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1906ref. 38782Boston: John W. Luce 1906. BEARDSLEY Aubrey illus. 8vo pp. 36. Gray paper over boards lettered and stamped in green with an illustration by Aubrey Beardsley. Cover slightly worn at corners and ends of spine o/w a VG tight copy. Scarce. Samuels-Lasner 59G. not in Mason who does list the 1906 printing by the John Lane Company and preceded in America only by the 1894 Copeland & Day limited edition. John W. Luce unknown books
1929ref. 1503New York: E.P. Dutton Inc 1929. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. 7 3/8 X 9 3/8 Inches. #96 of 200 signed copies. TEG. Original publisher marbled paper binding. Vassos helped define the modernist art movement via his work as designer for RCA in addition to his illustrated books. Via RCA John was instrumental in the original designs of the earliest televisions mid-century microphones radios consoles etc. His industrial art is among the widest spread and most important of the 20th century. Noted art deco artist. Lacks original DJ and/or slipcase. Original boards scuffed and worn at edges. Wear to head and foot of spine. PO bookplate on inside front pastedown. Title-page has a 3 3/4 inch closed tear to bottom edge. An acceptable copy of this art deco rarity. E.P. Dutton, Inc hardcover
1906ref. 38782Boston: John W. Luce 1906. BEARDSLEY Aubrey illus. 8vo pp. 36. Gray paper over boards lettered and stamped in green with an illustration by Aubrey Beardsley. Cover slightly worn at corners and ends of spine o/w a VG tight copy. Scarce. Samuels-Lasner 59G. not in Mason who does list the 1906 printing by the John Lane Company and preceded in America only by the 1894 Copeland & Day limited edition. John W. Luce unknown
2000ref. 1-0198119607Oxford Univ Pr on Demand 2000. Hardcover. New. illustrated edition. 368 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches. Oxford Univ Pr on Demand hardcover
2016ref. x-1138187305Routledge 2016. Hardcover. New. 133 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. Routledge hardcover
2016ref. x-1138695211Routledge 2016. Hardcover. New. 184 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. Routledge hardcover
ref. 18870054-nnew. unknown
2023ref. x-1032055030Routledge 2023. Hardcover. New. 256 pages. 9.19x6.13x0.72 inches. Routledge hardcover
2018ref. x-1472455452Taylor & Francis 2018. Hardcover. New. 196 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. Taylor & Francis hardcover
2019ref. x-1138589268Routledge 2019. Hardcover. New. 250 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. Routledge hardcover
2020ref. x-0367246554Taylor & Francis 2020. Hardcover. New. 216 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.67 inches. Taylor & Francis hardcover
1999ref. x-080583141XLawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc 1999. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 376 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc hardcover
1925ref. UB-17848New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1925. First Thus. Hardcover. Very good /very good. First Thus. Hardcover. Descend into 7 morbid fairy tales full of enchantment death sacrifice and "the wounds of love" by the great Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 who once declared these tales "intended neither for the British child nor the British public." In these pages you'll find a fisherman who falls in love with a mermaid with a magical voice and must strike a deal with a cave-dwelling witch to rid himself of his human soul to have her a beauty-loving king who would rather wear rags than raiment a falling star and a sinister babe abandoned in a wood a giant and his beautiful walled garden beset by children and so much more here illustrated in 16 striking and otherworldly plates by the Jewish Ukrainian-American artist Ben Kutcher 1895-1967. This is the first edition published with pictorial endpapers gilt-stamped pictorial binding and uncommon dust jacket all designed by Kutcher. 9 5/8" X 6 1/2". Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Moderate wear to unclipped dust jacket with small open tears at all edges and extremities 3" neat tear to rear panel sunning to spine and scattered rubbing and soiling. Publisher's cloth binding by Ben Kutcher with artist's monogram BK to rear board. Bound in black cloth over boards with boards and spine stamped in gilt: rose bush and nightingale to upper board nightingale and heart motif continued to spine with star and candle and starry cloudy night sky scene to rear all bright. Edgewear to binding with slight lean to spine and scattered rubbing to cloth. Pictorial endpapers. Binding is firm and sound. Scattered foxing to pages and plates throughout else unmarked. Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover books
1925ref. UB-17848New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1925. First Thus. Hardcover. Very good /very good. First Thus. Hardcover. Descend into 7 morbid fairy tales full of enchantment death sacrifice and "the wounds of love" by the great Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 who once declared these tales "intended neither for the British child nor the British public." In these pages you'll find a fisherman who falls in love with a mermaid with a magical voice and must strike a deal with a cave-dwelling witch to rid himself of his human soul to have her a beauty-loving king who would rather wear rags than raiment a falling star and a sinister babe abandoned in a wood a giant and his beautiful walled garden beset by children and so much more here illustrated in 16 striking and otherworldly plates by the Jewish Ukrainian-American artist Ben Kutcher 1895-1967. This is the first edition published with pictorial endpapers gilt-stamped pictorial binding and uncommon dust jacket all designed by Kutcher. 9 5/8" X 6 1/2". Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Moderate wear to unclipped dust jacket with small open tears at all edges and extremities 3" neat tear to rear panel sunning to spine and scattered rubbing and soiling. Publisher's cloth binding by Ben Kutcher with artist's monogram BK to rear board. Bound in black cloth over boards with boards and spine stamped in gilt: rose bush and nightingale to upper board nightingale and heart motif continued to spine with star and candle and starry cloudy night sky scene to rear all bright. Edgewear to binding with slight lean to spine and scattered rubbing to cloth. Pictorial endpapers. Binding is firm and sound. Scattered foxing to pages and plates throughout else unmarked. Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover
ref. DADAX0198121830New unknown
2009ref. Adhya-9781848820623SPRINGER 2009. HB. New. SPRINGER hardcover
2009ref. Adhya-9781848820623SPRINGER 2009. HB. New. SPRINGER hardcover
1898ref. 1031F17London: Leonard Smithers 1898 . Cloth. Very Good. 9.5" by 6". None. The sixth edition of Oscar Wilde's anonymously authored poem inspired by his witnessing of an execution while imprisoned in Reading Gaol. The sixth edition of this work published in the same year as the first edition. Mason 377 1000 copies of this edition were produced. An important work from Wilde penned during his incarceration at Reading Gaol where he had in 1895 been convicted of 'gross indecency' with other men and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison. The poem narrates the execution of Charles Thomas Wooldridge who had murdered his own wife. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Back strip age toned with board perimeters also age toned and handling marks to boards. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Leonard Smithers hardcover
1932ref. WILDEOSC005731The Nonesuch Press London. 1932. First edition. Royal octavo. 60 pages. Of 800 numbered copies printed by Geo. W. Jones at The Dolphin Press this is one of 600 for distribution in England - the remaining 200 were sold by Random House in America. Original white buckram with elaborate pictorial gilt on both covers by Charles Ricketts. Typography also by Ricketts. The memoir was wholly his work the fictional Jean Paul Raymond being a literary artifice. Small bookplate on front pastedown. Front free and rear endpapers and penultimate blank tanned and spotted. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper a bit chipped at head and tail of spine. The Nonesuch Press, London. hardcover
1898ref. WILDEOSC009699Leonard Smithers London. 1898. Fourth edition. Octavo. 31 leaves printed on rectos only. Two-tone buckram covers. Published anonymously. It was only after the sixth edition that Wilde's name appeared on the title-page. Covers a little marked. Cloth slightly bubbled. Small rustmark at outer edge of front free endpaper. Leonard Smithers, London. hardcover
ref. 120928Paris Charles Carrington 1909. . 'Copyright' edition; 8vo 18.5 x 13.5 cm; title printed in red and black ownership inscription in pen to half-title; publisher's green cloth gilt lettering to spine and upper board spine and board extremities slightly faded lower board a little marked spotting to edges; 312 6pp. An early edition of Oscar Wilde's famed novel. This 'Copyright' edition of Wilde's only novel was issued by the publisher due to the proliferation of pirated editions in circulation and includes a bibliographic note to the rear that lists its authorised publications. Paris, Charles Carrington, 1909. hardcover
1907ref. 252644New York Philadelphia Chicago : The Nottingham Society 1907. Edition de luxe. Hardcover. Good copies in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 6 volumes plates : illustrations facsimiles ; 22 cm. Subject; English literature. Contents; Reviews. Miscellanies The House of Pomegranates & De Profundis Lord Arthur Saville's Crimes Intentions Lady Windermere's Fan & A Woman of No Importance. New York Philadelphia Chicago : The Nottingham Society hardcover
1977ref. 238105Secaucus : Chartwell Books 1977. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 160 pages; Description: 160 p. : ill. chiefly col. ports. 1 col. ; 35 cm. Subjects: Hell's Angels. Motorcyclists. Gangs. Secaucus : Chartwell Books hardcover
ref. 46924London Methuen and Co. 36 Essex Street, Strand 1905 in 8 (19,5x13) 1 volume reliure pleine percaline bleue de l'éditeur (original blue buckram), dos et plat supérieur titrés, tête dorée, 151 pages, et 40 pages: Methuen catalogue dated February 1905, carte imprimée ex-libris de Leo Francis (Frank) Howard Schuster, 1852-1927, mélomane et mécène anglais (et le timbre à sec de: The Hut, Bray, Berks[hire]). First Edition. Bon exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
2013ref. 353084-ZC9Cambridge University Press 2013. No binding. Good. Original boards illustrated with numerous equations graphs and diagrams 8vo. Cambridge University Press unknown
