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2000rif. 165375New York: Carroll & Graf 2000. Hardcover. ix 278p. 8p. b&w photos prologue postscript notes bibliography index fine first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. Carroll & Graf hardcover books
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 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
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 books
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 books
1993rif. 93109New York: Routledge 1993. Paperback. x 261p. lightly-worn first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. An argument for the trial of Oscar Wilde as the turning point in distinguishing the terms heterosexual and homosexual. Routledge paperback books
2005rif. 170268New York: Basic Books 2005. xiv 539p. foreword select bibliography notes index 16 glossy pages of b&w photos first edition first printing stated in boards and unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Basic Books unknown books
1987rif. 104598London: Hamish Hamilton 1987. xiv 632p. 32p. illus. later printing of the UK edition dj. Hamish Hamilton unknown books
1988rif. 25521New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1988. Hardcover. xvii 680p. introduction index illustrations very good first US edition stated gray cloth boards and dust jacket. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1984rif. 39730Washington DC: Library of Congress 1984. First edition. 30 pp. Fade along spine else near fine in stapled wrappers. A lecture delivered at the Library of Congress on March 1 1983. Washington DC: Library of Congress, unknown books
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 books
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 books
2003rif. 79849Lund: Bloms I Lund Tryckeri AB 2003. First edition. 12 pp w/bibliography. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. “Compliments of the author” label affixed to the first leaf. Lund: Bloms I Lund Tryckeri AB unknown books
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 books
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 books
2002rif. 68567Fairfield: John H. Willis 2002. Second edition expanded numbered issue. 49 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Dated 26 /01/03 and INSCRIBED by Willis on the front free endpaper. While Wilde never made the long journey Willis here does a thorough job making connections between Wilde his circle and Australia. Fairfield: John H. Willis unknown books
rif. 1019875003.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
rif. 208237London Humphreys 1905. 224pp. 8vo. Original title wrappers with fragile plain opaque dustwrapper some chippinga very good copy. A literary curiosity which tried to take advantage of the public's salacious interest in the writings and doings of the "exiled" and disgraced Wilde.Aphorisms and a version of The Soul of Man. With the ownership mark of Melbourne publisher Thomas Lothian and the date 1906. London, Humphreys, 1905.. unknown
rif. 11479Paris, Biographies Gallimard, 1995. Traduit de l'anglais par Marie Tadié et PHilippe Delamare. Fort in-8 broché de 676 pp. comprenant 34 photographies hors texte. Bon état.
rif. 39156Paris, Gallimard (coll. "Album de la Pléiade"), 1996. In-8°, 267p. Reliure plein cuir d'éditeur, sous rhodoïd et étui illustré.
rif. 29800Paris, Mazarine, 1987. Gr. in-8°, 345p. Broché, couverture illustrée.
rif. 20655Paris, Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1950. Gr. in-8°, 205p. Broché.
1896rif. 124891896 P;, Georges Carré, éditeur, 1896, 1 vol. in-8 (255 x 160) reliure de l'époque 1/2 percaline verte à la Bradel, pièce de tiitre en maroquin noir, fleuron et date en queue dorés, plats de papier "oeil de chat", de (2) ff. (faux-titre et titre) - 372 pp.Bords de la pièce de titre légèrement accidentés, coins émoussés, papier jauni, bel exemplaire par ailleurs.
rif. 46382874like new. unknown
rif. 0364567570.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
