WILDE, OscarABAA
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1891réf. 69675London: Ward Lock and Co 1891. Full Description: WILDE Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Ward Lock and Co. 1891. First edition in book form this being the Edition de Luxe limited to 250 copies numbered by hand and signed by Oscar Wilde this being number 52. Royal octavo 8 1/2 x 7 inches; 215 x 180 mm. vii 1 334 pp. Printed on Dutch hand-made paper watermarked Van Gelder. Publisher's quarter parchment over rough grey bevelled boards possibly rebacked retaining the original spine. Front cover with gilt lettering atop a pattern of fifty-five gilt butterflies designed by Charles Ricketts spine lettered in gilt at base top edge gilt rest uncut. Newer endpapers. Previous owner's penciled poem in German to half-title. Some dust-soiling to deckle edges. Some rubbing to bevelled edges. A small slit at the bottom of the front hinge. Overall a very good copy in the publisher's binding. The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde's first novel and was first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine July 1890. Six new chapters are added to this first appearance in book form with many other additions and variations. On its first appearance this book was violently attacked by the critics and its publication did Wilde a great deal of harm. Mason 329. HBS 69675. $55000. Ward Lock and Co unknown books
1968réf. 69253London: Petersburg Press 1968. DINE Jim. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Petersburg Press 1968. Full Description: WILDE Oscar. DINE Jim artist. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Petersburg Press 1968. Limited edition signed and numbered by the artist Jim Dine on the limitation page in green ink. This being number 11 of 200 in Edition B. Folio 17 3/8 x 12 1/4 inches; 440 x 310 mm. Complete with frontispiece and twelve lithographs in color with a set of an additional 4 loose lithographs issued in a portfolio each annotated "Edition B" on the reverse and numbered 11/200 and signed by the artist in pencil on the front lower margin. Original full green velvet boards. Front board lettered in silver. Pictorial patterned endpapers. Housed in a black cloth slipcase. With additional black cloth portfolio. Cloth portfolio with a small split at top of hinge. A fine copy. "A working script for the stage from the novel by Oscar Wilde with original images and notes on the text by Jim Dine" From the title page. "The original colour lithographs etchings and text pages comprising this book were prepared on zinc and aluminum plates by the artist at Bath Academy of Art Corsham ini February 1968; and subsequently printed on Velin Arches at the Atelier Desjobert and Atelier Leblanc in Paris." Colophon HBS 69253. $4500. Petersburg Press unknown books
1905réf. 40552London: Printed for private circulation 1905. First edition. Original wrappers. Good. 35/75. Octavo 19.3 by 12.9 cm. 11 pp. Original gray wrappers lettered and bordered in navy blue. Black and red lettered title page. Decorative head- and tailpiece with historiated initial letter. Mild touch of soiling at bottom margin title Faint fold 7 cm at bottom outer corner upper cover light creasing at fore-edge throughout 3 by 4 cm extending to rear cover. A good or slightly better copy. This collection of aphorisms was originally written for and published in the first and only issue of the Oxford University magazine The Chameleon Vol. 1 No. 1 December 1894 the successor to "The Spirit Lamp." One of Wilde's recent biographers Joseph Pearce notes that these aphorisms undoubtedly have "an air of subversive decadence that undermined conventional values." Mr. Wilde's opening observation is a good example: "The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered." The present work is in fact a pirated edition see Mason of which several variants are known. The limitation notes: "of this work seventy-five copies have been printed for private circulation" this being copy no. 35 noted in black ink. Mason Bibliography of Oscar Wilde no. 602; pp. 540-542; cf. no. 11 The Chameleon issue no. 1. Printed for private circulation unknown books
2003réf. 79849Lund: Bloms I Lund Tryckeri AB 2003. First edition. 12 pp w/bibliography. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. “Compliments of the author” label affixed to the first leaf. Lund: Bloms I Lund Tryckeri AB unknown books
1983réf. 17465Franklin Center Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1983. First Edition. Leather_bound. Very good. First Edition. Leather_bound. This limited edition of the great Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde's fairy tales and stories was exclusively printed for members of Franklin Library's The Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series and features a sumptuous genuine leather binding all gilt edges silver silk moire endpapers an atmospheric frontispiece and 6 illustrations by artist Zevi Blum title page calligraphy by Michael Starkman and a silk ribbon placemarker. In these pages you'll find a fisherman who falls in love with a mermaid with a magical voice and must strike a deal with a cave-dwelling witch to rid himself of his human soul to have her a beauty-loving king who would rather wear rags than raiment a falling star and a sinister babe abandoned in a wood a giant and his beautiful walled garden beset by children and so much more.This 1983 Franklin Library edition collects fairy tales and stories from the following collections: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories The Happy Prince and Other Tales and A House of Pomegranates. 9 1/8" X 5 1/8". 232pp. Bound in full slate blue genuine leather over boards with decorations stamped in gilt to boards and spine. Five raised bands to spine lettered in gilt. Very mild wear to binding with very gentle bumping to corners and to head and tail of spine. All edges gilt with rather prominent scuffing to edges. Silk moire endpapers. Gray silk ribbon placemarker. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. A very presentable leatherbound illustrated edition of these collected stories and fairy tales by Oscar Wilde. This limited edition of the great Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde's fairy tales and stories was exclusively printed for members of Franklin Library's The Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series and features a sumptuous genuine leather binding all gilt edges silver silk moire endpapers an atmospheric frontispiece and 6 illustrations by artist Zevi Blum title page calligraphy by Michael Starkman and a silk ribbon placemarker. In these pages you'll find a fisherman who falls in love with a mermaid with a magical voice and must strike a deal with a cave-dwelling witch to rid himself of his human soul to have her a beauty-loving king who would rather wear rags than raiment a falling star and a sinister babe abandoned in a wood a giant and his beautiful walled garden beset by children and so much more.This 1983 Franklin Library edition collects fairy tales and stories from the following collections: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories The Happy Prince and Other Tales and A House of Pomegranates. 9 1/8" X 5 1/8". 232pp. Bound in full slate blue genuine leather over boards with decorations stamped in gilt to boards and spine. Five raised bands to spine lettered in gilt. Very mild wear to binding with very gentle bumping to corners and to head and tail of spine. All edges gilt with rather prominent scuffing to edges. Silk moire endpapers. Gray silk ribbon placemarker. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. A very presentable leatherbound illustrated edition of these collected stories and fairy tales by Oscar Wilde. The Franklin Library unknown books
1932réf. 81512Bloomsbury: Nonsuch Press 1932. First edition. 59 pp. Light offsetting to endpapers else very near fine in near fine printed dust jacket with light chipping to crown. One of 800 numbered copies. An imaginary conversation about Oscar Wilde between Jean Paul Raymond a fictional character and Charles Ricketts written entirely by Ricketts. Inscription on the front paste-down from San Francisco collector Albert Sperisen to San Francisco printer Lawton Kennedy. Bloomsbury: Nonsuch Press, unknown books
réf. 2222373ca. 1930. Publisher's four page sales brochure with order form for the one volume edition of Frank Harris book. Very good. Includes "Critical Comment" by Bernard Shaw John Galsworthy Theodore Dreiser Upton Sinclair and The Chicago Tribune. Covici, Friede Inc. books
1918réf. 302950New York Brentano's Publishers ca. 1918. 1918. 8vo. Frontispiece. 3/4 blue morocco t.e.g. others uncut spines faded to brown; rubbing; nicks. Good. 2 volumes. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. New York, Brentano's Publishers [ca. 1918]. hardcover books
1917réf. 194590First edition. Octavo. Original gilt stamped 3/4 Japan Vellum over blue boards uncut. No dust jacket. Very good. 26 pages. No signatures or bookplates. #124/100 copies on Inomachi vellum in three-quarters binding. Numbered from 50 to 149 inclusive. Brothers of the Book hardcover books
réf. 160254NY RANDOM HOUSE. ORIGINAL BLUE CLOTH; NO DUST JACKET; FROM THE LIBRARY OF DIRECTOR GEORGE CUKOR WITH HIS PAUL LANDACRE BOOKPLATE INSIDE THE FRONT COVER FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. Hardcover. NY, RANDOM HOUSE hardcover books
1904réf. 55531Berlin: Karl Schnabel Axel Junckers Buchhandlung 1904. First German edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Octavo. 146 6pp. Bound in three-quarter leather over burgundy cloth with gilt ruling on covers gilt lettering ruling and tooling on spine with raised bands retaining original wraps. Marbled endpapers. In addition to the three essays named in the title the publication contains the "Sonnet to Liberty" at rear and three pages of publisher's advertisements. Text in German. Cover with very light wear along edges and some light water staining to bottom front cover. Karl Schnabel Axel Junckers Buchhandlung hardcover books
1984réf. 86113Vancouver: William Hoffer 1984. First Canadian edition. 58 pp. Fine in full Coromandel silk over boards with printed cover and spine labels. No dust jacket as issued. Designed by Robert Bringhurst. One of 90 of 110 numbered copies on Carlyle Japan paper. Translated from the original German by Greve with his Afterword. Originally published in Germany in 1903. Publications of the F.P. Greve Seminar Number One. Vancouver: William Hoffer hardcover books
1972réf. 7605LONDON DENT 1972 1972. DUST JACKET REPRINT VERY GOOD. Hardcover. LONDON, DENT, 1972 hardcover books
1916réf. 264948New York: Printed and Published by the Author 1916. First Edition. Frontis. 2 vols. 8vo. Qauarter publisher;'s green calf and boards. Fine in half faded green morocco and chemise. First Edition. Frontis. 2 vols. 8vo. Printed and Published by the Author unknown books
1882réf. List3658Boston Massachusetts: W. A. Evans & Bro 1882. Folio illustrated wraps. Pages detached from each other small chip to corner images and music fine remains good to very good and quite attractive. Good to very good. A visually striking example of Oscar Wilde-related ephemera issued during the height of the writer's American lecture tour of 1882. Though lacking a printed date the title strongly suggests publication in connection with Wilde's appearance at the Boston Music Hall on January 31 1882 where he delivered his lecture "The English Renaissance" as part of his widely publicized tour across the United States. Contemporary accounts describe the event as a notable cultural moment including the presence of Harvard students dressed in exaggerated aesthetic costume who occupied the front rows of the hall reflecting both the fascination with and satirical reception of Wilde's aesthetic persona.1 The lithographic cover prominently depicts a figure carrying an oversized sunflower an image closely associated with Wilde and the broader Aesthetic Movement. Such illustrated sheet music functioned not only as musical publications but also as collectible artifacts capitalizing on the figure of Wilde. Over the course of several months he traveled widely across the United States and Canada delivering lectures on art decoration and cultural taste and quickly became a subject of both admiration and parody in the American press. Although he never returned for a comparable national tour Wilde maintained a lasting connection to American audiences. We know of a variant edition of the Evans imprint with a different illustration as well as a different version published in Boston by Ditson the same year. OCLC 500491189 specifying this edition with the large sunflower illustration locating five copies. 1 "Freshmen at Oscar Wilde's Lecture" The Harvard Crimson February 1 1882. W. A. Evans & Bro unknown books
1984réf. 39730Washington DC: Library of Congress 1984. First edition. 30 pp. Fade along spine else near fine in stapled wrappers. A lecture delivered at the Library of Congress on March 1 1983. Washington DC: Library of Congress, unknown books
2002réf. 68567Fairfield: John H. Willis 2002. Second edition expanded numbered issue. 49 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Dated 26 /01/03 and INSCRIBED by Willis on the front free endpaper. While Wilde never made the long journey Willis here does a thorough job making connections between Wilde his circle and Australia. Fairfield: John H. Willis unknown books
1914réf. 13342OSCAR WILDE AND MYSELF Duffield & Company 1914 first American edition some age toning to the page edges else a fine bright copy. Illustrated. Duffield & Company unknown books
1987réf. 104598London: Hamish Hamilton 1987. xiv 632p. 32p. illus. later printing of the UK edition dj. Hamish Hamilton unknown books
1988réf. 25521New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1988. Hardcover. xvii 680p. introduction index illustrations very good first US edition stated gray cloth boards and dust jacket. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1969réf. 50211Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum 1969. First edition. Near fine. Scarce catalogue of the 1969 exhibition of Arte Povera and Conceptual Art less known but as innovative and groundbreaking as the same year's more-mythologized "When Attitudes Become Form" and similarly an expression of its own curator's personality and vision. "Op Losse Schroeven" and "When Attitudes Become Form" were conceived planned and exhibited more or less concurrently but independently: Stedelijk Museum director de Wilde though supervising one curator and friendly with the other apparently shared no information in either direction despite considerable overlap in vision. If the curators were not well informed on their peer's progress those artists invited to participate in both exhibitions were: one of those artists Ger van Elk "made the curious suggestion that the physical similarity of the two men - each was solidly built bearded and bohemian in style - made it interesting for an artist to work with them both as their quickly staggered studio visits turned into a kind of performance; that of a curator chased by his doppelgänger" Rattemeyer. With work by Carl Andre Giovanni Anselmo Joseph Beuys Bill Bollinger Gerrit Dekker Barry Flanagan Bruce Nauman Richard Serra Robert Smithson Lawrence Weiner and others. 10.75'' x 8''. Original wrappers housing two bound portfolios designed by Wim Crouwel and Jolijn van de Wouw of Total Design Amsterdam. Text in Dutch and English. Illustrated in black and white. Printed on multi-colored paper. Light edgewear and soil to wrappers minor creasing to page edges. Stedelijk Museum unknown books
2004réf. 167345New York and Manchester: Hudson Hills Press / Nahan Editions 2004. Deluxe Edition. Hardcover. VG/VG. A few fingerprints visible on a couple pages against a black background otherwise this is a great clean and tight copy. SIGNED by artist. Tall; red cloth over boards with black lettering on spine. Glossy color-illustrated dust jacket. 143 pp. Approx 83 color images of posters one signed with supplemental illustrations. This is one of 250 deluxe editions printed of which this is number 228 which includes a signed print. "Rafal Olbinski has expanded the definition and laid the groundwork of what an artist can be in the 21st century. Born and educated in Poland Olbinski's ties to European and American culture as well as being an exponent of classical art blurs the lines between the various disciplines of the arts by combining: painting illustration graphic design typography and stage design into poignant and memorable images that help define our culture and raise the level of aesthetics for today's and future generations." -- dj flap. Hudson Hills Press / Nahan Editions hardcover books
2004réf. 81469bdFt. Pierce FL: Long Wind Publishing LLC. 2004. First Edition stated. Signed and inscribed by the illustrator Philip S. Steel. Square quarto white cloth hardcover 32 pp. Fine As New in a Fine As New dust jacket. From dust jacket: Performed across the entire State of Florida s a unique combination of a one-man monodrama and a traveling art exhibit Net Loss set tongues wagging about its controversial theme: the banning of certain types of net fishing in Florida and the staggering effect the ban had on generations of fishing families. It also broke ground as an innovative partnership between a dramatist and a painter with both disciplines sharing equal billing in the production. Net Loss also focuses on a larger issue the issue of art as social commentator. Although the net ban had taken effect several years prior to writer Evelyn Wilde Mayerson and artist Philip S Steel’s groundbreaking partnership the frustration felt by fishermen fairly roiled just below the surface of their feelings. Net Loss gave a voice to those who had virtually given up on ever having a public forum to express their disjoining sense of loss and helplessness. Although the production did not take an advocate’s position on either side of the question the audience was treated to a sympathetic examination of one fisherman’s take on what had happened to him and many of his friends. Here then is Net Loss reduced to its true essence. Evocative words and interpretive paintings that draw the reader down to the docks the fish houses and boats of a changing breed of people whose lives depend on a natural resource in a world not controlled by nature. Long Wind Publishing, LLC., (2004). First Edition, stated. hardcover books
1932réf. 13343MY FRIENDSHIP WITH OSCAR WILDE BEING THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS Coventry House 1932 first American edition fine in vg/near fine pictorial dust-wrapper save for some dustiness to the spine and rear dust-wrapper panel. Illustrated. 1/1000 copies. Coventry House unknown books
2001réf. 174652Brussels: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium 2001. Paperback. VG. Color-illustrated and blue wraps with white lettering. 238 pp. Mainly color illustrations. Selections of Flemish paintings drawings sculptures tapestries and objets d'art from the 14th to 18th centuries and also of 19th century paintings from the Dutch Golden Age. Each is accompanied by commentary principally from curators of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium paperback books
