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1937réf. 21585New York: The Crowell Publishing Company. Very Good. 1937. Vol. 99 No. 15. Magazine. nice clean copy light edgewear tiny nick in front cover at left end of bottom edge old subscription label at lower right corner of front cover. Undoubtedly one of the best or at least most fruitful single issues of an American popular magazine ever published by virtue of its inclusion of the first printings of two stories that became the basis for two acknowledged classics of Hollywood movie-making: "Bringing Up Baby" by Hagar Wilde filmed under that title by Howard Hawks a high-water mark of screwball comedy with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant and "Stage to Lordsburg" by Ernest Haycox adapted by screenwriter Dudley Nichols for John Ford's great Western STAGECOACH which made a star of John Wayne. Additional short stories in this issue are by Matt Taylor "Loser's End" Sidney Herschel Small "Mountain of Gold" Harold Lamb "The Devil's Song" and Frederick Hazlitt Brennan "A Matter of Sentiment" a short-short. There are also installments of serials by Max Brand "Six Golden Angels" Part I and Dwight Mitchell Wiley "Castle Key" Part VII. Feature articles include a profile of actor Burgess Meredith and an article about flooding in Cincinnati. . The Crowell Publishing Company unknown books
2007réf. UWILCOL01drpBarnes & Noble 2007. Very Good. Wilde Oscar. Collected Oscar Wilde. Fletcher Angus. NY: Barnes & Noble 2007. 628pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with rubbed edges. Barnes & Noble paperback books
1967réf. 211263Bruxelles: Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 1967. Softcover. VG-: Exlibrary book. Sticker on the front cover. Graphite on the front cover. Sticker on the inside front cover. Sticker and two stamps on the title page. Stamps in the margins of some pages; in one instance the bottom of a plate is affected. Cat. 23 'Berge de la large riviere' by Hoefnagel. Majority clean body pages and plates. Solid binding. A white book with black text on the front cover. 41 pages of text; 31 pages of black-and-white plates. Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique paperback books
1938réf. 148844Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1938. Vintage double weight photograph of Katharine Hepburn Howard Hawks and a resting Cary Grant on the set of the 1938 film. One of the foundational entries in the canon of American screwball comedies. Based on the short story by Hagar Wilde which originally appeared in Collier's Weekly magazine on April 10 1937. Zoologist David Huxley Grant develops a wary interest in the niece of dowager Mrs. Carelton Random Hepburn which as in all great screwball comedies is not finalized as a romance until about the last ten seconds of the film. But what makes this film singular is that the story is built around the maintenance aspects of raising a pet leopard creating a rapid-fire blur of events and dialogue that doesn't let up for the entire 102-minute running time. The film bombed upon release causing RKO to drop both of the stars but today ranks as one of the best films made by either. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Byrge & Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1931réf. 25817Boston: Little Brown and Company. Fair. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket FAIR condition only although solidly bound and internally clean except for the initials of I guess a one-time owner on the front pastedown; externally though it's kind of a mess with a number of small paper bits stuck to the front cover which is also quite soiled and a large ugly stain on the rear cover I suspect the paper bits are remnants of the no-longer-present dust jacket which was probably moisture-adhered to the book at some point. Novel about a sophisticated New York marriage that turns sour. The first of only two published novels by Ms. Wilde a prolific short story writer and sometime playwright who later became better known as a screenwriter notably of the classic screwball comedies BRINGING UP BABY she had also written the original magazine story and shared the screenplay credit with with Dudley Nichols and I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE both directed by Howard Hawks and for what it's worth both featuring Cary Grant in drag. For those who are interested in such minutae the dedicatee of this novel "E.V.H." was undoubtedly her second of four husbands Ernest Victor Heyn. This novel was her first entree to Hollywood as it was announced that Paramount had purchased the movie rights although no movie was ever made but it was RKO's later purchase of the Collier's story that became BRINGING UP BABY that firmly established her screenwriting career. . Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1962réf. 511128London: The Times Bookshop 1962. Softcover. Fine. Original bookseller's catalogue. 23pp. Illustrated. Stapled wrappers. A fine copy. Prints offerings of 100 rare books and manuscripts including a detailed description offering nine autograph letters from Oscar Wilde to Leonard Smithers reproducing in holograph facsimile two pages of one of the Oscar Wilde letters. Also offers a Lawrence Durrell manuscript of Cities Plains and People reproducing in holograph facsimile a page of the manuscript. The Times Bookshop unknown books
1979réf. 49933NY:: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0670169749 . First printing thus. Very good in a very good light foxing on verso price clipped dust jacket. . Viking, hardcover books
réf. 06456London: T. Werner Laurie 1916. The first and still foundational bibliography of Oscar Wilde MASON Stuart pseud. of Christopher Sclater Millard. WILDE Oscar. Bibliography of Oscar Wilde. With a note by Robert Ross. Illustrated. London: T. Werner Laurie n.d. ca. 1916. Octavo 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 210 x 133 mm. xxxii 605 3 pp. Numerous facsimiles throughout the text. Bound ca. 1960 in three quarter purple morocco over purple cloth boards ruled in gilt spine with five raised bands tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments marbled endpapers all edges gilt spine faded. Original pink cloth covers bound in at end. The first and still foundational bibliography of Oscar Wilde compiled by his friend and literary defender Christopher Sclater Millard writing under the pseudonym "Stuart Mason." Produced with the close cooperation of Robert Ross Wilde's literary executor this work remains indispensable for collectors scholars and the trade. Millard's bibliography is far more than a mere listing: it provides detailed descriptions of Wilde's books pamphlets periodical contributions and translations along with valuable notes on variants piracies and publication history. Issued at a time when Wilde's reputation was still in recovery following his death in 1900 the book represents an early and important effort to establish a serious scholarly framework for Wilde's oeuvre. Particularly useful are the numerous facsimiles - title-pages wrappers and documents - which give the work practical bibliographical authority and make it a key reference for identifying first editions and priority issues. A cornerstone Wilde reference here in an attractive mid-twentieth-century morocco binding well suited to the collector's shelf. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1916 unknown books
1956réf. 149312Culver City CA: Hemisphere Productions 1956. Vintage reference photograph taken on location during production of the 1956 film showing director George Marshall cinematographer Freddie Young and other crew members. With manuscript pencil annotations to the verso. Seeking an explanation for his brother's disappearance an American travels to Kenya where he learns his brother has been killed by members of the mysterious "Leopard Men" cult. Set and shot on location in Kenya. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased to the top right corner. Hemisphere Productions unknown books
2015réf. UWILBEA00lhNotting Hill 2015. Very Good. Wilde Oscar. Beautiful and Impossible Things: Selected Essays of Oscar Wilde. Brandreth Gyles. London: Notting Hill 2015. 202pp. Bibliography. 12mo. Purple cloth. Book condition: Very good. Notting Hill hardcover books
1961réf. 537525New York: Berkeley Publishing 1961. Softcover. Fine. First edition thus. Introduction by Granville Hicks. Discoloration at the corner of the top right edge not affecting the interior pages else fine in wrappers. A collection of excerpts from various notorious works such as Juliette by Marquis de Sade The Memoirs of Casanova "Salome by Oscar Wilde "The Taylor Shop" by Henry Miller The Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs among others. Issued as Berkeley Medallion S538. An uncommon book. Berkeley Publishing unknown books
1907réf. 46919NY:: Brentano's. Very Good. 1907. Hardcover. First edition thus. Sextodecimo bound in pale blue paper covered boards with small paper label on front board and along spine. Age toning along the spine and edges else very good. No dust jacket. A relatively early and scarce American edition. The pseudonym appears as C. 33 on the title page - Wilde's name does not appear anywhere in the book. ; 39 pages . Brentano's, hardcover books
1930réf. 48130NY:: Dutton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1930. Hardcover. First edition. Foxing on top edge else very good in a very good closed edge tear along the front spine edge minor edge wear with a few small chips dust jacket. . Dutton, hardcover books
réf. 06548Reading Berkshire: The Carpathian Press 1999. Wilde's Greatest Poem in a Modern Private Press Masterpiece One of Only 25 Copies on Velin Arches Blanc WILDE Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Engravings by Peter Forster. Introduction by Bryan Forbes. Reading Berkshire: The Carpathian Press 1999. One of 25 copies printed on Velin Arches Blanc from a total edition of 125 signed by Bryan Forbes. Large octavo 9 7/8 x 7 1/4 inches; 251 x 184 mm. 1-16 17-103 1 blank 1 limitation pp. Six engravings by Peter Forster. Elegantly bound by Anthony Wessely in full green morocco. Spine with five raised bands decoratively ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments olive-green endpapers. Housed in the original green cloth slipcase. A fine copy. A finely produced private press edition of Wilde's most powerful and enduring poem written in the aftermath of his imprisonment in Reading Gaol 1895-97. First published in 1898 under the pseudonym "C.3.3." Wilde's prison number the poem stands as a profound meditation on justice punishment and human suffering and remains one of the great poetic responses to incarceration in English literature. This Carpathian Press edition is among the most desirable modern fine press interpretations of the text distinguished by its restrained yet expressive engravings by Peter Forster which echo the stark emotional landscape of Wilde's poem. The use of Velin Arches Blanc paper - reserved here for just 25 copies - provides a luxurious surface that complements both the typography and the engraved plates. A beautifully conceived and executed modern private press book - uniting Wilde's most haunting work with accomplished illustration and binding of the highest order. Reading, Berkshire: The Carpathian Press, 1999 unknown books
1898réf. 1262071898. First Edition. WILDE Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3. London: Leonard Smithers 1898. Slim octavo original half cream cloth with cinnamon cloth boards uncut. $3600.First edition one of only 800 copies printed on handmade paper.Inspired by his prison experience and comprised in part by a plea for penal reform The Ballad of Reading Gaol was the last work Wilde completed before his death in 1900. ""In his comedies the miscreants were always pardoned but in the Ballad while ultimately forgiven they are treated vindictively by their fellows who are equally guiltyÉ There is no doubt that Wilde had once again touched a great subject and left his fingerprints on itÉ once read it is never forgotten"" Ellmann 532-34. Mason 371. A few pinholes to two preliminary leaves interior otherwise fine. One tiny inkspot to front cover spine slightly toned. A handsome extremely good copy of this scarce first edition. hardcover books
1930réf. 7583NY DUTTON 1930 1930. DUST JACKET VERY GOOD. Hardcover. NY, DUTTON, 1930 hardcover books
réf. 7584NY DUTTON 1930. NY, DUTTON, 1930 unknown books
1995réf. 325041Milano: Babilonia Edizioni 1995. Magazine. 96p. includes covers 8.25x11 inches texts in Italian articles reviews interviews photos and ads very good Italian gay & lesbian magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Much on gay and lesbian film and theatre including several pages on "Interview With the Vampire Babilonia Edizioni unknown books
1952réf. 150903Santa Monica CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1952. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1952 film showing actors Blanche Yurka Cornel Wilde Alan Hale Jr. and Dan O'Herlihy. Loosely based on Alexandre Dumas' 1844 novel following the adventures of the children of the original Three Musketeers. Set in France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1952réf. 172539Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1952. Eight vintage hand-tinted color British front-of-house cards from the 1952 film here under the alternate title "Sons of the Musketeers." in 1648 Queen Anne of France calls on the Four Musketeers for help but they send their children instead. Set in France. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1964réf. 152562New York: NY Univ 1964. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in an about Very good dust jacket. Solid hardcover. Dustwrapper is price cliped with shelf rubbing. Light wear on corners and spine ends. NY Univ hardcover books
1969réf. 255165New York: NY University 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good hardcover with similar dust jacket. Pages and cover are clean. Dustwrapper price clipped. Dustwrapper spine faded. NY University hardcover books
2022réf. 139828Tualatin OR: Clinker Press The 2022. quarter cloth over paper=covered boards. Clinker Press. 8vo. quarter cloth over paper=covered boards. 12 pages. Limited to 35 copies designed and printed by Andre Chaves. A fine copy. Printed in Intertype using Dwiggins designed Electra and bound by Mariana Blau. Features a illustrated portrait of Oscar Wilde on the title-page. Clinker Press, The unknown books
1969réf. 108102New York: Grosset and Dunlap 1969. First edition. The simultaneous softcover issue. Text by Wilde and photographs by Don Christie John R. Hamilton and Dennis Stock. A clean and tight very near fine copy in photo illustrated wrappers. Grosset and Dunlap unknown books
1998réf. 158286NY ST. MARTIN'S PRESS 1998 1998. DUST JACKET UNCLIPPED FIRST AMERICAN EDITION VERY GOOD. 1st Edition. Hardcover. NY, ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, 1998 hardcover books
