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1898réf. 2708London: Leonard Smithers 1898. First edition. Fine. One of 800 copies on handmade Van Gelder paper. A Fine copy without the fading or soiling typical of this book. Pages unopened. Housed in a custom case and chemise. Wilde's later work based on his two years hard labor at Reading Gaol for "gross indecency." Published under the pseudonym "C. 3. 3." for his cell block because the publisher feared having his name on the work would adversely affect sales. The poem is based on a fellow inmate convicted of murdering his wife and generated one of the great lines from Wilde "Yet each man kills the thing he loves." Wilde continued to revise his plays until his death in 1900 but said that he had lost the joy of writing and would write no other new works. An excellent copy housed in a handsome slipcase with chemise. Fine. Leonard Smithers unknown books
1930réf. 30083New York: E. P. Dutton 1930. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good /good. First edition thus. Beautifully illustrated by John Vassos. 124 pp. A handsome very good copy in dustwrapper that shows chipping and wear to the edges. Despite the jacket flaws the book still presents quite well. 1930 edition. E. P. Dutton hardcover books
1899réf. 7426New York: Benj. R. Tucker; Blumenberg Press 1899. Duodecimo 18.5 x 13.5 cm. 8 44 pages. Second American Edition. Preceded by the Brentano's edition circa 1898 though often considered the first American edition. This edition was published in two states the first in which the text appears on rectos only and some leaves are untrimmed; in the second the text is printed on rectos and versos: "Both editions that printed on one side and that printed on both sides are from the same type. It is therefore clear that they are not two independent editions but the one-side issue constitutes merely a kind of de-luxe variety while the two-sided is a cheaper popular version of the same edition" Horodisch pages 76-77. This copy comports with the first state with text printed one side only. A printer's binder's issue is extant as at least one leaf is hinged at the top edge. Is it possible that what Horodisch thought a deluxe issue is merely error some of which made it to the wild Issued by Benjamin R. Tucker the noted anarchist publisher and editor of the journal Liberty in which Tucker published the essay "The Criminal Jailers of Oscar Wilde" in 1895. Tucker and Emma Goldman were two of the few Americans to publicly defend Wilde during his trial George Haggerty Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures 2013 page 52. In publisher's two-toned cloth white over blue upper cover lettered and ruled in gilt unadorned spine. Some minor shelf wear white portion of cloth binding rather soiled and toned along spine short closed tear to title page fore-edge not approaching text old ink spot affecting first few leaves else interior fine. Very Good and sound overall. Benj. R. Tucker; Blumenberg Press hardcover books
1923réf. D4433Munich: O. C. Recht 1923. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Full vellum gilt-stamped lettering in brown morocco spine label; with 60 engravings by Rudolf Schlichter each one signed by the artist. Fine in slipcase. Rudolf Schlichter was one of the most important figures of the Neue Sachlichkeit New Objectivity movement a prolific illustrator and participant in Dada exhibitions. His work was seized by the Nazis as "degenerate art" and largely unseen for decades. He began exhibiting again at the war's end. O. C. Recht hardcover books
1899réf. 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 books
1898réf. 282548London: Smithers 1898. First. hardcover. very good. Slim 8vo mustard cloth backed in white with gilt lettering. London: Leonard Smithers 1898. Limited First Edition. One of 800 copies printed on hand-made paper on one side only. Inscribed on title page; "I.O. from F.A.S. Guilsborough Hall." A very good copy with some bubbling of the cloth and light soil. Irene Osgood later the wife of R.H. Sherard author of the life of Oscar Wilde was a novelist. This book was given to her by Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham Preserved in an attractive1/4 leather slipcase with an elaborately gilt spine. Smithers unknown books
1898réf. 109921Slim 8vo. London: Leonard Smithers 1898. Slim 8vo 4. 31ff. Printed on hand-made paper on one side of the page only. Original quarter white buckram mustard boards backstrip lettered in gilt a good copy slightly soiled and backstrip browned. § First edition one of 800 copies on handmade paper. This controversial poem was written by Wilde under the pseudonym of the number he was given in prison. It includes some of Wilde’s most famous lines: “each man kills the thing he loves”; “some love too little some too long some sell while others buy”; “every prison that men build is built with bricks of shame”. Leonard Smithers hardcover books
1907réf. 33072Boston: Boston Evening Transcript 1907. Offprint. 12mo 18.5cm.; decorative staplebound card wrappers; 251-285pp. Wrappers somewhat toned and dust-soiled smalll faint dampstain to upper wrapper else Very Good and sound. This state not described by Horodisch who notes two additional cover states: "Read the Greatest Tragical Poem in Literature The Ballad of Reading Gaol By Oscar Wilde" and another with a Chicago Holdaway imprint. Offprint from Vol. 13 of The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. Boston Evening Transcript unknown books
1899réf. 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 books
1998réf. 94398North Pomfret:: Trafalgar Square Publishing. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 1570761035 . Wood engravings by Garrick Palmer. First edition thus. Fine in a fine dust jacket.; 37 pages . Trafalgar Square Publishing, hardcover books
1937réf. Embry 166588Heritage Press 1937. First printing thus. Bookplate else fine in fine faintly rubbed slipcase. Illus. by Zhenya Gay. Gray leatherette. Heritage Press, 1937. First printing thus. hardcover books
1937réf. Embry 165570Heritage Press 1937. First printing thus. Fine in very good to near fine slipcase with two seams with very short tears. Illus. by Zhenya Gay. Gray leatherette. Heritage Press, 1937. First printing thus. hardcover books
1919réf. Embry 164723Thomas B. Mosher 1919. Fine in near fine publisher's tissue jacket and near fine but toned publisher's slipcase. Gray boards. Thomas B. Mosher, 1919. hardcover books
1928réf. Embry 147331E. P. Dutton 1928. First printing thus. Glue remnants from bookplate removal to front pastedown rubbing to corners and with some light soiling and marks to cloth very good in nicely crafted custom slipcase. Illus. by John Vassos. Black cloth-backed gray boards. E. P. Dutton, 1928. First printing thus. hardcover books
1930réf. 017128New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc. 1930. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. Early reprint edition. Octavo 8vo. 124 pages. Original hardcover binding; cloth spine is lightly to moderately rubbed on the extremities. The blue-grey paper-covered boards are slightly sunned at the extremities and slightly to moderately shelfworn along the edges mostly to the corners. No dustjacket. Illustrated by John Vassos. The text is clean and unmarked. A 1930 reprint of the 1928 first edition. E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. Hardcover books
1898réf. 28830London: Leonard Smithers 1898. First edition one of 800 copies printed on handmade paper. Yellow-brown boards with white cloth spine. Usual discoloration to the endpapers but a fine copy. "Ed. Edmonds / 15. Febry. 1898" signature on first blank page. Leonard Smithers hardcover books
1902réf. WRCLIT61906Boston: Alfred Bartlett 1902. Boards paper labels. Spine label a bit tanned otherwise a very good copy of a fragile book. One of 550 numbered copies. The limitation page bears a facsimile of Wilde's signature. One of the several early U.S. printings virtually all unauthorized. The first U.S. edition was published by Benjamin Tucker in 1899. Alfred Bartlett hardcover books
1898réf. 303630London Leonard Smithers 1898. 1898. Third edition so stated. 8vo. Half white over purple linen gilt stamped spine upper cover with gilt stamped floral design by Charles Ricketts uncut. Very good-fine. 31 pages. Enclosed in a 1/2 brown morocco slipcase with folding chemise. Number 69 of 99 copies printed March 4 1898 signed by Wilde in black ink on limitation page with characteristic paraph to the final "e." Mason #374. Bookplate of Chauncey Lawrence Williams on the front free endpaper and a signed pencil notation by Paul Lemperly noting he received the book from Williams. Williams 1872-1924 former member of Way and Williams publishers and the F.W. Dodge Corp. With his memorial booklet laid in loose. Lemperly 1858-1939 noted American book collector. Signed by Authors. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. London, Leonard Smithers, 1898. hardcover books
1899réf. 140938501London: Leonard Smithers 1899. First Edition. Very Good. First Edition first printing. One of 800 copies originally printed which sold out immediately. Very Good. Covers soiled corners and spine ends softened. Endsheets offset from binder's glue. Previous owner name partially effaced from front paste down. Slight odor to pages. Clipping with apparently forged signature of Oscar Wilde tipped in on recto of final blank sheet by no means assumed to be authentic. Leonard Smithers unknown books
réf. A9783656112686Paperback. New. paperback
réf. B9783656112686Paperback. New. paperback
1899réf. 284591United Kingdom: Leonard Smithers 1899. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. hardback slim octavo the seventh edition with copyright date facing the half-title and name of Wilde in brackets beneath the title. Bound in quarter white cloth darkened and soiled to spine dark yellow cloth sides shelf soiled. Rubbed at the head and foot of the spine endpapers with some mild foxing the body of text clean and unmarked. . Leonard Smithers Hardcover
2012réf. DADAX3656112681Grin Verlag 2012-02-04. paperback. New. 5.83x0.18x8.27. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Grin Verlag paperback
réf. 3656112681.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 53IN3G0031IDBantam Press 9/5/2019 12:00:01 AM. hardcover. New. 1.3386 in x 9.2913 in x 6.2992 in. Bantam Press hardcover
