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1948rif. 38183Buenos Aires: Sociedad de Bibliofilos Argentinos 1948. First edition. Loose in stiff paper portfolio and cardboard slip case. A near fine copy small tears to fore edge of original glassine wrapper. Unpaged 25 pp. plates. Illus. with 5 b/w plates and 2 etchings. 4to. No. 6 of 91 numbered copies of a total run of 100 on Charter Eggshell paper. Original etchings and plates signed by the illustrator. Designed by the eminent South American typographer Ghino Fogli. "Tini" is the most famous and popular of the stories of Eduardo Wilde 1844-1913 Argentine Doctor and writer. Catalina Mórtola 1889-1966 was an Argentine painter and engraver. Sociedad de Bibliofilos Argentinos unknown books
2023rif. 2339850New York: Wednesday Books 2023. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 5x0x8. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author on publisher bookplate adhered to additional titles page. Top edge of jacket lightly bumped. 2023 Hard Cover. 266 pp. Author's first novel. As an autistic scholarship student at the prestigious Webber Academy in New York City Waverly is used to masking to fit in—in more ways than one. While her classmates are the children of the one percent Waverly is getting by on tutoring gigs and the generosity of the school’s charming and enigmatic dean. So when her tutoring student and resident “it girl” asks Waverly to attend the school’s annual fundraising Masquerade disguised as her Waverly jumps at the chance—especially once she finds out that Ash the dean’s daughter and her secret ex-girlfriend will be there. The Masquerade is everything Waverly dreamed of complete with extravagant gowns wealthy parents writing checks and flowing champagne. Most importantly there’s Ash. All Waverly wants to do is shed her mask and be with her but the evening takes a sinister turn when Waverly stumbles into a secret meeting between the dean and the school’s top donors—and witnesses a brutal murder. This gala is harboring far more malevolent plots than just opening parents’ pocketbooks. Before she can escape or contact the authorities a mysterious global blackout puts the entire party on lockdown. Waverly’s fairy tale has turned into a nightmare and she Ash and her friends must navigate through a dizzying maze of freight elevators secret passageways and back rooms if they’re going to survive the night. Wednesday Books hardcover books
1955rif. 132424Culver City CA: Waterlow and Sons / RKO Radio Pictures 1955. Collection of 4 vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the UK release circa 1955 of the 1954 US film. A potboiler of sexual repression based on screenwriter Hugh Brooke's story "Fear Has Black Wings" about a young woman in a loveless marriage without hope until her sister brings her handsome new boyfriend to town. Produced at the tail end of the film noir era. 8 x 10 inches. Light soil on the verso of one still else Near Fine. Waterlow and Sons / RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
rif. 7232Boston: L.C. Page & Company n.d. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated. Very Good no jacket. Light green buckram rubbed and faded at the edges. Bound with some reading wear and a slight forward lean bookplate inside the front board clean otherwise. Published as part of Page's Cosy Corner Series of young adult books. L.C. Page & Company hardcover books
1904rif. 429030Portland Maine: Thomas B. Mosher 1904. Softcover. Fine/Near Fine. Reprint. 79 2pp. Measuring 3.75" x 5.5". Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with age-toning and creases on the spine in a very good slipcase lacing the top edge with tears. One of 425 copies on Japan Vellum some pages uncut. Thomas B. Mosher unknown books
1913rif. 134877Portland Maine: Thomas B Mosher 1913. Softcover. Very Good. Fourth edition. About very good in wrappers. Spine Cracking. Slight browning on cover snd spine. On Japaneese Vellum. 1 of 425. Thomas B Mosher unknown books
1922rif. 499856Portland Main: The Mosher Press 1922. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition thus. 12mo. 117pp. Fine in Japanese vellum boards with very good or better dust jacket toned along the spine with small chip and some light foxing housed in good only publisher's original slipcase lacking the entire back edge and separated along one edge at the top. Printed by The Mosher Press for Edward A. Woods and limited to 50 numbered copies. This is number 48. Laid into the book is the original publisher's printed complimentary slip stating: "Mr. Woods takes pleasure in presenting with recipient's name in ink holograph a copy of his privately printed edition of Wilde's The Young King and Other Tales. The Mosher Press hardcover books
1946rif. 1000755London: Allan Wingate 1946 First edition thus. Cloth. Quarto. Brown-toned reproductions of drawings of various sizes. Some browning to endpapers old bookseller's label on front pastedown. Very good in very good dust jacket. Jacket lightly soiled. Allan Wingate, hardcover books
1953rif. 2347100New York: The Folio Society 1953. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. Gaastra John. First thus Nash Folio 50 #63. Jacket spine toned 2 inch closed tear on rear jacket edge 1 inch closed tear and tiny chip on front jacket edges endpapers foxed fore edge lightly foxed. 1953 Hard Cover. 156 pp. Wood engravings in color by John Gaastra. A complete collection of Oscar Wilde's fairy tales which as Oscar Wilde himself explained were written 'partly for children and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy.' Includes: The Young King; The Birthday of the Infanta; The Fisherman and His Soul; The Star-Child; The Happy Prince; The Nightingale and the Rose; The Selfish Giant; The Devoted Friend; The Remarkable Rocket. The Folio Society hardcover books
1962rif. 106704NY:: Macmillan. Very Good. 1962. Hardcover. Introduction by John Updike. Illustrated by Sandro Nardini and Enrico Bagnoli. First edition thus. Minor shelf wear brief gift inscription dated 1965 on front free endpaper else very good in illustrated boards. No dust jacket. . Macmillan, hardcover books
1962rif. 25099NY:: Macmillan. Very Good. 1962. Hardcover. Introduction by John Updike. Illustrated by Sandro Nardini and Enrico Bagnoli. First edition thus. Minor shelf wear small price sticker remnant on front paste-down else very good in illustrated boards. No dust jacket. . Macmillan, hardcover books
1962rif. 593150New York: The Macmillan Company 1962. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Introduction by John Updike. Illustrated by Sandro Nardini and Enrico Bagnoli. Folio. Glossy boards. Lightly bumped on edges else near fine. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1962rif. 398410New York: Macmillan 1962. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition thus with Introduction by John Updike. Illustrated by Sandro Nardini and Enrico Bagnoli. Folio. Cloth. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing along the top extremities. A nice copy of this volume of Wilde's fairy tales prepared for children. Also issued in glossy boards without jacket this issue is much less common. Macmillan hardcover books
1907rif. 14010001A.R. Keller & Co 1907. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. The Writings of Oscar Wilde: Essays and Stories Uniform Edition A.R. Keller & Co. 1907. A very good 14 volume set quarter leather bound with marbled paper covered boards leather corners and gilt pinstripe detailing. Gilt ruled and ribbed spine. Limited to 800 numbered sets this being number 420. Moderate edgewear. A handsome set. A.R. Keller & Co hardcover books
1909rif. 1507209Lamb 1909. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 20.2cm a handsome quarter-leather set of 14 books number 338 of 1000 numbered sets with the sunflower motif in gilt on the spine of each volume. various paginations c.4800pp. with 62 plates including 14 photogravure frontis plates with captioned tissue guards. A brilliant set of Oscar Wilde's Collected Works. It including: Salome; The Duchess of Padua; VeraLady Windermere's Fan; The Importance of Being Earnest; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H. Intentions;A House of Pomegranates; The Happy Prince; De Profundus; Dorian Gray; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; Poems in Prose; Poems; Epigrams; Essays & Stories by Lady Wilde Speranza; Essays Criticisms and Reviews. Also included is "His Life with a Critical Estimate of HisWriting". Not included is What Never Dies. The illustrations in "Salome" are by Aubrey Beardsley. Lamb hardcover books
rif. TB34134London: Collins no date stated. No edition stated. No printing stated Fine in full light brown leather covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text on one compartment with blind embossed lines suggesting spine bands wrapped around the spine and extending to the boards. A 16mo of 7 by 4 5/8 inches with gilt on all edges of the text block. Without a dust jacket as issued. An extremely elaborate binding with gilt decorations on the turn-ins with marbled end sheets bound by Hatchards of London. 1381 pages containing a collection of works by Wilde including Stories with The Picture of Dorian Gray; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories; A House of Pomegranates 510 pages. Plays including: Lady Windermere's Fan; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; and Salome 391 pages Poems & Essays of 480 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eight plates from drawings by Donia Nachshen. Collins hardcover books
1910rif. 320658New York: Nottingham 1910. Limited. hardcover. fine. 10 volumes. Thick 8vo finely bound in recent 3/4 dark green morocco with twin burgundy spine labels decoratively gilt spines raised bands and marbled boards top edges gilt deckled edges. New York: Nottingham Society circa 1910. Fine. Deluxe Edition Number 832 of of 1000 sets. Nottingham unknown books
1910rif. 217141New York: Black 1910. Very Good. Very good minus Fine edges foxing end papers browned. Cover rubbed with wear. Elaborate embossing on cover. Black unknown books
2003rif. 93204London:: Folio Society. Near Fine. 2003. Hardcover. Selected and introduced by Merlin Holland. Sixth printing. Fine in a near fine some light soiling slipcase. . Folio Society, hardcover books
2000rif. 10015THE WILDE YEARS OSCAR WILDE & THE ART OF HIS TIME Barbican Centre 2000 first edition fine in like color pictorial dust-wrapper. Replete with both full color and black & white illustrations on virtually every page. Edited by Tomoko Sato & Lionel Lambourne. Barbican Centre unknown books
1982rif. 301371San Francisco: California Voice 1982. Newspaper. 40p. includes covers 10.75x14.5 inches photos art ads articles news reviews services and resources events and opinion very good tabloid magazine on newsprint in stapled color pictorial wraps. Review of "Calamus". On Target: Perry A. George. Gay Wellness. Hardman on Oscar Wilde. Leather Chronicles. Founded as The Voice in 1979 and merged in 1983 with the San Francisco Vector becoming The California Voice. California Voice unknown books
1918rif. 188003Boston: Little Brown 1918. Hardcover. Good. Good hardcover. Front hinge cracked. Writing in ink on front endpaper and second endpaper. Pages light brown from age. Clean text. Corners rubbed and bent on cover. Spine ends bumped. Little Brown hardcover books
1989rif. UWILTRU02CZC1989. Very Good. Wilde Anne. The True Origin Behind Easter: A Series of Questions and Answers. Salt Lake City: NP 1989. 54pp. Bibliography. 8vo. Stapled wraps. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed edges. paperback books
1989rif. UWILTRU00CZC1989. Very Good. Wilde Anne. The True Origin Behind Easter: A Series of Questions and Answers. Salt Lake City: NP 1989. 54pp. Bibliography. 8vo. Stapled wraps. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed corners. paperback books
1989rif. UWILTRU01CZC1989. Very Good. Wilde Anne. The True Origin Behind Easter: A Series of Questions and Answers. Salt Lake City: NP 1989. 54pp. Bibliography. 8vo. Stapled wraps. Book condition: Very good with previous owner's name inside front cover. paperback books
