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rif. 3710Mercure de France. 1948. In-8° broché. 75 pages. E.O. (pas de grand papier).
2005rif. 26682Stock, collection La Cosmopolite, 2005. In-8 broché, couverture imprimée. Infime frottement au bord du premier plat et léger pli de lecture au dos.
2014rif. 264702014 Portrait encadré (format du cadre 14,5 x 16), réalisé en héliogravure.
1907rif. 26709Philadelphia:: The Butterfly Autumn 1907. publisher's printed stiff wrappers. Small chips and light use to wrappers. 4to. The four-page letter is reproduced in facsimile together with transcription. The Butterfly, unknown
1899rif. 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
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
1922rif. 796Gothenburg: N. J. Gumpert 1922. Very good. Original printed wrappers. Spine extremities chipped and snagged otherwise a very good copy of an increasingly scarce title. First edition variant issue in collected form of these five essays two in their original French on Wilde and associates. From an edition of 400 copies this copy is neither numbered nor signed and has a cancel paste-over obscuring the original "Vienna 1921 / Alfred Holder" imprint on the title page; Gumpert's imprint appears on the wrapper instead. "Printed by Alfred Holder Vienna 1922" is printed on the lower wrapper. N. J. Gumpert unknown
1995rif. 5FSZKH0010TYTown House 1995T. paperback. Good. 0.7000 in x 7.7000 in x 5.0000 in. The cover shows normal wear. Town House paperback
1984rif. 86113Vancouver: William Hoffer 1984. First Canadian edition. 58 pp. Fine in full Coromandel silk over boards with printed cover and spine labels. No dust jacket as issued. Designed by Robert Bringhurst. One of 90 of 110 numbered copies on Carlyle Japan paper. Translated from the original German by Greve with his Afterword. Originally published in Germany in 1903. Publications of the F.P. Greve Seminar Number One. Vancouver: William Hoffer hardcover
1932rif. 81512Bloomsbury: Nonsuch Press 1932. First edition. 59 pp. Light offsetting to endpapers else very near fine in near fine printed dust jacket with light chipping to crown. One of 800 numbered copies. An imaginary conversation about Oscar Wilde between Jean Paul Raymond a fictional character and Charles Ricketts written entirely by Ricketts. Inscription on the front paste-down from San Francisco collector Albert Sperisen to San Francisco printer Lawton Kennedy. Bloomsbury: Nonsuch Press, unknown
rif. 0L-BGHW-MTCOHardcover. Good. 1910 First Edition with heliogravure frontispiece portrait of Wilde. 75 pages. Text is in French of course. No writing in book. Our copy has foxing to many pages. The covers are still under glassine dust wrapper. Spine is sunned. There is a quarter-inch tear to front cover along the fore-edge. Lower right corner lightly bumped. A hard to find collectors item in this early printing. We ship this item via priority mail in the USA with signature confirmation. hardcover
rif. 45-EHMX-0CGKLeather. Very Good. 1910 First Edition with heliogravure frontispiece portrait of Wilde. 75 pages; custom bound in dark blue limp leather with marbled end-papers. Bindery not identified. Text is in French. No writing in book. A scarce collectors item in this early printing. We ship this item via priority mail in the USA with signature confirmation. hardcover
rif. 1860590020.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1918rif. 302950New York Brentano's Publishers ca. 1918. 1918. 8vo. Frontispiece. 3/4 blue morocco t.e.g. others uncut spines faded to brown; rubbing; nicks. Good. 2 volumes. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. New York, Brentano's Publishers [ca. 1918]. hardcover
1929rif. 44391London:: Martin Secker 1929. First edition. publisher's cloth in dust jacket. A near fine copy in an attractive jacket with some chipping to two corners and the extremities of the spine not affecting any lettering. The jacket has a few neat internal repairs. It is extremely uncommon in our experience. . 8vo. Martin Secker, hardcover
1898rif. 75660London:: Leonard Smithers 1898. Second edition. publisher's white and gold cloth gilt-lettered on the spine. Ink ownership name on front free endpaper; endsheets tanned; a very few smudges and spots to text and deckled fore-edges a bit tanned. The original binding is dust-soiled and stained; spine quite tanned; but tight and sound. . 8vo. Leonard Smithers, hardcover
1901rif. 74522New York:: Brentano's 1901. First US edition third printing. publisher's cream cloth decorated in colors; t.e.g. . Spine a little tanned; otherwise very attractive. 12mo. Horodisch p. 73. Brentano's, hardcover
1898rif. 59504New York:: Brentano's 1898. First US edition first printing. publisher's olive cloth decorated in colors; preserved in a custom quarter morocco folding box. . Cloth lightly rubbed at edges joints and corners; 1899 private library book label on pastedown; but an attractive tight and sound copy. . 12mo. Horodisch pp. 72-75. Brentano's, hardcover
1901rif. 59502New York:: Brentano's 1901. First US edition second printing. publisher's cream cloth decorated in colors. . January 1901 ink ownership signature on front free endpaper; shallow chipping at extremities of spine; a few tiny losses to cloth at edges; slight dust-soiling. Contents fine. 12mo. Brentano's, hardcover
1899rif. wld04London: Leonard Smithers. G - in Good condition. Cover lightly marked. Spine darkened. Inner hinges sympathetically reinforced. Light foxing of endpapers. Sm. tear to copyright page and chip to rear pastedown. Untrimmed. 1899. Reprint. Mustard hardback cloth cover with white spine. 230mm x 140mm 9" x 6". 31pp. Early reprint. Publication date February 1898 to copyright page but with addition at this later stage of Wilde's name in square brackets beneath C. 3. 3. . Leonard Smithers hardcover
1898rif. 259158London 1898. First edition ONE OF 30 COPIES on Japanese vellum. 1 vols. 8vo. Cinnamon-colored cloth vellum spine. Covers show slight insect damage and minor soiling spine a bit soiled otherwise a very good copy in a quarter blue morocco slipcase with chemise and with the bookplate and signature of actress LENA ASHWELL 1872-1957 on the front pastedown. First edition ONE OF 30 COPIES on Japanese vellum. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition of Wilde's legendary poem written while he was imprisoned in its rarest state - being one of only 30 copies printed on Japanese vellum. This copy comes from the distinguished library of the actress Lena Ashwell 1872-1957 who as a young actress toured in Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan in 1891 later becoming actor-manager of the Savoy Theatre. Ashwell was particularly troubled by the news of Wilde's arrest and wrote later: ". the atmosphere of London was horrible and cruel. His plays were so very brilliant and I had seen this when I was in Lady Windermere's so I felt that he was a friend and in desperate trouble." Later during WWI she is known to have pioneered the organization of entertainments on a large scale for the British troops in France Leask Margaret Lena Ashwell: Actress Patriot Pioneer 2012. An excellent association copy of an essential Wilde rarity. Mason 372 unknown
1899rif. 71614London: Leonard Smithers and Co. 1899. First edition. One of 1000 copies; not numbered as usually seen. This copy in the scarce VARIANT BINDING recorded only as with "some copies" having been bound as such Mason & Millard 381 note to. 8vo gilt-stamped mauve cloth stamped in gilt; 152 pages. Good with cloth at spine toned to light brown spine lettering dulled scant eighth-inch loss from head of spine; glass ring to front board and rear board showing fading and discoloration but contents altogether unmarked and fine. Uncommon in this style binding with the leaf decorations on front cover and spine slightly larger more delicate and ornamented with a vine-like design. Leonard Smithers and Co. unknown
1907rif. 222567New York Mitchell Kennerley 1907. 1907. First American edition from English sheets. Thick 8vo. Frontispiece portrait from photograph by Ellis & Walery and 25 illustrations. Original blue cloth spine with printed paper label t.e.g. uncut. Good-very good. No bookplates. Former owners ink signature on the title page. F. Hardcover. New York, Mitchell Kennerley, 1907. hardcover
rif. 75205London: William Hodge 1948. Legal and literary history FIRST EDITION. Octavo 22 x 15cm. Pp.384. Publisher's red cloth gilt titles to spine illustrated dust-wrapper. Discreet bookplate beneath flap. Contents and page edges clean wrapper with shallow loss to rear panel minor wear to spine ends. One of the most famous and desirable titles in the popular 'Notable British Trials Series' this being volume 70; the collectable series includes such notorious cases as Captain Kidd the pirate bodysnatchers Burke and Hare and the murderous Dr. Crippen. London: William Hodge, 1948 unknown
1902rif. 224721Paris Privately Printed 1902. 1902. First edition. Small 8vo. Foreword. Original gilt stamped vellum stamped in black; top edge stained red uncut slight rubbing. Very good. One of 500 unnumbered copies "for private circulation." Translated by Oscar Wilde. F. Hardcover. Paris, Privately Printed, 1902. hardcover
