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2002rif. 001266Galway: Kevin Duffy 2002. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Illustrated. A lovely unread copy. Kevin Duffy hardcover
1840rif. 000202Dublin: William CurryJunand Co Longman OrmeBrowne and Company London 1840. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Not called for>. Two Volumes.Original boards rebacked.New end papers. Boards and spine unevenly sunned. A tight firm set. Light sporadic foxing spots. Frontispiece Vol 1 The Yacht "Crusader" Frontispiece Vol 2 "Telmessus" from a sketch by R.Meiklam.Wilde a medical student was hired to accompany Robert Meiklam on his yacht "Crusader" " In September 1837 my friends Sir Henry Marsh and Professor Graves proposed that I should accompany as medical attendant a gentleman who was about to make a voyage for the benefit of his health. Anxiety to see the World coupled with the fact of my health then being in a precarious state induced me gladly to accept this kind offer" Contact seller regarding postage. William Curry,Jun,and Co, Longman, Orme,Browne and Company, London hardcover
1812rif. 1303260013Portland Maine: Thomas B. Mosher 1812-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. Portland Maine. Softcover. Illustrated cover. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean unmarked pages with minor foxing. Thomas Bird Mosher was a publisher out of Portland Maine known for his contributions to the Private Press Movement in the United States. He reprinted various contemporary poetical works and compiled a monthly small literary and political journal known as The Philistine which also contained political cartoons dealing with issues at the time. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher paperback
1903rif. 013011Minden in Westf: J. C. C. Burns 1903. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. First German translation of Wilde's short story "The Portrait of Mr. W. H." first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1889. It was later added to the collection Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories 1891. The story is about an attempt to uncover the identity of Mr. W. H. the enigmatic dedicatee of Shakespeare's sonnets. which has led to speculation of the Bard's bisexuality. From the library of famous American art collector lawyer and bibliophile John Quinn 1870 - 1924 with his book plate designed by Yeats on the pastedown. 8vo gray cloth printed in black. 8 L 136. Art-Nouveau style endpapers. Book ticket from The Burrows Brothers Company Cleveland Ohio bottom rear pastedown. Covers moderately soiled slight lean to spine solid binding clean internals. Prelims include publisher's descriptions of its other Wilde titles. Scarce edition with a unique provenance. J. C. C. Burns hardcover
1955rif. 011122NY: Kurt Volk 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New. Book conceived by typographer and publisher Kurt Vol designed by Meyer Wegman edited by Charles Brodie. Printed on Okawara handmade paper. Bound in moire silk stamped in gold. As new in black glossy-paper backed box which is slightly rubbed. THE collectible copy. Kurt Volk hardcover
1921rif. ST12330bWestminster: Beaumont Press 1921-22. FIRST EDITIONS. EACH ONE OF 75 COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM OF THE EDITION DE LUXE SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER AND ARTIST of a total of 475 copies. 222 x 152 mm. 8 3/4 x 6". Two separately issued but companion volumes. Original vellum-backed decorative paper boards. Reading with vignette on title in orange and green two plates in the same colors one facsimile of writing in text device on final page stylized illustration of a tree on front and rear endpapers; "Berneval" with woodcuts of Naples and Paris printed in blue on the front and rear endpapers two-color title page woodcut one plate a facsimile of a Wilde letter and printer's woodcut device; our special deluxe version WITH THREE ADDITIONAL WOODCUTS at the back of each volume all the woodcuts as well as the cover design by Randolph Schwabe. Ransom p. 211; Tomkinson p. 17. ◆Berneval spine just a bit darkened otherwise FINE UNWORN COPIES that have obviously been little used as they open stiffly and are immaculate inside and out. Here "After Berneval" is offered with "After Reading" its earlier companion volume both of them in their deluxe form on Japanese vellum and including an extra suite of the illustrations. "Reading" comprises a set of letters also written to Ross by Wilde during the summer of 1897 after having just been released from two years' imprisonment in Reading Gaol. The preface to its sequel "After Berneval" says that the earlier collection "was unprocurable almost as soon as it was published." The letters in these volumes tell the story of a tragic literary figure who fell from a precipitous height. Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 was born and raised in Ireland studied classics at Trinity College Dublin and at Magdalen College Oxford before settling in London. There he became famous for his unmatched wit and infamous for his personal eccentricities--long hair décor at his lodgings that included peacock feathers and blue china and ultimately sexual behavior that was deemed both intolerable and criminal. During the first half of the 1890s he was enjoying remarkable social prominence and literary success with the staging of "Lady Windermere's Fan" 1892 "A Woman of No Importance" 1893 "An Ideal Husband" 1894 and the incomparable "The Importance of Being Earnest" 1895. But two months after the staging of this last play he brought a defamation suit against the Marquess of Queensbury the father of his intimate friend Lord Alfred Douglas. The suit backfired: in the course of the litigation Wilde was investigated by police and his homosexuality was exposed leaving his reputation destroyed. He was sentenced in May of 1895 to two years of hard labor spending part of his time behind bars at Reading Gaol where he produced his powerful poem "De Profundis." After release he moved to the Continent and died three years later in Paris of meningitis. As Day says "Among English men of letters only Byron and Shaw have surpassed Wilde in the craft of conscious posing and self-publicizing" a fact that has made succeeding generations suspicious of the reality behind the legend that the author helped to establish. But after a period when he was treated as a kind of martyr because of his suffering at the hands of squeamish Victorianism "it is at last possible to evaluate Wilde as the capable literary artist he actually was." In physical terms these are modest but nevertheless pleasing products of the Beaumont Press founded by Cyril W. Beaumont in 1917. A special feature of the Press is its patterned paper bindings each with a design created for one title only. Beaumont Press unknown
1907rif. 41253A. R. Keller & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1907. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Gray cloth boards with spine label dulled toning to spine securely bound with all seven Aubrey Beardsley illustrations with tissue guards present and in excellent condition. Deckled page ends top edge gilt. ; MCF04412; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 430 pp . A. R. Keller & Company hardcover
1998rif. alyssa166Cambridge: The MIT Press 1998. 1998. folio. pp. 176. profusely illus. in b/w. bio. biblio. cloth. dw. First American Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Cambridge: The MIT Press, [1998]. Hardcover
1956rif. ABE-275427956Paris: Galerie de France 1956. 1956. 4to. pp. 41. many colour & b/w illus. wrs. edges faded faint dampstaining to lower edge of front cover. Edition limited to 2000 numbered copies. [Paris: Galerie de France, 1956]. unknown
1938rif. 46569London: Limited Editions Club. Near Fine. 1938. Hardcover. One hardcover and one softcover volume in slipcase. #840 of 1500 copies. The French volume is stiff wraps with black printed paper wrapper in the original clear celluloid cover. The black outer wrapper is wrinkled. The celluloid is about fine as are the contents. Slight offsetting to the endpages and pages opposite plates. Signed to the colophon by Derain. The hardcover volume in English includes the original celluloid cover in excellent condition and is fine but for the slightly sunned spine. Most pages are unopened. The slipcase is mildly sunned rubbed and dust soiled. ; quarto; Signed by Author . Limited Editions Club hardcover
1938rif. 3936London: The Limited Editions Club. Very Good. 1938. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Translated by LOrd Alfred Douglas. With a new introduction by Holbrook Jackson. Printed at the Fanfare Press in London under the direction of Ernest Ingham. No. 1438 of 1500 copes. Brick-red cloth gilt titles and decoration. No slipcase. . The Limited Editions Club hardcover
1994rif. 16855Illustrated with wood engravings by Garrick Palmer. Two attached ribbon bookmarks. Slipcase covered in a pattern by Palmer. Old Stile Press
rif. 230302017Alfaguara. paperback. Good. 4x0x7. Ships Out Tomorrow! Alfaguara paperback
1902rif. E7173Paris: Privately Printed 1902. First edition thus. vellum. Very Good. One of 500 unnumbered copies "for private circulation only among friends and subscribers". Full vellum line and lettered in black title on spine and large "O.W." on front cover. Top edge stained red and other edges uncut. Title page printed in red and black. Translated into English by Sebastian Melmoth pseudonym of Oscar Wilde. This is now considered to be a spurious Wilde piece; the Paris bookseller who printed it Charles Carrington apparently invented the Wilde connection in order to spur sales. The four page foreword has Wilde who had died two years earlier as its subject. A tight very good or a bit better example spine a bit darkened and some very light soilning to the vellum. Carrington's bookshop label is affixed to the rear free endpaper. Privately Printed unknown
2003rif. ACCL-284Easton Press 2003. 4to. This book is from "The Collector's Library of Famous Editions". It is leather bound in like new condition. No DJ as issued. The Easton Press hardcover
1908rif. F-5A scandalous story of love between an abbot and a 14-year-old novice which ends in a collective suicide on the altar. In this edition the only Russian one it is attributed to Oscar Wilde. It was actually written by Wilde's "friend" John Fr. Bloksem 1873-1928 and published in the only issue of the journal "Chameleon" published by him 1894. Written under the influence of Wilde and with his approval the story "The Priest and the Acolyte" was discussed in the same year at his trial. An anonymous translator attributed this text to Wilde in the preface and gave the whole book as a title the nickname of Wilde himself — "The King of Life". The book was banned in England Russia and even in Soviet times in the 1940s and 50s see Glavlit lists in: Blum A. Index Librorum Prohibitorum of Foreign Writers and both Glavlit Blum and the catalogers of the RSL and RNB mistakenly indicate Wilde as the author of this book. Printed in the ephemeral publishing house "Icarus" in the font "antique". A literary curiosity a rarity. WorldCat and KVK do not find any copies of the book outside of Russia. Icarus paperback
1930rif. 4964to. New York. E.P. Dutton and Co. 1930. Uncut bright and clean copy includes DJ in fine condition. Quarterbound coated black cloth spine gilt lettering and decorative elements patterned blue paper boards frontispiece tissue guards. 124pp. Illus. b/w plates. Conceptions by John Vassos. Vassos second work following his breakthrough work with Salome in 1927. E.P. Dutton and Co
rif. M06F-01252Penguin Books. Used - Good. Good condition. Penguin Books unknown
1984rif. CORV-BBC-SF00207Underwood Books 1984-10-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Fine. Signed. > Edition/Printing: Stated First edition Like new cond. in like new DJ. Authors signature to 2nd FFEP. Illus. DJ and Illus. cardboard slipcover. 547 pp. > DJ Like New > Language: English > Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4 - 9 3/4 tall > Media/Binding: Hardcover Underwood Books hardcover
1909rif. 7592Second American edition with additional matter 80 pages. Small octavo. Edited with a prefatory dedication by Robert Ross. Frontispiece portrait from the etching by J. E. Kelly. Original gilt stamped dark blue cloth over gray boards t.e.g. uncut. No dust jacket. Good slight soiling. 154 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Mason 412. G. P. Putnam’s Sons/The Knickerbocker Press hardcover
1927rif. 2553New York / London: D. Appleton and Company 1927. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Clara Elsene Peck. A Christmas play set in a wealthy home with "colorful dialogue" it is attractive for both reading and acting with a cast of eighteen. Cloth backed decorative boards title printed in green onto paste-down label glossy illustrated endpapers 12mo 7-3/8 inches 18.8 cm tall pp. ii 58 with "1" printed at foot of last page indicating a first printing. Volume with light edge wear and some small splash marks to the first few pages else unmarked. Price-intact DJ is soiled with a few chips and small tears. Credited artwork by Clara Elsene Peck on the DJ and glossy duo-tone endpapers who ". was a member of the American Watercolor Society exhibited extensively and won many awards." Reed 2001 p. 111. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1906rif. 28085London: Privately Printed 1906. First printing. Pamphlet. Good overall. One of 400 copies of this brochure. Contains numerous verbal exchange between Whistler and Wilde questioning each others abilities as artists. Octavo 20pp ii. Title page printed in two colors and is uncut. Original tan printed paper wraps with title in black on the front cover. Wraps with chips around the edges of the front cover. Privately Printed unknown
1910rif. WB18284London: David Nutt 1910. Hardcover. Good. Seventh impression. Publisher's pictorial cloth some discoloration. Spine with wear. Illustrated by Walter Crane and Jacome Hood. Gift inscription from 1911: "Geraldine with love from Sal." Copies of this book even in later printings are uncommon in part due to the fragile nature of the binding. David Nutt hardcover
1891rif. BB17290London: James R. Osgood McIlvaine & Co. 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo. Rebound in plain olive cloth leather spine label lettered in gilt. 258 pp. Title page and premilinary blanks detached. Sold as is. James R. Osgood McIlvaine & Co. hardcover
1975rif. BR-817-170Softcover mass markets publication. 199 pp. Pinnacle Books Los Angeles CA 1975. "Fourth Printing July 1978" stated. Minimal edgewear. Bright clean copy with no markings or soiling or creases.Very Fine. More photos on request. Shipped in a box within a box in bubble wrap with a tracking number. Pinnacle Books paperback
