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1923rif. 1394604New York NY/ London UK: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1923. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 58 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good plus condition dust jacket. Blue-green spine aged brown with black lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering has mild shelving wear stains on the rear cover moderate wear along the front cover and moderate age-toning along the extremities. Boards have mild wear along the head and tail edges light fraying along the spine corners and moderate age-toning along the head and tail edges. Textblock has moderate soiling on most pages faded pencil marks on the front pastedown a pen signature from previous owner "Mary R. Beebe" mild wear along the edges moderate foxing along the head and fore edges and mild age-toning along the edges. DL consingment. Shelved in Room Z. 1394604. Special Collections - Upstairs. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
1955rif. 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
rif. 06514London: Leonard Smithers and Co. 1899. A Play of Conscience and Corruption - Wilde at His Brilliant Peak" First Edition Limited Issue - From the Library of Esher Place WILDE Oscar. An Ideal Husband. By the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan. London: Leonard Smithers and Co. 1899. First edition limited to 1000 copies. Small quarto 8 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches; 210 x 155 mm. xvi 213 1 pp. Publisher's mauve cloth covers elaborately decorated in gilt spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt top edge trimmed others uncut. With the printed Esher Place Library location label dated 1897 on the front paste-down denoting its place within a late Victorian country house library system. Housed in a red cloth chemise within a full maroon calf slipcase spine with five raised bands ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Endpapers and half-title with the lightest amount of foxing otherwise a spectacular example the binding fresh and unfaded. One of Wilde's four great society comedies An Ideal Husband premiered in 1895 at the Haymarket Theatre and stands among his most sophisticated explorations of public virtue and private compromise. Written at the height of his fame - and on the eve of his dramatic fall - the play offers a sharply observed critique of political morality reputation and the currency of secrets in late Victorian society. The 1899 Smithers edition issued in a limitation of 1000 copies following Wilde's imprisonment represents the first appearance of the play in book form and remains the preferred edition for collectors. London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899 unknown books
1988rif. 120970N.P.: Rebecca Press 1988. stiff paper wrappers. Miniature Books. miniature book 7.0 x 5.9 cm. stiff paper wrappers. 8 pages. Bradbury Rebecca Press 12. Limited to an unspecified number of copies. Lacking the "gem" on the front cover. A very good copy. Rebecca Press unknown books
1981In 16°, pp. 95 (1). Introduzione di Vyvyam Holland. Traduzione di Nina Ruffini. Brossura editoriale. Ottimo esemplare.
1906rif. 212404Sunderland: Keystone Press 1906. First edition. Number 92 of 50 copies printed on hand-made paper. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue printed wrappers stitched. Faded some chipping of corners and edges light browning of leaves else a good copy. First edition. Number 92 of 50 copies printed on hand-made paper. 1 vols. 8vo. The lecture Wilde presented in 1883 shortly after his two American trips of 1882 and 1883. Ransom p. 261 Keystone Press unknown books
1905rif. 55806NY: Brentanos 1905. Reprint first issued in 1891. 8vo pp. 263. Bound in some soiled tan cloth bookplate and former owner's name on end paper. Brentanos unknown books
1904rif. 46909Portland ME: Thomas B. Mosher 1904. One of 600 copies on van Gelder hand made paper. 8vo pp. 236. Ivory paper over boards. Cover little worn; cover and edges somewhat soiled a little interior foxing and spotting o/w a VG tight copy. Thomas B. Mosher unknown books
1891rif. BB17290London: James R. Osgood McIlvaine & Co. 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo. Rebound in plain olive cloth leather spine label lettered in gilt. 258 pp. Title page and premilinary blanks detached. Sold as is. James R. Osgood McIlvaine & Co. hardcover books
1891rif. 503897New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1891. Hardcover. Fine. First American edition using the English sheets see Mason 343: "Of the English edition. . 600 copies were printed for America. Octavo. 258pp. Pinkish-red cloth stamped in yellow. Spine is slightly faded else a nice very near fine copy. Scarce. Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover books
rif. 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
1905rif. 589945New York: Brentano's 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition thus by this publisher with a new introduction by Percival Pollard. First published in America by Dodd Mead and Company in 1891. Frontispiece tissue protector archivally mended cocked spine and edges darkened chipped spine ends about very good. Brentano's hardcover books
rif. 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
1893rif. 6451London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane 1893. First edition. One of 50 large-paper copies on hand-made paper. A Fine copy. Quarto 8 5/8 x 6 5/8 inches; 220 x 169 mm. i blank i limitation iii-xvi 132 pp. Handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf ca. 1897 stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in and with their exhibition stamp in black on rear paste-down. Full dark green crushed levant morocco covers bordered in gilt enclosing a six-line gilt border. Spine with five raised bands decoratively framed and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt-ruled board edges multi gilt-lined turn-ins top edge gilt others uncut. With the bookplates of the renowned collector C. S. Ascherson dated 1897 and Paul Louis Weiller also a famous book collector and a great friend of J. Paul Getty on front paste-down. Housed in a felt-lined dark green cloth clamshell case spine with leather label lettered in gilt. A couple of tiny and unobtrusive minor stains on blank borders otherwise a clean copy in a wonderful and early if somewhat austere binding by the great firm of Zaehnsdorf. Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan A Play About a Good Woman was his "first successful dramatic production" and one of his many masterpieces Mendelssohn. His talent for astute adaptations of traditional comedic tropes like the long-lost child or mistaken motivations are utilized to full effect in this narrative. The four-act comedy was infamously first performed on 20 February 1892. In addition to pulling on popular stars to perform Wilde had the young men of his entourage arrive at the premier wearing green carnations in their buttonholes-something that scandalized attendees when in a metatheatrical moment one of the characters onstage appeared with one as well referencing its cost and symbolism for decadent immorality. Prim attendees were in fact surrounded by a generation of young men devoted to such aesthetic ideals and wearing the same flower. Mason 358. Elkin Mathews and John Lane unknown books
rif. 138678Girard KS: Haldeman-Julius Company n.d. 88p. wraps slightly browned. Little Blue Book 8. Haldeman-Julius Company unknown books
1903rif. 55532Paris: Publisher not identified 1903. Limited edition. Hardcover. Good to very good condition. 1/250 unnumbered out of series. Octavo. 14 132pp. Bound in pink cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Bound script for the performance at the St. James Theatre London starring George Alexander and Lily Hanbury as Lady and Lord Windermere. Pirated copy by the London bookseller and publisher Leonard Smithers. The original was published without subtitle Nelson 1903.2. Spine sunned covers lightly worn along edges and rubbed. Block lightly age-toned. Publisher not identified hardcover books
1893rif. 140949205London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane 1893. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. xiv 132 14 2 pp. with 14 advertising pages at rear. Bound in publisher's mauve cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with soiling and darkening to cloth and bumping to corners and spine ends. Contents lightly toned and thumbed with foxing to endpapers and first and last few pages. One of the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde's best-known plays a comedy in four acts. Elkin Mathews and John Lane unknown books
1903rif. 1430Paris: Leonard Smithers 1903. Hardcover. Very good. Limited to 250 copies of which this is number 115. About very good in the original plain brown cloth toned in spots rubbed at the edges and corners. Square bound with some reading wear on the binding a semi-circle in the lower quarter of the front endpaper has been removed for reasons unknown. Pirated edition published by Leonard Smithers. [Leonard Smithers] hardcover books
1963rif. 1166186Insel Verlag; Frankfurt am Main, 1963. 49 S.; 18 cm. Fadengeh., illustr. Orig.-Pappband.
1925rif. 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
rif. 2222744Depicting Adelaide Neilson 1848-1880 promoting Mme. Marie Fontaine's complexion skin cream. Buffalo New York circa 1882. Circular portrait of Oscar Wilde with group of sun flowers and lily with larger image of actress Adelaide Neilson. Nice vintage condition short closed tear. 5 ½" x 3". Descriptive text on the verso. Wilde lectured in Buffalo New York on February 8 1882 at the Academy of Music. books
1891rif. 158131891. Ricketts Charles. London: James R. Osgood McIlvaine and Co. 1891. Original salmon paper-covered flexible boards decorated in dark red. First Edition of this collection of four dark semi-comic mystery tales. "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" is an amusing but macabre tale if there can be such a thing about a young man who convinced by Lady Windermere's cheiromantist that he is doomed to commit murder does his best to do so prior to getting married -- out of a sense of duty to his fiancée. As one would expect Lord Arthur bungles his mission. In addition to the title story this book includes "The Sphinx Without a Secret" "The Canterville Ghost" and "The Model Millionaire." The binding of this title with decorations by Charles Ricketts is extremely delicate -- paper-covered flexible boards; although 1500 copies were issued we find this book to be quite uncommon and we have never seen a truly fine copy. In our experience THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY THE HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES and this title are the three Wilde first editions most difficuilt to find in collectible condition. This copy is close to near-fine with a bit of the darkening and mottling of the spine that is typical for this fragile book but with scarcely any actual wear. Mason 345. Housed in a handsome gilt-paneled morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise. unknown books
1904rif. 12839London: Privately printed 1904. First separate edition a pirated edition produced by Leonard Smithers one of 300 copies. Original blue-gray printed wrappers uncut. . Quarto. One inch tear along back joint Top corner of front cover and bottom corner of back cover torn a few other small chips. Bookplate of the American collector Henry W. Poor. A very good copy of a fragile book. The first story written after Wilde's embrace of homosexuality. Privately printed, unknown books
1948rif. 558Berlin: Franz Cornelsen Verlag, 1948. 63 Seiten , 15 cm, kart.,, Querformat
1980rif. D19244London: Gordon Spilstead 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. #52 of 200 copies printed of this "Special Limited Edition". Original pink cloth; housed in publisher's slipcase lightly rubbed designed by Maeve Gilmore. Signed by Gilmore on the limitation page. Excellent copy. Gordon Spilstead hardcover books
