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1891réf. 158131891. Ricketts Charles. London: James R. Osgood McIlvaine and Co. 1891. Original salmon paper-covered flexible boards decorated in dark red. First Edition of this collection of four dark semi-comic mystery tales. "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" is an amusing but macabre tale if there can be such a thing about a young man who convinced by Lady Windermere's cheiromantist that he is doomed to commit murder does his best to do so prior to getting married -- out of a sense of duty to his fiancée. As one would expect Lord Arthur bungles his mission. In addition to the title story this book includes "The Sphinx Without a Secret" "The Canterville Ghost" and "The Model Millionaire." The binding of this title with decorations by Charles Ricketts is extremely delicate -- paper-covered flexible boards; although 1500 copies were issued we find this book to be quite uncommon and we have never seen a truly fine copy. In our experience THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY THE HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES and this title are the three Wilde first editions most difficuilt to find in collectible condition. This copy is close to near-fine with a bit of the darkening and mottling of the spine that is typical for this fragile book but with scarcely any actual wear. Mason 345. Housed in a handsome gilt-paneled morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise. unknown
1891réf. 158131891. Ricketts Charles. London: James R. Osgood McIlvaine and Co. 1891. Original salmon paper-covered flexible boards decorated in dark red. First Edition of this collection of four dark semi-comic mystery tales. "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" is an amusing but macabre tale if there can be such a thing about a young man who convinced by Lady Windermere's cheiromantist that he is doomed to commit murder does his best to do so prior to getting married -- out of a sense of duty to his fiancée. As one would expect Lord Arthur bungles his mission. In addition to the title story this book includes "The Sphinx Without a Secret" "The Canterville Ghost" and "The Model Millionaire." The binding of this title with decorations by Charles Ricketts is extremely delicate -- paper-covered flexible boards; although 1500 copies were issued we find this book to be quite uncommon and we have never seen a truly fine copy. In our experience THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY THE HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES and this title are the three Wilde first editions most difficuilt to find in collectible condition. This copy is close to near-fine with a bit of the darkening and mottling of the spine that is typical for this fragile book but with scarcely any actual wear. Mason 345. Housed in a handsome gilt-paneled morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise. unknown books
1920réf. 2091202133204391John Lane 1920. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 John Lane paperback
1930réf. 15457Paris, Devambez, 1930 ; in-4, en ff., couverture crème rempliée, chemise demi-percaline bleue, titre doré au dos, étui avec couvercle plein chagrin brique, dos rond à nerfs, titre doré (reliure de l'éditeur) ; (4), 77, [78], (4) pp., (2) ff. bl., 20 eaux-fortes dont 17 hors-texte.
1980réf. 38403Monthiaume Raymond Gid 1980 In-8, maroquin noir orn sur chaque plat d'une composition reprographique diffrente en noir et blanc, faite partir d'une photographie reprsentant un mur inond: comme une fausse ouverture, un clatement jaillit au milieu du premier plat, cern d'une grille de trames entrecroises; titre de l'ouvrage pouss l'oeser blanc sur le dos sans nerfs; doublures et gardes de papier reprographique gris tram noir, non rogn, couverture imprime. Chemise, tui (Claude Honnelatre, 1996).Belle dition typographique de ce texte traduit, typographi et illustr par Raymond Gid. La mise en pages prsente, mls, le texte anglais et sa traduction, et comporte 6 photographies hors texte reproduisant les atteintes infliges par le temps un exemplaire particulirement maltrait de la clbre "Ballade" imprime en 1918 avec des bois de J.G. Daragns. Tirage limit 200 exemplaires numrots. Exemplaire hors commerce portant un amical envoi autographe sign de Raymond Gid Claude Honnelatre. A figur l'exposition Reliures de Claude Honnelatre (Paris, Bibliothque historique de la ville de Paris, 1996, n143, reproduction en couleurs).
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
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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. 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
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
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