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1905Best.-Nr. 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
1912Best.-Nr. 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
1962Best.-Nr. 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
1922Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
1905Best.-Nr. 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
1912Best.-Nr. 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
1962Best.-Nr. 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
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1976Best.-Nr. 148206Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine Leather Bound. Book accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. Light scuffing on bottom text block edge. Owner imprint on FEP. Illustrations by James Hill.; First Easton Press Edition. Easton Press hardcover
1976Best.-Nr. 127634Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine Leather Bound. Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. NO BOOKPLATE OR OWNER MARKINGS.; First Easton Press Edition.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Easton Press hardcover
1973Best.-Nr. 121050Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 1973. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine Leather Bound. Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. Easton Press Collector's Library of Famous Editions.; First Easton Press Edition.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Easton Press hardcover
1912Best.-Nr. 135091London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. London John Lane The Bodley Head 1912 but a little later. Small octavo xxvi 82 6 publisher's advertisements pages with a pictorial title plus 15 full-page plates by Aubrey Beardsley. Gilt-decorated green cloth; top edge gilt others uncut; cloth lightly marked and rubbed and very lightly worn at the extremities; endpapers offset; ownership details on the front free endpaper including a signature on a small paper label mounted over earlier names; a few tiny tears and chips to protruding leading edges with a larger chip to the bottom edge near the gutter of one leaf and one plate; a very good copy. An early edition not noted by Mason/Millard Mikolyzk or Gallatin. It contains much the same material as the Bodley Head quarto edition of 1907 and its 1912 reissue Mason/Millard 355 and 356 but in reduced format. These editions were the first ones to contain the lengthy introduction 'A Note on "Salomé"' by Robert Ross executor and administrator of Wilde's estate. The translation is by Wilde's sometime lover Lord Alfred Douglas with revisions. John Lane The Bodley Head hardcover
Best.-Nr. 39081Dublin: William McGee 1877. 8vo 4 309-344pp. bound in a volume of none related pamphlets nineteenth-century brown cloth. Contains the first appearance of Oscar Wilde 'A Fragment from the "Agamemnon" of Aeschylos' and 'A Night Vision.' Mason 74. Dublin: William McGee, 1877 hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. 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
1930Best.-Nr. 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
2001Best.-Nr. BN453016L&PM 2001. 2001. O Retrato De Dorian Gray - Coleção L&PM Pocket Em Portuguese do Brasil O Retrato De Dorian Gray - Coleção L&PM Pocket Em Portuguese do Brasil Oscar Wilde L&PM unknown
Paris, Robert Laffont, 1946. In-4, 82 pp., en feuilles, sous couverture imprimée et rempliée, chemise et étui bleu de l'éditeur. Ouvrage illustré de 10 fines gravures sur cuivre. Un des 465 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin blanc, n° 190. Bel exemplaire.
Best.-Nr. 22574Paris, Robert Laffont, 1946. In-4, 82 pp., en feuilles, sous couverture imprimée et rempliée, chemise et étui bleu de l'éditeur.
Best.-Nr. 580739Paris, Stock, 1946. In-4, en feuilles, sous chemise et étui cartonné, couverture rempliée, 301 pp. Edition limitée à 362 exemplaires. Un des 330 exemplaires sur vélin chiffon des papeteries du Marais.
1944Best.-Nr. feb02328Georgescu-Delafras 1944. First. Used book For more details and availability please contact me Georgescu-Delafras unknown
