WILDE, OSCARABAA
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1973réf. 014840Norwalk Connecticut: The Easton Press 1973. All edges are gilt. Covers and spine are lettered and designed in gilt. Sewn-in silk bookmark. A copy of Notes From the Archives is laid-in. Introduced by Sir John Gielgud and illustrated by Tony Walton. A beautifully-constructed fine binding. The two plays are bound dos-a-dos or back-to-back. "The Importance of Being Earnest" was first performed in 1895 and "Lady Windermere's Fan" in 1892 both at the St. James Theatre London. Wilde 1854-1900 was an Irish poet and playwright. 125-114pp. . The Collector's Library of Famous Editio. Full Green Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Super Royal Octavo. The Easton Press Hardcover books
1967réf. 93004London:: Heinemann. 1967. Hardcover. Part of The Drama Library series. Introduction by Sir John Gielgud. A later printing. Very good in green and white cloth. No dust jacket. . Heinemann, hardcover books
1899réf. 1411385London: Leonard Smithers and Co 1899. First Trade Edition Limited #208/1000. Hardcover. Octavo 151 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in publisher's pale purple cloth with gilt leaves to boards gilt lettering to spine. Fading to spine and boards. Some general shelfwear. Chipping to head and tail of spine. Bumping to corners and extremities. Spine cocked. Front pastedown with glue stains from a removed bookplate. Front free endpaper with bookplate. Shelved showcase. 'The Importance of Being Earnest' was a success on stage when it opened in 1895 but closed after 86 performances due to Wilde's arrest. It is generaly considered one of his best works. This Trade edition was published in 1899 after he was released from Reading Gaol and residing in France. He died the following year. 1411385. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Leonard Smithers and Co hardcover books
1899réf. 140949181London: Leonard Smithers and Co 1899. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing. One of 1000 copies unnumbered. xvi 152 pp. printed on laid paper. Bound in publisher's lavender cloth with gilt spine lettering and decorations by Charles Shannon. Near Fine with sunning to spine and extremities and fading to spine gilt light soiling and scattered foxing to cloth light rubbing to extremities and slight bumping to lower corners. Binding starting at p. 105 offsetting to front endsheet bookplate to front pastedown. A very nice copy from the library of the American naval officer and book collector Charles John Muto. Mason 381. The first edition of the most delightful play in the English language. Wilde's last play opened on Valentine's Day 1895 to almost unanimous praise. Two weeks later he received a card at his club accusing him of sodomy to which he responded with an ill-judged libel lawsuit that led to his downfall and imprisonment. By the time this book was published by Leonard Smithers one of his few remaining friends Wilde was dying in Paris his health broken by Reading Gaol. There are now statues to him in London and Dublin. Leonard Smithers and Co unknown books
1973réf. 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
1963réf. 519247Dublin / London: The Dolmen Press / Oxford University Press 1963. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Hilton Edwards. A fine bright copy in very good publisher's printed glassine dust jacket printed in red on front panel with a small chip and a few short tears. An elusive title in the clothbound issue; the jacket is extremely ephemeral. The introduction states: "Under this title Micheal Mac Liammoir has selected and arranged in a chronological pattern excerpts from the poetry prose letters and dramatic writings of Oscar Wilde. The Dolmen Press / Oxford University Press hardcover books
1927réf. 171334N.p.: N.p. 1927. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1927 silent film one showing actor Harold Lloyd fearfully holding a stick like a machine gun the other showing a medicine show caravan. A sheriff's shy son is given the chance to prove his worth when a traveling medicine show run by shysters rolls into town. A remake of the 1924 Hal Roach film "The White Sheep." Widely considered one of Lloyd's finest films and the last of Lloyd's films to star Jobyna Ralston. Shot on location in rural California. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1922réf. 2222703Privately issued 1922 1924 1931. First edition. Quarto. Collated and compiled by Robert Ernest Cowan and William Andrews Clark Jr. Original green cloth over boards; spine labels. Very good spines faded to tan. 6 volumes. A fine set of this monumental collection assembled by William Andrews Clark Jr. Each volume in a grey board slipcase. No signatures or bookplates. One of 100 copies. Printed by John Henry Nash. Privately Printed hardcover books
1907réf. 222567New York Mitchell Kennerley 1907. 1907. First American edition from English sheets. Thick 8vo. Frontispiece portrait from photograph by Ellis & Walery and 25 illustrations. Original blue cloth spine with printed paper label t.e.g. uncut. Good-very good. No bookplates. Former owners ink signature on the title page. F. Hardcover. New York, Mitchell Kennerley, 1907. hardcover books
1930réf. 02501THE LITTLE THEATRE IN SCHOOL Dodd Mead 1930 first edition faint moisture stain to the rear panel and sections of the top and bottom page edges of the text block which have for the most part faintly bled onto the fore mentioned margins in various degrees most all of which are minor else a vg copy in a vg color pictorial dust-wrapper with some wear and tear and some tape reinforcement to the head of the dust-wrapper spine. Illustrated with photos with 2 of the 4 plays printed herein based on the works of Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde. The pioneering / ground breaking book of children and the performing arts in school. Dodd Mead unknown books
1952réf. 170434Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1952. Collection of 36 vintage reference photographs from the 1952 film including 35 bordered and one borderless. Most with provenance stamps and labels on the versos and four with printed mimeo snipes affixed to same. Based on Carson McCullers' beloved 1946 novel which McCullers also adapted for Broadway in 1950 starring actors Ethel Waters and Julie Harris who reprised their roles for the film. A young lonely tomboy dreams of escaping her small southern town with her brother and his fiancée. Harris was 27 more than double the age of the fictional Frankie Addams at the time of the film's production. Set in the American South. 35 photographs 10 x 8 inches one 7.5 x 9.25 inches. Generally Very Good plus to Near Fine a couple with annotations in manuscript ink on the margins. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1978réf. 140550N.p.: Charles B. Pierce Film Productions 1978. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1978 film. An 11th century Viking prince sails to North America to rescue his father from a Native American tribe. Shot on location in Florida and California. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Charles B. Pierce Film Productions unknown books
1983réf. 212634Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum 1983. First edition. Softcover. 128 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran May 11 through July 3 1983 and then traveled to two other locations for additonal dates. Text in English and Dutch. Features contributions by Edy de Wilde Carter Ratcliff and with an interview of de Kooning by Harold Rosenberg. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations a chronology list of previous exhibitions and a selected bibliography. A near fine copy in wrappers with some minor wear. Internally a clean copy. Stedelijk Museum unknown books
1991réf. 274112New York: Oxford University Press 1991. Softcover. Near Fine. Reprint. Near fine in wrappers with some very light general wear. Oxford University Press unknown books
1909réf. 513071East Orange NJ: The Papyrus 1909. Softcover. Fine. Periodical. 12mo. 32pp. plus advertisements. Stapled wrappers. Staples oxidized else a fine copy. Prints "Taedium Vitae" by Oscar Wilde "The Passing of Meredith" by J.M. Barrie "Stranger than Fiction" by Lafcadio Hearn and more. The Papyrus unknown books
1925réf. 50305London: John Lane the Bodley Head Limited 1925. Very Good Condition/Very Good Condition. London: John Lane the Bodley Head Limited 1925. First Edition Thus. Octavo; publisher's cloth dark green topstain pictorial endpapers in black pictorial dust jacket printed in green and matching paper-covered slipcase; xvi250pp.; frontispiece and eleven leaves of plates collated complete. Corners nudged jacket margins a bit chipped with one-inch loss at spine crown moderate wear to slipcase margins and paper scar to rear panel briefly affecting text of the list of the Ebony Library series. Still in Very Good condition in the rare jacket and slipcase. John Lane the Bodley Head Limited unknown books
1890réf. 26040071890. pirated first. hardcover. very good. Pirated first edition. Book very good foxing throughoutsome soiling to covers former owner's one-line writing to front free end paper. unknown books
2025réf. 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
2025réf. 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
1987réf. 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
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1891réf. 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
1968réf. 305092London: Petersburg Press 1968. Edition C with six loose lithographs signed duplicates of those bound in the book and four signed etchings this copy 100 of 100 lacking two of the prints. Illustrated by Jim Dine. 2 vols. Folio 18.1 x 13 inches. Snakeskin print leather binding near fine on text volume and portfolio volume matching box and heart cover with some fading otherwise near fine. Dine Jim. Edition C with six loose lithographs signed duplicates of those bound in the book and four signed etchings this copy 100 of 100 lacking two of the prints. Illustrated by Jim Dine. 2 vols. Folio 18.1 x 13 inches. Three editions of this work were published with an extra suite of prints: A Edition of 200 plus 25 artists' proofs bound in red velvet with the title in silver with six signed lithographs duplicates of the plates in the text signed by Dine B Edition of 200 plus 25 artists' proofs bound in green velvet with the title in silver with four etchings signed by Dine C Edition of 100 plus 15 artists' proofs in a snakeskin-patterned leather binding stamped in black with a matching box with "heart built up on the cover" also signed by Dine containing all of the prints of the two other editions 10 total signed by Dine. THIS COPY LACKING TWO PRINTS: "Sybil in her Dressing Room" and "Basil in Black Leather Suit" Jim Dine worked on a stage version of Wilde's novel with English director Robert Kidd for the Bath Academie of Art at Corsham moving the setting to London during the 1967 Summer of Love. The play was never finished as the scheduled lead actor James Fox objected to Dine's "obscene" costumes derailing the whole production. Petersburg Press stepped in and offered to print Dine's drafts for the adapation. Mikro 47 Petersburg Press unknown books
1945réf. 161627Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1945. Vintage reference photograph of actors Angela Lansbury and Hurd Hatfield from the 1945 film. Based on the 1890 novel by Oscar Wilde about a man whose portrait magically takes on the ability to absorb the sins of his debauched life while he remains unaged. Nominated for three Academy Awards winning one for Best Cinematography. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with some creasing at the corners. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1943réf. 156715Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1943. Draft script for the 1945 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their manuscript annotations in pencil on several pages. Based on the 1890 novel by Oscar Wilde about a man whose portrait magically takes on the ability to absorb the sins of his debauched life while he remains unaged. Nominated for three Academy Awards winning one for Best Cinematography. Set in London. Goldenrod studio wrappers rubber-stamped FILE COPY and COMPLETE on the front wrapper noted as copy No. 67 and production No. 5069 dated 11-5-43 with credits for director Albert Lewin. Title page integral with the first page of the text. 168 leaves with last page of text numbered 169. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with a single pink revision page dated 3-13-44. Pages about Near Fine wrapper Good only with a tear on the bottom right portion of the front wrapper and rear wrapper split from the binding bound with two gold brads. Selby US. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
