465 résultats
1997réf. 147910New York: Farrar Straus And Giroux 1997. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Farrar, Straus And Giroux hardcover books
1985réf. 7604SIGNED BY RUPERT HART-DAVIS EDITOR FIRST EDITION FINE. MURRAY hardcover books
1997réf. 320072New York: Marlowe & Company 1997. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Blue printed wrappers. Light sticker offsetting on front wrapper else fine. Marlowe & Company unknown books
1906réf. 515288New York: Mitchell Kennerley 1906. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 16mo. 75pp. Quarter cloth with papercovered boards paper spine label and gilt edges. About very good with ink owner name "Catherine Ten Eyck Ledyard" toned spine and some edgewear. Limited to 1000 copies. Contributors includes W.B. Yeats "Down by the Salley Gardens" and "Ephemera" Oscar Wilde "Requiescat" George Russell Fiona Macleod A. E. Housman Andrew Lang Moira O'Neill Ernest Dowson Robert Bridges et al. Mitchell Kennerley hardcover books
2012réf. 212456Wakefield West Yorkshire: Yorkshire Sculpture Park 2012. First edition. Softcover. 160 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 17 through January 6 2013. Features texts by Peter Murray Jonty Wilde Emilio Fernandez Miro Jacques Dupin and Pilar Ortega Chapel. Includes numerous color and some black and white illustrations a chronology selected bibliography and a checklist. A near fine copy in French style wrappers with a small tear to the top of the front panel near the spine. Yorkshire Sculpture Park unknown books
1994réf. 370845Thorndike Maine: Thorndike Press 1994. Hardcover. Near Fine. Large print edition. Slightly cocked else near fine. Thorndike Press hardcover books
1980réf. D19244London: Gordon Spilstead 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. #52 of 200 copies printed of this "Special Limited Edition". Original pink cloth; housed in publisher's slipcase lightly rubbed designed by Maeve Gilmore. Signed by Gilmore on the limitation page. Excellent copy. Gordon Spilstead hardcover books
1991réf. 60236New York: Dell Books 1991. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Uncorrected proof. Light circular market on front wrap else fine in wrappers. Dell Books unknown books
1991réf. 163221New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux FSG 1991. First Edition. First Edition. Association Copy INSCRIBED on the title page to author Chris Offutt: "July 97 / To Chris / with admiration and in hopes of having a real conversation one of these days / Luc." About Fine in a price-clipped Near Fine dust jacket. Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG] unknown books
réf. 2222765ca. 1904. Pirated edition probably by Smithers. 8 ¾" x 6 ¾". Original gray/blue printed wrappers. No dust jacket. Very good no foxing. 49 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Enclosed in a ½ blue morocco slipcase with folding chemise. Number 152 of 300 copies. Mason 598. Privately Printed books
1954réf. 2347030Emmaus Pennsylvania: Story Classics 1954. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 0x0x0. Braby Dorothea. Limited edition #1558 of 3000 copies. Includes publisher's slipcase and original clear acetate jacket. Jacket fair slipcase good: Large chip from rear jacket panel jacket slipcase and endpapers foxed. 1954 Hard Cover. 99 pp. Includes afterword by Edward J. Fluck woodcut illustrations by Dorothea Braby frontispiece and four plates in text. A novella by the author of The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray also notorious as the focus of one of the first celebrity trials in which he was convicted of gross indecency for homosexual acts. Originally published as part of a collection of four short works. Story Classics hardcover books
1904réf. 12839London: Privately printed 1904. First separate edition a pirated edition produced by Leonard Smithers one of 300 copies. Original blue-gray printed wrappers uncut. . Quarto. One inch tear along back joint Top corner of front cover and bottom corner of back cover torn a few other small chips. Bookplate of the American collector Henry W. Poor. A very good copy of a fragile book. The first story written after Wilde's embrace of homosexuality. Privately printed, unknown books
1891réf. 158131891. Ricketts Charles. London: James R. Osgood McIlvaine and Co. 1891. Original salmon paper-covered flexible boards decorated in dark red. First Edition of this collection of four dark semi-comic mystery tales. "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" is an amusing but macabre tale if there can be such a thing about a young man who convinced by Lady Windermere's cheiromantist that he is doomed to commit murder does his best to do so prior to getting married -- out of a sense of duty to his fiancée. As one would expect Lord Arthur bungles his mission. In addition to the title story this book includes "The Sphinx Without a Secret" "The Canterville Ghost" and "The Model Millionaire." The binding of this title with decorations by Charles Ricketts is extremely delicate -- paper-covered flexible boards; although 1500 copies were issued we find this book to be quite uncommon and we have never seen a truly fine copy. In our experience THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY THE HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES and this title are the three Wilde first editions most difficuilt to find in collectible condition. This copy is close to near-fine with a bit of the darkening and mottling of the spine that is typical for this fragile book but with scarcely any actual wear. Mason 345. Housed in a handsome gilt-paneled morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise. unknown books
réf. 2222744Depicting Adelaide Neilson 1848-1880 promoting Mme. Marie Fontaine's complexion skin cream. Buffalo New York circa 1882. Circular portrait of Oscar Wilde with group of sun flowers and lily with larger image of actress Adelaide Neilson. Nice vintage condition short closed tear. 5 ½" x 3". Descriptive text on the verso. Wilde lectured in Buffalo New York on February 8 1882 at the Academy of Music. books
1925réf. 58286Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag 1925. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in an attractive very good dustwrapper with several internal repairs and some small chips. S. Fischer Verlag hardcover books
1938réf. 149627Buenos Aires: Leoplán 1938. Magazine. 162p. 8.5x11.25 inches text in Spanish illustrations photos ads 20p. Spanish translation of the Wilde play "Lady Windermer's Fan" noted on cover eight illustrations in the text in large spot-color vignettes by Raúl V. Martinez wraps edgeworn with a small chip of the upper front right corner. Argentine magazine from the 1930s with a special feature printing the complete Wilde play in Spanish as well as "La Vida Victoriosa" by Carlos Alberto Leumann. Leoplán unknown books
réf. 325594Leipzig: Insel. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. Insel hardcover books
1928réf. 483Paris. Société d'édition Le Livre Emile Chamontin 1928. Trans. into French by E. Jaloux and F. Frapereau. Large 4to 349 pp. 3/4 maroon moroccan gilt back t.e.g marbled boards and end papers with original wrappers bound in. Illus. With 23 steel engravings by Jean-Emil Laboureur. No. 61 of 230 numbered copies. Godefroy 369 Carteret IV p. 409. ORIGINAL WRAPS BOUND IN INCLUDING SPINE. Corners rubbed end paper slightly split interior fine. Fine example of Laboureur's work at the height of his stylized art deco period. Société d'édition Le Livre, hardcover books
1921réf. 18951Paris: Calmann-Levy Editeurs 1921. An elegant copy of the 1921 1st French edition complete unto itself. Professionally bound in a handsome 3/4 morocco over marbled boards with the binder's stamp at the first blank endpaper. Solid and VG with very light offsetting along the top-edges and just a touch of light wear at the spine crown. 5 raised bands fine gilt-tooling within the compartments offsetting dark-leather title label in gilt. 12mo top-edge gilt as well. Lovely matching marbled endpapers lacking the original wrappers. Calmann-Levy, Editeurs unknown books
1963réf. 132541London: Unviersal International Pictures 1963. Vintage full-color British front-of-house card from the 1963 UK film. Directed by and starring Cornel Wilde about King Arthur and his attempt to unify Britain. One of the last of the medieval period pieces during the 1950s and early 1960s with well-acted and convincing action sequences. 8 x 10 inches. Several light creases overall else Near Fine. Unviersal International Pictures unknown books
1903réf. 1430Paris: Leonard Smithers 1903. Hardcover. Very good. Limited to 250 copies of which this is number 115. About very good in the original plain brown cloth toned in spots rubbed at the edges and corners. Square bound with some reading wear on the binding a semi-circle in the lower quarter of the front endpaper has been removed for reasons unknown. Pirated edition published by Leonard Smithers. [Leonard Smithers] hardcover books
1893réf. 140949205London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane 1893. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. xiv 132 14 2 pp. with 14 advertising pages at rear. Bound in publisher's mauve cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with soiling and darkening to cloth and bumping to corners and spine ends. Contents lightly toned and thumbed with foxing to endpapers and first and last few pages. One of the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde's best-known plays a comedy in four acts. Elkin Mathews and John Lane unknown books
1893réf. 002401London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head. Printed by T. and A. Constable Edinburgh 1893. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Minus. 8vo. 21.5 by 16 cm. 8.5 by 6.25 inches. 18 132 14 2 pp. With publisher's list of books in the back. In this first edition apparently only 500 copies were printed! The pages are heavily toned per the norm for the paper stock but clean otherwise. The binding is tight. A few uncut leaves in the advertisement section. FEP with small ornamental bookplate pastedown of "Carroll Atwood Wilson" who was a well-known book collector of his day as well as a lawyer and chief legal counsel to the Guggenheims. The publisher's peach-colored cloth has some blistering on the boards. Along the edges there are long narrow spots in which the color is washed out. The spine has been rebacked with most of the original spine mounted thereon with a small loss of the gilt lettering transpiring. The resulting spine also has small dark spots and one is likely not to find it prepossessing. Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh unknown books
1903réf. 55532Paris: Publisher not identified 1903. Limited edition. Hardcover. Good to very good condition. 1/250 unnumbered out of series. Octavo. 14 132pp. Bound in pink cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Bound script for the performance at the St. James Theatre London starring George Alexander and Lily Hanbury as Lady and Lord Windermere. Pirated copy by the London bookseller and publisher Leonard Smithers. The original was published without subtitle Nelson 1903.2. Spine sunned covers lightly worn along edges and rubbed. Block lightly age-toned. Publisher not identified hardcover books
1893réf. 6451London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane 1893. First edition. One of 50 large-paper copies on hand-made paper. A Fine copy. Quarto 8 5/8 x 6 5/8 inches; 220 x 169 mm. i blank i limitation iii-xvi 132 pp. Handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf ca. 1897 stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in and with their exhibition stamp in black on rear paste-down. Full dark green crushed levant morocco covers bordered in gilt enclosing a six-line gilt border. Spine with five raised bands decoratively framed and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt-ruled board edges multi gilt-lined turn-ins top edge gilt others uncut. With the bookplates of the renowned collector C. S. Ascherson dated 1897 and Paul Louis Weiller also a famous book collector and a great friend of J. Paul Getty on front paste-down. Housed in a felt-lined dark green cloth clamshell case spine with leather label lettered in gilt. A couple of tiny and unobtrusive minor stains on blank borders otherwise a clean copy in a wonderful and early if somewhat austere binding by the great firm of Zaehnsdorf. Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan A Play About a Good Woman was his "first successful dramatic production" and one of his many masterpieces Mendelssohn. His talent for astute adaptations of traditional comedic tropes like the long-lost child or mistaken motivations are utilized to full effect in this narrative. The four-act comedy was infamously first performed on 20 February 1892. In addition to pulling on popular stars to perform Wilde had the young men of his entourage arrive at the premier wearing green carnations in their buttonholes-something that scandalized attendees when in a metatheatrical moment one of the characters onstage appeared with one as well referencing its cost and symbolism for decadent immorality. Prim attendees were in fact surrounded by a generation of young men devoted to such aesthetic ideals and wearing the same flower. Mason 358. Elkin Mathews and John Lane unknown books
