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1993réf. 105605NY:: Henry Holt and Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0805010092 . Book club edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Henry Holt and Company, hardcover books
1982réf. 621603New York: Atheneum 1982. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Illustrated by Beni Montresor. Quarto. Measuring 9" x 12½". Fine in lightly worn near fine dust jacket. Atheneum hardcover books
1967réf. 211263Bruxelles: Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 1967. Softcover. VG-: Exlibrary book. Sticker on the front cover. Graphite on the front cover. Sticker on the inside front cover. Sticker and two stamps on the title page. Stamps in the margins of some pages; in one instance the bottom of a plate is affected. Cat. 23 'Berge de la large riviere' by Hoefnagel. Majority clean body pages and plates. Solid binding. A white book with black text on the front cover. 41 pages of text; 31 pages of black-and-white plates. Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique paperback books
1984réf. 210088Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum 1984. Softcover. VG-. Toning and rubbing to wraps. Else clean. Quarto. Softcover. Illustrated wraps. 351 pages : illustrations some color ; 28 cm. Text in Dutch and English. "Cat. nr. 704"--Page 351./ Catalog of an exhibition held at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam Dec. 15 1984-April 15 1985./ Dutch English French and German./ Includes bibliographical references. Stedelijk Museum paperback books
1998réf. 205490Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz 1998. Hardcover. German language. VG. Minimally marked ex-art library just a sticker on the spineand inside rear board. Jacket mostly lean with a small tape reinforcent at the head of spine. Quarto. Hardcover. glossy illustrated white boards in illustrated jacket. 143 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 28 cm. Cantz hardcover books
1994réf. 202946Ostfildern: Cantz 1994. Hardcover. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Sticker on the dust jacket at the base of the spine. Sticker on the front pasted end page. Sticker on the front free end page. Stickers and due date card on the back free end page. A white casebound book with the title in red lettering down the spine. There is a white dust jacket with the title printed in red down the spine. There is a mylar jacket. The free and pasted end pages are black. Pages: 4 5-159 1. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white images. "Published on the occasion of an exhibition held in 1994 at the Kunstmuseum Bonn the Württembergische Kunstverein Stuttgart and in 1995 at the Sprengel Museum Hannover." Cantz hardcover books
1976réf. 195435Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 1976. Limited Collector's Edition. Hardcover. VG. Hill James. Red full-leather binding with gilt illustration and lettering; there are five compartments and four raised bands on the spine; fully gilted textblock edges; cloth bookmark; xiii 313 pp.; richly illustrated. One in the series "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written" published by Easton Press. Gorgeous Book! Easton Press hardcover books
1907réf. 194503New York: Caldwell 1907. Hardcover. Good- Boards have shelf/edgewear; inner hinge is cracked and spine is pulling away from the spine;textblock edges are lightly darkened and foxed; first few pages have light smudging; textblock is cracked. Brown boards with decorative cloth binding with mounted picture illustration and gilt lettering and design; xviii 117 xiii 5-83 pp.; 1 unnumbered leaf of plates; illustration. "Salome" was translated from the French by Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas. Caldwell hardcover books
1907réf. 189843Leipsig: Insel-Verlag 1907. Hardcover. Fair fading and shelfwear to boards foxing throughout binding secure text is otherwise clear. Brown leather spine with gilt lettering; tan paper boards with red lettering top edge gilt 4 preliminary leaves 3-158 pages. Text is in German. Two conversations about art and about life. Contents: Der Verfall des Lügens.--Kritik eine Kunst nebst einigen Bemerkungen wie wichtig es sei alles zu diskutiren. Insel-Verlag hardcover books
1995réf. 183613Antwerpen: European University 1995. Softcover. VG light shelfwear to wraps pages are very clean and clear. Blue wraps bw illustrated; 224 pp; illustrated throughout in bw and color. Text in German. Hauset: its neo-Gothic St. Roch and Genoveva Church and the old St. Roch Chapel. European University paperback books
2001réf. 174652Brussels: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium 2001. Paperback. VG. Color-illustrated and blue wraps with white lettering. 238 pp. Mainly color illustrations. Selections of Flemish paintings drawings sculptures tapestries and objets d'art from the 14th to 18th centuries and also of 19th century paintings from the Dutch Golden Age. Each is accompanied by commentary principally from curators of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium paperback books
2004réf. 167345New York and Manchester: Hudson Hills Press / Nahan Editions 2004. Deluxe Edition. Hardcover. VG/VG. A few fingerprints visible on a couple pages against a black background otherwise this is a great clean and tight copy. SIGNED by artist. Tall; red cloth over boards with black lettering on spine. Glossy color-illustrated dust jacket. 143 pp. Approx 83 color images of posters one signed with supplemental illustrations. This is one of 250 deluxe editions printed of which this is number 228 which includes a signed print. "Rafal Olbinski has expanded the definition and laid the groundwork of what an artist can be in the 21st century. Born and educated in Poland Olbinski's ties to European and American culture as well as being an exponent of classical art blurs the lines between the various disciplines of the arts by combining: painting illustration graphic design typography and stage design into poignant and memorable images that help define our culture and raise the level of aesthetics for today's and future generations." -- dj flap. Hudson Hills Press / Nahan Editions hardcover books
1928réf. 164757New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc 1928. Hardcover. VG/G significant remnants of dust jacket remaining. Blue boards with black and gold stamped design and black spine. Black blue and gold dust jacket. 124 pp. Illustrations. Poetry by Oscar Wilde illustrations by John Vassos. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc hardcover books
1973réf. 159525Norwalk Connecticut: The Easton Press 1973. Hardcover. G Ex-art library with label mark on front cover; rear pocket; few marks; otherwise clean. Brown leather with gilt letters on spine gilt decorations on both covers gilt edges all around; 52 colored pp. printed in doubled Japanese fashion; color illus. A special edition of this story penned by French author Oscar Wilde after the biblical tale of Salome and the seven veils. Translated by Lord Alfred Douglas with introduction by Holbrook Jackson and primary color illustrations rendered by Valenti Angelo. The Easton Press hardcover books
1910réf. 144641New York: Putnam's/Knickerbocker 1910. Hardcover. Clean and tight but with some foxing to very ends of pages. Grey paper over navy blue cloth; gilt lettering to cover and spine. 154 pp. Bw frontis with tissue guard. TEG. Wilde's classic written in despair from his imprisonment in Reading jail gaol. Putnam's/Knickerbocker hardcover books
1984réf. 127547Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 1984. Softcover. VG. White illus. wraps; 351 pp.; Profusely illustrated in color. Text provided in both Dutch and English; Accompanied an exhibition featuring works by Karel Appel Francis Bacon Jean Dubuffet Jasper Johns Ellsworth Kelly Fernand Leger Sol Lewitt Henri Matisse Juan Miro Piet Mondrian Pablo Picasso Sigmar Polke Mark Rothko Julian Schnabel Cy Twombly and many others; Extensive annotations. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam paperback books
1982réf. 118048Oxford: OUP 1982. Softcover. Good clean and tight but for two faint pencil underlinings on pp. 60-61 and for light general cover wear;. Color-pictorial wraps with white lettering; 268 pp. with 222 bw illustrations;. Part of the series of lectures delivered by Wilde to the students at the Courtauld Institute and illustrated with photographs from his own collection. OUP paperback books
1906réf. 1408375London: Privately printed 1906. Softcover. Octavo 20 pages. In Poor plus condition in clear plastic sleeve. Spine is brown. Cover in brown paper with black print; edge wear spine crumpling large portion torn away from front panel toning. Text block has vertical crease to pages spine break at page 6. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #2 - New Ephemera Box #6. 1408375. FP New Rockville Stock. Privately printed unknown books
1891réf. 158131891. Ricketts Charles. London: James R. Osgood McIlvaine and Co. 1891. Original salmon paper-covered flexible boards decorated in dark red. First Edition of this collection of four dark semi-comic mystery tales. "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" is an amusing but macabre tale if there can be such a thing about a young man who convinced by Lady Windermere's cheiromantist that he is doomed to commit murder does his best to do so prior to getting married -- out of a sense of duty to his fiancée. As one would expect Lord Arthur bungles his mission. In addition to the title story this book includes "The Sphinx Without a Secret" "The Canterville Ghost" and "The Model Millionaire." The binding of this title with decorations by Charles Ricketts is extremely delicate -- paper-covered flexible boards; although 1500 copies were issued we find this book to be quite uncommon and we have never seen a truly fine copy. In our experience THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY THE HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES and this title are the three Wilde first editions most difficuilt to find in collectible condition. This copy is close to near-fine with a bit of the darkening and mottling of the spine that is typical for this fragile book but with scarcely any actual wear. Mason 345. Housed in a handsome gilt-paneled morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise. unknown books
1899réf. 158271899. Shannon Charles. By the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan. London: Leonard Smithers and Co. 1899. Original mauve cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition consisting of 1000 regular copies so stated; there were also 100 signed copies on Van Gelder paper plus twelve signed copies on Japan vellum. This was the fourth and last of Wilde's four great comedies of manners -- following LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN published in 1893 A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE 1894 and THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST 1899 five months earlier. "An Ideal Husband" had opened at the Theatre Royal on 3 January 1895 the actors had been quite annoyed that Wilde required them to rehearse on Christmas Day only to keep them waiting for him to appear. It was an immediate success but it was while "Earnest" and "Husband" were running that Wilde inadvisably filed suit against the Marquess of Queensberry father of Wilde's lover Lord Alfred Douglas for criminal libel; this quickly morphed into a charge of "gross indecency" against Wilde and when he was arrested in April his plays closed. Sentenced to two years' hard labour 1895-1897 upon his release he fled to France -- where he resided when this book was published. The artistic binding design is by Charles Shannon. This is a very good copy of a book that is difficult to find in any better condition: the spine is rather dull and there is moderate cover soil. Mason 385. Provenance: the front endpaper bears the signature "Wilmer C. France 1899". The pioneering female classicist Emily Wilmer Cave France 1868-1951 married name Wright after 1906 was born in Birmingham England and educated first at Girton College Cambridge then at the University of Chicago -- where she was a Fellow in Latin and in Greek while earning her Ph.D.; from 1897 until her retirement in 1933 which span includes the date this book was published she was a Professor in Greek at Bryn Mawr College. In 2022 the Cambridge Philological Society published a monograph by D.N. Greenwood about her "Steely-Eyed Athena: Wilmer Cave Wright and the Advent of Female Classicists. unknown books
1878réf. 151231878. the fine Bradley Martin copy Recited in The Theatre Oxford June 26 1878. Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son 1878. Original grey printed wrappers. First Edition of Oscar Wilde's first book the Newdigate Prize-winning poem that he wrote while a student at Magdalen College. To quote from Pearson: He Wilde left Oxford in a blaze of glory. The subject for the Newdigate Prize Poem that year was Ravenna and it so happened that he had visited the place on his way to Greece the year before noting it as a theme for poetic treatment. He could therefore put in bits of local colour which the other competitors had to glean from books. He won the prize as John Ruskin and Matthew Arnold had done before him and declaimed the poem in the Sheldonian Theatre on June 26 1878. When the Professor of Poetry J.C. Shairp whose duty it was to suggest textual improvements to the winner of the Newdigate advised certain alterations Wilde listened with due courtesy took careful notes of every suggestion but went away and printed the poem exactly as he had written it. In this copy the slip "PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN" is affixed to the title verso. This is a remarkably fine copy of this very delicate piece light browning as usual around the edges of the wrappers but no wear. Though not really as scarce an item as one might expect for a first effort this is THE copy for condition and for provenance -- see below. Mason pp 241-249. Housed in a morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise. Provenance: bookplate of H. Bradley Martin on the case's chemise. To this day the eight-part Bradley Martin sale of 1989-1990 remains the sale of a generation especially for the remarkable condition of his collection for this item see lot #3320. unknown books
1938réf. 1409575The Limited Editions Club 1938. Limited Edition #609/1500. Softcover. Quarto 72 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in soft black paper covers with pale pink lettering to spine. 10 Gauche drawings on black paper. Warping to paper covers. Chipping with material loss at head and tail of spine. General edge wear. Light foxing and discoloration to endpapers. Signed by Derain and enumerated on limitation page in rear. Shelved in Case 0. 1409575. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
1957réf. 108389NY:: Heritage Press. Very Good. 1957. Hardcover. Introduction by Andre Maurois. A reprint edition. "Sandglass" laid in. Fading along the spine else very good in a very good small spot of wear on top edge slipcase. ; 287 pages . Heritage Press, hardcover books
1893réf. 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 books
1906réf. 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 books
