WILDE, OscarABAA
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réf. 06548Reading Berkshire: The Carpathian Press 1999. Wilde's Greatest Poem in a Modern Private Press Masterpiece One of Only 25 Copies on Velin Arches Blanc WILDE Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Engravings by Peter Forster. Introduction by Bryan Forbes. Reading Berkshire: The Carpathian Press 1999. One of 25 copies printed on Velin Arches Blanc from a total edition of 125 signed by Bryan Forbes. Large octavo 9 7/8 x 7 1/4 inches; 251 x 184 mm. 1-16 17-103 1 blank 1 limitation pp. Six engravings by Peter Forster. Elegantly bound by Anthony Wessely in full green morocco. Spine with five raised bands decoratively ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments olive-green endpapers. Housed in the original green cloth slipcase. A fine copy. A finely produced private press edition of Wilde's most powerful and enduring poem written in the aftermath of his imprisonment in Reading Gaol 1895-97. First published in 1898 under the pseudonym "C.3.3." Wilde's prison number the poem stands as a profound meditation on justice punishment and human suffering and remains one of the great poetic responses to incarceration in English literature. This Carpathian Press edition is among the most desirable modern fine press interpretations of the text distinguished by its restrained yet expressive engravings by Peter Forster which echo the stark emotional landscape of Wilde's poem. The use of Velin Arches Blanc paper - reserved here for just 25 copies - provides a luxurious surface that complements both the typography and the engraved plates. A beautifully conceived and executed modern private press book - uniting Wilde's most haunting work with accomplished illustration and binding of the highest order. Reading, Berkshire: The Carpathian Press, 1999 unknown books
1907réf. 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
2018réf. 21264San Francisco: The Arion Press 2018. Decorative Boards. Fine. Sandow Birk. An immaculate copy of this 2018 offering by the Arion Press of San Francisco. #90 OF 250 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST SANDOW BIRK at the colophon. Clean and Fine in its light-green cloth over beige boards. Tall quarto also includes an all-but-pristine example of the publisher's printed slipcase. The Arion Press unknown books
1928réf. 25436New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1928. Decorative Boards. Near Fine/Very Good -. John Vassos. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY JOHN VASSOS on the half-title. A very solid copy to boot of this 1928 1st thus the first apearance of the pairing of Oscar Wilde's epic poem and John Vassos' evocative Art Deco illustrations. Tight and Near Fine Theodore Dreiser's lovely bookplate gracing the front pastedown in a bright price-clipped VG dustjacket with very light chipping along the panel edges and 1 1/2" of loss at the foot of the spine. Still though a very presentable copy with Vassos' captioned illustrations --still protected by their original tissue-guards-- beautifully complementing Wilde's text. E.P. Dutton & Co unknown books
1907réf. 328629London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1907. hardcover. fine. Aubrey Beardsley. Introduction by Robert Ross. Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley with 16 full-page drawings including the title page contents page and sketch for cover design; one folding facsimile. xviii 8 66 2 pages. Slim square 8vo original green cloth with ornate gilt-stamped cover. London: John Lane the Bodley Head. 1907. Second edition but the first to contain the full 16 plates including the title which was originally suppressed as it depicts hermaphrodite genitalia. Front & back flyleaves browned otherwise a beautiful copy in excellent condition. John Lane The Bodley Head unknown books
1894réf. 13013A SIGNED COPY !!! THE GREEN CARNATION Appleton 1894 first American edition second issue with tipped in 1895 title page pencil notations on the end-papers spine just a bit soiled else a very good to very good plus copy of the authors anonymously published first book. Signed by the author on the title page. Rare thus. This book was based on the life of Oscar Wilde and at the time did the author some considerable harm. Appleton unknown books
1894réf. 12350THE GREEN CARNATION Heinemann 1894 first edition just about a fine copy of the authors anonymously published first book. This book was based on the life of Oscar Wilde and at the time did the author some considerable harm. Quite scarce in this condition. Heinemann unknown books
1899réf. 158271899. Shannon Charles. By the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan. London: Leonard Smithers and Co. 1899. Original mauve cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition consisting of 1000 regular copies so stated; there were also 100 signed copies on Van Gelder paper plus twelve signed copies on Japan vellum. This was the fourth and last of Wilde's four great comedies of manners -- following LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN published in 1893 A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE 1894 and THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST 1899 five months earlier. "An Ideal Husband" had opened at the Theatre Royal on 3 January 1895 the actors had been quite annoyed that Wilde required them to rehearse on Christmas Day only to keep them waiting for him to appear. It was an immediate success but it was while "Earnest" and "Husband" were running that Wilde inadvisably filed suit against the Marquess of Queensberry father of Wilde's lover Lord Alfred Douglas for criminal libel; this quickly morphed into a charge of "gross indecency" against Wilde and when he was arrested in April his plays closed. Sentenced to two years' hard labour 1895-1897 upon his release he fled to France -- where he resided when this book was published. The artistic binding design is by Charles Shannon. This is a very good copy of a book that is difficult to find in any better condition: the spine is rather dull and there is moderate cover soil. Mason 385. Provenance: the front endpaper bears the signature "Wilmer C. France 1899". The pioneering female classicist Emily Wilmer Cave France 1868-1951 married name Wright after 1906 was born in Birmingham England and educated first at Girton College Cambridge then at the University of Chicago -- where she was a Fellow in Latin and in Greek while earning her Ph.D.; from 1897 until her retirement in 1933 which span includes the date this book was published she was a Professor in Greek at Bryn Mawr College. In 2022 the Cambridge Philological Society published a monograph by D.N. Greenwood about her "Steely-Eyed Athena: Wilmer Cave Wright and the Advent of Female Classicists. unknown books
1894réf. 22263London: John Lane 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Publisher's full mauve cloth stamped in gilt spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Very good. 154 pages. 27.5 x 16 cm. Limited edition one of 500 with 16 pages of advertisements at end dated March 1894 Cover gilt design florets by Charles Shannon considerably influenced by his lifetime partner Charles Ricketts both of whom produced work for the Doves Press. MASON 364. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre satirizing English upper-class society. Spine dulled spine extremities creased binding tight; a sound copy. John Lane hardcover books
1898réf. 23817London: Leonard Smithers 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter cream and light brown cloth spine darkened. Very good. 31 pages. 23 x 14 cm. "Of this Edition eight hundred copies have been printed on hand-made paper and thirty copies on Japanese vellum." The last edition to identify the author as "C.3.3." -- Wilde was imprisoned in cell block C landing C Cell 3. This narrative a tale of Charles Thomas Woodbridge's 1896 execution at Reading for the murder of his wife. Three small fade spots front cover and slight crinkling at back cover toward head at fore-edge. Nicks to spine head and foot. Leonard Smithers hardcover books
1907réf. 629171907. Etching on paper; paper 11-3/4 x 9 inches plate 5-3/4 x 4 inches. 1 vols. Matted and Framed signed in pencil. Etching on paper; paper 11-3/4 x 9 inches plate 5-3/4 x 4 inches. 1 vols. Hermann Struck 1876-1944is recognized for his extensive landscapes and portraits of noted personalities in early 20th century Europe including Herzl Ibsen Nietzsche Freud Einstein Rutenberg et al. He was born into an Orthodox Berlin family and subsequently studied at the Berlin Academy under Max Koner and Hans Meyer. He joined the Zionist movement at an early age and in 1903 after several study trips throughout Europe he visited Palestine and on his way back to Germany stopped in Vienna where he was introduced to Herzl. It was this meeting that inspired the famous portrait etching of the Zionist leader. During World War I Struck served with the German Army in Lithuania where he came in contact with Eastern European Jews and embraced their way of life. In 1923 he returned to Palestine and settled in Haifa. By now a master of the craft of etching Struck taught graphic techniques to such fellow artists as Chagall Liebermann Israels Corinth Ury and Budko. His book Die Kunst des Radierens 1923 a popular guide book for artists and connoisseurs provides both technical explanations and practical instruction. Struck excelled as a portraitist. He also recorded landscapes Jewish and Arab types and scenes from the Jewish diaspora. He spent time in England and became a member of the London Society of Painters Etchers and Engravers. unknown books
1911réf. 426216Boston: The Proprietors of The Woman's Journal 1911. Unbound. Near Fine. Stock Certificate No. 129 for two shares issued by The Proprietors of The Woman's Journal Corporation. Measuring 10.5" x 5.25" including stub. Attached at the margin with a stub to a transfer document. Stock certificate of the first and most important woman's suffrage periodical and includes the signatures of several famous proponents of the movement. Signed by Alice Stone Blackwell Francis J. Garrison and Catherine Wilde. The attached transfer awards the two shares to The Proprietors from the Estate of H.M. Pitman. Near fine. The Woman's Journal was the first regular woman's rights periodical in America. Its publication was the crowning achievement of Lucy Stone's long and distinguished feminist career. According to HAWH: "Stone's most active and lasting contribution to the women's movement is The Woman's Journal which she founded in 1870 and edited until her death in 1893. This extraordinary archive of women's history provided a weekly chronicle of woman's progress - political vocational economic cultural and legal-both in the United States and abroad.for over sixty one years." As the political organ of the National American Woman Suffrage Association The Woman's Journal printed meeting and convention addresses and notes reported on national and international news published columns and editorials on the suffrage struggle as well as poems stories and book reviews. Regular contributors included Julia Ward Howe William Lloyd Garrison T.W. Higginson and of course Lucy Stone and her husband Henry Brown Blackwell. After Stone's 1893 death her daughter Alice Stone Blackwell assumed responsibility for producing and editing the journal which was renamed The Woman Citizen; contributors to this new incarnation of the periodical read like a virtual who's who of early modern feminism: Susan B. Anthony Anna Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt were only a few of the names on its ever-expanding masthead. This stock certificate from the founding of The Woman's Journal's production is a tangible artifact of the first American woman's rights periodical and a glimpse at the relationships and efforts behind its financing. The Proprietors of The Woman's Journal unknown books
1893réf. 002401London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head. Printed by T. and A. Constable Edinburgh 1893. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Minus. 8vo. 21.5 by 16 cm. 8.5 by 6.25 inches. 18 132 14 2 pp. With publisher's list of books in the back. In this first edition apparently only 500 copies were printed! The pages are heavily toned per the norm for the paper stock but clean otherwise. The binding is tight. A few uncut leaves in the advertisement section. FEP with small ornamental bookplate pastedown of "Carroll Atwood Wilson" who was a well-known book collector of his day as well as a lawyer and chief legal counsel to the Guggenheims. The publisher's peach-colored cloth has some blistering on the boards. Along the edges there are long narrow spots in which the color is washed out. The spine has been rebacked with most of the original spine mounted thereon with a small loss of the gilt lettering transpiring. The resulting spine also has small dark spots and one is likely not to find it prepossessing. Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh unknown books
réf. 06516Oxford & London: J. Vincent & Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co. 1894. Wilde at Oxford - A Lifetime Edition Issued on the Eve of Scandal" Limited to 750 Copies - Published May 1894 WILDE Oscar. Aristophanes at Oxford By Oscar Wilde. O.W. by Y.T.O. all rights reseved. Oxford & London: J. Vincent & Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co. May 1894. One of 750 copies printed. Small quarto 7 5/8 x 5 1/8 inches; 194 x 130 mm. viii 1 2-85 1 blank pp. Publisher's stiff tan/gray wrappers front cover lettered in green. Wrapper edges a little chipped as usual; otherwise an excellent example internally clean and well preserved. Housed in a green cloth clamshell case spine lettered in gilt. A lifetime edition of Wilde's early Oxford satire originally composed in 1879 here issued anonymously "O.W. by Y.T.O." in a limited printing of 750 copies. Published in May 1894 at the height of Wilde's literary success and just one year before his dramatic fall this edition represents the first substantial reappearance of the text in expanded form extending to 85 pages. It offers a rare glimpse of Wilde's formative wit - rooted in classical parody and undergraduate satire - reissued for a contemporary audience during his most celebrated period. Mason 685. Oxford [&] London: J. Vincent [&] Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1894 unknown books
1905réf. 16244Paris: Privately Printed 1905. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited to 50 copies. Good. Original wraps generally toned some spots of soiling a very small chip at the head of the spine tear down much of the top spine fold. Square and firmly bound with unopened pages some foxing at the edges clean otherwise. A pirated edition printed by Charles Carrington with the text taken from the July 1894 issue of The Fortnightly Review. Mason 609. Privately Printed hardcover books
1917réf. 2222372First edition thus. 10" x 7 1/2". Original tan stiff printed wrappers. Four page introduction by Clement K. Shorter. No dust jacket. Very good. 12 pages. Number 17 of 25 copies signed by Shorter. Four letters from 1897 to Dalhousie Young 1866-1921 English pianist and composer. In 1895 he published "Apologia Pro Oscar Wilde" defending Wilde. Privately Printed books
1928réf. 483Paris. Société d'édition Le Livre Emile Chamontin 1928. Trans. into French by E. Jaloux and F. Frapereau. Large 4to 349 pp. 3/4 maroon moroccan gilt back t.e.g marbled boards and end papers with original wrappers bound in. Illus. With 23 steel engravings by Jean-Emil Laboureur. No. 61 of 230 numbered copies. Godefroy 369 Carteret IV p. 409. ORIGINAL WRAPS BOUND IN INCLUDING SPINE. Corners rubbed end paper slightly split interior fine. Fine example of Laboureur's work at the height of his stylized art deco period. Société d'édition Le Livre, hardcover books
1921réf. ST12330bWestminster: Beaumont Press 1921-22. FIRST EDITIONS. EACH ONE OF 75 COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM OF THE EDITION DE LUXE SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER AND ARTIST of a total of 475 copies. 222 x 152 mm. 8 3/4 x 6". Two separately issued but companion volumes. Original vellum-backed decorative paper boards. Reading with vignette on title in orange and green two plates in the same colors one facsimile of writing in text device on final page stylized illustration of a tree on front and rear endpapers; "Berneval" with woodcuts of Naples and Paris printed in blue on the front and rear endpapers two-color title page woodcut one plate a facsimile of a Wilde letter and printer's woodcut device; our special deluxe version WITH THREE ADDITIONAL WOODCUTS at the back of each volume all the woodcuts as well as the cover design by Randolph Schwabe. Ransom p. 211; Tomkinson p. 17. ◆Berneval spine just a bit darkened otherwise FINE UNWORN COPIES that have obviously been little used as they open stiffly and are immaculate inside and out. Here "After Berneval" is offered with "After Reading" its earlier companion volume both of them in their deluxe form on Japanese vellum and including an extra suite of the illustrations. "Reading" comprises a set of letters also written to Ross by Wilde during the summer of 1897 after having just been released from two years' imprisonment in Reading Gaol. The preface to its sequel "After Berneval" says that the earlier collection "was unprocurable almost as soon as it was published." The letters in these volumes tell the story of a tragic literary figure who fell from a precipitous height. Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 was born and raised in Ireland studied classics at Trinity College Dublin and at Magdalen College Oxford before settling in London. There he became famous for his unmatched wit and infamous for his personal eccentricities--long hair décor at his lodgings that included peacock feathers and blue china and ultimately sexual behavior that was deemed both intolerable and criminal. During the first half of the 1890s he was enjoying remarkable social prominence and literary success with the staging of "Lady Windermere's Fan" 1892 "A Woman of No Importance" 1893 "An Ideal Husband" 1894 and the incomparable "The Importance of Being Earnest" 1895. But two months after the staging of this last play he brought a defamation suit against the Marquess of Queensbury the father of his intimate friend Lord Alfred Douglas. The suit backfired: in the course of the litigation Wilde was investigated by police and his homosexuality was exposed leaving his reputation destroyed. He was sentenced in May of 1895 to two years of hard labor spending part of his time behind bars at Reading Gaol where he produced his powerful poem "De Profundis." After release he moved to the Continent and died three years later in Paris of meningitis. As Day says "Among English men of letters only Byron and Shaw have surpassed Wilde in the craft of conscious posing and self-publicizing" a fact that has made succeeding generations suspicious of the reality behind the legend that the author helped to establish. But after a period when he was treated as a kind of martyr because of his suffering at the hands of squeamish Victorianism "it is at last possible to evaluate Wilde as the capable literary artist he actually was." In physical terms these are modest but nevertheless pleasing products of the Beaumont Press founded by Cyril W. Beaumont in 1917. A special feature of the Press is its patterned paper bindings each with a design created for one title only. Beaumont Press unknown books
1878réf. 236London: Thos. Shrimpton and Son 1878. Very good in original gray-green printed wrappers which are a bit browned at edges and with a few small chips. Now housed in a custom chemise and green morocco-backed slipcase. First Edition. With crest on wrapper title page and with woodcut on the last page. Wilde's first book. Wilde's poem was the Newdigate Prize winner for 1878 presented at Oxford University for best poetry. "During a vacation ramble in 1877 Wilde started from Greece and visiting Ravenna by chance on the way he obtained material for a poem on that ancient city and singularly enough Ravenna was afterwards given out as the topic for the Newdigate competition." Hamilton The Aesthetic Movement in England as quoted by Mason pg. 243. 8vo. 16pp. Mason pg. 241. Thos. Shrimpton and Son unknown books
1878réf. 151231878. the fine Bradley Martin copy Recited in The Theatre Oxford June 26 1878. Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son 1878. Original grey printed wrappers. First Edition of Oscar Wilde's first book the Newdigate Prize-winning poem that he wrote while a student at Magdalen College. To quote from Pearson: He Wilde left Oxford in a blaze of glory. The subject for the Newdigate Prize Poem that year was Ravenna and it so happened that he had visited the place on his way to Greece the year before noting it as a theme for poetic treatment. He could therefore put in bits of local colour which the other competitors had to glean from books. He won the prize as John Ruskin and Matthew Arnold had done before him and declaimed the poem in the Sheldonian Theatre on June 26 1878. When the Professor of Poetry J.C. Shairp whose duty it was to suggest textual improvements to the winner of the Newdigate advised certain alterations Wilde listened with due courtesy took careful notes of every suggestion but went away and printed the poem exactly as he had written it. In this copy the slip "PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN" is affixed to the title verso. This is a remarkably fine copy of this very delicate piece light browning as usual around the edges of the wrappers but no wear. Though not really as scarce an item as one might expect for a first effort this is THE copy for condition and for provenance -- see below. Mason pp 241-249. Housed in a morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise. Provenance: bookplate of H. Bradley Martin on the case's chemise. To this day the eight-part Bradley Martin sale of 1989-1990 remains the sale of a generation especially for the remarkable condition of his collection for this item see lot #3320. unknown books
réf. ST17553Bayreuth: The Bear Press 1982. No. 4 OF 15 COPIES with hand-colored etchings signed by Benda Klitsch and Lehr from a total edition of 210. 226 x 146 mm. 9 x 5 7/8". 50 pp. 2 leaves.Translated and with an afterword by Wolfram Benda. Publisher's dark brown calf by Erwin Lehr covers with gilt fillet border upper cover with large gilt rose at center raised bands spine in gilt-ruled compartments gilt lettering. In the original slipcase covers with ivory handmade paper. With four signed and hand-colored etchings by Peter Klitsch all with original tissue guards. Printed on Kochi-Japan paper. ◆In pristine condition. This is a lovely special version of a finely crafted private press edition of Wilde's fairy tales "The Nightingale and the Rose" "The Happy Prince" and "The Selfish Giant." It is the third work issued by the Bear Press founded in 1979 by literary scholar Wolfram Benda and still in operation. According to the firm's website "at a time when the craftsmanship and ethos of the artisan in bookmaking have been damaged by ever-increasing industrialization and neglect . . . The Bear Press . . . tries to achieve the highest possible degree of technical and artistic perfection in its printed works." The font used to print the text and the artist chosen to illustrate each work have been carefully selected to express "the individual author's personality and intention." Even the discriminating aesthete Wilde 1854-1900 would be pleased with the choices here: the type is set in refined Walbaum Antiqua; the etchings by Austrian artist Peter Klitsch b. 1934 are meticulous detailed and reminiscent of the work of Wilde's friend Aubrey Beardsley; and the binding is the epitome of tasteful restraint. First appearing in 1888 the three tales here are bittersweet in their themes of love and self-sacrifice. Wilde's stories for children were one of his early successes and DNB says that "their permanent place in child affections refutes the vulgarism that Wilde's literary reputation arose from his legal notoriety. In all cases the fairy tales are on the child's side celebrating the courage and generosity of the poor and vulnerable while their satire mocks the kind of pomposity and hypocrisy children can recognize.". The Bear Press unknown books
1891réf. 7941London: James R. Osgood 1891. First edition. Very Good . One of 1000 copies. A Very Good copy fresh and clean throughout. Publisher's pictorial tan cloth stamped in gilt. Cloth a bit faded and foxed. Gilt very bright and attractive. Dent to edge of lower board at bottom corner. Modern bookplate D. Chisholm Simpson and ink ownership stamp Yew Tree Cottage to upper endpapers. A some toning to upper free endpaper otherwise very fresh and clean internally. Complete with the four plates illustrated by Charles Shannon which have faded but are somewhat clearer than is usually seen. A collection of fairytales from the famed writer wit and aesthete A House of Pomegranates compiles four stories of mermaids hunchbacks kings and princesses. This was actually Wilde's second collection of fairy tales - he had been writing such stories for years - after The Happy Prince and Other Tales published in 1888. A House of Pomegranates was met with some controversy with many reviewers finding the stories too complex and morally ambiguous for children. Wilde clearly had more wide-ranging ambitions than the standard children's tale however and found it absurd that "the extremely limited vocabulary at the disposal of the British child is the standard by which the prose of an artist is to be judged.in building this House of Pomegranates I had about as much intention of pleasing the British child as I had of pleasing the British public." Very Good . James R. Osgood unknown books
1893réf. 140949205London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane 1893. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. xiv 132 14 2 pp. with 14 advertising pages at rear. Bound in publisher's mauve cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with soiling and darkening to cloth and bumping to corners and spine ends. Contents lightly toned and thumbed with foxing to endpapers and first and last few pages. One of the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde's best-known plays a comedy in four acts. Elkin Mathews and John Lane unknown books
1878réf. 140943843Oxford: Thomas Shrimpton and Son 1878. First Edition. First edition. Oxford crest present on front wrap and title page; a later pirate edition lacked these. Mason 301. 16 pp. Bound in publisher's gray-green printed wrappers. An unsophisticated copy Very Good with toning and and few small edge chips to fragile wrappers. Contents bright and in great shape. The author's first book. Thomas Shrimpton and Son unknown books
1899réf. 140938501London: Leonard Smithers 1899. First Edition. Very Good. First Edition first printing. One of 800 copies originally printed which sold out immediately. Very Good. Covers soiled corners and spine ends softened. Endsheets offset from binder's glue. Previous owner name partially effaced from front paste down. Slight odor to pages. Clipping with apparently forged signature of Oscar Wilde tipped in on recto of final blank sheet by no means assumed to be authentic. Leonard Smithers unknown books
