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1916Best.-Nr. 264948New York: Printed and Published by the Author 1916. First Edition. Frontis. 2 vols. 8vo. Qauarter publisher;'s green calf and boards. Fine in half faded green morocco and chemise. First Edition. Frontis. 2 vols. 8vo. Printed and Published by the Author unknown
1899Best.-Nr. 70468Ldn. 1899. Høy 8vo. Originalt shirtingbind. Ubeskåret. 31 s. VEDLAGT : André Gide : Oscar Wilde. In memoriam Souvenirs. Le “de profundis”. Paris. 1947. 8vo. Originalt typografisk omslag. Ubeskåret og uoppskåret. 75 s. Leonard Smithers Engelsk. Hilsen på fribladet. Senere enn 7. utgave men før 1907.Svake indre og ytre falser noe løs. unknown
1968Best.-Nr. 3282060411 gelatin silver prints. 9 ¾ x 7 ½ in. Photographer's stamp and descriptive carbon typescript captions on versos. Very good condition. This West End revival of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnestopened on February 8 1968 and ran for 283 performances at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. The production starred Isabel Jeans Daniel Massey Helen Weir and John Standing among others. "Angus McBean's iconic portraits of actors and entertainers are among the most complete visual records of the British stage from the 1930s through the 1960s" Harvard. Angus McBean, photographer
1893Best.-Nr. 371134Oxford: published for the Proprietor by James Thornton High Street 1893. 100 pp. Squarish 8vo. Blue printed paper wrappers. Some chipping and loss to covers; toning to pages. 100 pp. Squarish 8vo. Featuring "The Disciple" by Oscar Wilde and pieces by Lord Alfred Douglas H. M. Beerbohm and John Addington Symonds. published for the Proprietor by James Thornton, High Street unknown
1906Best.-Nr. 56412Paris: Privately Printed Charles Carrington 1906. Limited edition. Softcover. Good. # 251 of a limited edition of 500 copies on handmade paper. Royal octavo. 9 1/4 x 6 3/8”. 134pp. plus 14pp. “List of Privately Issued Historical Artistic…works in English. ” Contains two essays by Lord Alfred Douglas regarding Wilde: "His Last Book and His Last Years in Paris" and "De Profundis. a Criticism". Green paper folded wrappers with paper label. Wrappers have split and bump at bottom of spine which is wrinkled and creased. Binding a bit loose. Privately Printed (Charles Carrington) unknown
1902Best.-Nr. 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
1906Best.-Nr. 264810London: Privately Printed Leonard Smithers 1906. First edition one of 400 copies. 20 2 pp. 8vo. Printed tan wrappers. Fine in custom red morocco-backed slipcase and chemise. First edition one of 400 copies. 20 2 pp. 8vo. The penultimate Smithers publication our copy with the "Shelley" bookplate of H. Buxton Forman. Mason 626; BAL 21346 Whistler; Nelson 1906.3 Privately Printed [Leonard Smithers] unknown
1906Best.-Nr. 515288New York: Mitchell Kennerley 1906. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 16mo. 75pp. Quarter cloth with papercovered boards paper spine label and gilt edges. About very good with ink owner name "Catherine Ten Eyck Ledyard" toned spine and some edgewear. Limited to 1000 copies. Contributors includes W.B. Yeats "Down by the Salley Gardens" and "Ephemera" Oscar Wilde "Requiescat" George Russell Fiona Macleod A. E. Housman Andrew Lang Moira O'Neill Ernest Dowson Robert Bridges et al. Mitchell Kennerley hardcover
1997Best.-Nr. B13NS1017The Victorian Newsletter Kentucky University No. 91 Spring 1997. 1st Edition. SOFTCOVER. A4 size card covered journal. Noon gives an interesting angle on Wilde's appreciation of social and class distinctions and barriers. Signed by Noon on title page __CONDITION : NEW unread copy. . __To see more of our Literary monographs biographies etc type DbbLBIOG in the Keywords search box __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS The Victorian Newsletter, Kentucky University, No. 91 paperback
1996Best.-Nr. 866511996 Paris, NRF, Gallimard (Album de la Pléiade n°35), 1996, in 12 relié plein cuir de l'éditeur, jaquette rhodoïd, étui illustré, 272 pages ; 267 illustrations dont 18 en couleurs.
1906Best.-Nr. 62620London: Privately Printed by Leonard Smithers 1906. Tall 8vo. 6 x 9.25 in. 20 4 pp. Title in red & black. Tan printed softcovers minor chipping to foot of spine darkening to fore-edges minor shelfwear still a VG- unopened & uncut copy. First edition one of “400 copies on small quarto paper.” There was also issued one hundred large paper copies on demy octavo paper. This rather acerbic exchange of ideas and concepts of art between Whistler & Wilde was kicked off by Whistler’s famed “Ten O’Clock Lecture” delivered Feb. 10 1885 in London with biting review by Wilde. Privately Printed [by Leonard Smithers], paperback
1920Best.-Nr. 147351920 P., Edition à petit nombre réservée aux souscripteurs et non mise dans le commerce [Librairie des Bibliophiles Parisiens, d'après Carteret], 1920, 1 vol. in-4° (285 x 198 mm) broché sous couverture mauve rempliée, étiquette de titre collée au plat supérieur, de 84 pp. - (2) ff. (cul-de-lampe et achevé d'imprimer).Couverture insolée, assez fortement au dos, comme toujours, très bel exemplaire par ailleurs.
1946Best.-Nr. 755611946 Paris, Hazan, 1946, petit in 8° broché, 59 pages ; couverture rempliée imprimée.
1942Best.-Nr. 012873Saint-Maurice d'Etelan Pierre Bettencourt 1942 In-8 broché, couverture illutrée
Best.-Nr. 201008372Monaco, Anatolia - editions du rocher, 2000 ; in-8, 310 pp., broché, couverture illustr. Très bon état.
Best.-Nr. 201602268Paris, Les Editions G. Grès et cie, 1922 ; in-8, 89 pp., br. Broché très bon état -Broché, couverture illustrée rempliée. Premier tirage. Illustré de 9 dessins hors texte en 2 tons d"Alastair.
Best.-Nr. 201214102Paris, Gallimard, 1979 ; in-8, 274 pp., broché, couverture illustr. Traduit de l'anglais par Georges Magnane.
1906Best.-Nr. 1843Düsseldorf: Schmitz & Olbertz 1906. First German edition. Numbered one of 600 copies. In unique custom made hand-painted vellum binding by Lajos Kozma. Title on spine in gilt lettering. Upper edge gilt. Paste paper endpapers. Kozma’s signet on front flyleaf’s verso and another signet supposedly of the owner: “CHW” on the additional flyleaf drawn by Kozma in black ink. Binding with slight discolorations and light stains. Inside some light and scattered foxing. Overall in fine condition. First German edition. Numbered one of 600 copies. In unique custom made hand-painted vellum binding by Lajos Kozma. Title on spine in gilt lettering. Upper edge gilt. Paste paper endpapers. Kozma’s signet on front flyleaf’s verso and another signet supposedly of the owner: “CHW” on the additional flyleaf drawn by Kozma in black ink. 44 4 p. The first German edition of The Priest and the Acolyte in Lajos Kozma’s Unique Hand-Painted Art Nouveau binding. Lajos Ludwig Kozma 1884–1948 was one of the chief Hungarian architects and interior designers of the first half of the 20th century he is also known for his graphic designs and book illustrations and binding designs. His early works were created in Art Nouveau style but later through Art Deco he found his way to International Modernism. The scandalous story of The Priest and the Acolyte here in A. W. Hiller’s translation is attributed to Oscar Wilde however its real author was John Francis Bloxam 1873–1928 an English Uranian author and churchman. The novel appeared first in The Chameleon Vol. I No. 1 December 1894. . Schmitz & Olbertz unknown
Best.-Nr. 22574Paris, Robert Laffont, 1946. In-4, 82 pp., en feuilles, sous couverture imprimée et rempliée, chemise et étui bleu de l'éditeur.
Paris, Robert Laffont, 1946. In-4, 82 pp., en feuilles, sous couverture imprimée et rempliée, chemise et étui bleu de l'éditeur. Ouvrage illustré de 10 fines gravures sur cuivre. Un des 465 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin blanc, n° 190. Bel exemplaire.
1952Best.-Nr. 54030Paris Editions Falaize 1952 In-12, broch, couverture imprime.Edition originale du texte d'Albert Camus servant de prface cette nouvelle traduction par Jacques Bour de la Ballade de la gele de Reading d'Oscar Wilde. Un des 50 premiers exemplaires numrots sur vlin de Madagascar, bien complet du feuillet volant d'erratum. Neuf, non coup.
1957Best.-Nr. 73202AB1957. Fifth Impression. London Faber and Faber 1957. 13 cm x 19 cm. 360 Pages. Original clothbound hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following essays: Narrative of the Ghost of a Hand J. Sheridan Le Fanu / The Dream Woman Wilkie Collins / Who Knows Guy de Maupassant / The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde / The Open Window Saki / The Apple Tree Wlizabeth Bowen / etc. hardcover
1968Best.-Nr. 29200New York:: Random House 1968. First Printing of the First US Edition. A fine copy in maroon cloth binding in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a closed edge tear to the spine fold. Although known primarily as the irreverent but dazzlingly witty playwright Oscar Wilde was also an able and farsighted critic. He was an early advocate of criticism as an independent branch of literature and stressed its vital role in the creative process. Included in Richard Ellmann's impressive collection of Wilde's criticism The Artist as Critic is a wide selection of Wilde's book reviews as well as such famous longer works as "The Portrait of Mr. W.H." "The Soul Man under Socialism" and the four essays which make up Intentions. The Artist as Critic will satisfy any Wilde fan's yearning for an essential reading of his critical work. Random House, hardcover
Best.-Nr. 6630Paris, Librairie Marceau, 1942. Grand in-8, broché, couverture imprimée et rempliée, 69 pp.
Paris, Librairie Marceau, 1942. Grand in-8, broché, couverture imprimée et rempliée, 69 pp. Tirage à 1200 exemplaires numérotés sur Vélin d'Arches. Un des 1000. 7 hors-texte en couleurs, et nombreux dessins en couleurs dans le texte.