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1903ref. 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
1893ref. 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
1903ref. 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
1963ref. 1166186Insel Verlag; Frankfurt am Main, 1963. 49 S.; 18 cm. Fadengeh., illustr. Orig.-Pappband.
1925ref. 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
ref. 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
1891ref. 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
1904ref. 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
1948ref. 558Berlin: Franz Cornelsen Verlag, 1948. 63 Seiten , 15 cm, kart.,, Querformat
1980ref. 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
1985ref. 7604SIGNED BY RUPERT HART-DAVIS EDITOR FIRST EDITION FINE. MURRAY hardcover books
1930ref. 3116279Berlin: Th. Knaur Nachf. (1930). 698, (2); 695, (1) Seiten. 8° (17,5-22,5 cm). Orig.-Leinenbände mit goldgeprägtem Rückenschild. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
1972ref. 7605LONDON DENT 1972 1972. DUST JACKET REPRINT VERY GOOD. Hardcover. LONDON, DENT, 1972 hardcover books
ref. 2222373ca. 1930. Publisher's four page sales brochure with order form for the one volume edition of Frank Harris book. Very good. Includes "Critical Comment" by Bernard Shaw John Galsworthy Theodore Dreiser Upton Sinclair and The Chicago Tribune. Covici, Friede Inc. books
1983ref. 17465Franklin Center Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1983. First Edition. Leather_bound. Very good. First Edition. Leather_bound. This limited edition of the great Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde's fairy tales and stories was exclusively printed for members of Franklin Library's The Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series and features a sumptuous genuine leather binding all gilt edges silver silk moire endpapers an atmospheric frontispiece and 6 illustrations by artist Zevi Blum title page calligraphy by Michael Starkman and a silk ribbon placemarker. 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.This 1983 Franklin Library edition collects fairy tales and stories from the following collections: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories The Happy Prince and Other Tales and A House of Pomegranates. 9 1/8" X 5 1/8". 232pp. Bound in full slate blue genuine leather over boards with decorations stamped in gilt to boards and spine. Five raised bands to spine lettered in gilt. Very mild wear to binding with very gentle bumping to corners and to head and tail of spine. All edges gilt with rather prominent scuffing to edges. Silk moire endpapers. Gray silk ribbon placemarker. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. A very presentable leatherbound illustrated edition of these collected stories and fairy tales by Oscar Wilde. This limited edition of the great Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde's fairy tales and stories was exclusively printed for members of Franklin Library's The Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series and features a sumptuous genuine leather binding all gilt edges silver silk moire endpapers an atmospheric frontispiece and 6 illustrations by artist Zevi Blum title page calligraphy by Michael Starkman and a silk ribbon placemarker. 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.This 1983 Franklin Library edition collects fairy tales and stories from the following collections: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories The Happy Prince and Other Tales and A House of Pomegranates. 9 1/8" X 5 1/8". 232pp. Bound in full slate blue genuine leather over boards with decorations stamped in gilt to boards and spine. Five raised bands to spine lettered in gilt. Very mild wear to binding with very gentle bumping to corners and to head and tail of spine. All edges gilt with rather prominent scuffing to edges. Silk moire endpapers. Gray silk ribbon placemarker. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. A very presentable leatherbound illustrated edition of these collected stories and fairy tales by Oscar Wilde. The Franklin Library unknown books
ref. 94165Berlin: Deutsche Bibliothek o.J. Frakturdruck. 8° (17,5-22,5 cm). Orig.-Leinenbände mit goldgeprägtem Rücken unmd Kopfrotschnitt. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
1905ref. 40552London: Printed for private circulation 1905. First edition. Original wrappers. Good. 35/75. Octavo 19.3 by 12.9 cm. 11 pp. Original gray wrappers lettered and bordered in navy blue. Black and red lettered title page. Decorative head- and tailpiece with historiated initial letter. Mild touch of soiling at bottom margin title Faint fold 7 cm at bottom outer corner upper cover light creasing at fore-edge throughout 3 by 4 cm extending to rear cover. A good or slightly better copy. This collection of aphorisms was originally written for and published in the first and only issue of the Oxford University magazine The Chameleon Vol. 1 No. 1 December 1894 the successor to "The Spirit Lamp." One of Wilde's recent biographers Joseph Pearce notes that these aphorisms undoubtedly have "an air of subversive decadence that undermined conventional values." Mr. Wilde's opening observation is a good example: "The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered." The present work is in fact a pirated edition see Mason of which several variants are known. The limitation notes: "of this work seventy-five copies have been printed for private circulation" this being copy no. 35 noted in black ink. Mason Bibliography of Oscar Wilde no. 602; pp. 540-542; cf. no. 11 The Chameleon issue no. 1. Printed for private circulation unknown books
1891ref. 69675London: Ward Lock and Co 1891. Full Description: WILDE Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Ward Lock and Co. 1891. First edition in book form this being the Edition de Luxe limited to 250 copies numbered by hand and signed by Oscar Wilde this being number 52. Royal octavo 8 1/2 x 7 inches; 215 x 180 mm. vii 1 334 pp. Printed on Dutch hand-made paper watermarked Van Gelder. Publisher's quarter parchment over rough grey bevelled boards possibly rebacked retaining the original spine. Front cover with gilt lettering atop a pattern of fifty-five gilt butterflies designed by Charles Ricketts spine lettered in gilt at base top edge gilt rest uncut. Newer endpapers. Previous owner's penciled poem in German to half-title. Some dust-soiling to deckle edges. Some rubbing to bevelled edges. A small slit at the bottom of the front hinge. Overall a very good copy in the publisher's binding. The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde's first novel and was first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine July 1890. Six new chapters are added to this first appearance in book form with many other additions and variations. On its first appearance this book was violently attacked by the critics and its publication did Wilde a great deal of harm. Mason 329. HBS 69675. $55000. Ward Lock and Co unknown books
1968ref. 69253London: Petersburg Press 1968. DINE Jim. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Petersburg Press 1968. Full Description: WILDE Oscar. DINE Jim artist. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Petersburg Press 1968. Limited edition signed and numbered by the artist Jim Dine on the limitation page in green ink. This being number 11 of 200 in Edition B. Folio 17 3/8 x 12 1/4 inches; 440 x 310 mm. Complete with frontispiece and twelve lithographs in color with a set of an additional 4 loose lithographs issued in a portfolio each annotated "Edition B" on the reverse and numbered 11/200 and signed by the artist in pencil on the front lower margin. Original full green velvet boards. Front board lettered in silver. Pictorial patterned endpapers. Housed in a black cloth slipcase. With additional black cloth portfolio. Cloth portfolio with a small split at top of hinge. A fine copy. "A working script for the stage from the novel by Oscar Wilde with original images and notes on the text by Jim Dine" From the title page. "The original colour lithographs etchings and text pages comprising this book were prepared on zinc and aluminum plates by the artist at Bath Academy of Art Corsham ini February 1968; and subsequently printed on Velin Arches at the Atelier Desjobert and Atelier Leblanc in Paris." Colophon HBS 69253. $4500. Petersburg Press unknown books
1906ref. 508542Paris: Charles Carrington Libraire Editeur 1906. Softcover. Near Fine. Second pirated edition and first edition thus with a new preface by Jacques Desroix. Translated by Charles Grolleau. Octavo. 55 folloed by 55pp catalog of Carrington's pubications. Tan parchment wrappers printed in red and black. Slight offset on endpapers else a fine copy. The 55-page catalogue printed on pink paper is especially interesting as Carrington devotes four pages to his edition of Oscar Wilde's Intentions which does not appear to be cited by the bibliographer. Charles Carrington, Libraire Editeur unknown books
1905ref. 16244Paris: Privately Printed 1905. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited to 50 copies. Good. Original wraps generally toned some spots of soiling a very small chip at the head of the spine tear down much of the top spine fold. Square and firmly bound with unopened pages some foxing at the edges clean otherwise. A pirated edition printed by Charles Carrington with the text taken from the July 1894 issue of The Fortnightly Review. Mason 609. Privately Printed hardcover books
ref. MA05H-00167Mitchell Kennerley. Collectible - Acceptable. New York: Mitchell Kennerley 1921. 1st thus. 8vo. 133pp. Facsimile. Limited edition #515/1000. Fair book. No dust jacket else Good. First published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in July 1889; printed from the original enlarged manuscript. Partially uncut. authorship William Shakespeare sonnets fiction Inquire if you need further information. Mitchell Kennerley unknown books
ref. 7611NY KENNERLEY 1921. #354/1000; GRAY BOARD SLIPCASE FIRST EDITION THUS VERY GOOD. F. NY, KENNERLEY, 1921 unknown books
1878ref. 236London: Thos. Shrimpton and Son 1878. Very good in original gray-green printed wrappers which are a bit browned at edges and with a few small chips. Now housed in a custom chemise and green morocco-backed slipcase. First Edition. With crest on wrapper title page and with woodcut on the last page. Wilde's first book. Wilde's poem was the Newdigate Prize winner for 1878 presented at Oxford University for best poetry. "During a vacation ramble in 1877 Wilde started from Greece and visiting Ravenna by chance on the way he obtained material for a poem on that ancient city and singularly enough Ravenna was afterwards given out as the topic for the Newdigate competition." Hamilton The Aesthetic Movement in England as quoted by Mason pg. 243. 8vo. 16pp. Mason pg. 241. Thos. Shrimpton and Son unknown books
1878ref. 151231878. the fine Bradley Martin copy Recited in The Theatre Oxford June 26 1878. Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son 1878. Original grey printed wrappers. First Edition of Oscar Wilde's first book the Newdigate Prize-winning poem that he wrote while a student at Magdalen College. To quote from Pearson: He Wilde left Oxford in a blaze of glory. The subject for the Newdigate Prize Poem that year was Ravenna and it so happened that he had visited the place on his way to Greece the year before noting it as a theme for poetic treatment. He could therefore put in bits of local colour which the other competitors had to glean from books. He won the prize as John Ruskin and Matthew Arnold had done before him and declaimed the poem in the Sheldonian Theatre on June 26 1878. When the Professor of Poetry J.C. Shairp whose duty it was to suggest textual improvements to the winner of the Newdigate advised certain alterations Wilde listened with due courtesy took careful notes of every suggestion but went away and printed the poem exactly as he had written it. In this copy the slip "PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN" is affixed to the title verso. This is a remarkably fine copy of this very delicate piece light browning as usual around the edges of the wrappers but no wear. Though not really as scarce an item as one might expect for a first effort this is THE copy for condition and for provenance -- see below. Mason pp 241-249. Housed in a morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise. Provenance: bookplate of H. Bradley Martin on the case's chemise. To this day the eight-part Bradley Martin sale of 1989-1990 remains the sale of a generation especially for the remarkable condition of his collection for this item see lot #3320. unknown books
