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2024ref. x-7547066178WAN Juan Chu Ban Gong Si 2024. Paperback. New. Chinese language. 5.79x4.17x0.71 inches. WAN Juan Chu Ban Gong Si paperback
1947ref. 017938New York: Random House 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. H. Lawrence Hoffman. 8vo. 214pp. Sharp Stated First Printing of this quite humorous anthology of a bumbling but ultimately effective sleuth. Bound in black cloth with titles in black and gilt on the spine upon red and gold backgrounds. Square tight and clean throughout with just a touch of softness to spine ends and a hint of toning to page edges. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket $2.50 has some tiny chips to extremities and a couple of tiny edge-tears. Still quite fresh and bright and presents very well. Though not marked in any way this came directly from the library of H. Lawrence Hoffman who illustrated the dust-jacket. His son David Hoffman the noted documentary filmmaker has signed a statement with information about his father the artist and attesting that the book was from his library. A copy of this is included. A very pretty collectable copy. Random House hardcover
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ref. ANAIS-0195202317Oxford University Press. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Oxford University Press hardcover
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2016ref. 1-0062311433Avon Books 2016. Paperback. New. 378 pages. 7.00x4.00x1.00 inches. Avon Books paperback
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2001ref. 1-0262025019Mit Pr 2001. Hardcover. New. illustrated edition. 145 pages. 10.00x13.00x1.00 inches. Mit Pr hardcover
1840ref. 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
1918ref. 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
1913ref. 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
1893ref. 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
1980ref. x-0522842011Melbourne University Press 1980. Paperback. New. 480 pages. 6.13x0.97x9.25 inches. Melbourne University Press paperback
2025ref. x-1041148453Routledge 2025. Hardcover. New. 144 pages. 8.50x5.43x8.50 inches. Routledge hardcover
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2024ref. x-1038320682FriesenPress 2024. Hardcover. New. 348 pages. 6.00x0.94x9.00 inches. FriesenPress hardcover
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