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1903réf. 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 books
1955réf. 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 books
1921réf. 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 books
1994réf. 16855Illustrated with wood engravings by Garrick Palmer. Two attached ribbon bookmarks. Slipcase covered in a pattern by Palmer. Old Stile Press books
1930réf. 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 books
1909réf. 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 books
2004réf. 81286Madrid:: Del Prado Publishers. Fine. 2004. Hardcover. 8483729709 . Part of The Miniature Classics Library series. Unabridged. First edition thus miniature - measures roughly 2" x 2.5". Fine in a brown leather binding. . Del Prado Publishers, hardcover books
réf. B114150-1New York Limited Editions Club 1937. xii 42pp. 9 plates. 4to. Decorative embossed sheepskin binding resembling jail cell. Slipcase. Edition printed by John S. Fass at the Harbor Press New York and limited to 1500 copies hand-numbered and signed Zhenya in the colophon. New York (Limited Editions Club), 1937. unknown books
réf. ST17553Bayreuth: The Bear Press 1982. No. 4 OF 15 COPIES with hand-colored etchings signed by Benda Klitsch and Lehr from a total edition of 210. 226 x 146 mm. 9 x 5 7/8". 50 pp. 2 leaves.Translated and with an afterword by Wolfram Benda. Publisher's dark brown calf by Erwin Lehr covers with gilt fillet border upper cover with large gilt rose at center raised bands spine in gilt-ruled compartments gilt lettering. In the original slipcase covers with ivory handmade paper. With four signed and hand-colored etchings by Peter Klitsch all with original tissue guards. Printed on Kochi-Japan paper. ◆In pristine condition. This is a lovely special 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 have been 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: the type is set in refined Walbaum Antiqua; 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. First appearing in 1888 the three tales here are bittersweet in their themes of love and self-sacrifice. Wilde's stories for children were one of his early successes and DNB says that "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.". The Bear Press unknown books
1955réf. 138900New York: Kurt Volk 1955. silk boards publisher's box. Volk Kurt. 8vo. silk boards publisher's box. 48 2 pages. Printed in red and black on handmade japanese paper. Small Christmas card loosely inserted. Fine in fine box. This book was conceived by Kurt H. Volk typographer. It was designed by Meyer Wagman and edited by Charles Brodie. It has been set in 11 pt. and 18 pt. Times New Roman and Weiss Initials No 2. It was been printed by letterpress on Okawara a handmade paper. It was been bound in moire silk and stamped with genuine gold. Kurt Volk unknown books
réf. B172350-1Paris Éditions de La Banderole 1926. 151 5pp. 8 etched plates. Sm. 4to. Wraps. Glassine d.j. One of 200 numbered copies on vélin de Rives with an extra suite of the etchings from the limited edition of 230 printed by Coulouma. Paris (Éditions de La Banderole), 1926. paperback books
réf. B243967-1N.p. Privately Printed 1923. 16pp. Printed on rectos only. Two color illus. Sm. 4to. Boards 1/4 cloth. Spine label. Dec. paper label on front board. Slipcase back panel loose. A piracy of a manuscript parody of Oscar Wilde originally written for inclusion in The Yellow Book. The unsigned introduction is by Ernest Boyd. Edition limited to 300 copies. N.p. (Privately Printed), 1923. hardcover books
1927réf. 2222501Forty-fifth edition with additional matter. Small octavo. Original gilt blind stamped green cloth uncut. No dust jacket. Very good. 156 pages. No signatures or bookplates.7 page dedication by Robert Ross.Printed by T. and A. Constable Ltd. at the University Press Edinburgh.Includes listing details for all 45 printings. Methuen & Co. Ltd. hardcover books
1930réf. 7932GILT STAMPED ROSE CLOTH GLASSINE DUST JACKET. VERY GOOD. ONE OF 550 COPIES THIS COPY "OUT OF SERIES". FABER & FABER hardcover books
1905réf. 22223361905-1909. Edition de Luxe. Number 430 of 1000 copies. Title pages in red and black. Thick octavo. Original grey linen t.e.g. others uncut and some unopened; spine labels. 15 illustrations including two portraits of Wilde. 10 volumes complete. No dust jackets. Very good. Pagination in some volumes is continuous and in some volumes it is separate for each work. A stout set on fine paper. Light pencil owner's signature on fly leaf of each volume dated 1910 of JNO V. Forbes. Extra shipping required. The Nottingham Society hardcover books
1905réf. 77425Portland Maine: Thomas B. Mosher. Very Good. 1905. Hardcover. This book is hard-bound in gray paper covered boards with a printed paper label on the upper cover and spine. The covers show light toning and light edge-wear. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and legible but with intermittent damp-staining to the bottom edge/bottom outer corner of the pages. . Thomas B. Mosher hardcover books
réf. 48524Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. NY: Dodd Mead & Co. no date. 258 pages hardbound. Ex-library with usual markings chipping to the first few pages and heavy staining/soil to the tight red cloth binding. Reading copy only. . Other hardcover books
1930réf. 48130NY:: Dutton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1930. Hardcover. First edition. Foxing on top edge else very good in a very good closed edge tear along the front spine edge minor edge wear with a few small chips dust jacket. . Dutton, hardcover books
1976réf. 95762Norwalk:: Heritage Press. Very Good. 1976. Hardcover. Introduction by Robert Gorham Davis. Illustrations from paintings by James Hill. A reprint of the Limited Editions Club edition. "Sandglass" laid in. A bit faded along the spine else near fine in a very good slipcase. ; 313 pages . Heritage Press, hardcover books
1917réf. 194590First edition. Octavo. Original gilt stamped 3/4 Japan Vellum over blue boards uncut. No dust jacket. Very good. 26 pages. No signatures or bookplates. #124/100 copies on Inomachi vellum in three-quarters binding. Numbered from 50 to 149 inclusive. Brothers of the Book hardcover books
réf. 325594Leipzig: Insel. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. Insel hardcover books
1925réf. 58286Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag 1925. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in an attractive very good dustwrapper with several internal repairs and some small chips. S. Fischer Verlag hardcover books
1936réf. 78079Dublin:: Sign of the Three Candles. Very Good. 1936. Hardcover. B00087P028 . Edited with introduction and index by Colm O Lochlainn. Fold-out map. Third edition. Some light soiling on bottom edge brief gift inscription in pencil on front free endpaper else very good in pale yellow cloth with green lettering and design. No dust jacket. ; 319 pages . Sign of the Three Candles, hardcover books
1907réf. 46919NY:: Brentano's. Very Good. 1907. Hardcover. First edition thus. Sextodecimo bound in pale blue paper covered boards with small paper label on front board and along spine. Age toning along the spine and edges else very good. No dust jacket. A relatively early and scarce American edition. The pseudonym appears as C. 33 on the title page - Wilde's name does not appear anywhere in the book. ; 39 pages . Brentano's, hardcover books
1927réf. 495New York. E.P. Dutton and Co. 1927. 57 pp. of text and 12 Illus. by John Vassos. Quarto. First edition. Bound in boards. Embossed gilt lettering on spine and cover. Gold & black endpapers. . Good. E.P. Dutton and Co books
