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Best.-Nr. 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 copy. 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 books
1906Best.-Nr. 40553London: Privately Printed 1906. Softcover. fair to g. Octavo. 20pp. Original tan wraps with black lettering on cover. 400 copies on small quarto paper and 100 large paper copies on demy octavo paper have been printed of this brochure. Contains a review by Oscar Wilde on Whistler's famous "Ten O'Clock-Lecture" given on February 10 1885 in London. Among other critical remarks Whistler denounced art critics in his lecture and caused such a stir that he was asked to give his lecture in Oxford and Cambridge which resulted in a verbal exchange between Whistler and Wilde around aesthetical issues. Mason # 625. Wraps with wear along edges moderate and small chips and creasing on back cover fragile. Block age-toned. Wraps in overall fair interior in good condition. Privately Printed unknown books
1963Best.-Nr. 40563New York: Ernest Rathenau 1963. First edition. Hardcover. vg to fine. 385/600. Large Quarto. Unpaginated. Original gray cloth with black reproduction of Erich Heckel's title page on cover and black lettering on spine housed in a plain cardboard slipcase. Second title page woodcut by Erich Heckel with German text. Wilde wrote this ballad in Berneval-le-Grand France where he spent time with Robert Ross. The poem narrates the execution of Charles Thomas Wooldridge who had been a trooper of the Royal Horse Guards and was convicted of murdering his wife. Illustrated with 12 impressive etchings including title page after woodcuts by Erich Heckel from 1907. Printed in Walbaum Antiqua on Hahnemühlen handmade paper at the letterpress of the Brothers Hartmann Berlin. Text in English. Light sunning of slipcase and spine. Slipcase and binding in very good interior in fine condition. Ernest Rathenau hardcover books
1927Best.-Nr. 12415Paris: Les Éditions G. Crès 1927. Hardcover. vg. Alastair. Small quarto 19 by 14 cm. vii 1 blank 89 5 table pp. Half title; main title in red and black; 9 duotone plates by Alastair. Text in original French. Half calf over mottled brown boards; spine lettered in gilt; marbled endleaves. Illustrated front wrapper lightly soiled retained. Clean text throughout mild rubbing/wear at extremities of covers else a very good copy. Later illustrated edition of this one-act play which tells the biblical story of Salome stepdaughter of the tetrach Herod Antipas who to her stepfather's dismay but to the delight of her mother Herodias requests the head of Jokanaan John the Baptist on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the dance of the seven veils. While the intended premier of the play was being rehearsed for production in June of 1892 at the Palace Theatre in London with Sarah Bernhardt in the leading role and Albert Darmont as Herod the lord chamberlain withheld his license invoking legislation from the protestant Reformation era which prohibited medieval miracle or otherwise religious plays. Wilde responed in print: "Personally to have my première in Paris instead of in London is a great honour and one that I appreciate sincerly. The pleasure and pride that I have experienced in the whole affair has been that Madame Sarah Bernhardt who is undoubtedly the greatest artist on any stage should have been charmed and fascinated by my play and should have wished to act in it. Every rehearsal has been a source of pleasure to me. The hear my own words spoken by the most beautiful voice in the world has been the greatest artistic jouy that it is possible to experience. So that you see as far as I am concerned I care very little about the refusal of the Lord Chamberlain to allow my play to be produced" quoted in Mason. With a seven-page bibliography of French editions and translations into fourteen languages including Yiddish. For a concise but well-documented treatment of Wilde's response to the suppression of the play in England along with a brief discussion of the early productions and a list of later productions prior to the First World War see S. Mason Bibliography of Oscar Wilde vol. 2 pp. 370-378. Les Éditions G. Crès hardcover books
1921Best.-Nr. 1395213New York NY: Mitchell Kennerley 1921. Limited Edition #497/1000. Hardcover. Octavo 133 pages. In Good plus condition. Boards have age toning along the spine and general shelving wear. Textblock has light pencil annotations on the front end page splitting along the gutter 88/89 and along the hinges minor soiling scattered throughout and age toning along the edges. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1395213. Special Collections - Downstairs. Mitchell Kennerley hardcover books
1956Best.-Nr. M6135Grafelfing:: Edmund Banaschewski 1956. 1956. 248 x 171 mm. 8vo. 333 pp. Numerous port. plates 10 folding plates. Gilt-stamped green cloth t.e. green. Ownership rubber stamp on title. Very good. Edmund Banaschewski, (1956). hardcover books
1928Best.-Nr. 21331Privately Printed 1928. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition as far as we know. A beautiful copy regardless. 8vo. 24.5 by 17 cm. xv 1 438 pp. Unknown artist did the frontis and we don't know where it was published as not unusual with erotica from the 1920s. Dust jacket has a few closed tears and very small edge chips but it has almost entirely survived. The book proper has one leaf 429/430 which was cut with a paper cutter rather carelessly resulting in two closed tears not touching any text. Otherwise a clean and tight copy. Privately Printed unknown books
1907Best.-Nr. 4982Leipzig: Im Inselverlag 1907. # 350 in an edition limited to 725 copies. Acceptable. 25 cm; 24 leaves text on Insel hand-made paper and 15 full-page illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley on Strathmore Japan including title page and dramatis personae. Bound in original boards worn spine perished boards loose. Several plates somewhat foxed. The first German appearance of Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations to Oscar WIlde's play. Wilde first published the play in French in 1896 before the English and later German editions appeared. Wilde's play with Beardsley's iconic illustrations inspired Richard Strauss's opera of the same name. Im Inselverlag hardcover books
1898Best.-Nr. 140948944London: Leonard Smithers 1898. Signed Limited Issue. Near Fine. Third edition limited issue #69 of 99 copies signed by Oscar Wilde in black ink on the limitation page. 31 pp. printed on rectos only. Bound in publisher's purple cloth over and white spine cloth stamped in gilt; gilt floral ornament to front board after the famed British artist Charles Ricketts. Housed in a custom quarter morocco slipcase. Near Fine with slight lean to binding light soilingto boards. Bookplate of business man Chauncey Lawrence Williams at front pastedown along with an inscription from the former owner and giftee below dated March 8 1934. Williams was publishing partner of W. Irving Way of Way and Williams who published L. Frank Baum's first literary venture Mother Goose in Prose 1897 Additionally he commissioned a 28-year-old Frank Lloyd Wright to build his home in River Forest Illinois. Williams' funeral service program is laid-in at front offsetting from previously laid-in papers at front endsheets with remnants of former auction record at front free endpaper. Wilde's poignant poem a reflective narrative calling for prison reform and critique of Victorian-era justice systems. Written in exile and printed anonymously under his identification number "C. 3. 3." issued to him at Reading prison during his two year imprisonment for gross indecency with his lover Lord Alfred Douglas.The scarcest and most desirable edition of the author's widely lauded and instantly successful protest poem which serves as a deeply personal lament and a powerful testament to his time in prison. Mason 374. Leonard Smithers unknown books
1894Best.-Nr. 140949078London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane 1894. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition in English of Wilde's seminal one-act tragedy and the first to feature Aubrey Beardsley's lavishly unrestrained illustrations. One of 500 copies. xii 67 1 16 ads illustrated with frontispiece 9 full page plates and singular tailpiece. Bound in publisher's blue canvas cloth decoratively stamped in gilt after design by Beardsley. Near Fine with light sunning to spine and edges light foxing to cloth. Offsetting to front endsheets and armorial bookplate to pastedown there contents lightly tanned. A beautiful copy of a definitive work of the Decadent movement. Composed initially in French Wilde allegedly intended for Sarah Bernhardt to play Salome in hopes of bypassing strict British censors although it was inevitably banned by Lord Chamberlain due to the depiction of biblical characters. The play premiered on February 11 1896 at the Theatre de l'Oeuvre in Paris starring Lina Munte and directed by Lugne-Poe. Rave reviews ensued and later adaptions followed most notably Richard Strauss' Dresden production which premiered in 1905. The radical work served as a direct affront to Victorian moral standards and cemented the femme fatale archetype for future avant-garde luminaries. Mason 350. Elkin Mathews & John Lane unknown books
1899Best.-Nr. 140949181London: Leonard Smithers and Co 1899. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing. One of 1000 copies unnumbered. xvi 152 pp. printed on laid paper. Bound in publisher's lavender cloth with gilt spine lettering and decorations by Charles Shannon. Near Fine with sunning to spine and extremities and fading to spine gilt light soiling and scattered foxing to cloth light rubbing to extremities and slight bumping to lower corners. Binding starting at p. 105 offsetting to front endsheet bookplate to front pastedown. A very nice copy from the library of the American naval officer and book collector Charles John Muto. Mason 381. The first edition of the most delightful play in the English language. Wilde's last play opened on Valentine's Day 1895 to almost unanimous praise. Two weeks later he received a card at his club accusing him of sodomy to which he responded with an ill-judged libel lawsuit that led to his downfall and imprisonment. By the time this book was published by Leonard Smithers one of his few remaining friends Wilde was dying in Paris his health broken by Reading Gaol. There are now statues to him in London and Dublin. Leonard Smithers and Co unknown books
1893Best.-Nr. 140949205London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane 1893. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. xiv 132 14 2 pp. with 14 advertising pages at rear. Bound in publisher's mauve cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with soiling and darkening to cloth and bumping to corners and spine ends. Contents lightly toned and thumbed with foxing to endpapers and first and last few pages. One of the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde's best-known plays a comedy in four acts. Elkin Mathews and John Lane unknown books
1878Best.-Nr. 140943843Oxford: Thomas Shrimpton and Son 1878. First Edition. First edition. Oxford crest present on front wrap and title page; a later pirate edition lacked these. Mason 301. 16 pp. Bound in publisher's gray-green printed wrappers. An unsophisticated copy Very Good with toning and and few small edge chips to fragile wrappers. Contents bright and in great shape. The author's first book. Thomas Shrimpton and Son unknown books
1899Best.-Nr. 140940300London: Leonard Smithers and Co 1899. Signed Limited First Edition. Near Fine. Signed limited first edition. xii 152 pp. Bound in publisher's original pale lavender cloth with gilt spine lettering and decorations by Charles Shannon. Copy number 82 of 100 large paper copies signed by Oscar Wilde with a flourish. Near Fine with subtle sunning several barely discernible spots to cloth short bubble to rear cloth. Typical offsetting to endpapers and a 5" tear to the rear endpaper. Contents bright and fresh. A beautiful copy. Wilde's masterpiece which opened to wide acclaim at the St. James's Theatre London on February 14 1895. It was withdrawn after 86 performances following his arrest and imprisonment on charges of gross indecency as a consequence of his failed libel suit against Lord Queensbury the father of Wilde's homosexual lover Lord Alfred Douglas. He was outed as gay a disgrace in Victorian society and the play was not published in any form until the present edition following his release from prison. It has been hailed as an exemplary farce called by poet W.H. Auden "a pure verbal opera. Leonard Smithers and Co unknown books
1899Best.-Nr. 140938501London: Leonard Smithers 1899. First Edition. Very Good. First Edition first printing. One of 800 copies originally printed which sold out immediately. Very Good. Covers soiled corners and spine ends softened. Endsheets offset from binder's glue. Previous owner name partially effaced from front paste down. Slight odor to pages. Clipping with apparently forged signature of Oscar Wilde tipped in on recto of final blank sheet by no means assumed to be authentic. Leonard Smithers unknown books
1906Best.-Nr. 4798London: Privately Printed Leonard Smithers 1906. First edition. First edition. Original tan printed wrappers 400 copies printed. 20pp. Title printed in red and black. An unopened copy with spine worn and fragile wrappers with one corner small loss and another 2" bent and nearly separated but a nice copy of a scarce publication regarding the "acrimonious correspondence on art." between Wilde and Whistler. Smithers' next-to-last publication. Very good wrappers frayed with a few small pieces gone lower corner threatening to let go. Privately Printed [Leonard Smithers] unknown books
1944Best.-Nr. 4265London: The Unicorn Press 1944. First edition thus. First edition thus. Beige and brown two-tone cloth. A scarce minor editiion. The Unicorn Press unknown books
1878Best.-Nr. 2178Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son 1878. First edition. First edition. 12mo. 16pp. Original grey-green printed wrapers. Exceedingly scarce first edition with the publisher's printed crest appearing on the cover of the wrappers as well as on the title page and a vignette woodcut appears on the last page. The prestigious Newdigate Prize Oxford's top award for poetry dates to early 1800's and the winner for 1878 was the young Oscar Wilde. The pamphlet was issued in the same year as was common with many of the early prize winners and is considered Wilde's first publication in book form. He worked on the poem a few years earlier while touring Greece as a student at Oxford. An exemplary copy with no wrinkling or central creases as was commonly seen from folding to place in a pocket. Very small nick out of two corners very slight barely detectable browning to covers else extremely clean and bright. 16pp. Thos. Shrimpton and Son unknown books
1948Best.-Nr. 38183Buenos Aires: Sociedad de Bibliofilos Argentinos 1948. First edition. Loose in stiff paper portfolio and cardboard slip case. A near fine copy small tears to fore edge of original glassine wrapper. Unpaged 25 pp. plates. Illus. with 5 b/w plates and 2 etchings. 4to. No. 6 of 91 numbered copies of a total run of 100 on Charter Eggshell paper. Original etchings and plates signed by the illustrator. Designed by the eminent South American typographer Ghino Fogli. "Tini" is the most famous and popular of the stories of Eduardo Wilde 1844-1913 Argentine Doctor and writer. Catalina Mórtola 1889-1966 was an Argentine painter and engraver. Sociedad de Bibliofilos Argentinos unknown books
2025Best.-Nr. 70397London: DK Classics 2025. Reprint. Hardcover. New. 223pp. Duodecimo 21cm. Illustrated paper over boards. Stamped in silver with sprayed edges. DK Classics edition of this classic tale by Oscar Wilde. DK Classics hardcover books
1929Best.-Nr. 001190New York: The Macmillan Company 1929. Cloth is faded to tan on spine and corners. Erasure marks at top of front free endpaper. Illustrated by PAMELA BIANCO. Frontispiece and three double-page illustrations in color. Additional full-page black and white plates. 58pp. First Edition. Gray Cloth. Minor Edge Wear./Lightly Chipped Price-Clipped. Octavo. The Macmillan Company Hardcover books
1973Best.-Nr. 526232Belfast: Crannog Press 1973. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition by this publisher and first illustrated by Margaret McCord. Octavo. 19pp. Printed in blue ink on black paper. Dark blue cloth with publisher's printed label on front cover. Illustrated by Margaret McCord with three full-page color illustrations. Binding is slightly rubbed at tips of spine and corners front endpaper has a few abrasions from a removed bookplate else a near fine copy issued without printed dust jacket. Limited to 100 numbered copies. Contains the following 'prose' poems by Oscar Wilde: "The Master; The Disciple; The House of Judgement; The Doer of Good; and The Artist. Crannog Press hardcover books
1899Best.-Nr. 17881The Ballad of Reading Gaol Leonard Smithers 1899 the 7th edition with several important changes to previous editions 1 the name Oscar Wilde appears on the title page 2 The copyright date is changed from January 1898 to February 1898 and 3 a line of the poem on page 4 third stanza has been changed. A very good copy void of foxing or staining with a tanned and dust-soiled spine. Leonard Smithers unknown books
1930Best.-Nr. 15162SIXTEEN LETTERS FROM OSCAR WILDE Faber & Faber 1930 first edition spine faded else near fine in publishers original pink/red cloth binding with t.p.e.'s in gold-gilt and publishers g/vg box. Edited and with notes By John Rothenstein. 1/515 copies. Illustrated by Beerbohm & Rothenstein. Faber & Faber hardcover books
1914Best.-Nr. 13342OSCAR WILDE AND MYSELF Duffield & Company 1914 first American edition some age toning to the page edges else a fine bright copy. Illustrated. Duffield & Company unknown books
