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1918Best.-Nr. 191149New York: Printed and published by the author 1918. Second privately printed edition presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Arthur Humphreys good friend and good fellow from the author Frank Harris with many pleasant memories. Berlin 18.12.22". Humphreys 1865-1946 was a close friend of Oscar and Constance Wilde and published Oscariana in 1895. Humphreys was a writer and senior partner at Hatchards Books. 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 Jeremy J. Mason; invitation to a 1907 Coefficients club dinner RSVP'd and signed by Halford Mackinder 1861-1947 loosely inserted. Spines toned and foxed extremities bumped vol. 1 front inner hinge split but sound light damp stain to list of illustrations. A very good set. Mason 694. hardcover
1913Best.-Nr. 1005J3London: Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co. 1913. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Fair. 9" by 6". Not Stated. A scarce first edition dramatisation of Oscar Wilde's seminal novel The Picture of Dorian Gray adapted for the stage by Grace Constant Lounsbery with a Rex Whistler bookplate. An excellent first edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray A Play in Three Acts by Grace Constant Lounsbery published in 1913 by Simpkin Marshall Hamilton and Kent and printed at the Ballantyne Press.Bound in the publisher's original cloth binding with gilt illustrations. Scarce with the original dust wrapper. Lounsbery was an American author poet and playwright. Prolific among the early twentieth-century Parisian literary circle Gertrude Stein once wrote of having a romantic relationship with Lounsbery. She often hosted events at her Parisian salon some of which Stein Ernest Hemingway and Ezra Pound are known to have attended.Her dramatisation of Wilde's novel completments her rebellious corpus of work including her radical politically-charged poem Satan Unbound. This copy with an exquisite bookplate to the front paste down designed by Rex Whistler. A fantastic gothic scene incorporating elements of classical and biblical mythology. Includes his monogram RJW to the lower right corner dated 1925.The bookplate is that of Whistler's associate Ronald Fuller of Merton College Oxford with his inscrption to the front free dated May 18th 1924. Ronald Fuller went on to co-author The Work of Rex Whistler with Whistler's brother Laurence in 1960.An additional previous bookseller's stamp to the front pastedown. Embossed crest to the front free 'sic jovat perilsse'. Bound in original publisher's cream cloth binding with scarce original dust wrapper. Externally very smart. Fading and marks to boards. Light bumping to extremities noticeable at lower front corner. Dust wrapper fragile missing the spine with front cover and fly leaf detached. Heavy chipping resulting in loss of paper and notable sunning to wrap. Bookplate of Ronald Fuller by Rex Whistler and bookseller stamp to front paste down. Inscription of Fuller and embossed stamp to front free. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Scattered spotting to end papers. Very Good Indeed Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. 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
1893Best.-Nr. 0036073Paris et Londres: Librairie de L'Art Independant and Elkin Mathews et John Lane 1893. First Edition. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 20.5cm x 15cm. 84 2 pages. Half leather marbled papered boards gilt lettering and decoration top edge gilt marbled endpapers. Text is in French. First edition one of 600 copies the title page device by Felicien Rops. MASON 348. This copy rebound in a fine signed art nouveau binding by Hatchards Piccadilly without the wrappers with a plentiful quantity of blank leaves at the rear to allow for the binding design. Text is in French. Some discolouration to spine. Very minor rubbing to fore-edge corners lower tail fore-edge corner lightly pushed. Very minor foxing. Category: Performing Arts; Fine Bindings; Performing Arts::Theatre & Plays; 19th Century: 1851-1899; French Language; Literature & Fiction. Inventory No: 0036073. BZDB407 Performing Arts; Fine Bindings; Performing Arts::Theatre & Plays; 19th Century: 1851-1899; French Language; Literature & Fiction. Unbranded Oscar Wilde Salome. Drame en un acte. Librairie de L'Art Independant and Elkin Mathews et John Lane hardcover
1994Best.-Nr. BN69939Neugebauer Verlag 1994. Hardcover. neuwertig! Neugebauer Verlag hardcover
2023Best.-Nr. SONG1804454257Classic Editions 2023-10-12. paperback. Used: Good. 0.00x0.00x0.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Classic Editions paperback
Best.-Nr. SKU1717256Running Press Adult 2015-05-26. hardcover. New. 8x0x11. New Book Ships with Tracking Running Press Adult hardcover
1908Best.-Nr. 21288London: Methuen 1908. A first edition first printing of 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime' published by Methuen in 1908. Bound in the publishers original ivory coloured buckram with gilt title lettering to spine and gilt tooling and title lettering to front board. This is the first Methuen edition. This Edition on handmade paper is limited to a 1000 copies for the United Kingdom and America. A very good book. No inscriptions. Browning to the spine some rubbing. Thin line to the front board. The first Methuen edition of this classic Oscar Wilde collection of prose pieces. Contains 'The Canterville Ghost' and the 'Model Millionaire' amongst the seven pieces. Methuen hardcover
1980Best.-Nr. x-0522842011Melbourne University Press 1980. Paperback. New. 480 pages. 6.13x0.97x9.25 inches. Melbourne University Press paperback
2013Best.-Nr. 1-1849714290Earthscan / James & James 2013. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 256 pages. 10.00x7.00x0.75 inches. Earthscan / James & James paperback
2025Best.-Nr. x-1041148453Routledge 2025. Hardcover. New. 144 pages. 8.50x5.43x8.50 inches. Routledge hardcover
1894Best.-Nr. 185053London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane 1894. A sublime production by the enfants terribles of Victorian Britain First edition in English the first to feature Beardsley's elegant art nouveau illustrations. "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. Salomé was published in French in 1893. This English translation by Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas was published the following year in a run of 500 trade copies as here and 100 on large paper. The premiere took place on 11 February 1896 at the Comédie-Parisienne; the Lord Chamberlain cited Protestant Reformation laws banning religious plays to restrict the public staging in Britain. 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. Small quarto. Frontispiece illustrated title list of illustrations pages 9 plates and tailpiece all by Beardsley; publisher's unopened 16-page advertisements at end. Original blue canvas boards spine lettered in gilt decorations designed by Beardsley to covers in gilt edges untrimmed. Cloth slightly rubbed gutter cracked between a couple of gatherings a couple of plates discreetly reinserted. A very good copy. Mason 350; Ray 315A. hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. 182434London: Leonard Smithers and Co 1899. An unusual binding First edition number 373 of 1000 copies. This copy is in a contemporary vellum binding in a style that was popular at the end of the nineteenth century similar to those produced by both the Kelmscott Press and the Riccardi Press. This copy was part of the standard issue in cloth; a further 100 signed large paper copies and 12 signed copies on japon were produced. Wilde's last play opened to great acclaim on Valentine's Day 1895 but was withdrawn after Wilde's failed libel suit against Lord Queensberry led to his arrest in April of that year. The play was not published in book form until February 1899 after Wilde's release from prison. Quarto 210 x 155 mm. Contemporary limp vellum spine lettered in gilt green silk ties top edge gilt others untrimmed. Natural variation to vellum light foxing mostly to edges. A very good copy. Mason 381. hardcover
2019Best.-Nr. 1-1787534685BBC Physical Audio 2019. Audio CD. New. unabridged edition. 5.50x5.25x1.25 inches. BBC Physical Audio unknown
1992Best.-Nr. 251011007Jester Pr 1992-04-01. hardcover. Like New. 8x6x0. Inscribed by the author ~ Like-New Inside and Out! Clean & Crisp Pages. E-mail for more info./pics Jester Pr hardcover
2000Best.-Nr. 1-8467033932Austral 2000. Paperback. New. Spanish language. 7.40x4.88x0.63 inches. Austral paperback
1898Best.-Nr. 181423London: Leonard Smithers 1898. The rare deluxe issue elegantly bound First edition number 17 of 30 copies printed on japon presented here in a restrained contemporary morocco binding. The limitation is handwritten in purple ink by Leonard Smithers. A further 800 copies on handmade paper were published simultaneously. Wilde wrote the poem while exiled in France and published it 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 issued within weeks. Octavo 220 x 145 mm. Contemporary purple morocco spine lettered and decorated with leaf tools in gilt "W" monogram enclosed in laurel wreath to front cover in gilt blind rules to covers turn-ins gilt original vellum spine bound in at rear. Housed in a purple flat-back cloth box by the Chelsea Bindery. Book label of J. O. Edwards to front free endpaper. Joints repaired a handsome copy. Mason 372. hardcover
2017Best.-Nr. 1-1501156292Howard Pub Co 2017. Hardcover. New. 224 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches. Howard Pub Co hardcover
1999Best.-Nr. x-080583141XLawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc 1999. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 376 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc hardcover
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Best.-Nr. 2411DG200Traduzidos coligidos e acompanhados de notas críticas e biográficas por Almeida Paiva. Prefaciado pelo eminente professor Dr. Egas Moniz. Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira Livraria Editora. Lisboa. 1926. De 19x13 cm. Com xx 244 iii págs. Brochado. Exemplar com dedicatória de Almeida Paiva a Albino Forjaz de Sampaio na folha de anterrosto. Tem junto uma folha solta com uma ficha catalográfica escrita à mão. Com manchas de humidade junto ao festo de algumas folhas e lombada parcialmente descolada. SACO DG209-9 unknown
1998Best.-Nr. 1-1561703931Hay House 1998. Hardcover. New. 101 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.75 inches. Hay House hardcover
Best.-Nr. 49546361like new. unknown
2024Best.-Nr. x-1038320682FriesenPress 2024. Hardcover. New. 348 pages. 6.00x0.94x9.00 inches. FriesenPress hardcover
1928Best.-Nr. 178757New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc. 1928. First Vassos trade edition first printing inscribed on the half-title by the illustrator "To Josephine Allen in symbolism John Vassos" and with Allen's signature on the front pastedown. Vassos's art-deco illustrations poignantly complement Wilde's famous poem. Vassos 1898-1985 was an American industrial and graphic designer famous for designing the first commercially available television sets and many popular logos. In 1926 Vassos's design for a cover illustration for a stage production of Salomé caught the attention of the publishers E. P. Dutton resulting in a Vassos-illustrated edition of the play published in 1927. He illustrated eight further books of which this is the second. Octavo. Monochrome frontispiece 15 plates by Vassos all with tissue guards. Original blue boards black cloth backstrip lettered in gilt front board with illustration in black and gilt pale grey endpapers top edge blue fore and bottom edges uncut. With dust jacket. Spine a little cocked top edge toned closed tear to outer margin of pp. 35-6; jacket unclipped nicks chips and short closed tears to extremities spine sunned: a very good copy in like jacket. hardcover
