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2025Best.-Nr. 70397London: DK Classics 2025. Reprint. Hardcover. New. 223pp. Duodecimo 21cm. Illustrated paper over boards. Stamped in silver with sprayed edges. DK Classics edition of this classic tale by Oscar Wilde. DK Classics hardcover books
2025Best.-Nr. 2350782New York: DK Classics 2025. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 5x0x8. First thus. Brand new from publisher. An exceptional copy. 2025 Hard Cover. 223 pp. A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Oscar Wilde's decadent and disturbing novel with foiled covers marbled edges and endpapers and a silk ribbon bookmark. Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous glamorous world of selfish luxury he apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt lifestyle and untouched by age. But up in his attic hidden behind a curtain his portrait tells a different story. DK Classics hardcover books
1987Best.-Nr. 601455Oxford: Oxford University Press 1987. Softcover. Near Fine. Reprint. Edited with an introduction by Isobel Murray. 12mo. Illustrated wrappers. Wraps rubbed and bumped along the edges about near fine. Oxford University Press unknown books
Best.-Nr. WELLER9781509827831New. New book. unknown books
1891Best.-Nr. 260London: Ward Lock & Co 1891. First Edition. First printing without Bowden's name added to the title page imprint the Preface with Wilde's name at the end in larger bolder type and with "nd" for "and" beginning the eighth line from the bottom on page 208. The error was corrected for the second printing which included the 250 signed copies of the limited edition-copies that in addition to being the second issue are literally the second printing. This trade edition is not only earlier than the limited but when it has its dust jacket many times rarer. Original white vellum parchment-backed boards former owner's neat name to endpaper spine slightly faded from light not dust else near fine in the rare dust jacket with small tears and chips to the spine tips and corners neatly repaired a bit short an irregularity with nineteenth-century hand-trimmed jackets but a charismatic jacket still-integral clean and one to be owned with pride. An unequivocal Victorian classic as great a short novel as has ever been written and copies in dustjacket must have been dumped in the Bermuda Triangle because they never show up at auction or in the trade. Full morocco case. Wilde was from that atypical minority of great men those who do not remind us of anyone else. He wrote the best comedies since Shakespeare mastered paradox and was the reigning wit of the 1890s but he became a victim when society forgot that the mouse should never be a juror at the cat's trial. Dorian Gray was his only novel and why not When you write one like this one is sufficient. It's undeniably a modern Gothic and a self-evident Victorian classic unique in the delicacy of its grim and melancholy metaphor and it continues to maintain it's appeal even in our 21st century. Ward Lock & Co unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. 108389NY:: Heritage Press. Very Good. 1957. Hardcover. Introduction by Andre Maurois. A reprint edition. "Sandglass" laid in. Fading along the spine else very good in a very good small spot of wear on top edge slipcase. ; 287 pages . Heritage Press, hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 63775NY: Modern Library nd. Hardcover. Near fine. Hardcover. Very good hardback in a price clipped and rubbed jacket. Modern Library hardcover books
1907Best.-Nr. 219497Boston: Luce 1907. Hardcover. Good. Reprint. Good hardcover. Volume 3. Name on front endpaper. Pages light brown. Small stain on inside front cover and front endpaper. Corners rubbed and bent. Edges of spine rubbed and bumped. Spine brown. Light stain on front cover. Gold gilt on top edges of pages fading. Luce hardcover books
1903Best.-Nr. 60320Portland Maine: Thomas B. Mosher 1903. Limited edition of 600 copies printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper and the type distributed. Printed paper boards slightly edge darkened in the scarce original dust jacket which has some chipping loss to head of jacket closed tear spine darkened. A very good copy. Thomas B. Mosher unknown books
1921Best.-Nr. 1395213New York NY: Mitchell Kennerley 1921. Limited Edition #497/1000. Hardcover. Octavo 133 pages. In Good plus condition. Boards have age toning along the spine and general shelving wear. Textblock has light pencil annotations on the front end page splitting along the gutter 88/89 and along the hinges minor soiling scattered throughout and age toning along the edges. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1395213. Special Collections - Downstairs. Mitchell Kennerley hardcover books
1908Best.-Nr. 134903Portland Maine: Thomas B. Mosher 1908. Softcover. Very Good. Third edition. About very good in wrappers. Front cover has a lot of brown stains on cover. Entire cover is browning. Spine has wrinkles running the length of it. 1 of 425. On Japaneese Vellum. Thomas B. Mosher unknown books
1904Best.-Nr. 2222206N.d. Paris 1904. Pirated edition. Octavo. Original light blue wrappers stamped in dark blue with a decorative border of Tudor roses and leaves. Uncut. Very good some medium foxing; few nicks. 48 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Mason 611. Privately Printed paperback books
1905Best.-Nr. 18953Hartford: privately printed at the Sherwood Press 1905. First edition limited to 225 numbered copies 8vo pp. 45 3; original green cloth-backed marbled boards printed paper label on spine; very slightly rubbed else a fine copy. A scarce Wilde title written for the Chancellor's English Essay Prize while at Oxford in 1879. See Mason 434 for a convoluted account of the manuscript part of which was separately sold in America and then later restored. privately printed [at the Sherwood Press] unknown books
Best.-Nr. 17933Larchmont NY: Peter Pauper Press n.d. One of fifty copies reserved for F. Kay Kaplan and André Durenceau out of a total edition of 750 copies. This copy is inscribed by Kaplan and Durenceau to prominent Los Angeles bookseller Jake Zeitlin and his wife Josephine: "to Mr. and Mrs. Jake Zeitlin. Memories of a pleasant evening. Red cloth spine decorative paper over boards. Front cover blocked in silver with title printed in black borders. White paper dust-jacket perhaps added by a former owner. . Twelvemo. 7 x 5 in. . Illustrations by André Durenceau on title-page and colophon. Printed in red gray-green and black. Upper corners of pages lightly creased. Near fine. Peter Beilenson founded Peter Pauper Press in his parents' basement in 1928. Originally focused on reprinting classic literature in the public domain the press would gradually shift towards fine press works and later gift books. During its heyday Peter Pauper was co-run with Beilenson's wife Edna who also served as the press's typesetter and binder. See the Peter Pauper Press in Blumenthal's The Printed Book in America. Peter Pauper Press hardcover books
1968Best.-Nr. 018721Burlington VT: Limited Editions Club 1968. Hardcover. Spine sunned as nearly always the case with some wear to the spine label. Very Good lacking the slipcase. James Hill. Small quarto 7-3/4" x 10-1/8" bound in full red silk cloth. With an introduction by Robert Gorham Davis and 12 full-page and 2 double-spread color reproductions of paintings by James Hill. Copy #894 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1968Best.-Nr. 015448Burlington VT: Limited Editions Club 1968. Hardcover. Small bookplate of Stuart B. Schimmel on the front pastedown. Spine slightly sunned with a small abrasion to the label. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with a small nick. James Hill. Small quarto 7-3/4" x 10-1/8" bound in full red silk cloth. With an introduction by Robert Gorham Davis and 12 full-page and 2 double-spread color reproductions of paintings by James Hill. Copy #1229 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1976Best.-Nr. 95762Norwalk:: Heritage Press. Very Good. 1976. Hardcover. Introduction by Robert Gorham Davis. Illustrations from paintings by James Hill. A reprint of the Limited Editions Club edition. "Sandglass" laid in. A bit faded along the spine else near fine in a very good slipcase. ; 313 pages . Heritage Press, hardcover books
1895Best.-Nr. 2221665First edition. 8 1/2" x 6 1/2". Original brown wrappers stamped in red lower right corner of upper cover replaced uncut and mostly unopened. Very good. 98 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Enclosed in a plum half morocco slipcase. Printed by The Chiswick Press. Mason 367 - only 50 copies were printed. Privately Printed paperback books
1911Best.-Nr. 112348New York: Max N. Maisel 1911. Paperback. 62p. wraps 4.75x7 inches wraps worn spine chipped at both head and tail and repaired with non-archival tape scattered underlining and marginalia some in colored pencil some in pencil a reading copy only. Max N. Maisel paperback books
1950Best.-Nr. 79850Saugatuck: The 5x8 Press 1950. First printing of this edition originally published in 1912. 41 pp. Toning along the spine else near fine in printed wrappers. A volume in the “Beacon” series. Photographic frontispiece portrait of Wilde. Saugatuck: The 5x8 Press, unknown books
1912Best.-Nr. 259334London: Arthur L. Humphreys 1912. First edition with Ross's Preface. x 99 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original blue boards with red label printed in black on upper cover. Exceptionally fine copy IN THE ORIGINAL PRINTED DUST JACKET with slight wear. First edition with Ross's Preface. x 99 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Mason 370 Arthur L. Humphreys unknown books
1910Best.-Nr. 17235New York: John Lane Company 1910. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Note by Robert Ross. Very Good in a Good dust jacket unclipped no price generally toned and soiled some shallow chips at the edges. Grey paper on the boards bumped at the corners a few pock marks in the gutters. Square and firmly bound inscription from Perce Rodda on the front endpaper toned some foxing on the pages. The first publication of this work to feature Ross's note. Mason 363. John Lane Company hardcover books
1894Best.-Nr. 329742London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane 1894. Limited. hardcover. fine. Ricketts Charles. Title page design and nine illustrations eight full page by Charles Ricketts. Printed throughout in black red & green all edges untrimmed. Thin small 4to full vellum with pictorial decorations in gilt to the spine & covers by Ricketts. 2 bookplates. London: Elkin Matthews & John Lane 1894. Limited edition. One of 200 unnumbered copies. An exceptionally fine copy unfoxed and with a clean binding Elkin Mathews & John Lane unknown books
1920Best.-Nr. 19986London and New York: John Lane The Bodley Head. Printed by Spottiswoods Ballantyne and Co. Ltd. London Colchester and Eton 1920. Limited Edition First Edition Thus with Alastair illustrations. Decorated Cloth Gilt impressed. Very Good Plus. Alistair Hans Henning Otto Harry Baron von Voigt. Limitation of 1000 copies -- the colophon informs us that the stones upon which the plates were printed were destroyed by the German invasion of Belgium during the early phase of the First World War. 4to. 30.5 by 23.5 cm. 36 pp. 12 illustrated two toned plates with Alastair illustrations. 10 of these are referenced in the List of Illustrations and the other two are at the beginning and the end. These two are also on a folded sheet that is about 2 cm shorter as well as about the same shy of the width of facing pages elsewhere. Alastair 1887-1969 was a German-born self-taught artist whose style was obviously greatly influenced by Beardsley and he emulated Beardsley too in illustrating works of Oscar Wilde who was the perfect template for Alastair's imagination which gloried in decadence as Wilde did decades earlier. This work "The Sphinx" was Alastair's first published work based on Wilde's writing and it is the work that exposed a far larger audience to his distinctive highly stylized artwork. The cloth cover designed by Charles Ricketts has a light film of dusty soiling which is removable with effort and a scattering of other small light stains which are not susceptible to the simple eraser. The interior is generally quite clean and lovely. The hinge is cracked in one place. John Lane, The Bodley Head. Printed by Spottiswoods, Ballantyne and Co. Ltd., London, Colchester and Eton unknown books
Best.-Nr. 372169PRIVATELY PRINTED. Number 78 of 300 copies. 64pp. 4TO. Blue printed wrappers front cover off else fine. Number 78 of 300 copies. 64pp. 4TO. PRIVATELY PRINTED unknown books
