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Best.-Nr. 41901Berlin: Guido Moriell 1991. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine condition. Signed by the artist on each etching and colophon. A15/50. Small Folio. 55 1pp. Original hand bound blue Morocco with geometric cover design by bookbinder Guido Moriell and black-stamped lettering on spine housed in blue cloth clamshell box with gilt lettering on spine. Every binding of the deluxe edition is a unique copy. Includes the video documenting the production of this anniversary edition housed in separate compartment of clamshell box as issued. Bibliophile edition on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the bookbinder Guido Moriell Radolfzell released in two Deluxe Editions A and B of 50 copies each and a standard edition of 100. This is No. 15 of the deluxe edition A printed on handmade paper. With 10 signed and hand colored original etchings by Rudolf Stuckert printed on the hand press of the artist. Top edge blue. Blue shaded endpapers. Blue initials. Text revised by John Loram based on the translation by Wilhelm Cremer 1922. Beautiful hand press production on firm handmade paper by the Steinort paper mill. An artistic masterpiece of modern hand press printing and bookbinding. Rudolf Stuckert 1912-2002 was a German painter and gallerist. He studied at the Academies in Kassel and Düsseldorf and was a master student of Oskar Moll. Stuckert opened his first gallery in 1936 in Düsseldorf with an exhibitions of Bruno Goller. In 1949 Stuckert became a cofounder of the New Rhine Secession Neue Rheinische Sezession in Düsseldorf. He had moved to Lake Constance in 1947 where he became a cofounder of the artist group "Der kleine Kreis" and was considered one of the so-called Höri-Painters. His paintings are an interplay of figurative and abstract elements. Landscapes ballplayers and acrobats are his favorite motifs. Guido Moriell is a film enthusiast and bookbinder in Radolfzell Lake Constance. In 2008 his work as a bookbinder was featured in the prestigious exhibition "Kunst des Bucheinbandes Art of Bookbinding" at the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar. Emphasis of the exhibition was the bookbinding in historic fashion showing a video of Guido Moriell at work as an example of traditional bookbinding. Guido Moriell hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 12189London / New York: Harpers / Penguin / Unicorn Press / Book Collector's Association. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Formerly owned by Oliver Sacks. Works include: Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann biography paperback The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde with an introduction and commentary by Merlin Holland 2003. DJ. De Profundis by Oscar Wilde Unicorn Press DJ. nd. HC The Satryicon of Petronius Arbiter translation acribed to Oscar Wilde. Book Collectors Assoc. 1934 From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Light shelfwear and bumped corners toning throughout else tight bright and unmarred. Harpers / Penguin / Unicorn Press / Book Collector's Association hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 69952New York: The Heritage Press No date. Heritage Press printing with illustrations by Valenti Angelo. Hardcover. Very Good. Valenti Angelo. 51pp. Slim octavo 26 cm Black cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine and a blind stamped illustration on the front and rear board. Decorative page borders. 2" split in the rear endpaper at the foot of the hinge. Binding solid. Introduction by Holbrook Jackson. Illustrated by Valenti Angelo. Oscar Wilde's play about the death of John the Baptist. The Heritage Press hardcover books
1925Best.-Nr. UB-17848New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1925. First Thus. Hardcover. Very good /very good. First Thus. Hardcover. Descend into 7 morbid fairy tales full of enchantment death sacrifice and "the wounds of love" by the great Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 who once declared these tales "intended neither for the British child nor the British public." In these pages you'll find a fisherman who falls in love with a mermaid with a magical voice and must strike a deal with a cave-dwelling witch to rid himself of his human soul to have her a beauty-loving king who would rather wear rags than raiment a falling star and a sinister babe abandoned in a wood a giant and his beautiful walled garden beset by children and so much more here illustrated in 16 striking and otherworldly plates by the Jewish Ukrainian-American artist Ben Kutcher 1895-1967. This is the first edition published with pictorial endpapers gilt-stamped pictorial binding and uncommon dust jacket all designed by Kutcher. 9 5/8" X 6 1/2". Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Moderate wear to unclipped dust jacket with small open tears at all edges and extremities 3" neat tear to rear panel sunning to spine and scattered rubbing and soiling. Publisher's cloth binding by Ben Kutcher with artist's monogram BK to rear board. Bound in black cloth over boards with boards and spine stamped in gilt: rose bush and nightingale to upper board nightingale and heart motif continued to spine with star and candle and starry cloudy night sky scene to rear all bright. Edgewear to binding with slight lean to spine and scattered rubbing to cloth. Pictorial endpapers. Binding is firm and sound. Scattered foxing to pages and plates throughout else unmarked. Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover books
1930Best.-Nr. 61005New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc 1930. Early printing of the edition illustrated by John Vassos. Hardcover. Very good/very good. John Vassos. 124pp. Small quarto 24 cm 1/4 black cloth with blue patterned paper over boards. The edges of the boards are a bit faded. There is a very brief gift inscription on the recto of the frontispiece and there is a semi-lengthy poem in pen on the recto of the rear free endpaper. In a very attractive dust jacket with clipped corners chipping to the ends of the spine and a small chip along the front fold of the spine. Includes sixteen black and white illustrations by the illustrator of Salome John Vassos. John Vassos was a 1930's book illustrator and long-term industrial designer. Vassos' interpretation of Wilde's masterpiece illustrating the emotional experiences of a condemned prisoner in his last days. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc hardcover books
1928Best.-Nr. 47487New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc 1928. First edition illustrated by John Vassos. Hardcover. Very good/very good. John Vassos. 124pp. Small quarto 24 cm 1/2 black cloth over blue striped paper covered boards. The title is stamped in gilt on the backstrip and there is an ornamental design stamped in black and gilt on the lower fore edge corner of the front board. With a slight lean to the spine and mild bumping and fading at the extremities. Age-toned pages. The jacket has periodic short closed tears and chips in the edges and there is a small loss from the paper at the foot of the jacket's spine measuring 1" wide by 3/4" deep. Includes sixteen black and white illustrations with tissue guards by John Vassos. From the dust jacket- "Vassos' interpretation of Wilde's masterpiece illustrating the emotional experiences of a condemned prisoner in his last days. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc hardcover books
2003Best.-Nr. 54590Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 2003. Limited edition. Hardcover. New in publisher's box and shrink wrap. Quarto 8" x 10½" 314pp. Bound in full blue leather with the 22k gold title in gilt on the spine. Features decorative gilt illustrations on both the cover and spine. Finished with gilt-edged pages silk endpapers and a silk bookmark. In the history of literature few authors match the standard for wit and wry observation as the immortal Oscar Wilde. This delightful work collects the best of the great master's short storie. Easton Press hardcover books
1906Best.-Nr. 40553London: Privately Printed 1906. Softcover. fair to g. Octavo. 20pp. Original tan wraps with black lettering on cover. 400 copies on small quarto paper and 100 large paper copies on demy octavo paper have been printed of this brochure. Contains a review by Oscar Wilde on Whistler's famous "Ten O'Clock-Lecture" given on February 10 1885 in London. Among other critical remarks Whistler denounced art critics in his lecture and caused such a stir that he was asked to give his lecture in Oxford and Cambridge which resulted in a verbal exchange between Whistler and Wilde around aesthetical issues. Mason # 625. Wraps with wear along edges moderate and small chips and creasing on back cover fragile. Block age-toned. Wraps in overall fair interior in good condition. Privately Printed unknown books
1904Best.-Nr. 55531Berlin: Karl Schnabel Axel Junckers Buchhandlung 1904. First German edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Octavo. 146 6pp. Bound in three-quarter leather over burgundy cloth with gilt ruling on covers gilt lettering ruling and tooling on spine with raised bands retaining original wraps. Marbled endpapers. In addition to the three essays named in the title the publication contains the "Sonnet to Liberty" at rear and three pages of publisher's advertisements. Text in German. Cover with very light wear along edges and some light water staining to bottom front cover. Karl Schnabel Axel Junckers Buchhandlung hardcover books
1973Best.-Nr. 2353963Norwalk Connecticut: The Heritage Press 1973. Reissue. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Walton Tony. Includes publisher's slipcase and Sandglass insert. Slipcase edges a bit faded otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1973 Hard Cover. 125; 114 pp. Bound in imitation of the dos-a-dos style binding the reader can flip the book over to read the second of the two books included in the volume though there is no middle board present as would be the case in an actual dos-a-dos. Introduction by Sir John Gielgud color plates and woodcut illustrations by Tony Walton. Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. This collection offers newly edited texts of Lady Windermere's Fan A Woman of No Importance Salome An Ideal Husband and arguably the greatest farcical comedy in English The Importance of Being Earnest. The Heritage Press hardcover books
1954Best.-Nr. 2347030Emmaus Pennsylvania: Story Classics 1954. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 0x0x0. Braby Dorothea. Limited edition #1558 of 3000 copies. Includes publisher's slipcase and original clear acetate jacket. Jacket fair slipcase good: Large chip from rear jacket panel jacket slipcase and endpapers foxed. 1954 Hard Cover. 99 pp. Includes afterword by Edward J. Fluck woodcut illustrations by Dorothea Braby frontispiece and four plates in text. A novella by the author of The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray also notorious as the focus of one of the first celebrity trials in which he was convicted of gross indecency for homosexual acts. Originally published as part of a collection of four short works. Story Classics hardcover books
2007Best.-Nr. UWILCOL01drpBarnes & Noble 2007. Very Good. Wilde Oscar. Collected Oscar Wilde. Fletcher Angus. NY: Barnes & Noble 2007. 628pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with rubbed edges. Barnes & Noble paperback books
1919Best.-Nr. 47472Hannover: Der Zweemann Verlag Robert Goldschmidt 1919. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. 76/100. Signed and numbered by the artist on colophon. Quarto. Original half vellum over decorative handmade paper. Frontispiece. Second German translation of "The Priest and the Acolyte" by E. Sander with illustrations by Ernst Schütte. This short story was first published with the German translation of Wilde's "Teleny" the homoerotic story of the French dandy Camille and the Hungarian pianist René Teleny. This work was originally credited to Oscar Wilde however the presumed author is John Francis Bloxam. In his trial against Queensberry Wilde contested the authorship and deemed the story "tasteless." This work contains two stunning lithographically reproduced Art Nouveau images of Ernst Schütte's work. Text in German. Spine with some light wear small chips and closed tears. Borads slightly bent outwards. Binding in overall good interior in very good condition. Der Zweemann Verlag Robert Goldschmidt hardcover books
1938Best.-Nr. 1409575The Limited Editions Club 1938. Limited Edition #609/1500. Softcover. Quarto 72 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in soft black paper covers with pale pink lettering to spine. 10 Gauche drawings on black paper. Warping to paper covers. Chipping with material loss at head and tail of spine. General edge wear. Light foxing and discoloration to endpapers. Signed by Derain and enumerated on limitation page in rear. Shelved in Case 0. 1409575. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
1976Best.-Nr. 2353650Norwalk Connecticut: The Heritage Press 1976. Reissue. Large Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 18x13x2. Hill James. Includes publisher's slipcase and Sandglass insert. Spine a bit faded and lightly soiled edges foxed. Binding tight and square text clean bright and unmarked. 1976 Large Hardcover. xii 313 pp. Red cloth gilt titles color illustrations from paintings by James Hill introduction by Robert Gorham Davis. A collection of short stories by the poet playwright and humorist best known for The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest. Includes: Introduction; The Portrait of Mr. W.H.; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Sphinx Without a Secret; The Canterville Ghost; The Model Millionaire; A House of Pomegranates: The Young King The Birthday of the Infanta The Fisherman and His Soul The Star-Child; The Happy Prince and Other Tales: The Happy Prince The Nightingale and the Rose The Devoted Friend The Selfish Giant The Remarkable Rocket. The Heritage Press hardcover books
2015Best.-Nr. UWILBEA00lhNotting Hill 2015. Very Good. Wilde Oscar. Beautiful and Impossible Things: Selected Essays of Oscar Wilde. Brandreth Gyles. London: Notting Hill 2015. 202pp. Bibliography. 12mo. Purple cloth. Book condition: Very good. Notting Hill hardcover books
1907Best.-Nr. 12964London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1907. First Edition Stated. Publisher's cloth. Very Good. First Edition Stated. Publisher's cloth. First published with Beardsley's illustrations in 1894 the first uncensored edition did not appear in full until 1907; this edition contains all of Beardsley's intended illustrations which were previously cancelled uncensored version of Enter Herodias both versions of The Toilet of Salome. Includes the casts for the first performance of the play in England in 1905 and for the première of Richard Strauss's opera. Fraying to head and tail bumped corners rubbing discoloration and toning to ffep and removed exlibris ep transferred images else tight bright and unmarred. Bound in green cloth with gilt stamped peacock design to front board gilt title to spine gilt top edge with 16 black and white plates including suppressed frontispiece title page on Japanese vellum. Royal 8vo. xx 4 66pp. 2 adverts. Illus. b/w plates. Pencil marks notations on ep bookseller ticket. John Lane, The Bodley Head unknown books
Best.-Nr. 06515London: Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co Ltd 1913. Dorian Gray on the Stage - A Rare Early Dramatic Adaptation" WILDE Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Play in Three Acts and Prologue. Dramatized by G. Constant Lounsbery from the romance of Oscar Wilde. London: Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co Ltd. 1913. First edition thus. Printed at the Ballantyne Press. Octavo 8 7/8 x 6 inches; 225 x 152 mm. 1-10 11-94 95 1 blank pp. Publisher's white buckram front cover decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt spine lettered in gilt top edge gilt others uncut. A near fine copy the binding clean and unusually bright for this fragile white buckram issue. An uncommon early stage adaptation of Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray prepared by G. Constant Lounsbery for theatrical performance. While Wilde himself had explored dramatization during his lifetime no authorized stage version achieved lasting success leaving later playwrights to reinterpret the novel for the stage. This 1913 adaptation reflects the continued fascination with Wilde's most controversial work in the years following his death translating the novel's themes of aestheticism morality and duplicity into a dramatic format. London: Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co Ltd, 1913 unknown books
1907Best.-Nr. 4982Leipzig: Im Inselverlag 1907. # 350 in an edition limited to 725 copies. Acceptable. 25 cm; 24 leaves text on Insel hand-made paper and 15 full-page illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley on Strathmore Japan including title page and dramatis personae. Bound in original boards worn spine perished boards loose. Several plates somewhat foxed. The first German appearance of Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations to Oscar WIlde's play. Wilde first published the play in French in 1896 before the English and later German editions appeared. Wilde's play with Beardsley's iconic illustrations inspired Richard Strauss's opera of the same name. Im Inselverlag hardcover books
1920Best.-Nr. 46822Boston: John W. Luce & Co 1920. Reprint. Slim octavo 19cm; dark red publisher's cloth stamped in gilt front; 53pp 12 plates missing one. Boards mildly worn and soiled some rubbing to extremities; textblock toned along edges and page margins; foxing and soiling intermittent throughout; some passages marked in pencil; gift inscription on ffep. Else Very Good scarce. Wilde's Salomé was published in 1891 originally in French. An English version came about in 1894 but not before a tiff over the translation work done by Lord Alfred Douglas who was Wilde's paramour at the time. This 1920 reprint retains the iconic artwork by Aubrey Beardsley and all sixteen original illustrations are listed in the index; however the plate with illustration 4 "The Woman in the Moon" is presumed missing with evidence of its loss between pgs. 6 and 7. John W. Luce & Co unknown books
1894Best.-Nr. 140949078London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane 1894. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition in English of Wilde's seminal one-act tragedy and the first to feature Aubrey Beardsley's lavishly unrestrained illustrations. One of 500 copies. xii 67 1 16 ads illustrated with frontispiece 9 full page plates and singular tailpiece. Bound in publisher's blue canvas cloth decoratively stamped in gilt after design by Beardsley. Near Fine with light sunning to spine and edges light foxing to cloth. Offsetting to front endsheets and armorial bookplate to pastedown there contents lightly tanned. A beautiful copy of a definitive work of the Decadent movement. Composed initially in French Wilde allegedly intended for Sarah Bernhardt to play Salome in hopes of bypassing strict British censors although it was inevitably banned by Lord Chamberlain due to the depiction of biblical characters. The play premiered on February 11 1896 at the Theatre de l'Oeuvre in Paris starring Lina Munte and directed by Lugne-Poe. Rave reviews ensued and later adaptions followed most notably Richard Strauss' Dresden production which premiered in 1905. The radical work served as a direct affront to Victorian moral standards and cemented the femme fatale archetype for future avant-garde luminaries. Mason 350. Elkin Mathews & John Lane unknown books
1988Wilde, Oscar/Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills/Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills (Marco, Amante: Traduzione di - Marenco, Franco: Introduzione di) Il ritratto di Dorian Gray. Milano, Garzanti Editore s.p.a. 1988 italian, in sedicesimo pp. (2)+XXIV+318=344 XI ed. Garzanti: 14 giugno 1988 (ed. originale: The Picture of Dorian Gray, in « Lippincott's Monthly Magazine », luglio 1890 e in volume nel 1891 - I ed. italiana: Mattioli 1885 I ed. Garzanti: agosto 1976). Traduzione dall'inglese di Marco Amante. collezione i grandi libri Garzanti, 166. XVI/(2)+XXIV+318=344/brossura in cartoncino bianco goffrato effetto tela con grafica in tortora, arancione e nero e con illustrazione a colori al primo piatto (La voix du mal, di Georges De Feure, part.). Con un ritratto fotografico in b/n dell'A. f.t.. Stato buono (leggera usura della copertina - copertina e pagine brunite - inizio distacco delle pagine: il volume è completo).
195118 cm, rilegatura editoriale cartonata con titolo su targa impressa in oro al piatto e dorso, p. 193. Timbro exlibris al frontespizio. Complessivamente assai ben conservato.
190751p. Title page printed in red and black. Printed on Japan vellum. Bookplate of Albert David Hutzler and Gretchen Hochschild Hutzler, of the powerful Baltimore department store families. Small 24mo. Original stiff printed Japan vellum wraps with large red initial on front cover. Original floral pattern slip case, loss at top and bottom. Limited Edition of only 425 copies. Second Edition. Nice example. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. PRESS/W39. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
1998255 p. 24 mo. 145mm. Original pictorial glossy binding. Hardbound. Fine. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. LIT BX 6
