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rif. ANAIS-0805059156Henry Holt and Co. hardcover. Good. 6.5x2.1x9.6. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Henry Holt and Co hardcover
1894rif. 188707London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane 1894. Deluxe issue of this sublime collaboration of enfants terribles First edition in English and first Beardsley edition deluxe issue one of 100 copies printed on Japanese vellum and bound in green silk boards. "If Le Morte Darthur made Beardsley known his designs for the first edition in English of Wilde's Salomé made him notorious and it remains the book of which most people think when his name is mentioned" Ray. Translated by Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas this edition appeared the year after the play's publication in French. The premiere took place on 11 February 1896 at the Comédie-Parisienne. To restrict its public staging in Britain the Lord Chamberlain cited Protestant Reformation laws banning religious plays. An opera version was sanctioned for performance in 1910 though the play itself had to be staged privately until the first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in 1931. A further 500 copies were printed on smaller paper and bound in blue canvas boards. Small quarto. Frontispiece and illustrated title page with tissue guard illustrated border on list of illustrations page 9 plates final tailpiece all by Beardsley. Publisher's 16-page advertisements at end. Original green silk boards spine lettered in gilt decorations designed by Beardsley to covers in gilt edges untrimmed. Binding unevenly discoloured and a little soiled minor wear to edges inner hinge partially split following title page splash mark to a couple lower margins. A very good copy. Mason 351; Ray 315A. hardcover
1907rif. 183957London: E. Grant Richards 1907. First edition signed limited issue number 6 of 25 copies signed by the bibliographer printed on larger hand-made paper and with the illustrations on Japanese vellum. A further 450 unsigned trade copies were also issued. Provenance: Alfred Sutro 1863-1933 dramatist and associate of Wilde with his morocco bookplate. Quarto. halftone portrait frontispiece 8 plates on Japanese vellum. With 2 pp. of publisher's advertisements at rear. Original white cloth spine and front cover lettered in gilt edges uncut. Cloth soiled spine toned ends and corners lightly bumped free endpapers browned: a very good copy. hardcover
2001rif. 5068974Puffin 03/29/2001. Paperback. Used; Good. WE SHIP WITHIN 24 HRS FROM LONDON UK 98% OF OUR ORDERS ARE RECEIVED WITHIN 7-10 DAYS. We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books. Puffin paperback
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1898rif. 188708London: Leonard Smithers 1898. For he who lives more lives than one / More deaths than one must die Signed limited edition number 74 of 99 copies signed by the author. Wilde styled this the "author's edition" and in a letter to his publisher of 28 February 1898 he insisted on the purple binding with a new gilt remarque by Ricketts. Produced at Wilde's request it was the third edition overall appearing two months after the first. Octavo. Original cream quarter linen spine lettered in gilt purple cloth sides flower and leaf design on front cover after remarque by Charles Ricketts edges untrimmed. Housed in a dark purple quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Ownership inscriptions to prelims of Florence Vanda Cunliffe Thomas 1873-1936 Red House Bicester dated March and April 1898 following publication in March. Spine toned binding a little marked surface scratch on front cover light edge wear intermittent foxing but bright overall. A very good copy. Mason 374. hardcover
2004rif. 1-0472030280Petoskey Pub 2004. Paperback. New. 70 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.25 inches. Petoskey Pub paperback
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2016rif. 1-0062311433Avon Books 2016. Paperback. New. 378 pages. 7.00x4.00x1.00 inches. Avon Books paperback
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2001rif. 1-0262025019Mit Pr 2001. Hardcover. New. illustrated edition. 145 pages. 10.00x13.00x1.00 inches. Mit Pr hardcover
1840rif. 1002Y49Dublin: William Curry Jun. and Company 1840. First edition. Cloth. Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated . The complete first edition of this travelogue from Oscar Wilde's father William Wilde with illustrations. First edition. Complete in two volumes.In the original cloth binding. Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven vignettes.Volume II illustrated with a frontispiece two hand coloured plates two maps and fourteen vignettes.Collated complete.A compelling account of a voyage to Madeira Teneriffe and the shores of the Mediterranean including visits to Algiers Egypt Palestine Tyre Rhodes Telmessus Cyprus and Greece. With the author's keen observations on the climate natural history antiquities and prospects of the countries visited.From William Wilde an Irish ophthalmogic surgeon and the author of important works on medicine archaeology and folklore. He was the father of influential author and poet Oscar Wilde.Wilde travelled for nine months as medical attendant to Robert Meiklam the owner of the yacht Crusader who made the sketches for the plates. In the original cloth binding. Externally with rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Fading and marks to the cloth. Split to the cloth to Vol II rear joint which remains firm. Internally generally firmly bound with pp. 5-12 coming away to Vol II. Pages are bright and generally clean with the odd spot or handling mark. Contemporary ownership inscription to each front free endpaper. Good William Curry, Jun. and Company hardcover
1898rif. 183481London: Leonard Smithers 1898. For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die First edition one of 800 unnumbered copies printed on handmade paper; a further 30 copies on japon were published simultaneously. The first edition sold out rapidly and a second edition was issued within weeks. Octavo. Original white quarter cloth spine lettered in gilt light brown cloth sides edges untrimmed. Housed in a custom yellow cloth chemise and quarter calf with yellow cloth slipcase. Bookplate and shelf-label of John Sowden; unrelated contemporary ownership inscription to title page. Spine browned soiling to covers ends and corners bumped damp stain and browning to endpapers spots of foxing to contents. A good copy. Mason 371. hardcover
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1898rif. 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
1871rif. 190902Glasgow: Cameron & Ferguson 1871. Second edition of this collection of poetry by Jane Francesca Wilde 1821-1896 the mother of Oscar Wilde. Prior to the publication of the first edition in 1864 Lady Wilde contributed pro-Irish independence poetry to The Nation under the nom-de-plume "Speranza". Octavo. Engraved frontispiece of the poet after Bernard Mulrenin. With 10 pp. of publisher's ads at rear. Original green cloth spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt brown coated endpapers. Bookplate of Jeremy J. Mason. Extremities a little worn cockling to rear cover binding shaken foxing to outer leaves. A good copy. hardcover
1918rif. 191157New York: Printed and published by the author 1918. Second privately printed edition presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Clarence E. Thompson from his friend the author in token of immediate sympathy Frank Harris Oct. 1920". Thompson c.1876-1945 was a writer and political publicist. He worked on the Presidential campaigns of Theodore Roosevelt Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. The Irish-born journalist Frank Harris 1855-1931 led a dissolute life that some observers believed to have been redeemed only in his loyal support of the disgraced Wilde as demonstrated by this biography of "impressionistic value despite factual vagaries" ODNB. George Bernard Shaw in his appended letter to the author Memories of Oscar Wilde writes: "Now that you have written the best life of Oscar Wilde let us have the best life of Frank Harris" p. 32. The first private and trade editions were published two years earlier. 2 vols octavo. Frontispieces and 4 halftone photographic plates. Original green cloth spines and front covers lettered in gilt front covers ruled in blind. Bookplate of Frederick W. Skiff 1867-1947 designed by W. F. Hopson. Occasional marks extremities gently bumped front inner hinges split but sound small abrasion to front pastedown of vol. I. A very good set. Mason 694. hardcover
