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1905Best.-Nr. 004431New York: Brentano's 1905. This is a Very Good Plus copy of an early printing 1905 of Wilde's poem. Gray-green paper-covered boards with paper labels on the front cover and spine. Clean text; 39 pages. Nicely bright and clear printed on quality laid paper. There is some rubbing and darkening around the margins. The fragile spine label is chipped vertically with about 50% loss. In an archival plastic protector. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Brentano's Hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. 004441London: Leonard Smithers 1899. First published in 1898 anonymously under Wilde's Prisoner identification number this is a copy of the Seventh Printing which was the first to identify him by name. This copy also states "Entered at the Library of Congress Washington U.S.A." indicating an American issue; a bit uncommon thus. Ochre cloth binding with gilt lettering on a linen spine. Clean text; 31 pages. This is a Very Good copy but there are some issues. The corners are bumped; there is a spot on the front cover and a few stains on the rear. Some cracking to the hingesgive it a shaken feel. Also there is a long inscription in Latin also done into English on the FFEP and a signature on the Dedication Page. A decent-enough place-holder but certainly not for the advanced collector. . Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Leonard Smithers Hardcover
1937Best.-Nr. 018551New York: Limited Editions Club 1937. Hardcover. The spine is very worn with the leather all but rubbed away although the gilt is still clear and bright and the covers are in nice shape; contents clean. Good only in a Good slipcase with the top edge partly detached. Zhenya Gay. Quarto 7-1/2" x 11" bound in full granite-gray sheepskin leather embossed to resemble a jail cell wall; 76 pages. Copy #393 of 1500 illustrated with 8 full-page ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS by Zhenya Gay and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. One of the more unusual bindings of the press. Limited Editions Club hardcover
1937Best.-Nr. 140342N Y: Limited Editions Club 1937. Oversize Hardback. Fair/No Jacket. Gay Zhenya. Limited edition number 594 of 1500. Lithographs by Zhenya Gay. Signed by Zhenya. Bound in gray leather with brick and barred window pattern; worn at edges. Front board and leather spine are completely detached and only a completely separated fragment remains. 7 3/8""w x 11 1/4""h. 42 pages. Decorative red chapter numbers. In Very Good red slipcase. Keywords: Signed Zhenya Gay Limited Edition Irish Poet De Profundus Reading Gaol Dandy Letter Limited Editions Club hardcover
1898Best.-Nr. 004339London: Leonard Smithers 1898. Wilde used his prisoner's number as his nom de plume for the early printings. This is a Very Good copy of the "Fourth Edition" Printing. Tan and cream-coloured binding with gilt titling on the spine. Clean text; 31 pages text printed only on the recto. There is a contemporary 22 May 1898 previous-owner signature only three letters on the front free endpaper. There is a tiny bookseller label Brentano's Paris on the rear paste-down. The paste-downs and free endpapers are typically tanned. The corners are bumped; surfaces soiled; and there is a crease on the rear cover. The spine has darkened but the lettering remains readable. Within this rather used-looking exterior the textblock is wonderfully fresh and bright. A solid copy of this rare edition. Fourth Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Leonard Smithers Hardcover
1905Best.-Nr. 005702Greenwich Conn.: The Literary Collector Press 1905. Book. Very Good Minus. Paper Covered Boards. Limited and Numbered Edition. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. The Third Edition of this poem. Collector Reprints No. 3. # 66 of 275 copies printed on American hand-made paper. In the original gray paper boards with black lettering and red ruling on paper labels at cover and spine. Very Good Minus bottom 3 1/4" of paper at spine is gone. Internally clean and tight last page uncut. 39 pages. SCARCE. The Literary Collector Press Hardcover
1963Best.-Nr. 40563New York: Ernest Rathenau 1963. First edition. Hardcover. vg to fine. 385/600. Large Quarto. Unpaginated. Original gray cloth with black reproduction of Erich Heckel's title page on cover and black lettering on spine housed in a plain cardboard slipcase. Second title page woodcut by Erich Heckel with German text. Wilde wrote this ballad in Berneval-le-Grand France where he spent time with Robert Ross. The poem narrates the execution of Charles Thomas Wooldridge who had been a trooper of the Royal Horse Guards and was convicted of murdering his wife. Illustrated with 12 impressive etchings including title page after woodcuts by Erich Heckel from 1907. Printed in Walbaum Antiqua on Hahnemühlen handmade paper at the letterpress of the Brothers Hartmann Berlin. Text in English. Light sunning of slipcase and spine. Slipcase and binding in very good interior in fine condition. Ernest Rathenau hardcover
1928Best.-Nr. 47487New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc 1928. First edition illustrated by John Vassos. Hardcover. Very good/very good. John Vassos. 124pp. Small quarto 24 cm 1/2 black cloth over blue striped paper covered boards. The title is stamped in gilt on the backstrip and there is an ornamental design stamped in black and gilt on the lower fore edge corner of the front board. With a slight lean to the spine and mild bumping and fading at the extremities. Age-toned pages. The jacket has periodic short closed tears and chips in the edges and there is a small loss from the paper at the foot of the jacket's spine measuring 1" wide by 3/4" deep. Includes sixteen black and white illustrations with tissue guards by John Vassos. From the dust jacket- "Vassos' interpretation of Wilde's masterpiece illustrating the emotional experiences of a condemned prisoner in his last days. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. 15144JNew York: Benj. R. Tucker 1899. First American Edition. Three pirated editions of Wilde’s classic poem were issued in America in 1899 the Tucker edition. precedes the other two and is the True First American Edition. Issued in paper wrappers and cloth this copy is the rare hardbound state. Gilt-stamped blue cloth with white cloth spine. Hinges cracked. Some minor foxing to the preliminaries at little darkening at spine very good. Rare. Benj. R. Tucker hardcover
1937Best.-Nr. 002840New York: Heritage Press 1937. George Macy conceived of the Heritage Press as a way to offer less-expensive versions of his publications with the Limited Editions Club. They are beautiful productions in their own right; here is Macy's offering of Oscar Wilde's most famous poem. Bound with a smooth polished cloth in a design of a prison's barred window set in a brick wall. Clean text; xii 43 pages page edges are stained red. With an Introduction by Barton Rascoe and illustrated with eight black-and-white lithographs by Zhenya Gay. Lacking a slipcase the book remains in Fine condition. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Zhenya Gay. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Heritage Press Hardcover
Best.-Nr. 127159New York: Limited Editions Club. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Special. Very good/ Very good minus slipcase. Rubs to edges and corners of boards and slipcase. Limited Editions Club hardcover
Best.-Nr. 986London: Methuen & Co. 1924. Limited edition of 450 numbered copies. Housed in custom clamshell box of blue cloth with leather spine with gilt lettering. 4to. Two piece binding with cloth spine and paper covered boards. Paper cover label. Limited edition of 450 numbered copies. Housed in custom clamshell box of blue cloth with leather spine with gilt lettering. Illustrated with woodcuts by Frans Masereel. Red leather Beach bookplate attached to front paste-down. Errata slip laid in. Some normal foxing else in very good condition in similar dust jacket. London: Methuen & Co. 1924. hardcover
1928Best.-Nr. 2221806First edition thus. 9 1/4" x 7 1/4". 16 illustrations by John Vassos. Original black cloth over blue boards t.e.g. Dust jacket clipped; small chips. Very good. 124 pages. No signatures or bookplates. No. 33 of 200 copies. This copy is not signed. Printed by Knudsen Process. E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. hardcover
1937Best.-Nr. 52410New York: The Heritage Press. Very Good. c1937. Hardcover. Very Good condition with mild sunning to the upper board edges and some shelfwear; The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a beautiful and heartbreaking poem about Oscar Wilde's time spent in prison. Wilde writes about the loneliness and sadness he feels while incarcerated and how reading and writing can keep him sane. The poem is a great reminder that even though life can be difficult it's always worth trying to find beauty in the world.; 4to ; 42 pages . The Heritage Press hardcover
Best.-Nr. 6847NY. Fair with no dust jacket; Hard Cover; E. P. Dutton & Co Inc; 1928; First . Edition. Black spine with blue paper boards Fair. Boards showing on corners. Spine split and chipped. First edition. Hinges cracked with webbing showing. Previous owner name chipping to pages. Illustrated by John Vassos 124 pages; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. 54608NY: Benj. R. Tucker 1899. Early US edition. 44 pp. Small tear to the fore-edge of one leaf else very good plus in two part gilt-stamped cloth with darkened spine. NY: Benj. R. Tucker, hardcover
Best.-Nr. B114150-1New York Limited Editions Club 1937. xii 42pp. 9 plates. 4to. Decorative embossed sheepskin binding resembling jail cell. Slipcase. Edition printed by John S. Fass at the Harbor Press New York and limited to 1500 copies hand-numbered and signed Zhenya in the colophon. New York (Limited Editions Club), 1937. unknown
1930Best.-Nr. 4964to. New York. E.P. Dutton and Co. 1930. Uncut bright and clean copy includes DJ in fine condition. Quarterbound coated black cloth spine gilt lettering and decorative elements patterned blue paper boards frontispiece tissue guards. 124pp. Illus. b/w plates. Conceptions by John Vassos. Vassos second work following his breakthrough work with Salome in 1927. E.P. Dutton and Co
1904Best.-Nr. 30594Portland Maine: Thomas B. Mosher 1904. Limited edition 16mo pp. 6 33 2; title-page vignette printed in red; original gray cloth paper-covered boards printed paper spine and cover labels printed in red and black plain paper wrapper chipped with a fairly large ink stain joints and hinges cracked internally fine. Thomas B. Mosher unknown
1898Best.-Nr. 882015London: 1898. First Edition. 8vo. One of 800 copies on handmade paper. White lined-backed cinnamon cloth in a later cloth slipcase. Binding lightly soiled. Mason 371. Original White Cloth Gilt. Good. Hardcover
1937Best.-Nr. ILDeWILD2New York: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club at The Barbor Press 1937. 1937. 4to. pp. 1 p.l. 42. 8 lithographed plates incl. frontis. roan rubbed spinal extremities chipped. in a defective slipcase. New York: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club at The Barbor Press, 1937. unknown
1905Best.-Nr. 978East Aurora NY: Roycrofters 1905. Very Good. Very Good condition. Full Green Suede cover 8 x 6". The initials have hand applied gold outlines. Roycrofters unknown
1937Best.-Nr. 998New York: Heritage Press 1937. Hardcover. Near Fine. hardcover with cover embossed like a jail wall and barred window. From the Limited Editions Club edition. Bookplate of prior owner on inside front cover Near Fine in red slipcase slipcase with some edge wear. Heritage Press hardcover
1902Best.-Nr. 11348THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL Alfred Bartlett 1902 an early American edition wear and chipping to the spine and lower fore edge corner tips else a good copy with vg contents. 1/550 copies of this unauthorized edition. This copy bears the bookplate of Michigan politician Thomas Weadock on the f.p.d. whose collection of Napoleona was at one time second to none. Alfred Bartlett unknown
1937Best.-Nr. 400New York: Limited Editions Club 1937. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Very Good in Good slipcase. Quarto 7-1/2" x 11". Brown leather embossed to resemble a jail cell wall laid stones and criss cross bars in the window. Limited eiditon of 1500 copies of which this is numbered 286 and signed by Zhenya Gay who did the original lithographs. Some slight wear to corners and slight wear to top and bottom of spine. Slipcase is red showing wear to edges and a piece about 1.5 inches missing at bottom edge from spine. Bookplate. Limited Editions Club hardcover
