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2012réf. G0007472293I4N00HarperCollins UK 2012. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. HarperCollins UK paperback
2000réf. 193392London: The British Library 2000. Signed limited edition number 56 of 95 copies signed by Merlin Holland Wilde's only grandchild dated 30 November 2000 the centenary of his grandfather's death. This edition reproduces the prison paper manuscript of Wilde's only literary work from his time at Reading Gaol published posthumously in 1904. Folio. Original blue half morocco spine lettered in gilt and with clover device blue cloth sides ruled in gilt marbled endpapers. Housed in original blue cloth slipcase blue morocco label on front. A fine copy in like slipcase. hardcover
2000réf. 1-8467033932Austral 2000. Paperback. New. Spanish language. 7.40x4.88x0.63 inches. Austral paperback
1898réf. 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
1904réf. 49256Privately Printed 1904. Softcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Pp. 49. Original blue/grey wrappers lettered in black. Edition of 300 this is numbered 162. Very light nicks and chips at the edges and to spine ends otherwise a bright and clean copy and the binding tight. Pirated edition. Mason 598. Privately Printed unknown
1991réf. 163221New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux FSG 1991. First Edition. First Edition. Association Copy INSCRIBED on the title page to author Chris Offutt: "July 97 / To Chris / with admiration and in hopes of having a real conversation one of these days / Luc." About Fine in a price-clipped Near Fine dust jacket. Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG] unknown
réf. 73340London: The Pall Mall Gazette 1st July to 31st December 1887. Miscellaneous Articles FIRST APPEARANCES. Folio 37 x 26cm including 26 weekly parts pp.32 each with the Index to the Pall Mall Gazette pp.xx. With occasional in-text illustrations. Recently re-backed in burgundy calf with the original spine showing gilt titles laid over the top and marbled paper over original half calf boards. All edges speckled red. Mild spotting to first and final few leaves otherwise internally crisp and clean. Moderate general wear to boards with heavy wear to original spine. Now restored to a robust attractive condition. Very good. A six-monthly compendium of the weekly digest of the Pall Mall Gazette including numerous contemporary political and cultural articles. This volume contains seven mostly anonymous articles by the great Oscar Wilde. Mason 130-36. London: The Pall Mall Gazette, 1st July to 31st December 1887 unknown
2022réf. 1-0367610043Routledge 2022. Paperback. New. 3rd edition. 494 pages. 9.68x6.87x0.98 inches. Routledge paperback
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réf. ANAIS-0325013926HEINEMANN. paperback. Good. 9.5X6.5X1.5. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. HEINEMANN paperback
2012réf. DADAX3639416139AV Akademikerverlag 2012-05-23. paperback. New. 5.91x0.86x8.66. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. AV Akademikerverlag paperback
2012réf. DADAX0415628318Routledge 2012-12-19. 1. hardcover. New. 6.25x0.50x9.25. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Routledge hardcover
1990réf. ZB1336315Springer 1990. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday Nov. 2 weekend sale item 576 pp. hardcover ex library else text clean and binding tight. - 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. Photos available upon request. Springer hardcover
1894réf. 182536London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head 1894. Mr Oscar Wilde is not in the house First edition one of 500 trade copies. The play's opening show 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. The play premiered at Haymarket Theatre on 19 April 1893 and ran until 16 August for 113 performances. A further 50 large paper copies were also issued. Small quarto. Publisher's 16-page catalogue dated March 1894 at rear. Original pink linen with gilt floral decorations by Charles Shannon spine lettered in gilt fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Housed in a custom green cloth slipcase and chemise. Faint marks and fading to spine ends slightly bumped cloth lightly rubbed contents toned as usual. A very good copy. Mason 364. Richard Ellmann Oscar Wilde 1988; Joel Kaplan "Wilde on the Stage" in Peter Raby ed. The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde 1997. hardcover
1994réf. 49459Llandogo: The Old Stile Press 1994. Hardcover. Near Fine. Royal 8vo. Stiff cream coloured boards with black spine lettering and C.3.3. stamped in blind on the front cover. Housed in a thick black pictorial slipcase. Edition of 225 copies numbered and signed by artist Garrick Palmer who did the wood-engravings. This is copy no 92. A fine copy slipcase corners a touch rubbed one corner very lightly bumped quite near fine. The Old Stile Press hardcover
1902réf. 016400London: David Nutt 1902. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Crane Walter and Jacomb Hood. 8vo. One of 1000 copies. Orig. stiffened cream card wrappers. 116 pp. Red cloth custom slipcase with pictorial inlay. Spine slightly tilted crack to spine foot possible glue repair. Covers toned with a few spots of soiling some light damp staining. Light foxing to endpapers. David Nutt hardcover
1900réf. 187548London: Leonard Smithers c. 1900-07. A finely bound copy of Smithers's unauthorized edition with the publisher's address removed from the title page. Mason notes that "there are some misprints in the text but except in one or two places it is a line for line reprint of the earlier editions". Octavo 212 x 133 mm. Mid-twentieth century red morocco by Asprey spine lettered in gilt gilt rule to boards board edges and turn-ins floral endpapers edges gilt. Paper repair to p. 15. An attractive copy. Mason 584 & 585. hardcover
1907réf. 187979London: Keller-Farmer Co. 1907. It lies like a leper in purple it sits like a dead thing smeared with gold The Uniform Edition the illustrated Edition De Luxe issue number 152 of 200 sets this one in unusual vibrant purple bindings. This is the most limited issue of this very early collected edition of Wilde's works. 15 vols octavo 165 x 140 mm. Frontispieces with tissue guards captioned in red plates throughout illustrated title pages letterpress title pages printed in red and black. Contemporary purple crushed morocco spines lettered in gilt compartments tooled with central tool in gilt purple cloth sides and endpapers top edges gilt fore and bottom edges uncut. Bindings bright rubbing sometime retouched with iridescent polish slight loss to corner of Salome hinge cracked but holding at p. 12 of Epigrams very mild occasional foxing. A near-fine set. hardcover
1899réf. 186774London: 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. The edition also included 100 signed copies on large paper and 12 on Japanese vellum reserved for presentation. Quarto. Original pink cloth spine lettered in gilt stylized leaf motifs by Charles Shannon in gilt to spine and covers edges untrimmed. Bookplate of one W. A. S. Ray. Spine sunned and a little soiled closed tears to upper margins of half-title and title page neatly repaired. A very good copy. Mason 385. James G. Nelson Publisher to the Decadents: Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley Wilde Dowson 2000. hardcover
1899réf. 186847London: Leonard Smithers and Co 1899. Wilde's greatest play in the original cloth First edition out of series from an issue of 1000 numbered copies. 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. It was not published in book form until February 1899 after Wilde's release from prison. The play was published in a standard issue of 1000 unsigned copies 100 signed large paper copies and 12 signed copies on japon. Quarto. Original pink cloth spine lettered in gilt stylised leaf motifs by Charles Shannon in gilt to spine and covers edges uncut and untrimmed. Spine toned and a little bumped nick to head of spine occasional foxing mostly to outer leaves. A very good copy. Mason 381. hardcover
1894réf. 186848London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head 1894. Mr Oscar Wilde is not in the house First edition one of 500 trade copies. The opening show of this satirical play on English manners 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. The play premiered at Haymarket Theatre on 19 April 1893 and ran until 16 August for 113 performances. A further 50 large-paper copies were also issued. Quarto. Publisher's 16-page catalogue dated March 1894 bound at the rear. Original pink cloth spine lettered in gilt stylised flower and leaf motifs by Charles Shannon in gilt to spine and covers edges untrimmed. Cloth lightly marked and bumped small spots of wear to extremities faint vertical crease to rear cover contents generally toned some browning to pp. 42-3. A very good copy. Mason 364. Richard Ellmann Oscar Wilde 1988; Joel Kaplan "Wilde on the Stage" The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde ed. by Peter Raby 1997. hardcover
1893réf. 186770London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane 1893. Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it First edition one of 500 trade copies of Wilde's first comedy play produced at the St James's Theatre on 20 February 1892. An instant success it is considered "revolutionary in its mingling of the vocabulary of comedy the potential of tragedy and the insistence on realism" ODNB. Cigarette in hand Wilde made his legendary curtain call on the opening night: "Your appreciation has been most intelligent. I congratulate you on the great success of your performance which persuades me that you think almost as highly of the play as I do myself." An additional 50 large-paper copies were also issued. Small quarto. With 16 pp. publisher's catalogue dated September 1893 at end. Original pink cloth spine lettered in gilt stylized flower and leaf motifs by Charles Shannon in gilt to spine and covers edges untrimmed. Partially removed catalogue note and previous ownership inscription to front endpapers. Extremities bumped faint marks to front cover a few neat pencil marks to contents. A very good copy. Mason 357. hardcover
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