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1925réf. 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
1984réf. 86113Vancouver: William Hoffer 1984. First Canadian edition. 58 pp. Fine in full Coromandel silk over boards with printed cover and spine labels. No dust jacket as issued. Designed by Robert Bringhurst. One of 90 of 110 numbered copies on Carlyle Japan paper. Translated from the original German by Greve with his Afterword. Originally published in Germany in 1903. Publications of the F.P. Greve Seminar Number One. Vancouver: William Hoffer hardcover books
1898réf. 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
1932réf. 81512Bloomsbury: Nonsuch Press 1932. First edition. 59 pp. Light offsetting to endpapers else very near fine in near fine printed dust jacket with light chipping to crown. One of 800 numbered copies. An imaginary conversation about Oscar Wilde between Jean Paul Raymond a fictional character and Charles Ricketts written entirely by Ricketts. Inscription on the front paste-down from San Francisco collector Albert Sperisen to San Francisco printer Lawton Kennedy. Bloomsbury: Nonsuch Press, unknown books
2003réf. 79849Lund: Bloms I Lund Tryckeri AB 2003. First edition. 12 pp w/bibliography. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. “Compliments of the author” label affixed to the first leaf. Lund: Bloms I Lund Tryckeri AB unknown books
1950réf. 79850Saugatuck: The 5x8 Press 1950. First printing of this edition originally published in 1912. 41 pp. Toning along the spine else near fine in printed wrappers. A volume in the “Beacon” series. Photographic frontispiece portrait of Wilde. Saugatuck: The 5x8 Press, unknown books
2004réf. 81469bdFt. Pierce FL: Long Wind Publishing LLC. 2004. First Edition stated. Signed and inscribed by the illustrator Philip S. Steel. Square quarto white cloth hardcover 32 pp. Fine As New in a Fine As New dust jacket. From dust jacket: Performed across the entire State of Florida s a unique combination of a one-man monodrama and a traveling art exhibit Net Loss set tongues wagging about its controversial theme: the banning of certain types of net fishing in Florida and the staggering effect the ban had on generations of fishing families. It also broke ground as an innovative partnership between a dramatist and a painter with both disciplines sharing equal billing in the production. Net Loss also focuses on a larger issue the issue of art as social commentator. Although the net ban had taken effect several years prior to writer Evelyn Wilde Mayerson and artist Philip S Steel’s groundbreaking partnership the frustration felt by fishermen fairly roiled just below the surface of their feelings. Net Loss gave a voice to those who had virtually given up on ever having a public forum to express their disjoining sense of loss and helplessness. Although the production did not take an advocate’s position on either side of the question the audience was treated to a sympathetic examination of one fisherman’s take on what had happened to him and many of his friends. Here then is Net Loss reduced to its true essence. Evocative words and interpretive paintings that draw the reader down to the docks the fish houses and boats of a changing breed of people whose lives depend on a natural resource in a world not controlled by nature. Long Wind Publishing, LLC., (2004). First Edition, stated. hardcover books
2002réf. 68567Fairfield: John H. Willis 2002. Second edition expanded numbered issue. 49 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Dated 26 /01/03 and INSCRIBED by Willis on the front free endpaper. While Wilde never made the long journey Willis here does a thorough job making connections between Wilde his circle and Australia. Fairfield: John H. Willis unknown books
1899réf. 54608NY: Benj. R. Tucker 1899. Early US edition. 44 pp. Small tear to the fore-edge of one leaf else very good plus in two part gilt-stamped cloth with darkened spine. NY: Benj. R. Tucker, hardcover books
1984réf. 39730Washington DC: Library of Congress 1984. First edition. 30 pp. Fade along spine else near fine in stapled wrappers. A lecture delivered at the Library of Congress on March 1 1983. Washington DC: Library of Congress, unknown books
1899réf. 1411385London: Leonard Smithers and Co 1899. First Trade Edition Limited #208/1000. Hardcover. Octavo 151 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in publisher's pale purple cloth with gilt leaves to boards gilt lettering to spine. Fading to spine and boards. Some general shelfwear. Chipping to head and tail of spine. Bumping to corners and extremities. Spine cocked. Front pastedown with glue stains from a removed bookplate. Front free endpaper with bookplate. Shelved showcase. 'The Importance of Being Earnest' was a success on stage when it opened in 1895 but closed after 86 performances due to Wilde's arrest. It is generaly considered one of his best works. This Trade edition was published in 1899 after he was released from Reading Gaol and residing in France. He died the following year. 1411385. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Leonard Smithers and Co hardcover books
1920réf. 19986London and New York: John Lane The Bodley Head. Printed by Spottiswoods Ballantyne and Co. Ltd. London Colchester and Eton 1920. Limited Edition First Edition Thus with Alastair illustrations. Decorated Cloth Gilt impressed. Very Good Plus. Alistair Hans Henning Otto Harry Baron von Voigt. Limitation of 1000 copies -- the colophon informs us that the stones upon which the plates were printed were destroyed by the German invasion of Belgium during the early phase of the First World War. 4to. 30.5 by 23.5 cm. 36 pp. 12 illustrated two toned plates with Alastair illustrations. 10 of these are referenced in the List of Illustrations and the other two are at the beginning and the end. These two are also on a folded sheet that is about 2 cm shorter as well as about the same shy of the width of facing pages elsewhere. Alastair 1887-1969 was a German-born self-taught artist whose style was obviously greatly influenced by Beardsley and he emulated Beardsley too in illustrating works of Oscar Wilde who was the perfect template for Alastair's imagination which gloried in decadence as Wilde did decades earlier. This work "The Sphinx" was Alastair's first published work based on Wilde's writing and it is the work that exposed a far larger audience to his distinctive highly stylized artwork. The cloth cover designed by Charles Ricketts has a light film of dusty soiling which is removable with effort and a scattering of other small light stains which are not susceptible to the simple eraser. The interior is generally quite clean and lovely. The hinge is cracked in one place. John Lane, The Bodley Head. Printed by Spottiswoods, Ballantyne and Co. Ltd., London, Colchester and Eton unknown books
1918réf. 2222511First edition thus. Small 4to. Illustrated with 17 hand colored lithographs by Charlotte Christine Engelhorn. Tan leather spine over purple silk boards. No dust jacket. Very good. 67 pages. One of 100 deluxe copies signed by Engelhorn with hand colored plates. Translated by Felix B. Greve of Oscar Wilde's "The Young King" a short story from his "A House of Pomegranates." With erotic bookplate of Otto Feistmann. Gustav Kiepenheuer hardcover books
1900réf. 33756London and New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co 1900. Unbound. Very Good. Unbound. Chromolithograph illustration of Chrismas Eve. A few chips to edges of print light dampstaining to bottom corner not affecting image and light speckles of foxing. Size: about 9 x 7 inches. PRINT/123019. Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co unknown books
1900réf. 33758London and New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co 1900. Unbound. Very Good. Unbound. Chromolithograph illustration from the story "the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe." A large crease to bottom corner of print light dampstaining to bottom corner not affecting image and light speckles of foxing. Size: about 9 x 7 inches. PRINT/123019. Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co unknown books
1900réf. 33759London and New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co 1900. Unbound. Very Good. Unbound. Chromolithograph illustration from the story "Aladdin." Small chip to bottom corner light dampstaining to bottom corner not affecting image light soiling to margins and light speckles of foxing. Size: about 9 x 7 inches. PRINT/123019. Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co unknown books
1900réf. 33763London and New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co 1900. Unbound. Very Good. Unbound. Cover of "A Long Time Ago" featuring a chromolithograph illustration from "Robinson Crusoe." Minor wear to corners and edges of boards. Minor soiling. Light dampstain to bottom corner. Size: about 9 x 7 inches. PRINT/123019. Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co unknown books
1900réf. 33761London and New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co 1900. Unbound. Very Good. Unbound. Chromolithograph illustration from a poem "Robinson Crusoe." Small chip to bottom corner light dampstaining to bottom corner not affecting image light browning to margins and light speckles of foxing. A few lines from the rhyme are included on the print. Includes a seperate page of text including the full text of the poem. Size: about 9 x 7 inches. PRINT/123019. Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co unknown books
1900réf. 33760London and New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co 1900. Unbound. Very Good. Unbound. Chromolithograph illustration from the nursery rhyme "Little Boy Blue." Small chip to bottom corner light dampstaining to bottom corner not affecting image light browning to margins and light speckles of foxing. A few lines from the rhyme are included on the print. Includes a seperate page of text including the poem. Size: about 9 x 7 inches. PRINT/123019. Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co unknown books
1900réf. 33757London and New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co 1900. Unbound. Very Good. Unbound. Chromolithograph illustration of Jack and the Beanstalk. A large chip to bottom corner of print light dampstaining and streak of soiling to bottom corner not affecting image and light speckles of foxing. Also includes part of story on seperate page. Size: about 9 x 7 inches. PRINT/123019. Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co unknown books
1928réf. 25436New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1928. Decorative Boards. Near Fine/Very Good -. John Vassos. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY JOHN VASSOS on the half-title. A very solid copy to boot of this 1928 1st thus the first apearance of the pairing of Oscar Wilde's epic poem and John Vassos' evocative Art Deco illustrations. Tight and Near Fine Theodore Dreiser's lovely bookplate gracing the front pastedown in a bright price-clipped VG dustjacket with very light chipping along the panel edges and 1 1/2" of loss at the foot of the spine. Still though a very presentable copy with Vassos' captioned illustrations --still protected by their original tissue-guards-- beautifully complementing Wilde's text. E.P. Dutton & Co unknown books
2018réf. 21264San Francisco: The Arion Press 2018. Decorative Boards. Fine. Sandow Birk. An immaculate copy of this 2018 offering by the Arion Press of San Francisco. #90 OF 250 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST SANDOW BIRK at the colophon. Clean and Fine in its light-green cloth over beige boards. Tall quarto also includes an all-but-pristine example of the publisher's printed slipcase. The Arion Press unknown books
1928réf. 19589New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1928. Decorative Boards. Very Good/Very Good. John Vassos. A solid copy of the 1928 1st trade edition of this John Vassos-illustrated edition. Tight and VG light offsetting at the panel edges very light abrading to the rear panel in a bright price-clipped VG dustjacket with light chipping at the panel edges. Octavo wonderfully illustrated thruout by John Vassos with each illustration including its original tissue-guard. E.P. Dutton & Co unknown books
1921réf. 18951Paris: Calmann-Levy Editeurs 1921. An elegant copy of the 1921 1st French edition complete unto itself. Professionally bound in a handsome 3/4 morocco over marbled boards with the binder's stamp at the first blank endpaper. Solid and VG with very light offsetting along the top-edges and just a touch of light wear at the spine crown. 5 raised bands fine gilt-tooling within the compartments offsetting dark-leather title label in gilt. 12mo top-edge gilt as well. Lovely matching marbled endpapers lacking the original wrappers. Calmann-Levy, Editeurs unknown books
1923réf. 18815Paris: Les Editions G. Cres 1923. 1/4 leather. Near Fine. Alastair. Sumptuous 1923 edition with Alastair's remarkable illustrations --en coulour-- complementing Oscar Wilde's text. Handsomely bound in a 1/4 dark leather over marbled boards. 5 raised bands decorative gilt devices within the compartments. Solid and VG to Near Fine. Very clean internally as well. 12mo top-edge gilt matching marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Les Editions G. Cres unknown books
