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1987ref. 9027278Perishable Press / Woodland Pattern 1987. Paperback. fine. This is the second broadside of the series limited to 200 copies. Presentation signed by Whitney. Single shet folded broadside. Perishable Press / Woodland Pattern paperback books
1913ref. 9026788New York: Frederick A. Stokes 1913. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Illustratd in color by Spencer Baird Nichols. Spine dulled by the sun and shows wear at head and heel. Still a very good copy. Frederick A. Stokes hardcover books
1913ref. 9026848New York: Stokes 1913. Hardcover. Very good. Spencer Baird Nichols. Bound in publisher's original blue green cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt. Cover and text illustrated by Spencer Baird Nichols. Wear at top and bottom of spine. Text is tight. 8 x 5 1/4 inches. 204 pages. Stokes hardcover books
1978ref. 140550N.p.: Charles B. Pierce Film Productions 1978. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1978 film. An 11th century Viking prince sails to North America to rescue his father from a Native American tribe. Shot on location in Florida and California. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Charles B. Pierce Film Productions unknown books
1955ref. 138056Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1955. Original scenario artwork for the 1955 film depicting two men and a woman each well dressed and on horseback meeting in front of a large mansion. Historical costume drama set during the Revolutionary War. American Major John Boulton feigns desertion in order to uncover a British plot to seize the stronghold of West Point. Gouache artwork 26.5 x 12 inches within with an unpainted border of roughly 1 inch. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1949ref. 133084Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1949. Vintage studio still photograph of director Douglas Sirk working on the set of the 1949 film noir. A wonderful photograph of the entire crew shooting a scene where Cornel Wilde and Patricia Knight are parting at an airport. Sirk is standing on a crane support at the left and cinematographer Charles Lawton Jr. is seated just below. A key American noir from an original screenplay by Samuel Fuller. Shot on location throughout Los Angeles and notably in the Bradbury Building on Broadway now an architectural landmark originally built in 1893 by Los Angeles mining millionaire Lewis L. Bradbury and designed by George Wyman. In a custom museum-quality frame archivally mounted with UV glass. 7 x 9 inches borderless with a studio stamp and a mimeograph snipe on the verso. Near Fine. Selby US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1955ref. 132424Culver City CA: Waterlow and Sons / RKO Radio Pictures 1955. Collection of 4 vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the UK release circa 1955 of the 1954 US film. A potboiler of sexual repression based on screenwriter Hugh Brooke's story "Fear Has Black Wings" about a young woman in a loveless marriage without hope until her sister brings her handsome new boyfriend to town. Produced at the tail end of the film noir era. 8 x 10 inches. Light soil on the verso of one still else Near Fine. Waterlow and Sons / RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1963ref. 132541London: Unviersal International Pictures 1963. Vintage full-color British front-of-house card from the 1963 UK film. Directed by and starring Cornel Wilde about King Arthur and his attempt to unify Britain. One of the last of the medieval period pieces during the 1950s and early 1960s with well-acted and convincing action sequences. 8 x 10 inches. Several light creases overall else Near Fine. Unviersal International Pictures unknown books
1899ref. 9014015London: Leonard Smithers 1899. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. Good condition. One of 2000 copies. Bound in publisher's original quarter tan and orange cloth with the spine stamped in gilt. Uncut. First edition to use Wilde's name. Last authorized edition issued by Smithers. Binding has seperated at page 1 but still intact. Gift inscription in ink on the front free endpaper. Some minor soiling to the covers. Leonard Smithers hardcover books
1998ref. 43734Cambridge MA: MIT Press 1998. First American edition. Very good in a very good jacket. First US edition with photographs from the "Icons of New Objectivity" series as well as Renger-Patzsch's lesser-known images of landscapes urban scenes and nature studies. 113 full-page black and white plates. Translated from the German edition. Co-edited by Thomas Weski with Ann and Jurgen Wilde with an essay by Thomas Janzen. Hardcover. 4to. Grey cloth boards in black and white photographic dust jacket. Toning to spine and upper edges of jacket; corners and spine ends bumped. 176pp. MIT Press unknown books
1969ref. 50211Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum 1969. First edition. Near fine. Scarce catalogue of the 1969 exhibition of Arte Povera and Conceptual Art less known but as innovative and groundbreaking as the same year's more-mythologized "When Attitudes Become Form" and similarly an expression of its own curator's personality and vision. "Op Losse Schroeven" and "When Attitudes Become Form" were conceived planned and exhibited more or less concurrently but independently: Stedelijk Museum director de Wilde though supervising one curator and friendly with the other apparently shared no information in either direction despite considerable overlap in vision. If the curators were not well informed on their peer's progress those artists invited to participate in both exhibitions were: one of those artists Ger van Elk "made the curious suggestion that the physical similarity of the two men - each was solidly built bearded and bohemian in style - made it interesting for an artist to work with them both as their quickly staggered studio visits turned into a kind of performance; that of a curator chased by his doppelgänger" Rattemeyer. With work by Carl Andre Giovanni Anselmo Joseph Beuys Bill Bollinger Gerrit Dekker Barry Flanagan Bruce Nauman Richard Serra Robert Smithson Lawrence Weiner and others. 10.75'' x 8''. Original wrappers housing two bound portfolios designed by Wim Crouwel and Jolijn van de Wouw of Total Design Amsterdam. Text in Dutch and English. Illustrated in black and white. Printed on multi-colored paper. Light edgewear and soil to wrappers minor creasing to page edges. Stedelijk Museum unknown books
1925ref. UB-17848New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1925. First Thus. Hardcover. Very good /very good. First Thus. Hardcover. Descend into 7 morbid fairy tales full of enchantment death sacrifice and "the wounds of love" by the great Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 who once declared these tales "intended neither for the British child nor the British public." In these pages you'll find a fisherman who falls in love with a mermaid with a magical voice and must strike a deal with a cave-dwelling witch to rid himself of his human soul to have her a beauty-loving king who would rather wear rags than raiment a falling star and a sinister babe abandoned in a wood a giant and his beautiful walled garden beset by children and so much more here illustrated in 16 striking and otherworldly plates by the Jewish Ukrainian-American artist Ben Kutcher 1895-1967. This is the first edition published with pictorial endpapers gilt-stamped pictorial binding and uncommon dust jacket all designed by Kutcher. 9 5/8" X 6 1/2". Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Moderate wear to unclipped dust jacket with small open tears at all edges and extremities 3" neat tear to rear panel sunning to spine and scattered rubbing and soiling. Publisher's cloth binding by Ben Kutcher with artist's monogram BK to rear board. Bound in black cloth over boards with boards and spine stamped in gilt: rose bush and nightingale to upper board nightingale and heart motif continued to spine with star and candle and starry cloudy night sky scene to rear all bright. Edgewear to binding with slight lean to spine and scattered rubbing to cloth. Pictorial endpapers. Binding is firm and sound. Scattered foxing to pages and plates throughout else unmarked. Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover books
1927ref. 339822New York: Dutton 1927. Limited. hardcover. near fine. John Vassos. Illustrations by John Vassos. 4to black boards.; black & gold end-papers. New York: Dutton 1927. Limited First Edition. Near fine. No. 456 of 500 copies signed by Vassos. Dutton unknown books
1975ref. 55214New York / London: Frederick Warne & Co 1975. Very good plus in very good plus jacket. Inscribed first edition of these spooky gothic and fantastical tales for children - including works by Oscar Wilde Ben Jonson Nancy Gorgorian and the Brothers Grimm. 9'' x 6''. Original olive pictorial paper boards stamped in black. In original unclipped $6.95 color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Arrowood in black and white. 206 pages. Inscribed by Arrowood on front free endpaper in three different color inks: "For Gary & Phipps / With Warmest Wishes / Clinton Arrowood." A bit of wear and toning to edges touch of foxing to top edge. Spine rather sunned. Bright. Frederick Warne & Co unknown books
ref. 372169PRIVATELY PRINTED. Number 78 of 300 copies. 64pp. 4TO. Blue printed wrappers front cover off else fine. Number 78 of 300 copies. 64pp. 4TO. PRIVATELY PRINTED unknown books
1893ref. 371134Oxford: published for the Proprietor by James Thornton High Street 1893. 100 pp. Squarish 8vo. Blue printed paper wrappers. Some chipping and loss to covers; toning to pages. 100 pp. Squarish 8vo. Featuring "The Disciple" by Oscar Wilde and pieces by Lord Alfred Douglas H. M. Beerbohm and John Addington Symonds. published for the Proprietor by James Thornton, High Street unknown books
1968ref. 305092London: Petersburg Press 1968. Edition C with six loose lithographs signed duplicates of those bound in the book and four signed etchings this copy 100 of 100 lacking two of the prints. Illustrated by Jim Dine. 2 vols. Folio 18.1 x 13 inches. Snakeskin print leather binding near fine on text volume and portfolio volume matching box and heart cover with some fading otherwise near fine. Dine Jim. Edition C with six loose lithographs signed duplicates of those bound in the book and four signed etchings this copy 100 of 100 lacking two of the prints. Illustrated by Jim Dine. 2 vols. Folio 18.1 x 13 inches. Three editions of this work were published with an extra suite of prints: A Edition of 200 plus 25 artists' proofs bound in red velvet with the title in silver with six signed lithographs duplicates of the plates in the text signed by Dine B Edition of 200 plus 25 artists' proofs bound in green velvet with the title in silver with four etchings signed by Dine C Edition of 100 plus 15 artists' proofs in a snakeskin-patterned leather binding stamped in black with a matching box with "heart built up on the cover" also signed by Dine containing all of the prints of the two other editions 10 total signed by Dine. THIS COPY LACKING TWO PRINTS: "Sybil in her Dressing Room" and "Basil in Black Leather Suit" Jim Dine worked on a stage version of Wilde's novel with English director Robert Kidd for the Bath Academie of Art at Corsham moving the setting to London during the 1967 Summer of Love. The play was never finished as the scheduled lead actor James Fox objected to Dine's "obscene" costumes derailing the whole production. Petersburg Press stepped in and offered to print Dine's drafts for the adapation. Mikro 47 Petersburg Press unknown books
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1894ref. 304822London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street. Printed by T. and A. Constable Edinburgh 1894. First edition one of 500 copies. 154 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original mauve cloth decorated in gilt. Spine faded cloth at extremities frayed corners bumped some soiling to cloth front flyelaf and first blank torn at gutter. Good. First edition one of 500 copies. 154 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Mason 365 John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh unknown books
1922ref. 27887Leipzig: Hesse & Becker 1922. First edition of this selection. Portrait frontispiece. 176 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Mustard cloth stamped in brown. Bookplate of Francis Kettaneh. Minor toning of textblock. Fine in glassine dust wrapper. First edition of this selection. Portrait frontispiece. 176 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Poems by the prolific German-born author George Sylvester Viereck 1884-1962 who first gained renown for The House of the Vampire and Nineveh and other Poems both 1907 which showed the strong influence of Oscar Wilde. Viereck became notorious for his pro-German propaganda during the first world war and later for his pro-Nazi propaganda before and during the second world war for which he was imprisoned. This is a German-language selection of his early verse including Nineveh 1907 with some pieces translated by other hands. Viereck's free German translation "frei verdeutscht" of The Ballad of Reading Gaol appears here at pages 151-175; his English translation of the Deutschlandslied "Deutschland Deutschland Land of All Lands" which appears here on p. 176 remained standard for many years. Signed by the author on the front flyleaf. Hesse & Becker unknown books
1906ref. 264810London: Privately Printed Leonard Smithers 1906. First edition one of 400 copies. 20 2 pp. 8vo. Printed tan wrappers. Fine in custom red morocco-backed slipcase and chemise. First edition one of 400 copies. 20 2 pp. 8vo. The penultimate Smithers publication our copy with the "Shelley" bookplate of H. Buxton Forman. Mason 626; BAL 21346 Whistler; Nelson 1906.3 Privately Printed [Leonard Smithers] unknown books
1916ref. 264948New York: Printed and Published by the Author 1916. First Edition. Frontis. 2 vols. 8vo. Qauarter publisher;'s green calf and boards. Fine in half faded green morocco and chemise. First Edition. Frontis. 2 vols. 8vo. Printed and Published by the Author unknown books
1898ref. 259158London 1898. First edition ONE OF 30 COPIES on Japanese vellum. 1 vols. 8vo. Cinnamon-colored cloth vellum spine. Covers show slight insect damage and minor soiling spine a bit soiled otherwise a very good copy in a quarter blue morocco slipcase with chemise and with the bookplate and signature of actress LENA ASHWELL 1872-1957 on the front pastedown. First edition ONE OF 30 COPIES on Japanese vellum. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition of Wilde's legendary poem written while he was imprisoned in its rarest state - being one of only 30 copies printed on Japanese vellum. This copy comes from the distinguished library of the actress Lena Ashwell 1872-1957 who as a young actress toured in Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan in 1891 later becoming actor-manager of the Savoy Theatre. Ashwell was particularly troubled by the news of Wilde's arrest and wrote later: ". the atmosphere of London was horrible and cruel. His plays were so very brilliant and I had seen this when I was in Lady Windermere's so I felt that he was a friend and in desperate trouble." Later during WWI she is known to have pioneered the organization of entertainments on a large scale for the British troops in France Leask Margaret Lena Ashwell: Actress Patriot Pioneer 2012. An excellent association copy of an essential Wilde rarity. Mason 372 unknown books
1879ref. 259339Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son 1879. First appearance of Wilde's poem. P. 2 in WAIFS AND STRAYS. A TERMINAL MAGAZINE OF OXFORD POETRY Vol. I No. 1 June 1879. 1 vols. Original wrappers. Fine. First appearance of Wilde's poem. P. 2 in WAIFS AND STRAYS. A TERMINAL MAGAZINE OF OXFORD POETRY Vol. I No. 1 June 1879. 1 vols. Mason 275 Thos. Shrimpton and Son unknown books
1894ref. 256986London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street 1894. First edition one of 50 Large Paper copies. 154 1 pp. Printed by T. and A. Constable Edinburgh. 1 vols. 4to. Original buckram gilt. Spine and extremities darkened endleaves with some paste darkening else fine in a custom purple half-morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition one of 50 Large Paper copies. 154 1 pp. Printed by T. and A. Constable Edinburgh. 1 vols. 4to. An attractive large paper copy. Wilde's witty and urbane satire of the English upper class. This was written and produced in 1893 near the height of Wilde's career between Salome 1891 and his masterpiece The Importance of Being Ernest 1895. Mason 365. Provenance: Arthur Chester Rhodes John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street unknown books
