Wilde, OscarABAA
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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
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
1898réf. 003329London: Murdoch & Co. 1898. First Edition. . Wraps. Near Fine. Original printed wrappers soft cover. 16 pages. First edition in booklet form of Wilde's letter about the Warden Martin case- Martin had been dismissed as warden at Reading Prison for having shown kindness and giving food to a hungry child prisoner. Provenance: includes a typed 1932 sales receipt from Richard S. Wormser Rare Books New York. Also includes a typed SIGNED letter from Rupert Hart-Davis to the previous owner requesting original Wilde letters Hart-Davis was the editor of the First Collected Edition of the Letters of Oscar Wilde along with a reply to Hart-Davis' request. An exceptional copy of a fragile and scarce item with an interesting provenance. MASON/MILLARD 26. Size: 12mo Murdoch & Co. paperback
1906réf. 962P22London; New York: John Lane the Bodley Head 1906. First edition. Hardback. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 6.5" by 5". Aubrey Beardsley. The first U.K. trade edition of Oscar Wilde's tragic play about Salome and John the Baptist in the original dust wrapper. The first U.K. trade edition.In the original unclipped dust wrapper designed by Aubrey Beardsley.'Salome' is a one-act tragedy by Oscar Wilde depicting Salome's attempted seduction of John the Baptist.Beardsley was a leading illustrator of the late twentieth century beginning a promising career was a Modern Style artist before his early death at the age of 25. He was largely influenced by Japanese woodcuts and depicted scenes of the erotic grotesque and decadent.Two pages of adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's paper covered boards in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally smart. Light age-toning and marks to the boards and spine. Light bumping to the extremities. Bookplate to the front paste down. Dust wrapper is a little edge worn with small chips to the head and tail of the spine and a few small closed tears. Spine is sunned. Handling marks to the wraps. Tidemark to the head of the rear wrap and spine and tail of the front wrap. One tape repair to the reverse of the dust wrapper. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with only a few scattered spots and handling marks. Very Good Indeed John Lane the Bodley Head hardcover
réf. 70162London: 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. Heraldic bookplate to paste-down free endpapers toned covers gently used with expected light sunning and wear. Slight woodworming to rear cloth. Very good indeed. 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. Provenance: Sir Alexander Robert Loftus Tottenham 1873-1946 senior civil servant of India and Diwan of Pudukkottai in Tamil Nadu where he was a champion of the arts. Mason 385. London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899 unknown
réf. 22080London: Leonard Smithers and Co. 1899. First edition first printing. First edition first printing. Publisher's original light purple cloth with gilt decoration after designs by Charles Shannon titles in gilt to the spine. All edges untrimmed. A better than very good copy the binding firm with some bumping to the tips of the slightly faded spine and corners. The contents with the bookplate of Farquharson Tweedale to the front pastedown with offseting to the opposite endpaper a Henry Sotheran book label below and a few isolated foxing spots are otherwise clean throughout. Limited to 1000 copies published in July 1899. Mason 385. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. London: Leonard Smithers and Co. 1899 hardcover
1898réf. 190120London: Murdoch & Co 1898. An impassioned defence First separate edition first published as a letter in the Daily Chronicle on 28 May 1897 just over a week after Wilde was released from prison. This is Wilde's defence of the warder of Reading Gaol who was dismissed from his job after giving biscuits to a hungry child. This copy belonged to A. J. A. Symons 1900-1941 with his bookplate in the chemise. Symons was friends with Lord Alfred Douglas and was writing a biography of Wilde at the time of his death. He was the founder of both the First Edition Club and the Book Collector's Quarterly. Octavo pp. 16. Original brown wrappers front cover lettered in black. Housed in custom gold patterned chemise. A few creases and marks to wrappers nick to front wrapper light foxing to first and last pages. A very good copy of this fragile work. Millard 26. unknown
1893réf. 186770London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane 1893. Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it First edition one of 500 trade copies of Wilde's first comedy play produced at the St James's Theatre on 20 February 1892. An instant success it is considered "revolutionary in its mingling of the vocabulary of comedy the potential of tragedy and the insistence on realism" ODNB. Cigarette in hand Wilde made his legendary curtain call on the opening night: "Your appreciation has been most intelligent. I congratulate you on the great success of your performance which persuades me that you think almost as highly of the play as I do myself." An additional 50 large-paper copies were also issued. Small quarto. With 16 pp. publisher's catalogue dated September 1893 at end. Original pink cloth spine lettered in gilt stylized flower and leaf motifs by Charles Shannon in gilt to spine and covers edges untrimmed. Partially removed catalogue note and previous ownership inscription to front endpapers. Extremities bumped faint marks to front cover a few neat pencil marks to contents. A very good copy. Mason 357. hardcover
1878réf. 149908Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son 1878. Attractively bound copy of Wilde's first independent publication First edition of Wilde's first independent publication an attractively bound copy preserving the original wrappers and with the bookplate to the front pastedown of the eccentric sportsman and artist William Eden 1849-1915 father of future Prime Minister Anthony Eden and who like Wilde had a dispute with the artist James McNeill Whistler. The inspiration for Wilde's prize-winning poem came on a "vacation ramble" to Italy in 1877 with the precentor and junior dean of Trinity College Dublin William Mahaffy. According to the review published the next day in The Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduate's Journal Wilde's recitation of it at Oxford was "listened to with rapt attention and frequently applauded" Ellman p. 94. Eden excelled at a range of sports from boxing and horse riding to shooting "the epitome of the sporting squire" ODNB a member of several clubs and well known in London society. So too was he a keen amateur artist and aesthete building a fine collection of paintings and was a member of the aristocratic group The Souls. The contrast between the sportsman and the aesthete has been noted: "There was little that was harmonious in his nature and the aesthetic side warred with and exacerbated rather than complemented his athleticism making him a bored sportsman and a militant aesthete. As he grew older the world's failure to correspond to his ideals drove him to furious rages and the debased taste of humanity confirmed his atheism - for how could a God have made such a botch of things" ibid. His dispute with Whistler was occasioned when Eden commissioned a portrait of his wife which Whistler executed but then kept the cheque without handing over the painting leading to a legal case which resulted in Whistler's book The Baronet and the Butterfly 1899. Wilde too had a lengthy rivalry with Whistler out of the courts but with very public sparring. Octavo 16 pp. 176 x 119 mm. Early 20th-century pink straight-grain morocco for Hatchards of Piccadilly spine lettered in gilt pink cloth sides marbled endpapers top edge gilt pink silk page marker; bulked with 20 binder's blanks. With the original green printed wrappers bound in. Spine lightly sunned very light rubbing at extremities short split at foot of front wrapper; an excellent copy. Richard Ellmann Oscar Wilde 1987; Mason 301. hardcover
1928réf. 191171Paris: The Black Sun Press; Éditions Narcisse. 1928. the sun was shining brightly in the gardens of the palace Limited edition number 5 of 100 copies on Hollande Van Gelder Zonen paper from a total edition of 113 copies. Alastair's illustrations take inspiration from Aubrey Beardsley and "combine decorative elegance with a fascination with the perverse sinister and satanic" Peppin p. 311. Wilde's short story was first published in the 1891 collection House of Pomegranates. Quarto. Frontispiece and 8 plates printed in black and brown with tissue guards illustrations in the text. Title and page numbers printed in red. Original cream wrappers front cover lettered and ruled in black and red rear cover with red central vignette and black rule border edges uncut. With original glassine jacket. Housed in original silver paper-covered chemise and matching slipcase additionally housed in custom black cloth slipcase. Bookplate of Wilde collector Jeremy J. Mason. Minor wear to spine ends couple spots to covers and contents near-fine; glassine with long split at front fold other shorter tears chemise and slipcase with rubbing and wear with partial splits and repairs to chemise inner hinges very good. Minkoff A13a. Brigid Peppin Book Illustrators of the Twentieth Century 1984. hardcover
réf. 76342Paris: Charles Carrington 1908. Psychological thriller FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto 26 x 20cm pp.312. Illustrated with seven full-page wood engravings by Eugene Dété from drawings by Paul Thiriat of Paris with titled tissue guards tanned. The publisher's note on the illustrations is tipped onto the half title although dated 1908 the book was issued in 1910 due to the artist's health. Bound in half Japanese vellum gilt lettering to spine sewn endbands grey paper covered boards top edge gilt. Discreet gift inscription to endpaper a few light reading marks within else generally clean edges toned vellum is bright paper covered boards have browned some rubs. Decidedly scarce. The most popular of Wilde's books The Picture of Dorian Gray appeared first in Lippincott's magazine in 1890. The story as published in book-form contains six new chapters many alterations and much additional matter. After the famous trial the publishers although inundated with orders for copies withdrew the book from circulation. The unforgettable dark and brooding chiller set in high-society late-Victorian London; a coded and epigrammatic melodrama inspired by his Wilde's own tortured homosexuality. Mason 335 p.349. Paris: Charles Carrington, 1908 unknown
1899réf. biblio3This printing of Oscar Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol was published on 23 June 1899 under the pseudonym C.3.3. his prison cell number. Mustard boards with white cloth spine. Condition: In very good condition. Light soiling to original publisher's two-tone mustard and white cloth boards and spine. Seventh printing of Leonard Smithers 1899 Edition 8°. 31 pages. It was the first to reveal the author's identity putting the name Oscar Wilde in square brackets under his cell number on the title page. Mason Stuart 1914; new ed. 1972 Bibliography of Oscar Wilde. Rota pub; Haskell House pgs. 408–423. Leonard Smithers hardcover
réf. 927Y6DLondon: Routledge; Thoemmes Press 1993. Cloth. Near Fine. 8.5" by 5.5". None. A very attractive collection of works from popular Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde edited by his friend and literary executor Robert Ross. A lovely selection of the plays poetry and additional prose of Oscar Wilde.Complete in fifteen volumes uniformly bound in the original blue cloth.Edited by Robert Ross a British journalist art critic and art dealer best known for his devoted friendship to Wilde and to whom he was literary executor. Ross remained loyal to Wilde during his last years offering emotional and financial support to him during his imprisonment and staying with him when he died in Paris in 1900. This set includes some of Wilde's most identifiable works such as his controversial gothic novel 'Picture of Dorian Gray' and his four-act comedy 'Lady Windermere's Fan' following a woman who suspects of her husband's affair. With other miscellaneous writing such as his literary reviews and a bibliography by Stuart Mason which is illustrated throughout. The entirety of this set contains the following works:Volume I - The Duchess of Padua Volume II - Salome: A Florentine Tragedy and Vera Volume III - Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman Volume IV - A Woman of No Importance Volume V - An Ideal Husband Volume VI - The Importance of Being Earnest Volume VII - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Prose Pieces Volume VIII - Intentions and the Soul of ManVolume IX - The Poems of Oscar Wilde Volume X - A House of PomegranatesVolume XI - De Profundis Volume XII - The Picture of Dorian Gray and For Love of the King Volume XIII - Reviews Volume XIV - Miscellanies Volume XV - Bibliography of Oscar Wilde Uniformly bound in the original blue cloth. Externally excellent with minor shelf wear and the odd mark to the board. Internally firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine Routledge; Thoemmes Press hardcover
1889réf. 042502London: David Nutt 1889. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. small quarto. Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood. prior owner inscriptions to flyleaf binding grubby wear to head of spine very slight toning to end papers. David Nutt hardcover
1902réf. 022569London : DAVID NUTT 1902. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Good. Walter CRANE and Jacomb HOOD Illustrated by. B00K: G00D/ 1902 . B00K: G00D/ $290.03 the HAPPY PRINCE and 0THER TALES. WILDE Oscar Walter CRANE; Jacomb H00D DAVID NUTT LOND0N 19O2 3rD Edition There is no limited edition statement. Wide H/c Brown Top And Balance Of Tan Spine With Title And Design In Polished Gold Letters Hard Cover B00K: G00D/ Shelf Edge And Corner Wear. 115 Numbered Pages Printed On Tan Paper Browning And Spotting From Aging In Very Good/Near Fine/ Condition Clean And Tight To The Spine Slight Wear. The Exterior Covering Of The Boards Are Not Decorated. Front Board Approximately A 1 ½ Piece Of The Cloth Is Come Loose From The Tan Material. D/j: None. = Description Applies To This B00K Only Which Is A Historically Significant Treasure From The Past Hard To Find Will Be Packaged And Shipped = Carefully To Avoid Shipping Damage And Will Make It An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection Or As A Gift For The Discriminating Reader / Collector/. = WORLD WIDE SHIPPING AVAILABLE. DAVID NUTT hardcover
réf. 51-5719London: Petersburg Press 1968. Folio. 31 x 44 cm.Original red velvet binding with silver stamping in a black slipcase. The spine slightly lightened and the slipcase in 2 shades of black One of 200 signed and numbered copies from the A. Edition without the extra six lithographs called for.The 12 original lithographsj include the following from the 1970 Galerie Mikro catalogue: 47a b c d e g plus 5 not in Mikro.Printed by Atelier Desjobert and Atelier Georges Leblanc Paris. London: Petersburg Press, 1968 unknown
1882réf. 140655Philadelphia: J. M. Stoddart & Co 1882. First edition of Rodd's first book of verse which was published with the assistance of Oscar Wilde. 12mo original publisher's vellum with gilt inner dentelles silk watered endleaves top edge gilt with others untrimmed illustrated. In near fine condition. Neat ownership inscription. Rare. J. M. Stoddart & Co hardcover
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
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
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
1923réf. 56675München Munich: Drei Masken Verlages 1923. Limited Edition. Very good. SIGNED. 57pp. Quarto 28 cm Parchment vellum boards with a hubbed spine gilt spine title and single gilt ruled borders on the spine and boards. Top edge gilt. Patterned endpapers. Bound by Hübel & Denck in Leipzig. The front board is wavy. There is a previous owner's decorative bookplate on the front pastedown. The text is in English. Ritter C a 29. Woodcuts by Frans Masereel. This is one of the copies which have been numbered with Roman Numerals. Number XLVII of LXX the copies numbered in Roman numerals forming part of an overall edition of 340 copies. Signed by Frans Masereel on the limitation page. Masereel has additionally signed the seven full-page woodcut illustrations within. Drei Masken Verlages unknown
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
1908réf. 51952London: Methuen & Co 1908. vellum. Very good. Octavo Incomplete set. Five of the Fourteen volumes issued in the first collected edition. This is the very scarce vellum edition printed on Japanese vellum and bound in limp vellum gilt titled. Titles are as follows "The Duchess of Padua" "Lady Windermere's Fan" "Miscellanies" "Reviews" "Salome A Florentine Tragedy and Vera". Very good in limp vellum withlight foxing to the exterior. Bookplate in each. One of 80 sets bound in vellum Mason p460. Methuen & Co hardcover
1878réf. 2178Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son 1878. First edition. First edition. 12mo. 16pp. Original grey-green printed wrapers. Exceedingly scarce first edition with the publisher's printed crest appearing on the cover of the wrappers as well as on the title page and a vignette woodcut appears on the last page. The prestigious Newdigate Prize Oxford's top award for poetry dates to early 1800's and the winner for 1878 was the young Oscar Wilde. The pamphlet was issued in the same year as was common with many of the early prize winners and is considered Wilde's first publication in book form. He worked on the poem a few years earlier while touring Greece as a student at Oxford. An exemplary copy with no wrinkling or central creases as was commonly seen from folding to place in a pocket. Very small nick out of two corners very slight barely detectable browning to covers else extremely clean and bright. 16pp. Thos. Shrimpton and Son unknown
