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1891rif. 377597London: James R. Osgood McIlvaine 1891. First edition limited to 1000 copies. Designs and decorations by C. Ricketts & Ch. Shannon. 1 vols. Large 8vo. Publisher's original pictorial binding elaborately printed and stamped in gilt with additional gilt stamping to spine; slightly cocked; lightly tanned along margins; minor shelf wear with bumping to head and tail of spine and slight bubbling to upper right corner; fore and bottom edges uncut; decorative endpapers; first free endpaper detached but present with bookplate of Walter Chrysler on verso; several pages at front unopened; hinge cracked at several sections. First edition limited to 1000 copies. Designs and decorations by C. Ricketts & Ch. Shannon. 1 vols. Large 8vo. The sequel to Wilde's previous book of fairy tales this collection comprises "The Young King" "The Birthday of the Infanta" "The Fisherman and his Soul" and "The Star-Child" and was dedicated to his wife Constance. Intricately bound and limited to just 1000 copies this copy previously belonged to the American automobile magnate Walter Chrysler with his gilt bookplate at front. A lovely copy of a fragile edition. Mason 347 James R. Osgood McIlvaine unknown
rif. 2222765ca. 1904. Pirated edition probably by Smithers. 8 ¾" x 6 ¾". Original gray/blue printed wrappers. No dust jacket. Very good no foxing. 49 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Enclosed in a ½ blue morocco slipcase with folding chemise. Number 152 of 300 copies. Mason 598. Privately Printed
1912rif. 050522London England: Arthur L. Humphreys 1912. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. x 99p. Light foxing to endpapers. Blue paper HC w red paper title label to front cover. Stain to top front corner. Binding square and sound. Red printed DJ shows sunning to spine shallow loss to head 1cm loss to tail. Front hinge of DJ separated but remains intact. DJ preserved in removable mylar cover. 12mo - 18 x 12.5 cm. Arthur L. Humphreys hardcover
1994rif. 221535United Kingdom: Wordsworth Classics 1994. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Wordsworth Classics hardcover
1928rif. 191171Paris: The Black Sun Press; Éditions Narcisse. 1928. the sun was shining brightly in the gardens of the palace Limited edition number 5 of 100 copies on Hollande Van Gelder Zonen paper from a total edition of 113 copies. Alastair's illustrations take inspiration from Aubrey Beardsley and "combine decorative elegance with a fascination with the perverse sinister and satanic" Peppin p. 311. Wilde's short story was first published in the 1891 collection House of Pomegranates. Quarto. Frontispiece and 8 plates printed in black and brown with tissue guards illustrations in the text. Title and page numbers printed in red. Original cream wrappers front cover lettered and ruled in black and red rear cover with red central vignette and black rule border edges uncut. With original glassine jacket. Housed in original silver paper-covered chemise and matching slipcase additionally housed in custom black cloth slipcase. Bookplate of Wilde collector Jeremy J. Mason. Minor wear to spine ends couple spots to covers and contents near-fine; glassine with long split at front fold other shorter tears chemise and slipcase with rubbing and wear with partial splits and repairs to chemise inner hinges very good. Minkoff A13a. Brigid Peppin Book Illustrators of the Twentieth Century 1984. hardcover
1920rif. 191449London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1920. A beautiful and silent Sphinx First Alastair edition one of 1000 copies elaborately decorated with illustrations by Baron Hans-Henning von Voight 1887-1969 who published under the pseudonym Alastair. His illustrations take inspiration from Aubrey Beardsley and "combine decorative elegance with a fascination with the perverse sinister and satanic" Peppin p. 311. Quarto. Frontispiece and 9 plates with captioned tissue guards pictorial initials and illustrations in text all printed in blue and black. Original white cloth spine lettered in gilt front cover with gilt and turquoise illustration top edge gilt others uncut. Housed in custom orange cloth chemise and matching quarter morocco slipcase. Bookplate of Wilde collector Jeremy J. Mason; New York bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown. Spine lightly toned decorations bright occasional light foxing. A very good copy. Brigid Peppin Book Illustrators of the Twentieth Century 1984. hardcover
1929rif. 016945Paris: Les Editions G. Cres & Cie 1929. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Varietes Litteraires Series limited edition #309/1000. Orig. red pebbled cloth. 76 pp. Frontis. portrait of Wilde. Interior age toned. About fine. Les Editions G. Cres & Cie hardcover
2025rif. SKU1744060Routledge 2025-03-27. paperback. New. 6x0x9. New Book Ships with Tracking Routledge paperback
1894rif. 191028Oxford: J. Vincent; Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co. London 1894. An uncommon parody of Wilde First edition one of 750 copies of this Oxford play satirizing Oscar Wilde. The authors of this anonymous parody an entertaining imitation of the classical Greek comedy of Aristophanes were three Oxford undergraduates. Leopold Amery 1873-1955 later a prominent journalist and conservative politician. Francis Wrigley Hirst 1873-1953 later a successful journalist editor of The Economist and biographer of Thomas Jefferson. Little is known about Henry Alford Antony Cruso besides that he published another drama in 1907. The initialism Y.T.O. comprises the last letter of their surnames. Octavo. Original buff wrappers front cover lettered in green. Housed in a custom green cloth slipcase. Booklabel of Timothy D'Arch Smith b. 1936 the British author and co-founder of Victim Press; illustrated bookplate of Jeremy J. Mason designed by David Ward and dated 1974 on initial leaf. Spine a little chipped wrappers toned and soiled edges nicked sporadic foxing. A good copy. Mason 685. hardcover
2017rif. x-1526411725Sage Pubns Ltd 2017. Paperback. New. 5th pap/psc edition. 291 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches. Sage Pubns Ltd paperback
2017rif. x-1526411717Sage Pubns Ltd 2017. Hardcover. New. 5th har/psc edition. 291 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. Sage Pubns Ltd hardcover
1852rif. 190906Dublin: J. McGlashan 1852. First edition of this collection of essays on Irish folklore by Oscar Wilde's father William Wilde 1815-76. This book contains chapters on "The May-Day Festival in Ireland" and "Fairy Archaeology and Medico-Religious Ceremonies". Some chapters appeared in the Dublin University Magazine ahead of this collection. The elder Wilde was a respected surgeon who was appointed to treat Queen Victoria. He ran the St Mark's Ophthalmic Hospital for Diseases of the Eye and Ear and published works on medicine archaeology and folklore. Small octavo. Frontispiece. With 2 pp. of publisher's ads. Original yellow wrappers spine and covers lettered in black covers bordered in brown decorations. Housed in custom green cloth slipcase. Bookplate of Jeremy J. Mason; bookseller's address embossed on rear wrapper. Spine ends repaired with paper spine and front wrapper fore edge reinforced with tape wrappers a little chipped and soiled front pages up to p. 21 starting p. 23 loose. A good copy. hardcover
2016rif. 006424Calla 2016. Hardcover. Fine. Henry Keen. Nice first Calla hardcover edition/printing in As New unread condition with no dust jacket as issued. Classic tale done in the typically stunning Calla production! Calla hardcover
2018rif. x-113861114XRoutledge 2018. Hardcover. New. 394 pages. 7.87x5.51x1.57 inches. Routledge hardcover
1948rif. 192336London: William Hodge and Company Limited 1948. The finest speech of an accused man since that of Paul before King Herod Agrippa First edition number 30 of 50 copies signed by Hyde and Humphreys. Hyde co-wrote the screenplay for the 1960 film of the same name directed by Ken Hughes. A barrister and politician as well as an author Hyde was a vocal supporter of the decriminalization of homosexuality. Octavo. Portrait frontispiece after Toulouse-Lautrec. Original red morocco-grained leatherette spine lettered in gilt marbled endpapers red edges orange silk bookmarker. Former ownership inscription in black ink to front pastedown. Spine and lower board edges a little rubbed upper board corners bumped book block cracked at pp. 382-383: a very good copy. hardcover
1905rif. 16244Paris: Privately Printed 1905. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited to 50 copies. Good. Original wraps generally toned some spots of soiling a very small chip at the head of the spine tear down much of the top spine fold. Square and firmly bound with unopened pages some foxing at the edges clean otherwise. A pirated edition printed by Charles Carrington with the text taken from the July 1894 issue of The Fortnightly Review. Mason 609. Privately Printed hardcover
2016rif. x-1357657242Palala Press 2016. Hardcover. New. 240 pages. 6.14x0.56x9.21 inches. Palala Press hardcover
1971rif. 162620N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 film here under the alternate release title "The Young Divorcess." Provenance stamp on the verso. Loosely based on the 1897 Oscar Wilde poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol." Featuring early performances by George Takei and eventual director of "Fright Night" Tom Holland. In a 2006 interview with Howard Stern Takei revealed that the sex scenes were shot with body doubles and added only after the film was unable to secure distribution. Takei added that he was "impressed" with the body double used for his character. Three recently divorced twenty somethings abandon their suffocating lives and shack up as free-sprited free-love hippies. Today a cult favorite. Shot on location in San Diego and Piru California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
rif. 75101Boson MA and New York NY: The C.T. Brainard Publishing Co. 1909. Literature LEATHER-BOUND ILLUSTRATED SET Edition De Luxe. Complete in 15 volumes. Octavo 20 x 13 x 56cm. Each volume with between three and seven black and white illustrated plates including a frontispiece by various illustrators. An out-of-series copy from an edition of 1000 numbered copies. Recently bound in blue half morocco with raised bands gilt titles to twin red labels and matching cloth over boards. Top edges gilt and others lightly trimmed. A crisp clean set in an attractive new leather binding. Boson, MA, and New York, NY: The C.T. Brainard Publishing Co., 1909 unknown
rif. 49215238like new. unknown
1892rif. 180628London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane 1892. My life is a twice-written scroll Signed limited edition number 195 of 220 copies numbered and signed by the author. Poems was first published in 1881. This is Mason's "author's edition" a reissue of the fifth edition substituting the first two prelims with a new half-title and limitation leaf and a conjugate title leaf all designed by Charles Ricketts. The volume was the first issued by the new partnership of Elkin Mathews and John Lane. Octavo. Original pale pink cloth spine and covers lettered and elaborated decorated with prunus blossom designs in gilt pale purple decorated endpapers all after designs by Charles Ricketts top edge gilt others untrimmed. Bookplates of Alfred Sutro the artist and architect George A. Crawley and the abbot's library at St Benedict's Fort Augustus. Minor restoration to spine ends supplying half a dozen letters minor foxing to cloth front free endpaper reinserted. A very good copy. Mason 309. hardcover
1976rif. GB004F8P3SCI3N01Heritage Press 1976. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Heritage Press hardcover
rif. 361146Thames and Hudson 1997. Quarto light grey cloth boards stamped black lettering to spine frontispiece 176pp illus/photos VG light staining to lower edge of front board minimal staining to page edges in d/w VG loose protective cover minimal tanning to flaps and spine minimal creasing to upper edges Thames and Hudson 1997 hardcover
rif. 75205London: William Hodge 1948. Legal and literary history FIRST EDITION. Octavo 22 x 15cm. Pp.384. Publisher's red cloth gilt titles to spine illustrated dust-wrapper. Discreet bookplate beneath flap. Contents and page edges clean wrapper with shallow loss to rear panel minor wear to spine ends. One of the most famous and desirable titles in the popular 'Notable British Trials Series' this being volume 70; the collectable series includes such notorious cases as Captain Kidd the pirate bodysnatchers Burke and Hare and the murderous Dr. Crippen. London: William Hodge, 1948 unknown
1952rif. 170434Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1952. Collection of 36 vintage reference photographs from the 1952 film including 35 bordered and one borderless. Most with provenance stamps and labels on the versos and four with printed mimeo snipes affixed to same. Based on Carson McCullers' beloved 1946 novel which McCullers also adapted for Broadway in 1950 starring actors Ethel Waters and Julie Harris who reprised their roles for the film. A young lonely tomboy dreams of escaping her small southern town with her brother and his fiancée. Harris was 27 more than double the age of the fictional Frankie Addams at the time of the film's production. Set in the American South. 35 photographs 10 x 8 inches one 7.5 x 9.25 inches. Generally Very Good plus to Near Fine a couple with annotations in manuscript ink on the margins. Columbia Pictures unknown
