Wilde, Oscar, and Lynd WardBiblio.com
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1928réf. 17251New York: Macy-Masius The Vanguard Press. Good with no dust jacket. First Impression One of 2000. Hardcover. Illustrated by Lynd Ward. New York: Macy-Masius: The Vanguard Press 1928. First Impression One of 2000. 10.25 x 7.5". 107pp. Original paper boards edges moderately worn ends of spine panel lacking most of the letters remain binding stable owner's name on front endpaper interior clean very good.; 10.25 x 7.5 inches; 107 pages . 1928. Macy-Masius, The Vanguard Press hardcover
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2018réf. x-1472455452Taylor & Francis 2018. Hardcover. New. 196 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. Taylor & Francis hardcover
1888réf. 190846London: David Nutt 1888. If you want a red rose. you must build it out of music by moonlight and stain it with your own heart's-blood First edition of Wilde's first and best-known collection of children's stories including "The Selfish Giant" "The Nightingale and the Rose" "The Devoted Friend" and "The Remarkable Rocket". Wilde's "reputation as an author dated from the publication of the Happy Prince and Other Tales in London in May 1888. The Athenaeum compared him to Hans Christian Andersen and Pater wrote to say that 'The Selfish Giant' was 'perfect in its kind' and the whole book written in 'pure English' - a wonderful compliment" Ellmann p. 282. Small quarto. Frontispiece with tissue guard and 2 plates by Walter Crane 12 head- and tailpieces by Jacomb Hood. Original cream paper-covered boards spine lettered in black front cover lettered in red with vignette design in black and publisher's device in red. Housed in a custom black cloth slipcase. Ownership signature dated 3 June 1888 of Minnie Davenport daughter of Staffordshire silk manufacturer Henry Davenport and her pen-and-ink "bookplate" in the style of Walter Crane signed "W.L.S. invent." to front free endpaper; bookplate of Jeremy Mason. Spine toned boards rubbed and marked spot of wear to outer edge of front board: a very good copy. Mason 313 "1000 copies". Richard Ellmann Oscar Wilde 1987. hardcover
1910réf. 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
2018réf. 191725San Francisco: Arion Press 2018. Signed limited edition number 166 of 276 numbered and signed by the illustrator. In his works for the book Birk gave scenes from Wilde's tales a contemporary Irish setting to "make Wilde's moral visions relevant to our own troubled times. to create not just an illustrated book but something more thought provoking and enduring" p. xii. Since 1974 Andrew Hoyem's Arion Press has been producing fine limited editions in the heart of San Francisco using letterpress equipment dating from the 1910s. Overseeing every aspect of book production in-house they are the only unified hot-metal type foundry letterpress workshop and book bindery in the United States. Hoyem won the San Francisco Living Treasure Award in 2010 for his decades of contribution to both book arts and the city. Quarto. With frontispiece and 18 further illustrations green initials. Green quarter cloth beige flecked sides front lettered in green with bronze butterfly decoration endpapers orange fore edge untrimmed. With slipcase as issued. A fine copy. hardcover
1894réf. 194868London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head 1894. One of 50 deluxe copies First edition large paper issue one of 50 copies attractively printed on handmade paper with wide margins and bound in tan buckram. The trade issue consisted of 500 copies that were printed on smaller machine-made paper and bound in pink linen. The play's premiere at the Haymarket Theatre on 19 April 1893 was met with applause for the actors and boos for the playwright causing Wilde to announce from behind a curtain "Ladies and gentlemen I regret to inform you that Mr Oscar Wilde is not in the house" Ellmann p. 381. Wilde's opulent production used "the market forces of luxury dressmaking to comment upon the worlds of his Haymarket patrons. Audiences in the stalls and boxes continued to be both flattered and vexed by the antics of their on-stage doubles while viewers in the upper galleries enjoyed the additional spectacle of fashionable Society catching its likeness in Wilde's cunningly set mirrors" Kaplan p. 252. Small quarto. Original tan buckram over bevelled boards with gilt floral decorations by Charles Shannon spine lettered in gilt fore and bottom edges uncut. Bookseller's ticket of James Parker & Co. Oxford. Spine and cover edges toned as usual surface scratch to front cover light rubbing to edges endpapers browned but contents bright. A very good copy. Mason 365. Richard Ellmann Oscar Wilde 1988; Joel Kaplan "Wilde on the Stage" The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde ed. by Peter Raby 1997. hardcover
réf. J14R-00911Modern Library. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name short gifter’s inscription or light stamp. Modern Library unknown
1908réf. 194545London: Methuen and Co. except Dorian Gray: Charles Carrington Paris 1908. A finely bound set of the first collection of his works First collected edition one of 1000 sets on handmade paper edited by Wilde's most constant friend and literary executor Robert Ross 1869-1918. It prints previously unpublished material including the uncompleted play A Florentine Tragedy a fragment of another La Sainte Courtisane and various lectures. 14 vols octavo 210 x 147 mm. Near-contemporary blue morocco spines with raised bands milled in gilt compartments lettered and elaborately tooled in gilt boards decoratively panelled in gilt board edges and turn-ins in gilt gilt doublures white watered silk free endpapers top edges gilt others untrimmed white silk bookmarkers. Spines sunned light rubbing retouched with colour presenting attractively variable foxing to contents couple of bookmarkers fraying. A very good set. Mason 420 423 425 427 429 431 433 435 437 439 441 443 445 447. hardcover
1878réf. 178974Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son 1878. His debut First edition of Wilde's first independent publication a poetic evocation of the historic Italian city composed while a student at Oxford and awarded the University's prestigious Newdigate Prize; "its laments for the sufferings of Dante and Byron proclaimed admiration and anticipation" ODNB. The inspiration for the poem came on a "vacation ramble" to Italy in 1877. Wilde recited the poem at the Sheldonian Theatre on 26 June where according to the review published the next day in The Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduate's Journal he was "listened to with rapt attention and frequently applauded" Ellman p. 94. Provenance: Alfred Sutro 1869-1945 with his bookplate. Sutro was a San Francisco lawyer and bibliophile who served as president of the Book Club of California from 1925 to 1945. Octavo pp. 16. Original grey-green printed wrappers lettered in black. Housed in a custom red cloth chemise lettered in gilt. Bookseller's ticket on verso of front wrapper. Wrappers rubbed front wrapper professionally reattached small chips to edges small loss to lower outer corner of rear wrapper browning to title page from bookplate: a very good copy. Richard Ellmann Oscar Wilde 1987; Mason 301. hardcover
1926réf. 190158Paris: F.-L. Schmied 1926. In a superb art deco Schmied binding Signed limited edition number 59 of 162 copies only signed by Schmied on the original drawing of these two French translations of Wilde's The Happy Prince and The Nightingale and the Rose originally published in 1888. François-Louis Schmied 1873-1941 a Swiss-born French painter engraver and printer incarnated the art deco style in the 1920s which he brought to its peak in the bibliophile-oriented publishing field. Quarto 273 x 222mm. Finely bound by Creuzevault in contemporary blue crushed morocco titles to spine in red morocco onlay and blind tooling pictorial onlays in blue red brown white and black morocco heightened in silver after two of Schmied's in-text ornamental designs blue patterned silk endpapers original colour pictorial wrappers preserved blue silk bookmark untrimmed. Housed in a custom plush-lined patterned-paper slipcase light rubbing to extremities. Original gouache signed by Schmied mounted before limitation page 60 colour woodcuts heightened in silver and gilt including 4 full-page suite of woodcuts all but one on Japan title page in red and black with Schmied's device in similar colours. Light sunning and rubbing to spine the binding otherwise sharp occasional light offsetting else internally fresh and clean; a near-fine copy. unknown
1899réf. 183655London: Leonard Smithers and Co. 1899. The truth is rarely pure and never simple First edition signed limited issue number 17 of 100 copies signed by the author and printed on large handmade paper. Wilde's last and greatest play opened to huge acclaim on Valentine's Day 1895 but was withdrawn after Wilde's failed libel suit against Lord Queensberry led to his arrest. The play was not published in book form until February 1899 after Wilde's release from prison. The total edition comprised 1000 unsigned copies 100 signed large paper copies and 12 signed copies on japon for presentation. Quarto. Original pink cloth spine lettered in gilt stylized leaf motifs by Charles Shannon in gilt to spine and covers edges untrimmed. Housed in a custom red quarter morocco folding box. Spine sunned and rubbed tiny spots of wear to extremities light browning to endpapers as usual. A very good copy. hardcover
1973réf. ZB1354648Easton Press 1973. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday Nov. 2 weekend sale item Gilt-stamped full green leather hardcover moire endpapers and pastedowns a.e.g. fine. Includes Notes from the Archives and an unused Easton Press bookplate laid in. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Easton Press hardcover
1888réf. 0107840 First trade edition/First printing published by David Nutt London 1888. Tight binding. Print run of 1000 copies Frontispiece with tissue guard and 2 other plates by Walter Crane. No marks or inscriptions. Owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Foxing to endpages and occasional throughout. Stiff card covers have tanning and some marking. Protected in archive cover. David Nutt hardcover
1952réf. 172539Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1952. Eight vintage hand-tinted color British front-of-house cards from the 1952 film here under the alternate title "Sons of the Musketeers." in 1648 Queen Anne of France calls on the Four Musketeers for help but they send their children instead. Set in France. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1980réf. 060354Issaquah Wa: The Archive Press 1980. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. Title Page Decortation By Rick Lindberg Design By Alan Ligda. . 4Pp. A Private Press Publication. Number "One" Of 135 Copies California Old Style Type Hand-Set By Alan Ligda Leaf Hand-Made Natural White Wave Paper Endpapers Hand-Marbled By Christina Russell And Dan Guyot Custom Made Inks By Daniel Smith Ink Company String-Bound. Inscribed "For ----- Who Introduced Me To This Story In 19501 With Cordial Best Wishes And Many Thnks Alan Ligda" Also Signed By Russell Guyot And Lindberg. The Archive Press paperback
réf. 45222LONDON FOLIO SOCIETY 2009. A FINE COPY IN A NEAR FINE CLIPCASE. INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOW AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY EMMA CHICHESTER CLARK. LONDON, FOLIO SOCIETY, 2009 unknown
1891réf. 195705London: James R. Osgood McIlvaine & Co. 1891. Wilde as critic First edition of Wilde's collected essays on aesthetics and criticism originally published in journals from 1885 to 1890. Wilde revised the essays for this edition setting out his ideas "in a gorgeous profusion of epigram and paradox ostentation and learning frivolity and wisdom" ODNB. This is one of 900 copies for publication in Britain from a total edition of 1500. Octavo. Original green cloth spine and front cover lettered in gilt edges untrimmed. Bookseller's stamp in blind of Palmer Howe & Co. Manchester. Small bumps to extremities faint marks to p. 229. A near-fine copy. Mason 341. hardcover
réf. 76342Paris: Charles Carrington 1908. Psychological thriller FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto 26 x 20cm pp.312. Illustrated with seven full-page wood engravings by Eugene Dété from drawings by Paul Thiriat of Paris with titled tissue guards tanned. The publisher's note on the illustrations is tipped onto the half title although dated 1908 the book was issued in 1910 due to the artist's health. Bound in half Japanese vellum gilt lettering to spine sewn endbands grey paper covered boards top edge gilt. Discreet gift inscription to endpaper a few light reading marks within else generally clean edges toned vellum is bright paper covered boards have browned some rubs. Decidedly scarce. The most popular of Wilde's books The Picture of Dorian Gray appeared first in Lippincott's magazine in 1890. The story as published in book-form contains six new chapters many alterations and much additional matter. After the famous trial the publishers although inundated with orders for copies withdrew the book from circulation. The unforgettable dark and brooding chiller set in high-society late-Victorian London; a coded and epigrammatic melodrama inspired by his Wilde's own tortured homosexuality. Mason 335 p.349. Paris: Charles Carrington, 1908 unknown
2009réf. SBBIH-MCJ6WRGMICQRFolio Society 2009. hardcover. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Folio Society hardcover
2006réf. 337631New York: Backpack Books 2006. First Edition Thus; Third Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Rory Tyger. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Minor bumping at top panel corners.; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 93 pages. Backpack Books hardcover
2006réf. 337658New York: Barnes & Noble 2006. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Spine bowing slightly. Rubbing along bottom text block edge. Bumping at spine crown and heel and panel corners. Light shelfwear on front panel.; Library of Essential Writers; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 1417 pages. Barnes & Noble hardcover
