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ref. Harper-9780674066311BELKNAP PRESS. New. BELKNAP PRESS unknown
ref. Harper-9780674066311BELKNAP PRESS. New. BELKNAP PRESS unknown
ref. 0857290991.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 116490874X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. 1169229964.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 3387002823.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1931ref. 12421New Yorki: The Book League of America 1931. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Thus. A VG hardcover copy without dust jacket. Light bumping to corners of violet colored cloth boards with a gorgeous gilded art deco design and lettering to cover and spine. Very light age toning/soiling to page edges; pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding is square and tight. A very pretty copy of this Wilde classic on egotism and image. The Book League of America hardcover
ref. 11183Bantam Press. Hardback. Fine/Fine. 1. 2018. Hardback. Fine. First Edition. First Print. Signed by the author on the title page. An excellent addition to your collection. Dust jacket is protected with a Mylar cover. Books are packed and shipped in boxes. Bantam Press hardcover
ref. 1161421556.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 133451030X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1893ref. ST20128Paris and London: Librairie de l'Art Indépendant; Elkin Mathews et John Lane 1893. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 600 COPIES 500 of which were for sale. 243 x 150 mm. 8 x 5 5/8". 84 pp. 1 leaf. Pleasing red very coarse-grained morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe stamp-signed in gilt on rear turn-in covers with gilt coat of arms surrounded by a gilt oval raised bands gilt lettering gilt-ruled turn-ins top edge gilt others untrimmed. With the original purple wrappers bound in. Housed in a deluxe suede-lined modern red morocco case by Antonio Perez-Noriega covers with elaborate twining wood onlays. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM WILDE TO ADOLPHE RETTÉ WITH WILDE'S INSCRIPTION AND SIGNATURE ON THE FRONT FLYLEAF. Mason 348. See also: Mikhail "Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections" pp. 190-91. Spine faintly sunned covers with a few small bumps and dents perhaps original with the skin or intentionally made by the binder one or two negligible finger smudges but a fine clean copy with just insignificant imperfections. This is a very special presentation copy of Wilde's most controversial play inscribed to one of three writers the author invited to edit the original French script. In the Gospel of Luke Herodias the haughty wife of Antipas tetrarch of Galilee is so incensed by the preaching of John the Baptist against her sins that she determines to be revenged. She persuades her daughter Salomé to ask Antipas the girl's stepfather for John's head as the reward for her seductive dancing. Wilde's fertile imagination converts this story into a tale of juvenile infatuation scorned and turned into demented hate. Written and first published in French "Salomé" was to have been staged in London with Sarah Bernhardt in the title role but this was prevented by the Lord Chamberlain the theater censor. Thus the play was first performed in 1896 in Paris with Bernhardt in the title role but without Wilde in attendance since he was confined at the time in Reading Gaol. It was not performed in London until 1905 in a private performance and the censor's ban was not lifted until 1932. Adolphe Retté 1863-1930 was a French poet essayist and literary figure who initially was celebrated for his decadent and symbolist poetry but later experienced a profound spiritual awakening that led him to renounce his earlier works and embrace Catholicism. He was one of three French-speaking poets along with Stuart Merrill and Pierre Louÿs Wilde solicited to look over the original script and correct any overt anglicisms. Retté who had met Wilde in Paris wrote about his involvement with "Salomé" in his memoir where he describes his admiration for the work: "Not only were Wilde's ideas subtle and delightful but he knew how to enhance them seeming to caress each word with his irresistible way of speaking." Retté marveled at Wilde's "talent as a conversationalist or rather as a monopolizer of the conversation and the wonderful way he would set forth the philosophy of 'hedonism.'" Wilde presentation copies are not exceptionally rare in general but we could find few such copies of this important first edition and none any more important as this one. Librairie de l'Art Indépendant; Elkin Mathews et John Lane unknown
ref. 1019385332.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 155817737X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1840ref. 51206Dublin: William Curry Jun. and Company; London: Longman Orme Browne and Co. 1840. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. xiv 464; viii 495 1 pp. Contemporary black half calf over marbled boards spines with raised bands gilt lettered maroon labels 2 tinted lithographic frontispieces 2 plans Tyre and Jerusalem and 2 plates skulls plus numerous illustrations in the text. Some mostly light wear to the covers slight staining to the frontispieces some leaves proud towards the front of volume II though still firmly attached a decent set overall. Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company; London: Longman, Orme, Browne and Co. unknown
1905ref. 35No dustjacket ever came with the book to my knowledge. This copy has wear at each of the corners some cracking and wearing away at the top and base of the spine. Very slight tear or breaking away of material running along the spine. There are some very light stain marks on the front and backside. Several pages on the inside have light water stains. Deckled edges. Rare- The publisher has listed their catelogue of books consisting of 40 pages at the end of the book. This version has "UNCUT" pages from 25 through 40. Methuen and Co. hardcover
ref. 1443733288.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 0428062873.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1906ref. 312342London: Humphreys 1906. hardcover. Epigrams and "The Soul of Man Under Socialism". Title in red and black 222pp. untrimmed small 8vo rebound in full brown morocco black spine labels gilt-decorations raised bands. London: Arthur L. Humphreys 1911. Mint. Sebastian Melmoth was Oscar Wilde's pseudonym used after his arrest and subsequent move to the continent. Humphreys unknown
ref. 0331540584.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2012ref. 2-1444810685Ulverscroft Large Print Books 2012. Paperback. New. large print edition. 368 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches. Ulverscroft Large Print Books paperback
1899ref. 28234London: Leonard Smithers and Co 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Good overall. A limited printing of the first edition 1000. In 1996 critic Bindon Russell wrote in "The Wildean" that "An Ideal Husband" is "the most autobiographical of Wilde's plays mirroring as it does his own situation of a double life and an incipient scandal with the emergence of terrible secrets. Whilst Lord Goring is a character with much of Wilde's own wit insight and compassion Gertrude Chiltern can be seen as a portrait of Constance Wilde." 8vo 213pp brown-red linen over boards gilt stamped decoration on front cover and spine; gilt titles on spine. Spine rebacked with the original spine laid down. With bookplates of Herschel V. Jones and Alfred and Sara Bernheim. Internally clean some pages uncut. Leonard Smithers and Co hardcover
ref. 0484362003.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 0385179669.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 1162705299.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1908ref. 3728Budapest: Lampek 1908. Unique binding by Tichy. Fine condition. With original drawings by Gyula Tichy. With original drawings by Gyula Tichy. Unique binding by Tichy. 82 58 p. Before the first work on the front page as if on the title page a small note with a “Table of Contents” drawn in ink by Gula Tichy. glued on. On the title page of the Csokonai work there is a caricature of a lady with a fan and a black cat with the text “1907 JUN 23”. Under the latter TG signed. These are also ink drawings. On the front cover of the book a table of contents framed by an illustration drawn on a small note is also glued on. Lampek unknown
