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1994rif. 370845Thorndike Maine: Thorndike Press 1994. Hardcover. Near Fine. Large print edition. Slightly cocked else near fine. Thorndike Press hardcover books
1925rif. 362687New York: D. Appleton and Company 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Red cloth boards decorated with holly leaves paper label on front board green cloth spine. Corners worn contemporary owner's gift inscription on the half-title page else very good. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1905rif. 340738New York: Brentano's 1905. Hardcover. Good. Early reprint. 16mo. Printed paper labels on front board and spine. Owner's bookplate on front pastedown gutter cracked before title page spine tanned with loss to the head thus good only. Brentano's hardcover books
1991rif. 274112New York: Oxford University Press 1991. Softcover. Near Fine. Reprint. Near fine in wrappers with some very light general wear. Oxford University Press unknown books
1976rif. 582788New York: Simon and Schuster 1976. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Fine in fine dust jacket. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1955rif. 273406New York: Bookman Associates 1955. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Lacking the dust jacket. Ink smudge on page 143 mild age-toning around the text block bumps and wear thus near fine. Bookman Associates hardcover books
1894rif. 12350THE GREEN CARNATION Heinemann 1894 first edition just about a fine copy of the authors anonymously published first book. This book was based on the life of Oscar Wilde and at the time did the author some considerable harm. Quite scarce in this condition. Heinemann unknown books
1912rif. 135018Portland Maine: Thomas B Mosher 1912. Softcover. Very Good. Fourth edition. About very good in wrappers. Spine has wrinkles running the length of it. There is a brown stain in top left corner of front cover. Entire cover has light browning. Thomas B Mosher unknown books
1920rif. 325592Leipzig: Josef Singer 1920. Hardcover. Good. Later printing. Good with most of the spine missing light soiling internally tight and clean lacking the dustwrapper. Josef Singer hardcover books
1992rif. 332268New York: Galahad Books 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Reprint. Small ownership signature on the front free endpaper else about fine in fine dust jacket. Galahad Books hardcover books
1895rif. 2221665First edition. 8 1/2" x 6 1/2". Original brown wrappers stamped in red lower right corner of upper cover replaced uncut and mostly unopened. Very good. 98 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Enclosed in a plum half morocco slipcase. Printed by The Chiswick Press. Mason 367 - only 50 copies were printed. Privately Printed paperback books
rif. 74855New York: Grosset & Dunlap No date. Softcover. Very Good. Trade paperback. Very good plus with light overall wear. Grosset & Dunlap unknown books
1906rif. 81505Boston: Poet Lore 1906. Hardcover. Near Fine. Poet Lore magazine. Summer 1907 edition. Near fine condition with very light general wear. Cloth near bottom of spine beginning to peel away but is all still present and attached. The primary works are the Hidden Spring by Roberto Bracco and Salome by Oscar Wilde. Several shorter poems and prose from a variety of authors are included after these dramatic works. Poet Lore hardcover books
1966rif. 114524New York: McFadden-Bartell 1966. Paperback. 159p. foreword bibliography good first printing PBO in original pictorial wraps. Pulp format. MB 75-177. Sexual case-studies with gay/lesbian/transgender sections. McFadden-Bartell paperback books
1973rif. 326514Chatsworth CA: GX Inc 1973. Paperback. 153p. softcover in very good condition. PBO in original camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Spartan Classic SP 112. GX, Inc paperback books
1973rif. 326521Chatsworth CA: GX Inc 1973. Paperback. 153p. softcover in very good condition; first printing PBO in original camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Spartan Classic SP 112. GX, Inc paperback books
1988rif. 120970N.P.: Rebecca Press 1988. stiff paper wrappers. Miniature Books. miniature book 7.0 x 5.9 cm. stiff paper wrappers. 8 pages. Bradbury Rebecca Press 12. Limited to an unspecified number of copies. Lacking the "gem" on the front cover. A very good copy. Rebecca Press unknown books
rif. 69952New York: The Heritage Press No date. Heritage Press printing with illustrations by Valenti Angelo. Hardcover. Very Good. Valenti Angelo. 51pp. Slim octavo 26 cm Black cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine and a blind stamped illustration on the front and rear board. Decorative page borders. 2" split in the rear endpaper at the foot of the hinge. Binding solid. Introduction by Holbrook Jackson. Illustrated by Valenti Angelo. Oscar Wilde's play about the death of John the Baptist. The Heritage Press hardcover books
1974rif. 1404596New Haven: Yale University Press 1974. Abridged edition. Softcover. Octavo xiii 461 pages. In Very Good condition. Spine is red with white print. Price unclipped: “$8.95”. Cover is red white print portrait. Illustrated: b&w. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column W. 1404596. FP New Rockville Stock. Yale University Press unknown books
1899rif. ST19154London: Leonard Smithers and Co 1899. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 1000 COPIES. 215 x 155 mm. 8 3/8 x 6". 8 p.l. 213 1 pp. Original lavender cloth decorated with gilt flourishes smooth spine with gilt lettering edges untrimmed and ENTIRELY UNOPENED. Mason 385. ◆Spine slightly sunned as virtually always but no wear to joints or hinges and in all A REMARKABLY WELL-PRESERVED OBVIOUSLY UNREAD COPY because unopened and without the soiling this edition is almost always found with. This is an exceptionally fine copy of Wilde's second hit play successful like his other witty comedies but with at least slightly more serious social and political content. Opening at the Haymarket Theatre in 1895 and continuing for 124 performances it features as the title character a prominent politician in danger of losing his reputation because of a potentially damaging letter that the play's villain threatens to expose if the husband refuses to support the former's corrupt political agenda. The play moves its characters toward a more ideal moral standard as they struggle with dishonesty hypocrisy double standards materialism and corruption of social and political life. But none of this weighs down Wilde's witty banter as the play suggests after all that even when there is a pretense of the embrace of moral probity nobody is ever that good or is even expected to be. The work is dedicated to the Irish-American writer Frank Harris who is said to have given Wilde the idea to use insider trading which related to Disraeli's financial machinations as part of the plot here. Covering the play for the "Saturday Review" George Bernard Shaw declared Wilde 1854-1900 "our only thorough playwright. He plays with everything: with wit with philosophy with drama with actors and audience with the whole theatre." On nearly all copies of this edition the publisher's binding is now encountered in unappetizing condition; finding our unopened copy--with virtually none of the soiling almost always seen with the four Wilde plays bound in this lavender cloth--is piece of very good fortune. Leonard Smithers and Co unknown books
1962rif. 511128London: The Times Bookshop 1962. Softcover. Fine. Original bookseller's catalogue. 23pp. Illustrated. Stapled wrappers. A fine copy. Prints offerings of 100 rare books and manuscripts including a detailed description offering nine autograph letters from Oscar Wilde to Leonard Smithers reproducing in holograph facsimile two pages of one of the Oscar Wilde letters. Also offers a Lawrence Durrell manuscript of Cities Plains and People reproducing in holograph facsimile a page of the manuscript. The Times Bookshop unknown books
1905rif. 1404089New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1905. Hardcover. Octavo ix 123 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is grey with gold print. Boards in grey paper blue cloth hinges gold print; wear to spine caps and corners chipping to paper on spine toning/shelf wear. Text block has deckle edges; name in ink on front flyleaf spine break at page 48. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column W. 1404089. FP New Rockville Stock. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
1982rif. ST16482Bayreuth: Printed by Chr. Scheufele Offizin Stuttgart for Bear Press 1982. No. 1 OF 10 COPIES ON VELLUM plus a "special" edition of 25 copies and 185 copies on Kochi Japanese paper. 223 x 148 mm. 8 7/8 x 5 3/4". 50 pp. 2 leaves.Translated and with an afterword by Wolfram Benda. Publisher's fine burgundy morocco by Erwin Lehr upper cover with gilt rose in recessed square flat spine with gilt titling turn-ins with gilt fillet frame pale yellow silk pastedowns. In the original burgundy suede slipcase. With three large initials in burnished gold and four signed and numbered original etchings by Peter Klitsch. Printed in red and black. Signed in the colophon by the artist the binder and the publisher/translator. In mint condition. This is the splendid deluxe version of a finely crafted private press edition of Wilde's fairy tales "The Nightingale and the Rose" "The Happy Prince" and "The Selfish Giant." It is the third work issued by the Bear Press founded in 1979 by literary scholar Wolfram Benda and still in operation. According to the firm's website "at a time when the craftsmanship and ethos of the artisan in bookmaking have been damaged by ever-increasing industrialization and neglect . . . The Bear Press . . . tries to achieve the highest possible degree of technical and artistic perfection in its printed works." The font used to print the text and the artist chosen to illustrate each work are carefully selected to express "the individual author's personality and intention." Even the discriminating aesthete Wilde 1854-1900 would be pleased with the choices here especially for the luxurious vellum printing: the type is set in refined Walbaum Antiqua and shown off with special effect by the creamy leaves; the etchings by Austrian artist Peter Klitsch b. 1934 are meticulous detailed and reminiscent of the work of Wilde's friend Aubrey Beardsley; and the binding is the epitome of tasteful restraint flawlessly executed with premium materials. The three tales here first appeared in 1888 and are bittersweet in their themes of love and self-sacrifice. His stories for children were one of Wilde's early successes and DNB notes "Their permanent place in child affections refutes the vulgarism that Wilde's literary reputation arose from his legal notoriety. In all cases the fairy tales are on the child's side celebrating the courage and generosity of the poor and vulnerable while their satire mocks the kind of pomposity and hypocrisy children can recognize." We have been able to trace just two other copies of the vellum printing at auction in ABPC and RBH. [Printed by Chr. Scheufele Offizin, Stuttgart, for] Bear Press unknown books
1923rif. 56675München Munich: Drei Masken Verlages 1923. Limited Edition. Very good. SIGNED. 57pp. Quarto 28 cm Parchment vellum boards with a hubbed spine gilt spine title and single gilt ruled borders on the spine and boards. Top edge gilt. Patterned endpapers. Bound by Hübel & Denck in Leipzig. The front board is wavy. There is a previous owner's decorative bookplate on the front pastedown. The text is in English. Ritter C a 29. Woodcuts by Frans Masereel. This is one of the copies which have been numbered with Roman Numerals. Number XLVII of LXX the copies numbered in Roman numerals forming part of an overall edition of 340 copies. Signed by Frans Masereel on the limitation page. Masereel has additionally signed the seven full-page woodcut illustrations within. Drei Masken Verlages unknown books
1991rif. 1400677London: The Folio Society 1991. Hardcover. Octavo xiii 112 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in publisher's quarter black cloth and black-and-white printed paper boards with gilt lettering to spine. Mild general shelf wear. Top edge of textblock gilt. Fore edge of textblock deckled. Interior pages clean. Shelved in Case 9 3/4. Folio Press. 1400677. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Folio Society hardcover books
