1930rif. 34740NY: Dutton. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1930. Hardcover. Black boards titled in gilt orange topstain decorative endpages. New uniform edition with 4 new plates. Fine condition. The DJ in mylar is sunned to spine with a pen mark to spine and a few short closed edge tears slight soil. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Dutton hardcover
1904rif. 011473London: Arthur L. Humphreys 1904 Book. Good. Soft cover. iv 222 2 pages. In the original paper covers which are browned and soiled. Damp stain to the foot of the front cover but this does not go through to the text. Some tears to the head and foot of the spine. Page edges are untrimmed and a bit dusty at the edges. Crease to the half title page. Arthur L. Humphreys paperback
1903rif. 197"POEMS" BY OSCAR WILDE LIMITED EDITION # 162/250 TOGETHER WITH HIS LECTURE ON THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE PARIS1903 LIME-COLORED CLOTH BOARDS. SPINE SOMEWHAT FADED. BINDING IS TIGHT. A LIMITED EDITION OF A VERY UNCOMMON VOLUME OF WILDE'S PEOMS UNKNOWN hardcover
rif. 0863152120.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1909rif. 29850AB1909. Second Edition. London Methuen & Co. 1909. Small Octavo. VI 3 183 pages. Original Hardcover / Original very decorative publisher's cloth with bevelled edges and gilt lettering and ornament to spine and cover. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. hardcover
1999rif. Q-0140287957Penguin Books 1999-07-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Books paperback
1995rif. Q-0146000250Penguin Books 1995-09-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Books paperback
rif. 0373791275.Gmass_market. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
1881rif. 21118Roberts Brothers. Good with no dust jacket. 1881. Hardcover. Green boards gilt titling to spine gilt embossed globe with child atop on cover. Light scuffing to surface corners and head and tail of spine bumped. Floral endpapers front and back no tears or separations in gutters. Binding stitching has broken with pages 65-88 loose from binding and pages 89-112 hanging by the bottom threads. All other sections appear intact. Penciled name and date on blank fly. Text unmarked. Photos on request. ; 7.0 X 4.75 X 0.80 inches; 230 pages . Roberts Brothers hardcover
1966rif. 84340Paris : Gallimard 1966. broché. WILDE Oscar.Lettres d’Oscar Wilde. Traduit par Henriette de Boissard. Introduction de Rupert Hart-Davis. Tome 1 et 2. 2 Volumes. Collection du Monde entier. Paris Gallimard1966 205x140mm 584 686 pages photos n/b broché. Couverture à rabats. Bel exemplaire. No hidden customs fees for orders shipped to the U.S.A with a value of up to 800 USD PDDP shipping we pay the VAT in advance Gallimard unknown
1905rif. 005581Hartford Conn: Privately Printed 1905. Written in 1879 and submitted by Wilde to the Chancellor's English Essay Prize contest at Oxford. An interesting Wilde item - the manuscript in its entirenty was presumed to be lost. This is a Very Good Plus copy of the First Edition Thus which was LIMITED to 225 copies precedes the First Trade Edition. Marbled paper-covered boards with a green cloth spine; paper label titling on the spine. Clean text; 45 pages deckle with a Limitation Page at the end. Privately printed by the Sherwood Press. Charming contemporary bookplate on the front paste-down that features an angel cliffs and ships at sea. Light rub to the margins. No dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector. Limited. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Privately Printed Hardcover
1904rif. 2222206N.d. Paris 1904. Pirated edition. Octavo. Original light blue wrappers stamped in dark blue with a decorative border of Tudor roses and leaves. Uncut. Very good some medium foxing; few nicks. 48 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Mason 611. Privately Printed paperback
1905rif. 45608London: Arthur L. Humphreys 1905. Softcover. g to vg. Duodecimo. 222pp. Bound in a beautiful period grey-brown morocco binding with gilt lettering and ruling on the front cover with raised bands and gilt stamped motifs and lettering on a red label on the spine. Top edge of the book block in gilt. Gilt dentelles and decorative pattered endpapers. The binding was created by acclaimed London-based firm Sangorski & Sutcliffe for sale in the book department of the famous Chicago department store Marshall Field & Company. Binder's ink stamp on the verso of the front endpaper. Reprinted from the "Fortnightly Review" by permission of Messrs Chapman & Hall. Publication in the Belles Lettres series of Humphreys's Royal Library. Contains epigrams and aphorisms and the essay "The Soul of Man" a reprint of the essay originally published with the title "The Soul of Man Under Socialism." Mason # 633. Binding with light rubbing to extremities including head and tail of spine as well as raised bands. Small stain on the front cover. Covers sunned along the edges. Interior with some smudging to the half-title. Binding in very good- interior in near fine condition overall. Arthur L. Humphreys unknown
rif. mbb001946The Folio Society. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 250x160x20mm. GAASTRA JOHN. 250x160x20mm484g . . 500g Postage Incorrect see below for 1kg . . The Folio Society. . . . . . Pp156. Undated. This edition of the complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde is illustrated with wood-engravings in colour by JOHN GAASTRA. Hard decorated boards with cloth spine- tiny loss on front board; no dust jacket issued. A delightful book. . . Australia_Post_Zoned_International_Shipping_Rates_FOR_THIS_PARCEL . . AP-Zone1_NZ:_AU$33.00 . . AP-Zone3_Canada_USA:_AU$49.40 . . AP-Zone4_UK_Europe:_AU$56.60 . . Domestic_tracked_OR_registered_flat_rate_FOR_THIS_ITEM_Within_Australia:_AU$13.20 The Folio Society hardcover
1906rif. 004997Sunderland: Keystone Press 1906. Wilde visited America in 1882 lecturing there to explain the Aesthetic Movement. On his return to England he gave this "report" in September of 1883. Edited and with an introduction by Stuart Mason. pseudonym of Christopher Millard 1872-1927 who was the first bibliographer of Wilde's works. This is a Very Good minus copy of the First Edition which was LIMITED to 500 copies 50 on handmade paper. A rare work bound in fragile stitched paper wraps. Clean text; 40 pages which are unopened. The covers have significant chips along the margins and while present they are currently detached. Please note the condition issue; Quercus must offer this as a Binding Copy in need of restoration or repair. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good Minus/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Keystone Press Paperback
1907rif. 12499BB1907 . Leipzig: Insel 1907. 8°. 159 S. gebunden Kapital mit Fehlstelle; Papier altersbedingt leicht gebräunt; sonst altersgemäss gut erhalten Deutsche Erstausgabe. unknown
1938rif. 164534Paris: The Limited Editions Club 1938. 1/15 presentation copies; Signed by Derain. Softcover. VG-/Poor glassine dj remnants only. minor dampstain to last few leaves in lower extreme corner moderate foxing to endpapers. Black wraps over white card. 72 pp. plus colophon. 10 gouache illustrations on heavy black paper. Text in French. The script for Wilde's Salome with a list of characters. The gouache illustrations by Derain have been reproduced through the pochoir process. Originally this volume was presented with its English counterpart illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley together in a slipcase. Neither the Beardsley volume nor the slipcase are included in this listing. This copy one of 15 presentation copies and so stamped with a circular blindstamp on the limitation page below the signature. The Limited Editions Club paperback
rif. BN38532Verlag Martin Maschler Berlin. Rechnung mit MwSt - Versand aus Deutschland Rechnung mit MwSt - Versand aus Deutschland Verlag Martin Maschler Berlin unknown
1937rif. 018551New York: Limited Editions Club 1937. Hardcover. The spine is very worn with the leather all but rubbed away although the gilt is still clear and bright and the covers are in nice shape; contents clean. Good only in a Good slipcase with the top edge partly detached. Zhenya Gay. Quarto 7-1/2" x 11" bound in full granite-gray sheepskin leather embossed to resemble a jail cell wall; 76 pages. Copy #393 of 1500 illustrated with 8 full-page ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS by Zhenya Gay and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. One of the more unusual bindings of the press. Limited Editions Club hardcover
rif. 41901Berlin: Guido Moriell 1991. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine condition. Signed by the artist on each etching and colophon. A15/50. Small Folio. 55 1pp. Original hand bound blue Morocco with geometric cover design by bookbinder Guido Moriell and black-stamped lettering on spine housed in blue cloth clamshell box with gilt lettering on spine. Every binding of the deluxe edition is a unique design. Includes the video documenting the production of this anniversary edition housed in separate compartment of clamshell box as issued. Bibliophile edition on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the bookbinder Guido Moriell Radolfzell released in two Deluxe Editions A and B of 50 copies each and a standard edition of 100. This is No. 15 of the deluxe edition A printed on handmade paper. With 10 signed and hand colored original etchings by Rudolf Stuckert printed on the hand press of the artist. Top edge blue. Blue shaded endpapers. Blue initials. Text revised by John Loram based on the translation by Wilhelm Cremer 1922. Beautiful hand press production on firm handmade paper by the Steinort paper mill. An artistic masterpiece of modern hand press printing and bookbinding. Rudolf Stuckert 1912-2002 was a German painter and gallerist. He studied at the Academies in Kassel and Düsseldorf and was a master student of Oskar Moll. Stuckert opened his first gallery in 1936 in Düsseldorf with an exhibitions of Bruno Goller. In 1949 Stuckert became a cofounder of the New Rhine Secession Neue Rheinische Sezession in Düsseldorf. He had moved to Lake Constance in 1947 where he became a cofounder of the artist group "Der kleine Kreis" and was considered one of the so-called Höri-Painters. His paintings are an interplay of figurative and abstract elements. Landscapes ballplayers and acrobats are his favorite motifs. Guido Moriell is a film enthusiast and bookbinder in Radolfzell Lake Constance. In 2008 his work as a bookbinder was featured in the prestigious exhibition "Kunst des Bucheinbandes Art of Bookbinding" at the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar. Emphasis of the exhibition was the bookbinding in historic fashion showing a video of Guido Moriell at work as an example of traditional bookbinding. Guido Moriell hardcover
1937rif. 002840New York: Heritage Press 1937. George Macy conceived of the Heritage Press as a way to offer less-expensive versions of his publications with the Limited Editions Club. They are beautiful productions in their own right; here is Macy's offering of Oscar Wilde's most famous poem. Bound with a smooth polished cloth in a design of a prison's barred window set in a brick wall. Clean text; xii 43 pages page edges are stained red. With an Introduction by Barton Rascoe and illustrated with eight black-and-white lithographs by Zhenya Gay. Lacking a slipcase the book remains in Fine condition. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Zhenya Gay. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Heritage Press Hardcover
1983rif. BN33765Urachhaus/Geistesleben 1983. 1983. Softcover. Kiesel - Kalk - Ton. Prozesse in Mineral Pflanze Tier und Mensch von Friedrich Benesch Autor Klaus Wilde Autor Kiesel - Kalk - Ton. Prozesse in Mineral Pflanze Tier und Mensch von Friedrich Benesch Autor Klaus Wilde Autor Urachhaus/Geistesleben paperback
1928rif. 2221806First edition thus. 9 1/4" x 7 1/4". 16 illustrations by John Vassos. Original black cloth over blue boards t.e.g. Dust jacket clipped; small chips. Very good. 124 pages. No signatures or bookplates. No. 33 of 200 copies. This copy is not signed. Printed by Knudsen Process. E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. hardcover
rif. 11647Helsgfors: Forlags A. B. Helios. 1905. First edition in Swedish although published in Finland. First edition in Swedish although published in Finland. Large paper issue printed on superior paper. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's original green paper covers printed in black to the upper cover. The binding torn and creased with small loss at the spine tips. The contents entirely complete and clean throughout. Scarce. This copy is number 6 of 50 of the large / superior paper issue. Inscribed in black ink at the top of the half title by the translator Michael Gripenberg to his future wife Kissie Mannerheim. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Helsgfors: Forlags, A. B. Helios. 1905 unknown
rif. 10278London: Eyre Methuen. 1976. First edition first printing. First edition first printing. Inscribed by the author. Original orange cloth with gilt titles to the spine in dustwrapper. A fine copy in the fine original dustwrapper. Not price-clipped. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page "For Joan Herbert with the author's nicest wishes 29th April 1982". Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. London: Eyre Methuen. 1976 hardcover