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1998Best.-Nr. 43734Cambridge MA: MIT Press 1998. First American edition. Very good in a very good jacket. First US edition with photographs from the "Icons of New Objectivity" series as well as Renger-Patzsch's lesser-known images of landscapes urban scenes and nature studies. 113 full-page black and white plates. Translated from the German edition. Co-edited by Thomas Weski with Ann and Jurgen Wilde with an essay by Thomas Janzen. Hardcover. 4to. Grey cloth boards in black and white photographic dust jacket. Toning to spine and upper edges of jacket; corners and spine ends bumped. 176pp. MIT Press unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 50211Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum 1969. First edition. Near fine. Scarce catalogue of the 1969 exhibition of Arte Povera and Conceptual Art less known but as innovative and groundbreaking as the same year's more-mythologized "When Attitudes Become Form" and similarly an expression of its own curator's personality and vision. "Op Losse Schroeven" and "When Attitudes Become Form" were conceived planned and exhibited more or less concurrently but independently: Stedelijk Museum director de Wilde though supervising one curator and friendly with the other apparently shared no information in either direction despite considerable overlap in vision. If the curators were not well informed on their peer's progress those artists invited to participate in both exhibitions were: one of those artists Ger van Elk "made the curious suggestion that the physical similarity of the two men - each was solidly built bearded and bohemian in style - made it interesting for an artist to work with them both as their quickly staggered studio visits turned into a kind of performance; that of a curator chased by his doppelgänger" Rattemeyer. With work by Carl Andre Giovanni Anselmo Joseph Beuys Bill Bollinger Gerrit Dekker Barry Flanagan Bruce Nauman Richard Serra Robert Smithson Lawrence Weiner and others. 10.75'' x 8''. Original wrappers housing two bound portfolios designed by Wim Crouwel and Jolijn van de Wouw of Total Design Amsterdam. Text in Dutch and English. Illustrated in black and white. Printed on multi-colored paper. Light edgewear and soil to wrappers minor creasing to page edges. Stedelijk Museum unknown books
1910Best.-Nr. 17235New York: John Lane Company 1910. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Note by Robert Ross. Very Good in a Good dust jacket unclipped no price generally toned and soiled some shallow chips at the edges. Grey paper on the boards bumped at the corners a few pock marks in the gutters. Square and firmly bound inscription from Perce Rodda on the front endpaper toned some foxing on the pages. The first publication of this work to feature Ross's note. Mason 363. John Lane Company hardcover books
1905Best.-Nr. 16244Paris: Privately Printed 1905. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited to 50 copies. Good. Original wraps generally toned some spots of soiling a very small chip at the head of the spine tear down much of the top spine fold. Square and firmly bound with unopened pages some foxing at the edges clean otherwise. A pirated edition printed by Charles Carrington with the text taken from the July 1894 issue of The Fortnightly Review. Mason 609. Privately Printed hardcover books
1975Best.-Nr. 55214New York / London: Frederick Warne & Co 1975. Very good plus in very good plus jacket. Inscribed first edition of these spooky gothic and fantastical tales for children - including works by Oscar Wilde Ben Jonson Nancy Gorgorian and the Brothers Grimm. 9'' x 6''. Original olive pictorial paper boards stamped in black. In original unclipped $6.95 color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Arrowood in black and white. 206 pages. Inscribed by Arrowood on front free endpaper in three different color inks: "For Gary & Phipps / With Warmest Wishes / Clinton Arrowood." A bit of wear and toning to edges touch of foxing to top edge. Spine rather sunned. Bright. Frederick Warne & Co unknown books
1920Best.-Nr. 171352N.p.: N.p. 1920. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1920 short film. One with a "No Smoking Please" pencil annotation to the verso. Based on the popular "Toonerville Folks" newspaper comic created by Fontaine Fox which ran from 1913 through 1955. 17 "Toonerville Trolley" two-reel comedies were made at the Betzwood Motion Picture Studio in Pennsylvania only seven of which survive today. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good or better moderately toned and edgeworn. N.p. unknown books
1927Best.-Nr. 171334N.p.: N.p. 1927. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1927 silent film one showing actor Harold Lloyd fearfully holding a stick like a machine gun the other showing a medicine show caravan. A sheriff's shy son is given the chance to prove his worth when a traveling medicine show run by shysters rolls into town. A remake of the 1924 Hal Roach film "The White Sheep." Widely considered one of Lloyd's finest films and the last of Lloyd's films to star Jobyna Ralston. Shot on location in rural California. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
2007Best.-Nr. 215435Santa Monica CA: RoseGallery 2007. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 151 pages. Features an introduction by Kristine McKenna and an afterword by Lorraine Wild. A wide ranging collection of photographs by Berman who is in part best known for his journal "Semina" A clean near fine copy in photo-illustrated boards with some light wear. No dust jacket as issued. Internally a clean copy. RoseGallery unknown books
1976Best.-Nr. 2353650Norwalk Connecticut: The Heritage Press 1976. Reissue. Large Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 18x13x2. Hill James. Includes publisher's slipcase and Sandglass insert. Spine a bit faded and lightly soiled edges foxed. Binding tight and square text clean bright and unmarked. 1976 Large Hardcover. xii 313 pp. Red cloth gilt titles color illustrations from paintings by James Hill introduction by Robert Gorham Davis. A collection of short stories by the poet playwright and humorist best known for The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest. Includes: Introduction; The Portrait of Mr. W.H.; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Sphinx Without a Secret; The Canterville Ghost; The Model Millionaire; A House of Pomegranates: The Young King The Birthday of the Infanta The Fisherman and His Soul The Star-Child; The Happy Prince and Other Tales: The Happy Prince The Nightingale and the Rose The Devoted Friend The Selfish Giant The Remarkable Rocket. The Heritage Press hardcover books
1973Best.-Nr. 2353963Norwalk Connecticut: The Heritage Press 1973. Reissue. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Walton Tony. Includes publisher's slipcase and Sandglass insert. Slipcase edges a bit faded otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1973 Hard Cover. 125; 114 pp. Bound in imitation of the dos-a-dos style binding the reader can flip the book over to read the second of the two books included in the volume though there is no middle board present as would be the case in an actual dos-a-dos. Introduction by Sir John Gielgud color plates and woodcut illustrations by Tony Walton. Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. This collection offers newly edited texts of Lady Windermere's Fan A Woman of No Importance Salome An Ideal Husband and arguably the greatest farcical comedy in English The Importance of Being Earnest. The Heritage Press hardcover books
2007Best.-Nr. UWILCOL01drpBarnes & Noble 2007. Very Good. Wilde Oscar. Collected Oscar Wilde. Fletcher Angus. NY: Barnes & Noble 2007. 628pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with rubbed edges. Barnes & Noble paperback books
1927Best.-Nr. 339822New York: Dutton 1927. Limited. hardcover. near fine. John Vassos. Illustrations by John Vassos. 4to black boards.; black & gold end-papers. New York: Dutton 1927. Limited First Edition. Near fine. No. 456 of 500 copies signed by Vassos. Dutton unknown books
2004Best.-Nr. RWILPIC00ajsEaston Press 2004. Fine. Wilde Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 2004. 287pp. 4to. Book condition: Fine. In original publisher shrinkwrap. Easton Press unknown books
1905Best.-Nr. 55474Berlin: S. Fischer 1905. First edition in part. Publisher's vellum. Nearly Fine. 1/20. Small quarto 19.4 by 14.6 cm. viii 115 1 colophon pp. Double-suite titles in red and black printer's device floral borders; red and black initial. Publisher's full vellum lettered in gilt; top edge gilt fore- and bottom edges deckled; silk ribbon marker. Covers with mild soiling; vellum very slightly bowed. A nearly fine copy. Limited fine press edition one of only twenty copies bound by the publisher in full vellum lettered in gilt. This German translation by Max Meyerfeld importantly includes material which did not appear in English until 1908. "Before the English version was issued an authorised translation in German. appeared in Die Neue Rundschau Berlin January and February 1905 under the title of De Profundis. Aufzeichnungen und Briefe aus dem Zuchthaus in Reading. It was printed in German characters with ornamental initials etc. by E. R. Weiss and included a translation of the Four Letters written from Reading Prison which were not published in England until 1908. Later in the year the text was issued in book form printed in Roman characters with title-page and initial letters by Walter Tiemann. Berlin: Verlag S. Fischer" Mason. Mason S. Bibliography of Oscar Wilde vol. 2 p. 445. Schneider & Sotscheck Eine Bibliographie Selbständiger Deutschsprachiger Publikationen 3068. S. Fischer unknown books
1929Best.-Nr. 214084New York: The Macmillan Company 1929. First trade edition. Hardcover. 57 pages. A short work from Wilde. Features four color plates and several other black and white illustrations by Pamela Bianco. A near fine copy with some very minor wear and in a very good price clipped dust jacket with a price rubberstamped to the front flap some edge tears and small chips and other light wear. The Macmillan Company unknown books
1971Best.-Nr. 162620N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 film here under the alternate release title "The Young Divorcess." Provenance stamp on the verso. Loosely based on the 1897 Oscar Wilde poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol." Featuring early performances by George Takei and eventual director of "Fright Night" Tom Holland. In a 2006 interview with Howard Stern Takei revealed that the sex scenes were shot with body doubles and added only after the film was unable to secure distribution. Takei added that he was "impressed" with the body double used for his character. Three recently divorced twenty somethings abandon their suffocating lives and shack up as free-sprited free-love hippies. Today a cult favorite. Shot on location in San Diego and Piru California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 17933Larchmont NY: Peter Pauper Press n.d. One of fifty copies reserved for F. Kay Kaplan and André Durenceau out of a total edition of 750 copies. This copy is inscribed by Kaplan and Durenceau to prominent Los Angeles bookseller Jake Zeitlin and his wife Josephine: "to Mr. and Mrs. Jake Zeitlin. Memories of a pleasant evening. Red cloth spine decorative paper over boards. Front cover blocked in silver with title printed in black borders. White paper dust-jacket perhaps added by a former owner. . Twelvemo. 7 x 5 in. . Illustrations by André Durenceau on title-page and colophon. Printed in red gray-green and black. Upper corners of pages lightly creased. Near fine. Peter Beilenson founded Peter Pauper Press in his parents' basement in 1928. Originally focused on reprinting classic literature in the public domain the press would gradually shift towards fine press works and later gift books. During its heyday Peter Pauper was co-run with Beilenson's wife Edna who also served as the press's typesetter and binder. See the Peter Pauper Press in Blumenthal's The Printed Book in America. Peter Pauper Press hardcover books
2025Best.-Nr. 70397London: DK Classics 2025. Reprint. Hardcover. New. 223pp. Duodecimo 21cm. Illustrated paper over boards. Stamped in silver with sprayed edges. DK Classics edition of this classic tale by Oscar Wilde. DK Classics hardcover books
1993Best.-Nr. UWILTRE00lhKeith W. Watkins and Sons 1993. Very Good. Wilde Jens Patrick. Treasured Tidbits of Time: An Informal History of Bear Lake Valley 2 volumes. Providence Utah: Keith W. Watkins and Sons 1993. 350 212pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Both volumes have rubbed edges. Volume one has a small chip in the head of the spine. Keith W. Watkins and Sons paperback books
2022Best.-Nr. 2351696New York: Penguin Classics 2022. Reprint. Small Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 4x0x6. Reprint. Brand new from publisher. 2022 Small Hard Cover. 188 1 pp. With warmth tenderness and quiet wit Oscar Wilde's fables and fairy tales have moved and delighted for generations. In far-off kingdoms and ocean realms in the company of giants and nightingales Wilde speaks of heartbreak and redemption of cruelty and compassion of love lost of love gained of love lasting. Includes: The Happy Prince; The Nightingale and the Rose; The Selfish Giant; The Devoted Friend; The Remarkable Rocket; The Young King; The Birthday of the Infanta; The Fisherman and His Soul; The Star-Child. Penguin Classics hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 372169PRIVATELY PRINTED. Number 78 of 300 copies. 64pp. 4TO. Blue printed wrappers front cover off else fine. Number 78 of 300 copies. 64pp. 4TO. PRIVATELY PRINTED unknown books
2012Best.-Nr. 212456Wakefield West Yorkshire: Yorkshire Sculpture Park 2012. First edition. Softcover. 160 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 17 through January 6 2013. Features texts by Peter Murray Jonty Wilde Emilio Fernandez Miro Jacques Dupin and Pilar Ortega Chapel. Includes numerous color and some black and white illustrations a chronology selected bibliography and a checklist. A near fine copy in French style wrappers with a small tear to the top of the front panel near the spine. Yorkshire Sculpture Park unknown books
1983Best.-Nr. 212634Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum 1983. First edition. Softcover. 128 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran May 11 through July 3 1983 and then traveled to two other locations for additonal dates. Text in English and Dutch. Features contributions by Edy de Wilde Carter Ratcliff and with an interview of de Kooning by Harold Rosenberg. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations a chronology list of previous exhibitions and a selected bibliography. A near fine copy in wrappers with some minor wear. Internally a clean copy. Stedelijk Museum unknown books
1907Best.-Nr. 12964London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1907. First Edition Stated. Publisher's cloth. Very Good. First Edition Stated. Publisher's cloth. First published with Beardsley's illustrations in 1894 the first uncensored edition did not appear in full until 1907; this edition contains all of Beardsley's intended illustrations which were previously cancelled uncensored version of Enter Herodias both versions of The Toilet of Salome. Includes the casts for the first performance of the play in England in 1905 and for the première of Richard Strauss's opera. Fraying to head and tail bumped corners rubbing discoloration and toning to ffep and removed exlibris ep transferred images else tight bright and unmarred. Bound in green cloth with gilt stamped peacock design to front board gilt title to spine gilt top edge with 16 black and white plates including suppressed frontispiece title page on Japanese vellum. Royal 8vo. xx 4 66pp. 2 adverts. Illus. b/w plates. Pencil marks notations on ep bookseller ticket. John Lane, The Bodley Head unknown books
1983Best.-Nr. 17465Franklin Center Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1983. First Edition. Leather_bound. Very good. First Edition. Leather_bound. This limited edition of the great Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde's fairy tales and stories was exclusively printed for members of Franklin Library's The Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series and features a sumptuous genuine leather binding all gilt edges silver silk moire endpapers an atmospheric frontispiece and 6 illustrations by artist Zevi Blum title page calligraphy by Michael Starkman and a silk ribbon placemarker. 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.This 1983 Franklin Library edition collects fairy tales and stories from the following collections: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories The Happy Prince and Other Tales and A House of Pomegranates. 9 1/8" X 5 1/8". 232pp. Bound in full slate blue genuine leather over boards with decorations stamped in gilt to boards and spine. Five raised bands to spine lettered in gilt. Very mild wear to binding with very gentle bumping to corners and to head and tail of spine. All edges gilt with rather prominent scuffing to edges. Silk moire endpapers. Gray silk ribbon placemarker. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. A very presentable leatherbound illustrated edition of these collected stories and fairy tales by Oscar Wilde. The Franklin Library unknown books
