Wilde, OscarABAA
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1921réf. 23766Westminster: Beaumont Press 1921. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Illustrated by Ethelbert White. Thin 8vo. 60pp. Cloth spine gilt. Patterned paper over boards. Finely printed letterpress on handmade paper. Woodcut cover and decorations by Ethelbert White. One of 400 numbered copies from a totla edition of 475 this is number 455. A near fine copy. "The letters included in this volume were written by Oscar Wilde to his friend Robert Ross during the summer of 1897. Wilde was released on Wednesday May 19th after completing his sentence of two years imprisonment and on that day he crossed with a friend to Dieppe where he was met by Robert Ross to whom he at once handed the manuscript of his prison letter no known as 'De Profundis'. . Beaumont Press hardcover books
1998réf. 43734Cambridge MA: MIT Press 1998. First American edition. Very good in a very good jacket. First US edition with photographs from the "Icons of New Objectivity" series as well as Renger-Patzsch's lesser-known images of landscapes urban scenes and nature studies. 113 full-page black and white plates. Translated from the German edition. Co-edited by Thomas Weski with Ann and Jurgen Wilde with an essay by Thomas Janzen. Hardcover. 4to. Grey cloth boards in black and white photographic dust jacket. Toning to spine and upper edges of jacket; corners and spine ends bumped. 176pp. MIT Press unknown books
1899réf. 158271899. Shannon Charles. By the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan. London: Leonard Smithers and Co. 1899. Original mauve cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition consisting of 1000 regular copies so stated; there were also 100 signed copies on Van Gelder paper plus twelve signed copies on Japan vellum. This was the fourth and last of Wilde's four great comedies of manners -- following LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN published in 1893 A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE 1894 and THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST 1899 five months earlier. "An Ideal Husband" had opened at the Theatre Royal on 3 January 1895 the actors had been quite annoyed that Wilde required them to rehearse on Christmas Day only to keep them waiting for him to appear. It was an immediate success but it was while "Earnest" and "Husband" were running that Wilde inadvisably filed suit against the Marquess of Queensberry father of Wilde's lover Lord Alfred Douglas for criminal libel; this quickly morphed into a charge of "gross indecency" against Wilde and when he was arrested in April his plays closed. Sentenced to two years' hard labour 1895-1897 upon his release he fled to France -- where he resided when this book was published. The artistic binding design is by Charles Shannon. This is a very good copy of a book that is difficult to find in any better condition: the spine is rather dull and there is moderate cover soil. Mason 385. Provenance: the front endpaper bears the signature "Wilmer C. France 1899". The pioneering female classicist Emily Wilmer Cave France 1868-1951 married name Wright after 1906 was born in Birmingham England and educated first at Girton College Cambridge then at the University of Chicago -- where she was a Fellow in Latin and in Greek while earning her Ph.D.; from 1897 until her retirement in 1933 which span includes the date this book was published she was a Professor in Greek at Bryn Mawr College. In 2022 the Cambridge Philological Society published a monograph by D.N. Greenwood about her "Steely-Eyed Athena: Wilmer Cave Wright and the Advent of Female Classicists. unknown books
1950réf. 190910New York: Modern 1950. Very Good. Later. Very good. Name on contents page. Modern unknown books
1899réf. ST19154London: Leonard Smithers and Co 1899. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 1000 COPIES. 215 x 155 mm. 8 3/8 x 6". 8 p.l. 213 1 pp. Original lavender cloth decorated with gilt flourishes smooth spine with gilt lettering edges untrimmed and ENTIRELY UNOPENED. Mason 385. ◆Spine slightly sunned as virtually always but no wear to joints or hinges and in all A REMARKABLY WELL-PRESERVED OBVIOUSLY UNREAD COPY because unopened and without the soiling this edition is almost always found with. This is an exceptionally fine copy of Wilde's second hit play successful like his other witty comedies but with at least slightly more serious social and political content. Opening at the Haymarket Theatre in 1895 and continuing for 124 performances it features as the title character a prominent politician in danger of losing his reputation because of a potentially damaging letter that the play's villain threatens to expose if the husband refuses to support the former's corrupt political agenda. The play moves its characters toward a more ideal moral standard as they struggle with dishonesty hypocrisy double standards materialism and corruption of social and political life. But none of this weighs down Wilde's witty banter as the play suggests after all that even when there is a pretense of the embrace of moral probity nobody is ever that good or is even expected to be. The work is dedicated to the Irish-American writer Frank Harris who is said to have given Wilde the idea to use insider trading which related to Disraeli's financial machinations as part of the plot here. Covering the play for the "Saturday Review" George Bernard Shaw declared Wilde 1854-1900 "our only thorough playwright. He plays with everything: with wit with philosophy with drama with actors and audience with the whole theatre." On nearly all copies of this edition the publisher's binding is now encountered in unappetizing condition; finding our unopened copy--with virtually none of the soiling almost always seen with the four Wilde plays bound in this lavender cloth--is piece of very good fortune. Leonard Smithers and Co unknown books
1998réf. 158286NY ST. MARTIN'S PRESS 1998 1998. DUST JACKET UNCLIPPED FIRST AMERICAN EDITION VERY GOOD. 1st Edition. Hardcover. NY, ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, 1998 hardcover books
1969réf. 108102New York: Grosset and Dunlap 1969. First edition. The simultaneous softcover issue. Text by Wilde and photographs by Don Christie John R. Hamilton and Dennis Stock. A clean and tight very near fine copy in photo illustrated wrappers. Grosset and Dunlap unknown books
2022réf. 139828Tualatin OR: Clinker Press The 2022. quarter cloth over paper=covered boards. Clinker Press. 8vo. quarter cloth over paper=covered boards. 12 pages. Limited to 35 copies designed and printed by Andre Chaves. A fine copy. Printed in Intertype using Dwiggins designed Electra and bound by Mariana Blau. Features a illustrated portrait of Oscar Wilde on the title-page. Clinker Press, The unknown books
réf. 06516Oxford & London: J. Vincent & Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co. 1894. Wilde at Oxford - A Lifetime Edition Issued on the Eve of Scandal" Limited to 750 Copies - Published May 1894 WILDE Oscar. Aristophanes at Oxford By Oscar Wilde. O.W. by Y.T.O. all rights reseved. Oxford & London: J. Vincent & Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co. May 1894. One of 750 copies printed. Small quarto 7 5/8 x 5 1/8 inches; 194 x 130 mm. viii 1 2-85 1 blank pp. Publisher's stiff tan/gray wrappers front cover lettered in green. Wrapper edges a little chipped as usual; otherwise an excellent example internally clean and well preserved. Housed in a green cloth clamshell case spine lettered in gilt. A lifetime edition of Wilde's early Oxford satire originally composed in 1879 here issued anonymously "O.W. by Y.T.O." in a limited printing of 750 copies. Published in May 1894 at the height of Wilde's literary success and just one year before his dramatic fall this edition represents the first substantial reappearance of the text in expanded form extending to 85 pages. It offers a rare glimpse of Wilde's formative wit - rooted in classical parody and undergraduate satire - reissued for a contemporary audience during his most celebrated period. Mason 685. Oxford [&] London: J. Vincent [&] Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1894 unknown books
1964réf. 152562New York: NY Univ 1964. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in an about Very good dust jacket. Solid hardcover. Dustwrapper is price cliped with shelf rubbing. Light wear on corners and spine ends. NY Univ hardcover books
1969réf. 255165New York: NY University 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good hardcover with similar dust jacket. Pages and cover are clean. Dustwrapper price clipped. Dustwrapper spine faded. NY University hardcover books
1952réf. 172539Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1952. Eight vintage hand-tinted color British front-of-house cards from the 1952 film here under the alternate title "Sons of the Musketeers." in 1648 Queen Anne of France calls on the Four Musketeers for help but they send their children instead. Set in France. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1952réf. 150903Santa Monica CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1952. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1952 film showing actors Blanche Yurka Cornel Wilde Alan Hale Jr. and Dan O'Herlihy. Loosely based on Alexandre Dumas' 1844 novel following the adventures of the children of the original Three Musketeers. Set in France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1995réf. 325041Milano: Babilonia Edizioni 1995. Magazine. 96p. includes covers 8.25x11 inches texts in Italian articles reviews interviews photos and ads very good Italian gay & lesbian magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Much on gay and lesbian film and theatre including several pages on "Interview With the Vampire Babilonia Edizioni unknown books
1898réf. 1262071898. First Edition. WILDE Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3. London: Leonard Smithers 1898. Slim octavo original half cream cloth with cinnamon cloth boards uncut. $3600.First edition one of only 800 copies printed on handmade paper.Inspired by his prison experience and comprised in part by a plea for penal reform The Ballad of Reading Gaol was the last work Wilde completed before his death in 1900. ""In his comedies the miscreants were always pardoned but in the Ballad while ultimately forgiven they are treated vindictively by their fellows who are equally guiltyÉ There is no doubt that Wilde had once again touched a great subject and left his fingerprints on itÉ once read it is never forgotten"" Ellmann 532-34. Mason 371. A few pinholes to two preliminary leaves interior otherwise fine. One tiny inkspot to front cover spine slightly toned. A handsome extremely good copy of this scarce first edition. hardcover books
1930réf. 7583NY DUTTON 1930 1930. DUST JACKET VERY GOOD. Hardcover. NY, DUTTON, 1930 hardcover books
réf. 7584NY DUTTON 1930. NY, DUTTON, 1930 unknown books
réf. 06548Reading Berkshire: The Carpathian Press 1999. Wilde's Greatest Poem in a Modern Private Press Masterpiece One of Only 25 Copies on Velin Arches Blanc WILDE Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Engravings by Peter Forster. Introduction by Bryan Forbes. Reading Berkshire: The Carpathian Press 1999. One of 25 copies printed on Velin Arches Blanc from a total edition of 125 signed by Bryan Forbes. Large octavo 9 7/8 x 7 1/4 inches; 251 x 184 mm. 1-16 17-103 1 blank 1 limitation pp. Six engravings by Peter Forster. Elegantly bound by Anthony Wessely in full green morocco. Spine with five raised bands decoratively ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments olive-green endpapers. Housed in the original green cloth slipcase. A fine copy. A finely produced private press edition of Wilde's most powerful and enduring poem written in the aftermath of his imprisonment in Reading Gaol 1895-97. First published in 1898 under the pseudonym "C.3.3." Wilde's prison number the poem stands as a profound meditation on justice punishment and human suffering and remains one of the great poetic responses to incarceration in English literature. This Carpathian Press edition is among the most desirable modern fine press interpretations of the text distinguished by its restrained yet expressive engravings by Peter Forster which echo the stark emotional landscape of Wilde's poem. The use of Velin Arches Blanc paper - reserved here for just 25 copies - provides a luxurious surface that complements both the typography and the engraved plates. A beautifully conceived and executed modern private press book - uniting Wilde's most haunting work with accomplished illustration and binding of the highest order. Reading, Berkshire: The Carpathian Press, 1999 unknown books
1930réf. 48130NY:: Dutton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1930. Hardcover. First edition. Foxing on top edge else very good in a very good closed edge tear along the front spine edge minor edge wear with a few small chips dust jacket. . Dutton, hardcover books
1907réf. 46919NY:: Brentano's. Very Good. 1907. Hardcover. First edition thus. Sextodecimo bound in pale blue paper covered boards with small paper label on front board and along spine. Age toning along the spine and edges else very good. No dust jacket. A relatively early and scarce American edition. The pseudonym appears as C. 33 on the title page - Wilde's name does not appear anywhere in the book. ; 39 pages . Brentano's, hardcover books
1961réf. 537525New York: Berkeley Publishing 1961. Softcover. Fine. First edition thus. Introduction by Granville Hicks. Discoloration at the corner of the top right edge not affecting the interior pages else fine in wrappers. A collection of excerpts from various notorious works such as Juliette by Marquis de Sade The Memoirs of Casanova "Salome by Oscar Wilde "The Taylor Shop" by Henry Miller The Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs among others. Issued as Berkeley Medallion S538. An uncommon book. Berkeley Publishing unknown books
2015réf. 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
1956réf. 149312Culver City CA: Hemisphere Productions 1956. Vintage reference photograph taken on location during production of the 1956 film showing director George Marshall cinematographer Freddie Young and other crew members. With manuscript pencil annotations to the verso. Seeking an explanation for his brother's disappearance an American travels to Kenya where he learns his brother has been killed by members of the mysterious "Leopard Men" cult. Set and shot on location in Kenya. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased to the top right corner. Hemisphere Productions unknown books
réf. 06456London: T. Werner Laurie 1916. The first and still foundational bibliography of Oscar Wilde MASON Stuart pseud. of Christopher Sclater Millard. WILDE Oscar. Bibliography of Oscar Wilde. With a note by Robert Ross. Illustrated. London: T. Werner Laurie n.d. ca. 1916. Octavo 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 210 x 133 mm. xxxii 605 3 pp. Numerous facsimiles throughout the text. Bound ca. 1960 in three quarter purple morocco over purple cloth boards ruled in gilt spine with five raised bands tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments marbled endpapers all edges gilt spine faded. Original pink cloth covers bound in at end. The first and still foundational bibliography of Oscar Wilde compiled by his friend and literary defender Christopher Sclater Millard writing under the pseudonym "Stuart Mason." Produced with the close cooperation of Robert Ross Wilde's literary executor this work remains indispensable for collectors scholars and the trade. Millard's bibliography is far more than a mere listing: it provides detailed descriptions of Wilde's books pamphlets periodical contributions and translations along with valuable notes on variants piracies and publication history. Issued at a time when Wilde's reputation was still in recovery following his death in 1900 the book represents an early and important effort to establish a serious scholarly framework for Wilde's oeuvre. Particularly useful are the numerous facsimiles - title-pages wrappers and documents - which give the work practical bibliographical authority and make it a key reference for identifying first editions and priority issues. A cornerstone Wilde reference here in an attractive mid-twentieth-century morocco binding well suited to the collector's shelf. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1916 unknown books
1979réf. 49933NY:: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0670169749 . First printing thus. Very good in a very good light foxing on verso price clipped dust jacket. . Viking, hardcover books
