richard Serra Robert Smithson Lawrence Weiner and others. 10.75'' x 8''. Original wrappers housing two bound portfolios designed by Wim Crouwel and Jolijn van de Wouw of Total Design Amsterdam. Text in Dutch and English. Illustrated in black and white. Printed on multi-colored paper. Light edgewear and soil to wrappers minor creasing to page edges. Stedelijk Museum unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 50211Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum 1969. First edition. Near fine. Scarce catalogue of the 1969 exhibition of Arte Povera and Conceptual Art less known but as innovative and groundbreaking as the same year's more-mythologized "When Attitudes Become Form" and similarly an expression of its own curator's personality and vision. "Op Losse Schroeven" and "When Attitudes Become Form" were conceived planned and exhibited more or less concurrently but independently: Stedelijk Museum director de Wilde though supervising one curator and friendly with the other apparently shared no information in either direction despite considerable overlap in vision. If the curators were not well informed on their peer's progress those artists invited to participate in both exhibitions were: one of those artists Ger van Elk "made the curious suggestion that the physical similarity of the two men - each was solidly built bearded and bohemian in style - made it interesting for an artist to work with them both as their quickly staggered studio visits turned into a kind of performance; that of a curator chased by his doppelgänger" Rattemeyer. With work by Carl Andre Giovanni Anselmo Joseph Beuys Bill Bollinger Gerrit Dekker Barry Flanagan Bruce Nauman Richard Serra Robert Smithson Lawrence Weiner and others. 10.75'' x 8''. Original wrappers housing two bound portfolios designed by Wim Crouwel and Jolijn van de Wouw of Total Design Amsterdam. Text in Dutch and English. Illustrated in black and white. Printed on multi-colored paper. Light edgewear and soil to wrappers minor creasing to page edges. Stedelijk Museum unknown books
1907Best.-Nr. 23487Leipzig 1907. Boards. Very Good. Aubrey Beardsley. The 1907 1st German appearance with the seminal Aubrey Beardsley illustrations. Solid and VG- to VG in its gray boards over navy-blue leather spine. Mild spotting to the boards especially at the rear board a degree of chipping along the spine affecting the gilt-titling and the gilt-rule. Lovely former owner bookplate to the front pastedown offsetting at the colophon darkening along the rear blank endsheet. Still though a very presentable copy and uncommon as such with Aubrey Beardsley's 15 magnificent plates including frontispiece and title page beautifully complementing Oscar Wilde's text. #283 of 825 copies issued. unknown books
1905Best.-Nr. 45608London: Arthur L. Humphreys 1905. Softcover. g to vg. Duodecimo. 222pp. Bound in a beautiful period grey-brown morocco binding with gilt lettering and ruling on the front cover with raised bands and gilt stamped motifs and lettering on a red label on the spine. Top edge of the book block in gilt. Gilt dentelles and decorative pattered endpapers. The binding was created by acclaimed London-based firm Sangorski & Sutcliffe for sale in the book department of the famous Chicago department store Marshall Field & Company. Binder's ink stamp on the verso of the front endpaper. Reprinted from the "Fortnightly Review" by permission of Messrs Chapman & Hall. Publication in the Belles Lettres series of Humphreys's Royal Library. Contains epigrams and aphorisms and the essay "The Soul of Man" a reprint of the essay originally published with the title "The Soul of Man Under Socialism." Mason # 633. Binding with light rubbing to extremities including head and tail of spine as well as raised bands. Small stain on the front cover. Covers sunned along the edges. Interior with some smudging to the half-title. Binding in very good- interior in near fine condition overall. Arthur L. Humphreys unknown books
1903Best.-Nr. 60320Portland Maine: Thomas B. Mosher 1903. Limited edition of 600 copies printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper and the type distributed. Printed paper boards slightly edge darkened in the scarce original dust jacket which has some chipping loss to head of jacket closed tear spine darkened. A very good copy. Thomas B. Mosher unknown books
1929Best.-Nr. 41921New York: E.P. Dutton & Company 1929. 1/200. Good. John Vassos. 102pp. Small quarto 24 cm 1/2 black leather over gray illustrated boards. Title gilt stamped on backstrip. Bright pink endsheets. Heavy rubbing to extremities corners exposed 1" loss to spine at head toning and light wear to boards; hinges cracked but holding ink name on front pastedown light spotting to endpapers light foxing to half-title and rear flyleaf else interior is clean and lightly toned. Includes sixteen full page illustrations from the imagination of John Vassos. This is the third Wilde work illustrated by 1930s book illustrator and industrial designer John Vassos. This edition was limited to 200 signed and numbered copies this is copy 165. Signed by the illustrator on the limitation page. E.P. Dutton & Company unknown books
1905Best.-Nr. 005702Greenwich Conn.: The Literary Collector Press 1905. Book. Very Good Minus. Paper Covered Boards. Limited and Numbered Edition. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. The Third Edition of this poem. Collector Reprints No. 3. # 66 of 275 copies printed on American hand-made paper. In the original gray paper boards with black lettering and red ruling on paper labels at cover and spine. Very Good Minus bottom 3 1/4" of paper at spine is gone. Internally clean and tight last page uncut. 39 pages. SCARCE. The Literary Collector Press Hardcover books
1927Best.-Nr. 239440New York: Dutton 1927. hardcover. fine. Vassos John. Illustrations by John Vassos. 4to handsomely rebound in 1/2 purple crushed morocco and decorative gold and purple boards. New York: Dutton 1927. Fine. Dutton unknown books
1952Best.-Nr. 170434Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1952. Collection of 36 vintage reference photographs from the 1952 film including 35 bordered and one borderless. Most with provenance stamps and labels on the versos and four with printed mimeo snipes affixed to same. Based on Carson McCullers' beloved 1946 novel which McCullers also adapted for Broadway in 1950 starring actors Ethel Waters and Julie Harris who reprised their roles for the film. A young lonely tomboy dreams of escaping her small southern town with her brother and his fiancée. Harris was 27 more than double the age of the fictional Frankie Addams at the time of the film's production. Set in the American South. 35 photographs 10 x 8 inches one 7.5 x 9.25 inches. Generally Very Good plus to Near Fine a couple with annotations in manuscript ink on the margins. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1905Best.-Nr. 10914DE PROFUNDIS Putnam 1905 first American edition some slight wear and tanning to the spine else a tight vg copy in vg/vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and non-stick tape along the inside front flap fold. Scarce in dust-wrapper as any 1905 book publication would be. Putnam unknown books
1905Best.-Nr. 22223361905-1909. 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. Pagination in some volumes is continuous and in some volumes it is separate for each work. A stout set on fine paper. Light pencil owner's signature on fly leaf of each volume dated 1910 of JNO V. Forbes. Extra shipping required. The Nottingham Society hardcover books
1906Best.-Nr. 312342London: Humphreys 1906. hardcover. Epigrams and "The Soul of Man Under Socialism". Title in red and black 222pp. untrimmed small 8vo rebound in full brown morocco black spine labels gilt-decorations raised bands. London: Arthur L. Humphreys 1911. Mint. Sebastian Melmoth was Oscar Wilde's pseudonym used after his arrest and subsequent move to the continent. Humphreys unknown books
Best.-Nr. 144208Lynd Ward. New York: Macy-Masius: The Vanguard Press 1928. Illustrated with mezzotints by Lynd Ward. 4to 10 x 7 inches. 106 pp. Decorative title page printed in green and black. Twenty-five full-page mezzotints by Ward with historiated headpieces and side-pieces bordering the text throughout. Illustrated green pictorial endpapers. Original imitation wood-grain paper over boards brown leather spine lettered in blind. FIRST EDITION. First impression of 2000 copies. Set in Blado Italic on Aurelian Rag paper; composition and presswork by The Marchbanks Press. Signed by Lynd Ward on the front free endpaper. No dust jacket. Boards lightly toned and rubbed at the extremities; rear board with some additional wear. Spine intact and secure. Page block tanning at edges else the mezzotint plates and text quite clean. Very good. Horodisch p. 106. The Ballad of Reading Gaol was written during Wilde's exile in France following his release from Reading Prison where he had served two years for gross indecency. Ward's mezzotints - his first work for a fine press book predating Gods' Man 1929 - match Wilde's poem in their atmospheric darkness rendering the prison's figures in dense velvety shadow. . unknown books
1904Best.-Nr. D19239London: Melmoth & Co. 1904. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Copy #57 of only 250 copies. Printed on hand-made paper; illustrations by Beardsley. Original blue cloth. Spine darkened but internally a sound clean copy. This edition is uncommon on the market. Melmoth & Co. hardcover books
1907Best.-Nr. D5041New York et al: Nottingham Society 1907. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Publisher's pale grey cloth paper spine labels top edge gilt; each volume with a frontispiece. Number 18 from a deluxe limited edition of 1000 copies. Small bump at fore-edge of Volume 1 otherwise all volumes just a little dust-soiled and gently rubbed at spine tips. An excellent working set. Please note that these heavy volumes will likely require additional shipping charges. Nottingham Society hardcover books
1912Best.-Nr. 259334London: Arthur L. Humphreys 1912. First edition with Ross's Preface. x 99 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original blue boards with red label printed in black on upper cover. Exceptionally fine copy IN THE ORIGINAL PRINTED DUST JACKET with slight wear. First edition with Ross's Preface. x 99 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Mason 370 Arthur L. Humphreys unknown books
1920Best.-Nr. 19986London and New York: John Lane The Bodley Head. Printed by Spottiswoods Ballantyne and Co. Ltd. London Colchester and Eton 1920. Limited Edition First Edition Thus with Alastair illustrations. Decorated Cloth Gilt impressed. Very Good Plus. Alistair Hans Henning Otto Harry Baron von Voigt. Limitation of 1000 copies -- the colophon informs us that the stones upon which the plates were printed were destroyed by the German invasion of Belgium during the early phase of the First World War. 4to. 30.5 by 23.5 cm. 36 pp. 12 illustrated two toned plates with Alastair illustrations. 10 of these are referenced in the List of Illustrations and the other two are at the beginning and the end. These two are also on a folded sheet that is about 2 cm shorter as well as about the same shy of the width of facing pages elsewhere. Alastair 1887-1969 was a German-born self-taught artist whose style was obviously greatly influenced by Beardsley and he emulated Beardsley too in illustrating works of Oscar Wilde who was the perfect template for Alastair's imagination which gloried in decadence as Wilde did decades earlier. This work "The Sphinx" was Alastair's first published work based on Wilde's writing and it is the work that exposed a far larger audience to his distinctive highly stylized artwork. The cloth cover designed by Charles Ricketts has a light film of dusty soiling which is removable with effort and a scattering of other small light stains which are not susceptible to the simple eraser. The interior is generally quite clean and lovely. The hinge is cracked in one place. John Lane, The Bodley Head. Printed by Spottiswoods, Ballantyne and Co. Ltd., London, Colchester and Eton unknown books
1922Best.-Nr. 499856Portland Main: The Mosher Press 1922. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition thus. 12mo. 117pp. Fine in Japanese vellum boards with very good or better dust jacket toned along the spine with small chip and some light foxing housed in good only publisher's original slipcase lacking the entire back edge and separated along one edge at the top. Printed by The Mosher Press for Edward A. Woods and limited to 50 numbered copies. This is number 48. Laid into the book is the original publisher's printed complimentary slip stating: "Mr. Woods takes pleasure in presenting with recipient's name in ink holograph a copy of his privately printed edition of Wilde's The Young King and Other Tales. The Mosher Press hardcover books
1903Best.-Nr. 013011Minden in Westf: J. C. C. Burns 1903. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. First German translation of Wilde's short story "The Portrait of Mr. W. H." first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1889. It was later added to the collection Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories 1891. The story is about an attempt to uncover the identity of Mr. W. H. the enigmatic dedicatee of Shakespeare's sonnets. which has led to speculation of the Bard's bisexuality. From the library of famous American art collector lawyer and bibliophile John Quinn 1870 - 1924 with his book plate designed by Yeats on the pastedown. 8vo gray cloth printed in black. 8 L 136. Art-Nouveau style endpapers. Book ticket from The Burrows Brothers Company Cleveland Ohio bottom rear pastedown. Covers moderately soiled slight lean to spine solid binding clean internals. Prelims include publisher's descriptions of its other Wilde titles. Scarce edition with a unique provenance. J. C. C. Burns hardcover books
1910Best.-Nr. 17235New York: John Lane Company 1910. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Note by Robert Ross. Very Good in a Good dust jacket unclipped no price generally toned and soiled some shallow chips at the edges. Grey paper on the boards bumped at the corners a few pock marks in the gutters. Square and firmly bound inscription from Perce Rodda on the front endpaper toned some foxing on the pages. The first publication of this work to feature Ross's note. Mason 363. John Lane Company hardcover books
1907Best.-Nr. 13130Salome John Lane / Bodley Head 1907 first edition thus small area of minor bubbling to the rear cloth cover else just about fine with all the Beardsley plates present and in fine condition. A large paper copy with extended uncut margins. John Lane / Bodley Head hardcover books
1938Best.-Nr. 148844Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1938. Vintage double weight photograph of Katharine Hepburn Howard Hawks and a resting Cary Grant on the set of the 1938 film. One of the foundational entries in the canon of American screwball comedies. Based on the short story by Hagar Wilde which originally appeared in Collier's Weekly magazine on April 10 1937. Zoologist David Huxley Grant develops a wary interest in the niece of dowager Mrs. Carelton Random Hepburn which as in all great screwball comedies is not finalized as a romance until about the last ten seconds of the film. But what makes this film singular is that the story is built around the maintenance aspects of raising a pet leopard creating a rapid-fire blur of events and dialogue that doesn't let up for the entire 102-minute running time. The film bombed upon release causing RKO to drop both of the stars but today ranks as one of the best films made by either. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Byrge & Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1918Best.-Nr. 2222511First edition thus. Small 4to. Illustrated with 17 hand colored lithographs by Charlotte Christine Engelhorn. Tan leather spine over purple silk boards. No dust jacket. Very good. 67 pages. One of 100 deluxe copies signed by Engelhorn with hand colored plates. Translated by Felix B. Greve of Oscar Wilde's "The Young King" a short story from his "A House of Pomegranates." With erotic bookplate of Otto Feistmann. Gustav Kiepenheuer hardcover books
1894Best.-Nr. 304822London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street. Printed by T. and A. Constable Edinburgh 1894. First edition one of 500 copies. 154 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original mauve cloth decorated in gilt. Spine faded cloth at extremities frayed corners bumped some soiling to cloth front flyelaf and first blank torn at gutter. Good. First edition one of 500 copies. 154 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Mason 365 John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh unknown books
