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1984ref. 86113Vancouver: William Hoffer 1984. First Canadian edition. 58 pp. Fine in full Coromandel silk over boards with printed cover and spine labels. No dust jacket as issued. Designed by Robert Bringhurst. One of 90 of 110 numbered copies on Carlyle Japan paper. Translated from the original German by Greve with his Afterword. Originally published in Germany in 1903. Publications of the F.P. Greve Seminar Number One. Vancouver: William Hoffer hardcover books
1907ref. 222567New York Mitchell Kennerley 1907. 1907. First American edition from English sheets. Thick 8vo. Frontispiece portrait from photograph by Ellis & Walery and 25 illustrations. Original blue cloth spine with printed paper label t.e.g. uncut. Good-very good. No bookplates. Former owners ink signature on the title page. F. Hardcover. New York, Mitchell Kennerley, 1907. hardcover books
1975ref. 55214New York / London: Frederick Warne & Co 1975. Very good plus in very good plus jacket. Inscribed first edition of these spooky gothic and fantastical tales for children - including works by Oscar Wilde Ben Jonson Nancy Gorgorian and the Brothers Grimm. 9'' x 6''. Original olive pictorial paper boards stamped in black. In original unclipped $6.95 color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Arrowood in black and white. 206 pages. Inscribed by Arrowood on front free endpaper in three different color inks: "For Gary & Phipps / With Warmest Wishes / Clinton Arrowood." A bit of wear and toning to edges touch of foxing to top edge. Spine rather sunned. Bright. Frederick Warne & Co unknown
1975ref. 55214New York / London: Frederick Warne & Co 1975. Very good plus in very good plus jacket. Inscribed first edition of these spooky gothic and fantastical tales for children - including works by Oscar Wilde Ben Jonson Nancy Gorgorian and the Brothers Grimm. 9'' x 6''. Original olive pictorial paper boards stamped in black. In original unclipped $6.95 color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Arrowood in black and white. 206 pages. Inscribed by Arrowood on front free endpaper in three different color inks: "For Gary & Phipps / With Warmest Wishes / Clinton Arrowood." A bit of wear and toning to edges touch of foxing to top edge. Spine rather sunned. Bright. Frederick Warne & Co unknown books
1903ref. 24685New York: E.J. Clode 1903. Hardcover. Fine. Copy #242 of 259 total copies printed for Edward J. Clode at the Heintzemann Press. 9" x 6.5" 66 pp printed in red and black bound in vellum-like cream paper-covered boards with gilt lettering on cover and spine top edge gilt. Tiny crease to head of spine but still a fine copy. E.J. Clode hardcover
1925ref. 148204Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1925. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1925 film showing actress Irene Rich. With the stamp of American Weekly and a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on Oscar Wilde's 1893 play about a society woman determined to unveil her husband's imagined affair. Set in London. One 8 x 10 inches one 7 x 9 inches . Very Good plus. Warner Brothers unknown
1925ref. 148204Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1925. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1925 film showing actress Irene Rich. With the stamp of American Weekly and a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on Oscar Wilde's 1893 play about a society woman determined to unveil her husband's imagined affair. Set in London. One 8 x 10 inches one 7 x 9 inches . Very Good plus. Warner Brothers unknown books
1926ref. 70547London:: Published for the Julian Editions by Ernest Benn 1926. First edition. publisher's tan two-toned buckram; t.e.g. Bumped at corners; very slight rubbing to the cloth; clean tight and sound. . Folio. Illustrated by Thomas Lowinsky. . Translated by Lady Wilde. Published for the Julian Editions by Ernest Benn, hardcover
ref. 100835Pall Mall London. . Fine. - Four pages consisting of over 400 words penned on all four sides of 6-7/8 inch high by 4-1/2 inch wide "The Atheneum Pall Mall. S.W." stationery with a pictorial blind crest embossed at top left of the first page. The popular Anglo-Welsh school poet Lewis Morris responds to the American impressario and lecture manager Major Pond's inquiry about lecturing in America. Writing from the "Reform Club" he says ". the trick is that with a somewhat expensive family my margin of income over expenditure is so small that I should be very slow to run any risk whatever." Though he is hesitant he is "well enough known in America" to ensure success. "The other doubt arises from the fact that my poems are in no degree humorous but rather of a sober character." Signed in full "Lewis Morris". Near fine. The Welsh academic and politician Sir Lewis Morris 1833-1907 was a popular poet of the Anglo-Welsh school. A lawyer he was unsuccessful as the liberal candidate for Pembroke Boroughs and Carmarthen Boroughs. He was best known as a poet of the Anglo-Welsh school and was knighted by Queen Victoria. His association with Oscar Wilde probably cost him being appointed Poet Laureate. Among his most famous poems is "Love's Suicide". Pall Mall, London.
1905ref. biblio72First German edition of The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde's first published short story about a family who moves to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead nobleman who killed his wife and was starved to death by his wife's brothers. Translated by Franz Blei. Preliminary leaves 88 pages with frontispiece and plates by famed German painter and illustrator Heinrich Vogeler of the Worpspede Artist's Colony. On vellum paper. Signs of wear: Cover loose from binding. Some soiling on front and back cover; chipping on bottom edge of binding no tears no missing pages. LEIPZIG: IM INSEL paperback
1991ref. 115316Folio Society 1991. hardcover. Like New. 6x0x9. As new 1991 Folio Society in pictorial boards with clear jacket as issued. T.e.g. A33 Please email for photos. Folio Society hardcover
1920ref. 003116London and New York: John Lane 1920. Hardcover. G Good Plus/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Aubrey Beardsley. Red cloth with lettering and peacock feather or floral motifs in gilt. Somewhat toned spine with frayed and chipped ends. Lightly bumped corners and light edgewear and soil. Top edge gilt slightly rubbed. Binding somewhat tender text clean. Interior lightly toned and foxed with scattered light soil. B/w illustrations including the suppressed title page. Small bookshop label to front pastedown. No prev owner names or stamps. Not ex-library. 67 pp. John Lane hardcover
1906ref. 22830John W. Luce & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Cover illustration by Aubrey Beardsley. This edition does not have interior illustrations. Grey cover has a frayed head cap tail cap is rubbed and soiled corners are rubbed but cover is in very good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are toned and in very good condition. . 1906. John W. Luce & Company hardcover
2003ref. B4242The Folio Society c. 2003. Three Hardcover Volumes in fine condition. Brown Cloth with cartoonish frontispiece of Oscar Wilde. . Edition: Fifth Printing Binding: Full Decorative Publisher’s Cloth in Slipcase Size: Quarto 152mm x 240mm Volume: 3 Volumes Category: Book Literature; Book Europe Ireland; The Folio Society hardcover
2019ref. 100926-01Oxford University Press 2019. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. 607 pp. New. Oxford University Press hardcover
2019ref. 100926-02Oxford University Press 2019. Hardcover. New. Hardcover. New. Oxford University Press hardcover
1939ref. 115865Grabhorn Press 1939. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. Illustrated by Mallett Deane. Limited to 200 copies. Covers worn with a stain on the spine. Endpapers discolored. Some tanning along edges. Scarce. Grabhorn Press hardcover
1997ref. 1381New York NY: Morris Jacobs 1997. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Mikhail Magaril. Narrow Folio 44 cm x 15 cm. 36 pp. #5/50 Black/yellow cloth spine/covers. Grey cloth slipcase with light shelf wear. Signed in pencil by Mikhail Magaril artist and Morris Jacobs rest of text block tight and unmarked. Fifty copies of this book were printed on Fabriano Rosapina paper by offset lithography. Signed by illustrator and publisher on limitation page also includes signed thank you letter 1998 from the director of The National Library of Russia St. Petersburg. Morris Jacobs hardcover
1921ref. 7772The Portrait Of Mr W.H. by Oscar Wilde true first edition limited copy 507/1000 hardcover Publisher: Mitchell Kennerley 1921 Condition: Good- - wear to the covers and spine tear at the bottom of spine Mitchell Kennerley hardcover
1991ref. 007189New York : St. Martin's Press 1991 1991. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st edition 1st printing ; 374 p. ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 0312059973; 9780312059972 LCCN: 90-28738 ; "A Thomas Dunne book." ; LC: PS3569.A784; Dewey: 813/.54 ; OCLC: 22983512 ; "During his lecture tour of the American West English writer and personality Oscar Wilde discovers that someone in his entourage has been murdering prostitutes and after he is named a suspect he is determined to find the madman and clear his name" ; "A savage killer haunts the lecture tour of a vaunted Irish playwrightThough a world-renowned dandy Oscar Wilde is not too refined for Colorado. As he travels across America on the lecture circuit the famously witty playwright has found much to love about the western states. Whiskey saloons and friendly conversation with notables like John 'Doc' Holliday-Wilde loves it all. There is even in every town his entourage visits a sensational murder. In the nights after Wilde gives his talks a man with a knife goes lurking in the back alleys and red-light districts of these dusty western towns. Each morning the police find the remains of a savagely murdered prostitute. Booze-addled detective Earl Grigsby is tracking the killer and suspects Wilde may be the one with blood on his hands. If he ever wants to leave America Wilde will have to use his wit to unmask the savage killer." ; "Walter Satterthwait b. 1946 is an author of mysteries and historical fiction. A fan of mystery novels from a young age he spent high school immersed in the works of Dashiell Hammett and Mickey Spillane. While working as a bartender in New York in the late 1970s he wrote his first book: an adventure novel Cocaine Blues 1979 about a drug dealer on the run from a pair of killers. After his second thriller The Aegean Affair 1982 Satterthwait created his best-known character Santa Fe private detective Joshua Croft. Beginning with Wall of Glass 1988 Satterthwait wrote five Croft novels concluding the series with 1996's Accustomed to the Dark. In between Croft books he wrote mysteries starring historical figures including Miss Lizzie 1989 a novel about Lizzie Borden and Wilde West 1991 a western mystery starring Oscar Wilde. His most recent novel is Dead Horse 2007 an account of the mysterious death of Depression-era pulp writer Raoul Whitfield" ; FINE/FINE New York : St. Martin's Press, 1991 hardcover
1998ref. 43734Cambridge MA: MIT Press 1998. First American edition. Very good in a very good jacket. First US edition with photographs from the "Icons of New Objectivity" series as well as Renger-Patzsch's lesser-known images of landscapes urban scenes and nature studies. 113 full-page black and white plates. Translated from the German edition. Co-edited by Thomas Weski with Ann and Jurgen Wilde with an essay by Thomas Janzen. Hardcover. 4to. Grey cloth boards in black and white photographic dust jacket. Toning to spine and upper edges of jacket; corners and spine ends bumped. 176pp. MIT Press unknown
1998ref. 43734Cambridge MA: MIT Press 1998. First American edition. Very good in a very good jacket. First US edition with photographs from the "Icons of New Objectivity" series as well as Renger-Patzsch's lesser-known images of landscapes urban scenes and nature studies. 113 full-page black and white plates. Translated from the German edition. Co-edited by Thomas Weski with Ann and Jurgen Wilde with an essay by Thomas Janzen. Hardcover. 4to. Grey cloth boards in black and white photographic dust jacket. Toning to spine and upper edges of jacket; corners and spine ends bumped. 176pp. MIT Press unknown books
ref. a52364Berlin 1843. In German. Hardcover. Octavo 407pp. foldout plates boards. 19th c binding of black "fingerpaint-style" boards. Binding appears old but may be a rebinding. Pages 1-248 are on Isaac Newton. Owner name stamp K. Graff on front free blank. VG light cover wear; spine paper label present but lettering has faded away. Text clean; binding very secure. Slight bit of light foxing in text but no notatin or underlining. Hinges not cracked in or out. Volume 2 only. Scarce. Pictures available on request. . hardcover
2015ref. 047098U.S.A.: Tor Books 2015. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. 1ST. Excellent Copy - Four Seperete Books. Three Hardcover One Trade Paperback. All In A Handsome Handcrafted Slipcase. Updraft Is Signed - To Patrick To The Greatest Future Friend And Bookseller In So Cal By The Author On The Title Page. Cloudbound Is Signed To Patrick - West Coast Fan Fame On Your Wings By The Author On The Title Page. Horizon Is Signed To Patrick You Are Fantastic On Your Wings - By The Author On The The Title Page. The Jewel Is Signed - Because A Jewel Protects Her People On The Title Page. All Are First Edition First Printing. Book Is In Near Fine Condition. Boards Are Clean Tiniest Bit Of Wear To The Page Edges. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Dust Jacket Is In Near Fine Condition. Not Chipped Or Crinkled. Not Price Clipped. Dust Jacket Is Covered By Mylar Brodart. Thanks And Enjoy. Tor Books Hardcover
1976ref. 25943New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dj. c.1976. First Edition. Hardcover. price-clipped moderate wear to book at extremities; jacket a little faded and soiled along spine and adjacet edges of both panels a bit of wear along top edge including a couple of small closed tears and very shallow paper loss at top of spine. B&W photographs INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the colophon page: "For Ann and Del / My special 'Dear Hearts' / whose friendship I / treasure. / Blessings and love / Meta Wilde / March 1 1980." The author's "full story of her romance with William Faulkner which began when she was a script girl for Howard Hawks and Faulkner came to Hollywood to work on the scenario for THE ROAD TO GLORY and continued over the next thirty years whenever time and chance gave the lovers an opportunity." Wilde went on to become one of Hollywood's legendary script supervisors working well into the 1980s sometimes under the name Meta Rebner with an impressive string of credits including TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD THE GRADUATE IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT SHAMPOO and TERMS OF ENDEARMENT. The inscribees of this copy were director Delbert Mann and his wife; Ms. Wilde had worked for Mann on the 1960 film THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS. Signed by Author . Simon and Schuster hardcover
