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1913réf. 9026848New York: Stokes 1913. Hardcover. Very good. Spencer Baird Nichols. Bound in publisher's original blue green cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt. Cover and text illustrated by Spencer Baird Nichols. Wear at top and bottom of spine. Text is tight. 8 x 5 1/4 inches. 204 pages. Stokes hardcover books
1912réf. 510022Riverside Connecticut: The Hillacre Bookhouse 1912. Softcover. Near Fine. First separate American edition. 16mo. 34pp. Sewn printed wrappers. Binding a touch loose with very light toning and wear printed paper label with a bit of light soil close to near fine. One of 1000 copies printed. Not in Mason; collected editions of The Happy Prince and Other Tales were published prior to this edition but Mason does not seem to list any earlier separate editions. An attractive little volume published by Frederick C. Bursch surprisingly uncommon given the limitation; OCLC locates two copies NYPL University of Tulsa. The Hillacre Bookhouse unknown books
1955réf. 011122NY: Kurt Volk 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New. Book conceived by typographer and publisher Kurt Vol designed by Meyer Wegman edited by Charles Brodie. Printed on Okawara handmade paper. Bound in moire silk stamped in gold. As new in black glossy-paper backed box which is slightly rubbed. THE collectible copy. Kurt Volk hardcover books
1930réf. 219075US: The Literary Guild of America 1930. Hardcover. Good. Good hardcover. Name on front endpaper. Pages brown. Corners bent. Spine and edges of cover faded. Spine lean. The Literary Guild of America hardcover books
1894réf. 13013A SIGNED COPY !!! THE GREEN CARNATION Appleton 1894 first American edition second issue with tipped in 1895 title page pencil notations on the end-papers spine just a bit soiled else a very good to very good plus copy of the authors anonymously published first book. Signed by the author on the title page. Rare thus. This book was based on the life of Oscar Wilde and at the time did the author some considerable harm. Appleton unknown books
1894réf. 12350THE GREEN CARNATION Heinemann 1894 first edition just about a fine copy of the authors anonymously published first book. This book was based on the life of Oscar Wilde and at the time did the author some considerable harm. Quite scarce in this condition. Heinemann unknown books
1952réf. 156679Amsterdam: Institut voor Filmdocumentatie 1952. Vintage reference photograph from the 1952 film showing director Cecil B. DeMille on a camera crane. Mimeo snipe and the stamps of a Dutch film institute on the verso. The manager of a traveling circus hires a flashy new trapeze performer but the new hire soon begins to butt heads with the manager's girlfriend the former trapeze star. Nominated for five Academy Awards winning two for Best Picture and Best Screenplay. Shot on location in Utah Pennsylvania Florida and Washington DC. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing on the edges. Institut voor Filmdocumentatie unknown books
1968réf. 2212004The Citadel Press 1968. first. hardcover. fine/very good. INSCRIBED first edition as stated on copyright page. Book fine. Dust jacket very good some wear and tear. The Citadel Press unknown books
1932réf. 574421New York: The Review of Reviews 1932. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 97-192pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece and vignettes. Printed wrappers. Covers lightly soiled with modest general wear spine slightly sunned very good. Prints "The First and the Last" by John Galsworthy; additional contributions by Anton Chekhov A.A. Milne Oscar Wilde George Du Maurier George Eliot Emily Dickinson Lewis Carroll and more. The Review of Reviews unknown books
1932réf. 574422New York: The Review of Reviews 1932. Softcover. Good. First edition. 481-574pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece and vignettes. Printed wrappers. Wrappers detached but present separated at rear flap fold bottom ¼ of spine lacking still good or better. Prints "The Portrait of Mr. W.H." by Oscar Wilde; additional contributions by W. Somerset Maugham O. Henry Honoré de Balzac Katherine Mansfield William M. Thackeray "Saki" and more. The Review of Reviews unknown books
1931réf. 574426New York: The Review of Reviews 1931. Softcover. Good. First edition. 1-96pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece and vignettes. Printed wrappers. First few pages and front wrap creased at top corner with tears at edges wrappers with moderate general wear small chip on rear wrap spine ends with some loss good only. Prints "The Second Bet" by Anton Chekhov in English for the first time and "The Apple Tree" by John Galsworthy; additional contributions by O. Henry Christopher Morley Oscar Wilde John Donne Katherine Mansfield Mark Twain John Keats Alexandre Dumas and more. The Review of Reviews unknown books
1993réf. 105605NY:: Henry Holt and Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0805010092 . Book club edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Henry Holt and Company, hardcover books
2018réf. 21264San Francisco: The Arion Press 2018. Decorative Boards. Fine. Sandow Birk. An immaculate copy of this 2018 offering by the Arion Press of San Francisco. #90 OF 250 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST SANDOW BIRK at the colophon. Clean and Fine in its light-green cloth over beige boards. Tall quarto also includes an all-but-pristine example of the publisher's printed slipcase. The Arion Press unknown books
1925réf. 362687New York: D. Appleton and Company 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Red cloth boards decorated with holly leaves paper label on front board green cloth spine. Corners worn contemporary owner's gift inscription on the half-title page else very good. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1927réf. 219037New York: Wise 1927. Hardcover. Good. Later. Good hardcover. Vol. 7 only. Edges of pages light brown. Corners bent. Spine leather. Edges of spine chipped. Wise hardcover books
réf. 74855New York: Grosset & Dunlap No date. Softcover. Very Good. Trade paperback. Very good plus with light overall wear. Grosset & Dunlap unknown books
1929réf. 001190New York: The Macmillan Company 1929. Cloth is faded to tan on spine and corners. Erasure marks at top of front free endpaper. Illustrated by PAMELA BIANCO. Frontispiece and three double-page illustrations in color. Additional full-page black and white plates. 58pp. First Edition. Gray Cloth. Minor Edge Wear./Lightly Chipped Price-Clipped. Octavo. The Macmillan Company Hardcover books
1982réf. 621603New York: Atheneum 1982. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Illustrated by Beni Montresor. Quarto. Measuring 9" x 12½". Fine in lightly worn near fine dust jacket. Atheneum hardcover books
1979réf. 37989NY: Viking 1979. First Edition. Leonard Lubin. Horizontal 8vo pp. 55. Illustrated by Leonard Lubin. A nice copy in little scuffed and chipped dj. A children's book. Viking unknown books
1929réf. 214084New York: The Macmillan Company 1929. First trade edition. Hardcover. 57 pages. A short work from Wilde. Features four color plates and several other black and white illustrations by Pamela Bianco. A near fine copy with some very minor wear and in a very good price clipped dust jacket with a price rubberstamped to the front flap some edge tears and small chips and other light wear. The Macmillan Company unknown books
1955réf. 158962Glendale CA: Allied Artists Pictures 1955. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1955 film noir. A police lieutenant is ordered by his boss to stop trying to catch a sadistic gangster but finds himself increasingly obsessed with catching the man-and increasingly bewitched by the man's girlfriend. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pin holes at the corners and one small chip missing from the top left corner. Grant US. Olive Films. Selby US Canon. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Allied Artists Pictures unknown 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
1947réf. 1000009London: Castle Press 1947 First edition thus. Cloth. Octavo. Black and white illustratioins. Very good in dust jacket with several chips around the edges and a couple of short tears. The illustrations are grim and excellent. The illustrator contributes an introduction. Castle Press, hardcover books
1898réf. 259158London 1898. First edition ONE OF 30 COPIES on Japanese vellum. 1 vols. 8vo. Cinnamon-colored cloth vellum spine. Covers show slight insect damage and minor soiling spine a bit soiled otherwise a very good copy in a quarter blue morocco slipcase with chemise and with the bookplate and signature of actress LENA ASHWELL 1872-1957 on the front pastedown. First edition ONE OF 30 COPIES on Japanese vellum. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition of Wilde's legendary poem written while he was imprisoned in its rarest state - being one of only 30 copies printed on Japanese vellum. This copy comes from the distinguished library of the actress Lena Ashwell 1872-1957 who as a young actress toured in Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan in 1891 later becoming actor-manager of the Savoy Theatre. Ashwell was particularly troubled by the news of Wilde's arrest and wrote later: ". the atmosphere of London was horrible and cruel. His plays were so very brilliant and I had seen this when I was in Lady Windermere's so I felt that he was a friend and in desperate trouble." Later during WWI she is known to have pioneered the organization of entertainments on a large scale for the British troops in France Leask Margaret Lena Ashwell: Actress Patriot Pioneer 2012. An excellent association copy of an essential Wilde rarity. Mason 372 unknown books
réf. 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 books