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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
190875p. Title page printed in red and black. Printed on Japan vellum. Partially unopened. Small 24mo. Original stiff printed Japan vellum wraps with large red initial on front cover. Slightly soiled. Limited Edition of only 425 copies. Third Edition. Nice example." The story is about an attempt to uncover the identity of Mr W.H., the enigmatic dedicatee of Shakespeare's Sonnets. It is based on a theory, originated by Thomas Tyrwhitt, that the Sonnets were addressed to one Willie Hughes, portrayed in the story as a boy actor who specialized in playing women in Shakespeare's company. This theory depends on the assumption that the dedicatee is also the Fair Youth who is the subject of most of the poems. The only evidence for this theory is a number of sonnets (such as Sonnet 20) that make puns on the words 'Will' and 'Hues." - Wiki. 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. - Wiki. PRESS/W39. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
1950Best.-Nr. 591270New York: Carl Fischer 1950. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single sheet insert making six pages. Music shop sticker on the front cover along with a small abrasion from a removed price sticker and the printed price canceled in black marker edgewear and toning still a very good and complete copy. For voice and piano. Plate number 30704 - 4. The back cover features short samples of "My Eternity" "My Lovely One" "My Heart is a Silent Violin" and "Listen! Do You Hear!" The lyrics for this song come from Oscar Wilde's story The Happy Prince. OCLC locates only three holdings and it appears to be equally uncommon in the trade. Carl Fischer unknown books
1927Best.-Nr. 587725Boston: White-Smith Publishing 1927. Softcover. Very Good. First edition Professional Copy. Quarto. Two nested bifoliums making eight pages. Light foxing and soiling to the exterior name stamp on the front cover and light bumping to the corners very good or better. For high voice and piano. Plate number 15694 - 5. the back cover features a short sample of "Thou Wouldst Not Stay" by Eberhart and Cadman. The name stamp is that of prolific American composer and pianist Fay Foster who took first place in the American Composers Competition of 1913. OCLC locates two physical holdings and it appears to be equally uncommon in the trade. White-Smith Publishing unknown books
1927Best.-Nr. 524745Boston: White-Smith Music Publishing Co 1927. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Two nested bifoliums making eight pages. Owner name stamp on the front cover light soiling to the exterior and light edgewear a very good or better copy. For high voice and piano. Plate number 15694-5. The owner stamp is that of prolific American composer and pianist Fay Foster who took first place in the American Composers Competition of 1913. The back cover features a short sample of "Thous Wouldst Not Stay Nausicaa's Song from Three Songs to Odysseus by Charles Wakefield Cadman. OCLC locates two holdings. White-Smith Music Publishing Co unknown books
1908Best.-Nr. 606515London: Chappell & Co 1908. Softcover. Good. First edition. Folio. 20pp. Wrappers. Edgewear to the wrappers including chips and tears with old external tape repairs along the edges of the wrappers publisher's stamp and composer's name stamp on the title page just a good or better copy. For voice and piano no vocal melody. Oscar Wilde's story accompanied by incidental music composed by Liza Lehmann. Plate number 23793. Of course Wilde needs no introduction but Liza Lehmann was a successful singer in the late 19th century eventually leaving the stage to focus on composition. She wrote many songs and even a few pieces for theater; she was the first president of the Society of Women Musicians and a professor at Guildhall School of Music. Chappell & Co unknown books
1911Best.-Nr. 525331London: Chappell & Co 1911. Softcover. Good. First edition. Folio. 18pp. Stapled wrappers. Lacking the wrappers edgewear including a tear at the bottom of the last page appearing to affect just a single note soiling to the exterior and a faded composer's name stamp and publisher's stamp on the front cover a good only copy. For voice and piano with pedal marks. Plate imprint 24844. A story by Oscar Wilde with incidental music by Liza Lehmann. Of course Wilde needs no introduction but Liza Lehmann was a successful singer in the late 19th century eventually leaving the stage to focus on composition. She wrote many songs and even a few pieces for theater; she was the first president of the Society of Women Musicians and a professor at Guildhall School of Music. Chappell & Co unknown books
1912Best.-Nr. 604857New York: G. Schirmer 1912. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. Four nested bifolia making 16 pages. Some edgewear soiling to the exterior outer most bifolium separated along the bottom half of the fold and bumping to the corners still a very good and complete copy. For voice and piano. Plate number 23604. The back cover features samples of four songs "Bohemian Cradle-Song" "La Colomba" "La Petite Anne" and "Adoration." OCLC locates only two holdings and it appears to be equally scarce in the trade. G. Schirmer unknown books
1927Best.-Nr. 580633New York: G. Schirmer 1927. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Two nested bifoliums with a single sheet insert making 10 pages. Light toning light bumping to the corners and some edgewear including wear along the fold of the outer bifolium still a very good and complete copy. For high voice and piano. Plate number 33351. Isadore Freed 1900-1960 was a Jewish composer who was born in Belarus and grew up in Philadelphia; he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania held teaching positions at both The Curtis Institute of Music and Temple University and provided radio commentary for performances of the Philadelphia Orchestra. This piece is unrecorded by OCLC. G. Schirmer unknown books
1925Best.-Nr. 525229London: J. B. Cramer & Co. Ltd 1925. Softcover. Near Fine. Sheet music. Quarto. Two nested bifoliums making eight pages. Music shop stamp publisher's price stamp and American price sticker on the front cover light bumping to the corners else near fine. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "J.B.C. & Co. 13231." OCLC locates only two holdings and it appears to be equally scarce in the trade. J. B. Cramer & Co. Ltd unknown books
