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1907ref. 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
1911ref. 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
1894ref. 004078London: John Lane/Bodley Head 1894. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Good to Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This first edition of Wilde's play limited to 500 copies was published a year before his masterpiece "The Importance of Being Earnest". Publisher's bookplate front pastedown hinges starting fading to spine cloth. Pink cloth with gilt trim and gilt decorations edges untrimmed. John Lane/Bodley Head hardcover
1893ref. 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
ref. 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
1878ref. 11085Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son 1878. First Edition. Sewn binding. Very good . Octavo 16pp. First and only issue with the Oxford crest on the front wrapper and title page there were pirated editions that lacked these. A nice sound copy internally lovely with the original grey-green wrappers expertly backed onto sympathetic archival paper. Overall very good or better. A fragile publication and among the most elusive of Wilde volumes. The Newdigate Prize awarded since 1806 is given to the best composition in English verse by an undergraduate student at Oxford. A strong effort right out of the gate from the short-lived but highly influential Anglo-Irish writer. Mason 301. Thos. Shrimpton and Son unknown
1899ref. 127644David Nutt 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. 6x0x9. 1899 David Nutt second edition illustrated by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood including tissue guarded frontis. Tight binding ownership ink to front paste down. Illustrated front board shows water spots. Please email for photos. David Nutt hardcover
1905ref. 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
1928ref. 75261Paris: Editions Narcisse 1928. Fine. Editions Narcisse Paris 1928 23 x 28.50 cm broché sous chemise L'Anniversaire de l'infante The Birthday of the InfantaÉditions Narcisse Paris 1928 23 x 285 cm original wrappers sous chemise Edition illustrated with paged and unpaged drawings by Alastair with 110 printed copies ours is one of 100 copies printed on Holland Van Gelder Zone the only grand papier deluxe copies after 10 Japan Imperial. Scattered foxing most noticeable at the beginning and end of the volume. Editions Narcisse unknown
1886ref. d2793London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co. G : in good condition. Covers rubbed and soiled. Eps darkened. Fold-out repaired with archive tape. 1886. First Edition. Blue hardback boards with cream vellum spines. 320mm x 240mm 13" x 9". vi 160pp; viii 160pp iv; vii 160pp plates. 37 plates 24 b/w 13 sepia 1 fold-out. Published 1886-18878. With Glasgow Arts Club bookplate. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. . Kegan Paul, Trench & Co hardcover
1909ref. 325271New York: Bigelow Brown & Co 1909. Authorized edition. Hardcover. All 10 volumes Very Good in boards. Light shelfwear on panel corners and spine crown and heel of all 10 volumes. Rubbing on spine labels of volumes 1-4. Open tear on spine side edge of volume 3. Crack on front hinge and spine detaching from binding of volume 3. Front hinges starting on volume 8 and 9. Bigelow, Brown & Co hardcover
2013ref. DADAX1742376509Allen & Unwin 2013-04-01. Illustrated. hardcover. New. 9.50x0.40x11.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Allen & Unwin hardcover
1908ref. 7381613 volumes of a 14 volume set on handmade paper limited edition of 1000 Published by Methuen & Co hardcover
1894ref. 191028Oxford: J. Vincent; Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co. London 1894. An uncommon parody of Wilde First edition one of 750 copies of this Oxford play satirizing Oscar Wilde. The authors of this anonymous parody an entertaining imitation of the classical Greek comedy of Aristophanes were three Oxford undergraduates. Leopold Amery 1873-1955 later a prominent journalist and conservative politician. Francis Wrigley Hirst 1873-1953 later a successful journalist editor of The Economist and biographer of Thomas Jefferson. Little is known about Henry Alford Antony Cruso besides that he published another drama in 1907. The initialism Y.T.O. comprises the last letter of their surnames. Octavo. Original buff wrappers front cover lettered in green. Housed in a custom green cloth slipcase. Booklabel of Timothy D'Arch Smith b. 1936 the British author and co-founder of Victim Press; illustrated bookplate of Jeremy J. Mason designed by David Ward and dated 1974 on initial leaf. Spine a little chipped wrappers toned and soiled edges nicked sporadic foxing. A good copy. Mason 685. hardcover
1898ref. 183481London: Leonard Smithers 1898. For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die First edition one of 800 unnumbered copies printed on handmade paper; a further 30 copies on japon were published simultaneously. The first edition sold out rapidly and a second edition was issued within weeks. Octavo. Original white quarter cloth spine lettered in gilt light brown cloth sides edges untrimmed. Housed in a custom yellow cloth chemise and quarter calf with yellow cloth slipcase. Bookplate and shelf-label of John Sowden; unrelated contemporary ownership inscription to title page. Spine browned soiling to covers ends and corners bumped damp stain and browning to endpapers spots of foxing to contents. A good copy. Mason 371. hardcover
1920ref. 191449London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1920. A beautiful and silent Sphinx First Alastair edition one of 1000 copies elaborately decorated with illustrations by Baron Hans-Henning von Voight 1887-1969 who published under the pseudonym Alastair. His illustrations take inspiration from Aubrey Beardsley and "combine decorative elegance with a fascination with the perverse sinister and satanic" Peppin p. 311. Quarto. Frontispiece and 9 plates with captioned tissue guards pictorial initials and illustrations in text all printed in blue and black. Original white cloth spine lettered in gilt front cover with gilt and turquoise illustration top edge gilt others uncut. Housed in custom orange cloth chemise and matching quarter morocco slipcase. Bookplate of Wilde collector Jeremy J. Mason; New York bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown. Spine lightly toned decorations bright occasional light foxing. A very good copy. Brigid Peppin Book Illustrators of the Twentieth Century 1984. hardcover
1904ref. 21798Who knows. : Smithers/Wright and Jones 1904. First Edition softcover of 64 pages stated 'Privately printed'. Place and date of publication unknown. 4to original printed blue-grey wrappers. First edition of this collection unnumbered of 300 numbered copies. The wrappers are soiled and there has been some tissue repair to the spine. Rubbing and wear to the edges A comic ghost story and two further societal studies published by Leonard Smithers or by Wright & Jones after Wilde's death in 1900. Smithers/Wright and Jones paperback
1905ref. feb693231905: First Polish Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray Portret Doriana Gray'a Przegląd Tygodniowy
1891ref. 139780London: James R. Osgood 1891. First edition of this collection of Wilde's humorous mystery stories published the same year as the first edition in book form of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Octavo original stiff paper-covered boards. In good condition. Very rare. Wilde’s “theme is not as is often supposed art’s divorce from life but its inescapable arraignment by experience. His creative works almost always end in unmasking. The hand that adjusts the green carnation suddenly shakes an admonitory finger. While the ultimate virtue in Wilde’s essays is in make-believe the denouement of his dramas and narratives is that masks have to go. We must acknowledge what we are. Wilde at least was keen to do so. Though he offered himself as the apostle of pleasure his created world contains much pain” Ellmann xvi. In addition to the title story Wilde's Lord Arthur Savile's Crime & Other Stories contains The Sphinx withoout a Secret The Canterville Ghost and The Model Millionaire. James R. Osgood hardcover
1917ref. 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
1904ref. 6032Second Russian edition of the poem. First edition of this translation. The first translation of Oscar Wilde's 'Ballad' by N. Korn presumably a pen name used by Korney Chukovsky appeared in 1903 but it was riddled with errors. The following year another version by Konstantin Balmont 1867–1942 a Russian symbolist poet and translator was published. In the summer of 1902 Balmont traveled to England and visited the town of Reading where Wilde had been imprisoned. In November 1903 Balmont delivered a lecture titled 'Oscar Wilde's Poetry and The Ballad.' and presented his translation at a meeting of the Literary-Artistic Circle in Moscow. During his lecture he likened Wilde to Nietzsche and hailed him as 'the greatest English writer of the end of the last century'. Balmont also prepared translations of works by Edgar Allan Poe Percy Bysshe Shelley Walt Whitman and Robert Burns. His translations were always infused with his own distinctive style often referred to as 'Balmontic motifs'. The book's cover featuring a portrait of Oscar Wilde was created by Modest Durnov 1867–1928 a painter poet architect and a close friend of Balmont. Durnov was known as 'a demon' a 'master of thought' and a 'Moscow Dandy'. According to some accounts he met Wilde during one of his trips to London. This book was once part of the private library of Russian artist Mikhail Tarkhanov 1888–1962 a renowned master of endpapers and bookbinding. Tarkhanov received his education at the Stroganov School for Technical Drawing which later became VKhUTEMAS under the guidance of Vladimir Favorsky and Wassily Kandinsky. OCLC locates two copies of this edition only: in the University Library of Bern and the Rome National Central Library. Please be advised that certain books in our collection may require an export permit for international shipping. If you are interested in purchasing such books for delivery abroad kindly contact our staff for assistance in obtaining the necessary permit. We appreciate your understanding. Skorpion paperback
1928ref. 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
ref. 65824London: Leonard Smithers and Co. 1899. Literature FIRST EDITION. Small quarto 21 x 16cm pp.xvi; 214; 2 blank. Publisher's pink cloth with nouveau decoration in gilt edges untrimmed. Engraved bookplate of Ernest Thornton-Smith to paste-down. Edges toned deckles are dusty covers with some expected soiling/handling to light coloured cloth spine age-darkened. Very good. One of only 1000 copies published. An Ideal Husband was Wilde's third comedy which appeared at the Haymarket on January 3 1895. This first printing gave no mention of the author. Mason 385. London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899 unknown
1921ref. 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
ref. SONG0397013485Lippincott 0000-00-00. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good. 0.00x0.00x0.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Lippincott, hardcover