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1937rif. 173736New York: Heritage Press 1937. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Heritage Press hardcover
1928rif. 097379New York: Macy-Masius: The Vanguard Press. Detaching spine cover glued back down by seller. Edge worn covers very thin wood veneer over boards with scuffing and light soiling cracking along spine edges and chips out of spine ends. Illustrated end papers and mezzotint illustrations throughout pages tanning from edges else pages good and binding tight. Presumed limited edition. Copyright page says "The first impression consists of two thousand copies" . Good- Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1928. Macy-Masius: The Vanguard Press hardcover
1899rif. 3398Hardcover. Condition. Very Good-. Unauthorized or pirated edition by the printer of the original first edition . The last edition that was authorized by Wilde for Smithers to print was dated 1899 later unauthorized editions also show that date. Probably printed in 1904 based on 1904 gift inscription on FFEP. Soiling to boards. Backstrip of spine has tears along the hinges particularly at the bottom. Binding is nonetheless firm. Clean interior with light offsetting to pastedowns. Leonard Smithers hardcover
1928rif. 163623New York: Vanguard Press 1928. First Edition; First Impression. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Rubbing along panel edges. Chipping at spine crown/heel. Tape along spine. Illustrations by Lynd Ward. Vanguard Press hardcover
1980rif. mon0000038432Heron Books London 1980-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. 1948 edition illustrated by Arthur WRagg. Ex-library book usual markings. Rebound by library. Heron Books London hardcover
1904rif. 002331Portland ME: Thomas B. Mosher 1904. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Green paper covered boards with paper title labels to front and spine. One of 950 copies printed on hand made Van Gelder paper and the type distributed. IN ORIGINAL SLIPCASE. Copy is FINE. Slipcase is VG. Exterior is clean. Paper titles crisp. Edges sharp. Inside is unmarked tight with almost no toning. Slipcase is olive with imprinted black titles to bottom front and spine. Some spotting to covers a bit of wear to edges. SCARCE in slipcase. Thomas B. Mosher Hardcover
1928rif. 19589New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1928. Decorative Boards. Very Good/Very Good. John Vassos. A solid copy of the 1928 1st trade edition of this John Vassos-illustrated edition. Tight and VG light offsetting at the panel edges very light abrading to the rear panel in a bright price-clipped VG dustjacket with light chipping at the panel edges. Octavo wonderfully illustrated thruout by John Vassos with each illustration including its original tissue-guard. E.P. Dutton & Co unknown
1898rif. 3101London: Leonard Smithers 1898. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fourth edition or printing of 1898. Cream linen and mustard coloured cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Front board has black markings and is discoloured. Edges are bumped. Spine is faded with a rubbed patch. Pages are age tanned with occasional foxing. Pages are rough cut. Some page discolouration throughout. Some verses have been ticked in pencil. One of the limited editions which were published the same year as the original publication by Wilde or C.3.3. Previous owner's signature on frontispiece dated 1898 and the bookplate of Brighton College on fep. Binding is tight. 1898 Leonard Smithers hardcover
1957rif. mon0000020855The Heritage Press George Macy 1957. Hardcover Full Leatherlen Slip. Like New. in x in x in. No DJ. Unmarked unread book. Hardcover bound in full leather product called Leatherlen. Slipcase sunning. Sandglass Number v:17 re this volume laid in. Introduction by Burton Rascoe. Lithographs by Zhenya Gay. The Heritage Press, George Macy hardcover
1928rif. 109258New York: E. P. Dutton 1928. First John Vassos edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Soiling small owner inscription.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. E. P. Dutton hardcover
1928rif. 109256New York: E. P. Dutton 1928. First John Vassos edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Edge wear and soiling. Corners rubbed.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. E. P. Dutton hardcover
1957rif. 177351Hong Kong: Ye Olde Printerie 1957. Hardback No Dust Wrapper. Good. Douglas Bland. Condition Notes: Boards and spine dulled and tanned. Text complete clean and tight bar one small blemish to page III at the foredge. A nice copy and not so common; Hardback. Brown boards with black titles to the upper board; Measures 10 x 7½ 0.6 kg; pp 41; Preface by Edmund Blunden; Publishing date unstated dated from references. Signed by the illustrator on the title page unverified and reflected as such in the without provenance. A limited printing of 100 copies of which this is number 31. This illustrated version of The Ballad of Reading Gaol first appeared in Elixir the Journal of the Hong Kong University Medical Society in February 1957. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Plates 17; The book is on the shelf ready to be appropriately packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John Bath by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #177351 Hong Kong: Ye Olde Printerie hardcover
1928rif. 178757New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc. 1928. First Vassos trade edition first printing inscribed on the half-title by the illustrator "To Josephine Allen in symbolism John Vassos" and with Allen's signature on the front pastedown. Vassos's art-deco illustrations poignantly complement Wilde's famous poem. Vassos 1898-1985 was an American industrial and graphic designer famous for designing the first commercially available television sets and many popular logos. In 1926 Vassos's design for a cover illustration for a stage production of Salomé caught the attention of the publishers E. P. Dutton resulting in a Vassos-illustrated edition of the play published in 1927. He illustrated eight further books of which this is the second. Octavo. Monochrome frontispiece 15 plates by Vassos all with tissue guards. Original blue boards black cloth backstrip lettered in gilt front board with illustration in black and gilt pale grey endpapers top edge blue fore and bottom edges uncut. With dust jacket. Spine a little cocked top edge toned closed tear to outer margin of pp. 35-6; jacket unclipped nicks chips and short closed tears to extremities spine sunned: a very good copy in like jacket. hardcover
1898rif. 6Oscar Wilde The Ballad of Reading Goal by C.3.3. Leonard Smithers Royal Arcade London W. 1898. Original white quarter cloth spine lettered in gilt yellow cloth sides. Inscribed in ink on the back of the half-title: To Louis Fabulet from the author in remembrance of a charming evening when the wine was red and the moon was silver Oscar Wilde Paris 98 Autograph note from Louis Fabulet: "This book: "The Ballad of Reading Jail" was given to me by Oscar Wilde in June 1898 a few days after the dinner that after his release from prison in England I persuaded my friend the poet Edouard Ducôté then director of the magazine "L'Ermitage" to offer in his honor. Hugues Rebell André Gide Henri Ghéon René Boylesve and I were the guests. Louis Fabulet. Attached is the business card bearing the name under which Oscar Wilde then lived in Paris. The address in pencil: "Hôtel d'Alsace rue des Beaux-Arts is in his handwriting. "Melmoth" is the man "who sold his soul for eternal youth." Louis Fabulet 1862-1933 was one of the main translators from English to French in his time notably of the works of Kipling and Thoreau. It is said that it was Oscar Wilde who introduced him to The Jungle Book. This inscription exceptionally long and colorful which is almost akin to a brief poem refers to the dinner that Louis Fabulet speaks of in his note. Wilde had arrived in Paris in March and the French literati were keen to pay him public homage with this banquet which he presided over. The inscription makes a nice reference to the event with perhaps a reminiscence of the Ballad itself where we read in the second verse: "For blood and wine are red" . Mounted in the copy is Wilde's rare card in the name of Sebastian Melmoth. The aged ruined writer abandoned by almost everyone hid himself under the name of the hero of Robert Mathurin's novel Melmoth the Wanderer. The card does not have an address. Wilde in fact lived at the Hôtel d'Alsace in Saint-Germain des Prés a shabby establishment at the time "it's so dirty so totally depressing and hopeless" he wrote. He wrote down the address of his hand in pencil. It was there that he died two years later. The hotel took the name "L'Hôtel" in 1963 and became a rather chic place. These combined elements: the poetic inscription which evokes a happy moment and the moving card which evokes his misery make this copy one of the most precious there is. Leonard Smithers
rif. 197793Elixir Supplement 1956. 1st edn thus. Tall 8vo 10 x 7½ ins. Original black lettered grey cloth upper board rather tanned - otherwise VG no dustwrapper. Pp. xli with17 b&w illus by Douglas Bland no inscriptions. Elixir Supplement, 1956 unknown
1940rif. 33463New York: The Peter Pauper Press c. 1940. First Edition Thus. Illustrated throughout with wood engravings by Hans Alexander Mueller. 8vo decorated boards with overall patterned design in purple and green lettered on the spine and housed in the slipcase with paste down title label. 93 pp. A fine and well-preserved copy with extremely minor overall age mellowing to the exterior. BEAUTIFULLY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED WITH THE WONDERFUL ARTWORK OF HANS ALEXANDER MUELLER. Inspired by his experiences while in prison and written while in exile in France THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL was Wilde's last artistic gasp. Because of his sobering position at the time the poem is free from a great deal of the affectation that colored his earlier work. "Had it been written a hundred years ago it would have been printed as a broadside and sold in the streets by the balladmongers; it is so common as that and so great as that" Jackson The Eighteen-Nineties p. 99. ".He did not wring his hands as do Those witless men who dare To try to rear the changeling Hope In the cave of black Despair: He only looked upon the sun And drank the morning sun. He did not wring his hands nor weep Nor did he peek or pine But he drank the air as though it held Some healthful anodyne; With open mouth he drank the sun As though it had been wine!. The Peter Pauper Press hardcover
rif. 1707The Unicorn Press In-8. 31pp. reliure toile percaline editeur etiquette ex-libris un envoi autographe sur garde Pqte3 unknown
rif. 1169178375.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
rif. 34018-A-63779Avalon Pers Woubrugge 1999. Zeldzaam. Linnen band. Nummer 24 van 90 exemplaren. -De linnen band is vlekkerig maar het binnenwerk is in zeer goede conditie. Avalon Pers, Woubrugge, 1999 unknown
1924rif. 61051Methuen & Co. Good. 1924. Hardback. Paper-covered boards with cloth spine boards are age-toned and marked paper chipped at upper and lower edges notable black stain to upper edge of rear board corners worn and bumped; binding is a fragile mostly sturdy throughout but rear joint exposed joint also exposed at numbered edition page; pages are rough-cut off-setting on front and rear endpapers previous owner's signature and brief dedication on front endpaper striking woodcuts by Belgian artist Frans Massereel. This is number 415 of a limited 450 printed copies. ; 7.25 x 0.5 x 10.75 inches; 57 pages . Methuen & Co hardcover
1928rif. 17251New York: Macy-Masius The Vanguard Press. Good with no dust jacket. First Impression One of 2000. Hardcover. Illustrated by Lynd Ward. New York: Macy-Masius: The Vanguard Press 1928. First Impression One of 2000. 10.25 x 7.5". 107pp. Original paper boards edges moderately worn ends of spine panel lacking most of the letters remain binding stable owner's name on front endpaper interior clean very good.; 10.25 x 7.5 inches; 107 pages . 1928. Macy-Masius, The Vanguard Press hardcover
1899rif. 160498London: Leonard Smithers 1899. No. of edition not stated and could be a later unauthorized edition. Hardcover. Fair. 31 one-sided p. of irregular size. 23 cm. Quarter white cloth wtih tan paper boards. Worn extremities stained boards. Spine darkened making lettering difficult to read. Split spine ends. Ink inscription from 1905 on front endpaper. Some thumbing. Tears in bottom of p. 31. Leonard Smithers hardcover
1928rif. 665042E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Printing of this edition. 7.375 x 9.375 in. 124pp. with 16 b/w duotones in Vassos' signature style each with a tissue guard. A Very Good copy with a touch of light wear in a Very Good jacket that has some minor wear along the edges. E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc hardcover
1904rif. 071990Boston: Alfred Bartlett 1904. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gray buckram lettered in black string binding. Cover cloth lightly soiled. Firm binding clean interior. 32 pp. Early printing of one the first American editions of Wilde's classic poem. Alfred Bartlett Hardcover
rif. 116015The Heritage Press New York. 1937. The Heritage Press New York. 1937. First edition thus. Hardback in slipcase. NO DW. Tall quarto. Illustrated. Dark grey textured boards with gilt type to spine. Small splits to upper hinge. A lovely clean copy in a worn and soiled red slipcase. hardcover
