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rif. 06423London: Methuen & Co. 1908. First Collected Edition Handsomely Bound by Birdsall of Northampton WILDE Oscar. Works. London: Methuen & Co. 1908-1922. The Picture of Dorian Gray with imprint: Paris: Charles Carrington 1908. First collected edition including For the Love of the King which was published in 1922. One of 1000 issued on handmade paper out of a total edition of 1080 sets. Fifteen octavo volumes 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 209 x 146 mm. Handsomely bound ca. 1950 by Birdsall of Northampton and London stamp-signed in full light blue calf covers with triple ruled borders spines with five shallow raised bands decoratively tooled in compartments two red leather labels lettered in gilt gilt decorated boards edges and turn-ins pale blue marbled endpapers top edge gilt other uncut. Spines uniformly faded one volume a little less so otherwise a very fine set including the fifteenth volume For the Love of the King which was published later in 1922. The first collected edition of the works of Wilde is still the most complete and correct. "The text is taken in most instances from the last editions issued under the superintendence of the author. In some cases the volumes contain additional matter which had not previously been reprinted while some of the volumes contain matter here published for the first time" Mason. Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 Irish-born poet dramatist and novelist. "During his undergraduate years at Oxford and as a disciple of Walter Pater Wilde became the leader of an aesthetic movement that advocated art for art's sake. He attracted a great deal of attention with his aestheticism and by wearing long hair dressing eccentrically and carrying flowers in his hands while lecturing.Wilde was accused of homosexual practices was tried and found guilty and was sentenced to imprisonment 1895-97.On his release physically spiritually and financially ruined he went to Paris.where he lived in bitterness and despair until his death. Wilde's works include Poems 1881; two collections of fairy stories The Happy Prince and Other Tales 1888 and The House of Pomegranates 1891; The Picture of Dorian Gray 1891 a novel; and many brilliantly witty plays including Lady Windermere's Fan 1892; A Woman of No Importance 1893; Salomé 1894 written originally in French and used as the basis for Richard Strauss's opera of the same title; An Ideal Husband 1895; and The Importance of Being Earnest 1895 often considered his masterpiece. His poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol 1898 and his impassioned letter to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas De Profundis published post-humously in 1905 were products of his imprisonment" Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia. Mason pp. 459-460. London: Methuen & Co., 1908 unknown books
rif. 06518London: Leonard Smithers and Co. 1899. The Trivial Comedy for Serious People - Wilde's Masterpiece" First Edition One of 1000 Numbered Copies WILDE Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. By the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan. London: Leonard Smithers and Co. 1899. First edition. One of 1000 numbered copies this being No. 256. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Small quarto 8 3/4 x 7 inches; 222 x 178 mm. 16 151 1 pp. Publisher's light red-brown linen over boards covers decoratively stamped in gilt spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt the design by Charles Shannon. All edges uncut. The bare minimum of rubbing to extremities free endpapers minimally browned from paste-down glue as usual; spine slightly darkened and gilt a little dulled. Still a near fine copy sound and unrestored example. The first book appearance of Wilde's most celebrated play originally performed in 1895 at the St. James's Theatre. Issued four years later by Smithers - Wilde's principal publisher during and after his fall - this edition presents the definitive text of his final and finest comedy. The Importance of Being Earnest represents the culmination of Wilde's dramatic art: a perfectly constructed satire of identity social convention and moral pretense combining epigrammatic brilliance with unmatched theatrical economy. The edition is notable for its elegant production including the Chiswick Press printing and the distinctive gilt cover design by Charles Shannon placing it among the most visually refined of Wilde's first editions. Bibliographical Reference A pleasing and well-preserved example. The slight spine darkening and mellowing of the gilt are typical; copies retaining such integrity are increasingly scarce. Mason 382. London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899 unknown books
1930rif. 55160Paris Les Amis du Livre Mo 1930 In-4, en feuilles, couverture imprime. Chemise, tui.26 compositions de Manuel Orazi, graves sur bois en couleurs par Pierre Bouchet, dont un frontispice, un en-tte, 23 in-texte et un cul-de-lampe. Tirage unique limit 149 exemplaires numrots sur vlin de Rives.
rif. 109536London Leonard Smithers 1898. . First edition one of 800 copies on handmade paper from a total edition of 830; 8vo; ownership inscription to front free endpaper some age-toning to edges endpapers browned as often; publisher's white linen-backed cinnamon cloth gilt lettering to spine spine slightly rolled and darkened light soiling to boards slight rubbing to corners and spine ends else very good. First edition limited to just 800 copies on handmade paper with a further 30 copies on Japanese Vellum. The poem was composed following Wilde's release from the titular prison and published under the pseudonym 'C.3.3.' after his cell the third cell on the third landing of Gallery C. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of gross indecency in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison. The first edition sold out within a week resulting in a second edition being published soon after yet it was not commonly known until the 7th printing in June 1899 that C.3.3. was actually Wilde. Mason 371. London, Leonard Smithers, 1898. hardcover
1907rif. 68900London and New York: A. R. Keller & Co 1907. Full Description: WILDE Oscar. The Writings of Oscar Wilde. London and New York: A. R. Keller & Co. 1907. The University Edition of the Uniform Edition. One of 800 numbered copies this being number 15. Complete in fifteen octavo volumes 8 x 5 1/2 inches; 205 x 140 mm. Illustrated with plates in black and white each with a descriptive tissue guard. Title and limitation pages on Japanese vellum printed in black and red with additional engraved title pages in each volume. Half red morocco over green cloth. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Spines uniformly a bit darkened. Some minor occasional rubbing the worst of it to the top edge of "Lady Windemere's Fan." Still a near fine set. The Uniform Edition comprises the Edition De Luxe of 200 copies. the Oxford edition of 250 copies and the University Edition present copy of 800 copies. This very early edition precedes the 1908 Ross edition of Wilde's works often described as the first collected edition. HBS 68900. $4250. A. R. Keller & Co unknown
1907rif. 68900London and New York: A. R. Keller & Co 1907. Full Description: WILDE Oscar. The Writings of Oscar Wilde. London and New York: A. R. Keller & Co. 1907. The University Edition of the Uniform Edition. One of 800 numbered copies this being number 15. Complete in fifteen octavo volumes 8 x 5 1/2 inches; 205 x 140 mm. Illustrated with plates in black and white each with a descriptive tissue guard. Title and limitation pages on Japanese vellum printed in black and red with additional engraved title pages in each volume. Half red morocco over green cloth. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Spines uniformly a bit darkened. Some minor occasional rubbing the worst of it to the top edge of "Lady Windemere's Fan." Still a near fine set. The Uniform Edition comprises the Edition De Luxe of 200 copies. the Oxford edition of 250 copies and the University Edition present copy of 800 copies. This very early edition precedes the 1908 Ross edition of Wilde's works often described as the first collected edition. HBS 68900. $4250. A. R. Keller & Co unknown books
1894rif. 182536London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head 1894. Mr Oscar Wilde is not in the house First edition one of 500 trade copies. The play's opening show was met with applause for the actors and boos for the playwright causing Wilde to announce from behind a curtain "Ladies and gentlemen I regret to inform you that Mr Oscar Wilde is not in the house" Ellmann p. 381. Wilde's opulent production used "the market forces of luxury dressmaking to comment upon the worlds of his Haymarket patrons. Audiences in the stalls and boxes continued to be both flattered and vexed by the antics of their on-stage doubles while viewers in the upper galleries enjoyed the additional spectacle of fashionable Society catching its likeness in Wilde's cunningly set mirrors" Kaplan p. 252. The play premiered at Haymarket Theatre on 19 April 1893 and ran until 16 August for 113 performances. A further 50 large paper copies were also issued. Small quarto. Publisher's 16-page catalogue dated March 1894 at rear. Original pink linen with gilt floral decorations by Charles Shannon spine lettered in gilt fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Housed in a custom green cloth slipcase and chemise. Faint marks and fading to spine ends slightly bumped cloth lightly rubbed contents toned as usual. A very good copy. Mason 364. Richard Ellmann Oscar Wilde 1988; Joel Kaplan "Wilde on the Stage" in Peter Raby ed. The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde 1997. hardcover
1891rif. 195705London: James R. Osgood McIlvaine & Co. 1891. Wilde as critic First edition of Wilde's collected essays on aesthetics and criticism originally published in journals from 1885 to 1890. Wilde revised the essays for this edition setting out his ideas "in a gorgeous profusion of epigram and paradox ostentation and learning frivolity and wisdom" ODNB. This is one of 900 copies for publication in Britain from a total edition of 1500. Octavo. Original green cloth spine and front cover lettered in gilt edges untrimmed. Bookseller's stamp in blind of Palmer Howe & Co. Manchester. Small bumps to extremities faint marks to p. 229. A near-fine copy. Mason 341. hardcover
1898rif. 162864London: Leonard Smithers 1898. Written from exile in France First and limited edition one of 800 unnumbered copies printed on handmade paper; a further 30 copies on japon were also issued. Wilde published this work under the pseudonym "C.3.3." after his cell in Reading Gaol the third cell on the third landing of Gallery C. The first edition sold out rapidly and a second edition was printed within weeks. Octavo. Original white quarter cloth spine lettered in gilt yellow cloth sides fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Housed in a custom pink morocco backed slipcase and chemise. Bookplate of Douglass Cooper to front pastedown. Spine ends bumped a little soiling to cloth endpapers lightly browned and foxed else a near-fine copy in unusually nice condition. Mason 371. hardcover
1905rif. 64534Paris: S. n. Charles Carrington 1905. Fine. S. n. Charles Carrington Paris 1905 14.50 x 22.50 cm relié Poems in Prose No publisher Charles Carrington Paris 1905 14.5 x 22.5 cm contemporary full morocco First edition one of 50 numbered copies on Japon paper the only grands papiers deluxe copies. Burgundy morocco binding spine in five compartments set with black fillets gilt heraldic eagle at the bottom heraldic coat of arms stamped in the centre of the boards endpapers with geometric motifs bordered with a burgundy morocco strip on the inner covers gilt top edge contemporary binding signed by Creuzevault. Some small foxing on the endpapers and some very fine tears in the margin of the final endpapers. Beautiful copy nicely bound. S. n.[ Charles Carrington] hardcover
1899rif. 71614London: Leonard Smithers and Co. 1899. First edition. One of 1000 copies; not numbered as usually seen. This copy in the scarce VARIANT BINDING recorded only as with "some copies" having been bound as such Mason & Millard 381 note to. 8vo gilt-stamped mauve cloth stamped in gilt; 152 pages. Good with cloth at spine toned to light brown spine lettering dulled scant eighth-inch loss from head of spine; glass ring to front board and rear board showing fading and discoloration but contents altogether unmarked and fine. Uncommon in this style binding with the leaf decorations on front cover and spine slightly larger more delicate and ornamented with a vine-like design. Leonard Smithers and Co. unknown
rif. 116514London Cyril William Beaumont at the Beaumont Press 1921 & 1922. . Limited editions each number 10 of 75 copies on Japanese Vellum signed by the illustrator and printer from total editions of 475; 2 vols 8vo 235 x 160 mm; woodcut illustrations and decorations by Ethelbert White; original vellum-backed patterned boards gilt lettering to spines slight browning to head of covers else very good. An attractive set collecting together a series of letters from Wilde to Robert Ross. Each one of 75 copies on Japanese vellum signed by the illustrator and printer. London, Cyril William Beaumont at the Beaumont Press, 1921 & 1922. hardcover
1899rif. 182530London: Leonard Smithers and Co. 1899. I really think it reads the best of my plays First edition trade issue one of 1000 copies. Wilde's political comedy premiered at the Haymarket on 3 January 1895 and ran until 6 April. His arrest the day before the production closed precipitated his "utter social destruction" ODNB and the play was not published in book form until two years after his release from prison. An Ideal Husband led George Bernard Shaw to hail Wilde as "our only thorough playwright. He plays with everything: with wit with philosophy with drama with actors and audience with the whole theatre" Saturday Review 12 January 1895. Wilde himself wrote to the publisher stating that "I really think it reads the best of my plays" cited in Nelson p. 392. The edition also included 100 signed copies on large paper and 12 on Japanese vellum reserved for presentation. Small quarto. Original pink linen with gilt floral motifs after designs by Charles Shannon spine lettered in gilt fore and bottom edges uncut. Bookplate of the collector and Steinbeck bibliographer Adrian Homer Goldstone 1897-1977. Spine cocked and sunned extremities bumped occasional patches of rubbing contents foxed. A very good copy. Mason 385. James G. Nelson Publisher to the Decadents: Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley Wilde Dowson 2000. hardcover
1898rif. 180349London: Leonard Smithers 1898. Unusual in a fine contemporary binding First edition one of 800 copies printed on handmade paper. This copy is beautifully presented and includes the well-preserved wrappers at the rear. At the insistence of his publishers Wilde employed a pseudonym for fear of the negative effect his name would have on the poem's sales. "C.3.3." derives from Wilde's cell in Reading Gaol - the third cell on the third landing of Gallery C. The first edition of which another 30 copies on japon were also issued sold out rapidly. A second edition was printed within weeks. Octavo 220 x 135 mm. Contemporary brown crushed morocco by Rivière spine lettered in gilt with raised bands compartments tooled with floral design French fillet to boards gilt inner dentelles dark green coated endpapers top edge gilt fore and bottom edges uncut original wrappers bound in. Label sometime removed from front pastedown rear blanks lightly toned from wrappers. A fine copy. Mason 371. hardcover
rif. 75101Boson MA and New York NY: The C.T. Brainard Publishing Co. 1909. Literature LEATHER-BOUND ILLUSTRATED SET Edition De Luxe. Complete in 15 volumes. Octavo 20 x 13 x 56cm. Each volume with between three and seven black and white illustrated plates including a frontispiece by various illustrators. An out-of-series copy from an edition of 1000 numbered copies. Recently bound in blue half morocco with raised bands gilt titles to twin red labels and matching cloth over boards. Top edges gilt and others lightly trimmed. A crisp clean set in an attractive new leather binding. Boson, MA, and New York, NY: The C.T. Brainard Publishing Co., 1909 unknown
1898rif. 1262071898. First Edition. WILDE Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3. London: Leonard Smithers 1898. Slim octavo original half cream cloth with cinnamon cloth boards uncut. $3600.First edition one of only 800 copies printed on handmade paper.Inspired by his prison experience and comprised in part by a plea for penal reform The Ballad of Reading Gaol was the last work Wilde completed before his death in 1900. ""In his comedies the miscreants were always pardoned but in the Ballad while ultimately forgiven they are treated vindictively by their fellows who are equally guiltyÉ There is no doubt that Wilde had once again touched a great subject and left his fingerprints on itÉ once read it is never forgotten"" Ellmann 532-34. Mason 371. A few pinholes to two preliminary leaves interior otherwise fine. One tiny inkspot to front cover spine slightly toned. A handsome extremely good copy of this scarce first edition. hardcover
1898rif. 1262071898. First Edition. WILDE Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3. London: Leonard Smithers 1898. Slim octavo original half cream cloth with cinnamon cloth boards uncut. $3600.First edition one of only 800 copies printed on handmade paper.Inspired by his prison experience and comprised in part by a plea for penal reform The Ballad of Reading Gaol was the last work Wilde completed before his death in 1900. ""In his comedies the miscreants were always pardoned but in the Ballad while ultimately forgiven they are treated vindictively by their fellows who are equally guiltyÉ There is no doubt that Wilde had once again touched a great subject and left his fingerprints on itÉ once read it is never forgotten"" Ellmann 532-34. Mason 371. A few pinholes to two preliminary leaves interior otherwise fine. One tiny inkspot to front cover spine slightly toned. A handsome extremely good copy of this scarce first edition. hardcover books
1888rif. 0107840 First trade edition/First printing published by David Nutt London 1888. Tight binding. Print run of 1000 copies Frontispiece with tissue guard and 2 other plates by Walter Crane. No marks or inscriptions. Owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Foxing to endpages and occasional throughout. Stiff card covers have tanning and some marking. Protected in archive cover. David Nutt hardcover
1898rif. 59504New York:: Brentano's 1898. First US edition first printing. publisher's olive cloth decorated in colors; preserved in a custom quarter morocco folding box. . Cloth lightly rubbed at edges joints and corners; 1899 private library book label on pastedown; but an attractive tight and sound copy. . 12mo. Horodisch pp. 72-75. Brentano's, hardcover
1895rif. 2221665First edition. 8 1/2" x 6 1/2". Original brown wrappers stamped in red lower right corner of upper cover replaced uncut and mostly unopened. Very good. 98 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Enclosed in a plum half morocco slipcase. Printed by The Chiswick Press. Mason 367 - only 50 copies were printed. Privately Printed paperback
1895rif. 2221665First edition. 8 1/2" x 6 1/2". Original brown wrappers stamped in red lower right corner of upper cover replaced uncut and mostly unopened. Very good. 98 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Enclosed in a plum half morocco slipcase. Printed by The Chiswick Press. Mason 367 - only 50 copies were printed. Privately Printed paperback books
1895rif. 015568: Samuel FRENCH 1895. Hardcover. Good. B00K: Good/Fair/ 1895 . B00K: Good/Fair/ $3670.15 Reduced from. the IMPORTANCE of BEING EARNEST. a Trivial Comedy for Serious People. WILDE Oscar Samuel FRENCH 1895 First Date Played At St. James's Theatre UnStated Edition Small H/c Sun Browning On A Green Cloth Spine With No Title Small Sized Hard Cover B00K: Good/Fair/ Shelf Edge And Corner Wear. 52 Numbered Pages Browning From Aging In Delicate Condition. Spine Separating In Front And Towards Rear. Still Attached. Some Notations Throughout. Title Appears To Be Hand Written On Front Cover In Black Ink. D/j: None. No Odors No Writing No Names No Stains No Book Plate Not X~Library. = 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. Samuel FRENCH hardcover
1905rif. 64534S. n. [ Charles Carrington] | Paris 1905 | 14.50 x 22.50 cm | relié
rif. 108851London Osgood and McIlvaine 1891. . First edition limited to 1000 copies; 4to; 4 plates and cover design by C. Ricketts and C.H. Shannon illustrations in the text; publisher's pictorial cloth gilt spine ends rubbed lower board with some rubbing and spotting upper faded at extremities with a single small ink spot 5 x 2mm towards outer edge. A sequel to Wilde's previous collection of fairy tales The Happy Prince and Other Tales which he wrote for his two sons. This collection is dedicated to his wife Constance. Mason 347. London, Osgood and McIlvaine, 1891. hardcover
1894rif. 149906London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head 1894. Attractively bound First edition trade issue one of 500 copies printed; a further 50 copies were also issued on handmade paper. An attractively bound copy with the bookplate to the rear 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. 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. Small quarto 204 x 148 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. Bound without initial blank. A few pencilled lines in margins. Spine lightly sunned very light rubbing at extremities slight split in hinge preceding dedication leaf contents clean; an excellent copy. Mason 364. hardcover
