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193213343MY 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
191413342OSCAR 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
200010015THE 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
19291503New York: E.P. Dutton Inc 1929. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. 7 3/8 X 9 3/8 Inches. #96 of 200 signed copies. TEG. Original publisher marbled paper binding. Vassos helped define the modernist art movement via his work as designer for RCA in addition to his illustrated books. Via RCA John was instrumental in the original designs of the earliest televisions mid-century microphones radios consoles etc. His industrial art is among the widest spread and most important of the 20th century. Noted art deco artist.<br /> <br /> Lacks original DJ and/or slipcase. Original boards scuffed and worn at edges. Wear to head and foot of spine. PO bookplate on inside front pastedown. Title-page has a 3 3/4 inch closed tear to bottom edge. An acceptable copy of this art deco rarity. E.P. Dutton, Inc hardcover
1921ST12330bWestminster: Beaumont Press 1921-22. FIRST EDITIONS. EACH ONE OF 75 COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM OF THE EDITION DE LUXE SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER AND ARTIST of a total of 475 copies. 222 x 152 mm. 8 3/4 x 6". Two separately issued but companion volumes. <br/> Original vellum-backed decorative paper boards. Reading with vignette on title in orange and green two plates in the same colors one facsimile of writing in text device on final page stylized illustration of a tree on front and rear endpapers; "Berneval" with woodcuts of Naples and Paris printed in blue on the front and rear endpapers two-color title page woodcut one plate a facsimile of a Wilde letter and printer's woodcut device; our special deluxe version WITH THREE ADDITIONAL WOODCUTS at the back of each volume all the woodcuts as well as the cover design by Randolph Schwabe. Ransom p. 211; Tomkinson p. 17. ◆Berneval spine just a bit darkened otherwise FINE UNWORN COPIES that have obviously been little used as they open stiffly and are immaculate inside and out.<br/> <br/> Here "After Berneval" is offered with "After Reading" its earlier companion volume both of them in their deluxe form on Japanese vellum and including an extra suite of the illustrations. "Reading" comprises a set of letters also written to Ross by Wilde during the summer of 1897 after having just been released from two years' imprisonment in Reading Gaol. The preface to its sequel "After Berneval" says that the earlier collection "was unprocurable almost as soon as it was published." The letters in these volumes tell the story of a tragic literary figure who fell from a precipitous height. Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 was born and raised in Ireland studied classics at Trinity College Dublin and at Magdalen College Oxford before settling in London. There he became famous for his unmatched wit and infamous for his personal eccentricities--long hair décor at his lodgings that included peacock feathers and blue china and ultimately sexual behavior that was deemed both intolerable and criminal. During the first half of the 1890s he was enjoying remarkable social prominence and literary success with the staging of "Lady Windermere's Fan" 1892 "A Woman of No Importance" 1893 "An Ideal Husband" 1894 and the incomparable "The Importance of Being Earnest" 1895. But two months after the staging of this last play he brought a defamation suit against the Marquess of Queensbury the father of his intimate friend Lord Alfred Douglas. The suit backfired: in the course of the litigation Wilde was investigated by police and his homosexuality was exposed leaving his reputation destroyed. He was sentenced in May of 1895 to two years of hard labor spending part of his time behind bars at Reading Gaol where he produced his powerful poem "De Profundis." After release he moved to the Continent and died three years later in Paris of meningitis. As Day says "Among English men of letters only Byron and Shaw have surpassed Wilde in the craft of conscious posing and self-publicizing" a fact that has made succeeding generations suspicious of the reality behind the legend that the author helped to establish. But after a period when he was treated as a kind of martyr because of his suffering at the hands of squeamish Victorianism "it is at last possible to evaluate Wilde as the capable literary artist he actually was." In physical terms these are modest but nevertheless pleasing products of the Beaumont Press founded by Cyril W. Beaumont in 1917. A special feature of the Press is its patterned paper bindings each with a design created for one title only. Beaumont Press unknown
1881ST20886London: David Bogue 1881. FIRST EDITION First Issue. 192 x 126 mm. 7 1/2 x 5". ix 1 236 1 pp. <br/> EXTREMELY ATTRACTIVE CRIMSON MOROCCO INTRICATELY GILT BY ZAEHNSDORF stamp-signed and dated 1909 on front turn-in covers framed in gilt with delicate pointillé cornerpieces surrounding inlaid green morocco drawer handles and oblique floral tools raised bands spine panels densely gilt in the pointillé style of Bozerian with stems of flowers radiating from pairs of inlaid green drawer handles turn-ins gilt-ruled red silk endleaves top edge gilt other edges untrimmed. Original slightly soiled gilt limp vellum binding bound in at rear. Mason 304. A few trivial spots internally but A VERY FINE COPY--the leaves fresh clean and wide-margined and the binding lustrous and virtually unworn.<br/> <br/> This is a finely bound copy of the first edition of Wilde's first book of poetry and his first substantial work of any kind. The collection is made up of 61 poems 31 of which appear here for the first time. Many reflect Wilde's delight in his visit to the art towns of Italy; other poems such as the tender "Resquiescat" written in memory of Wilde's sister Isola who had died at the age of eight show a more personal emotional sentiment. According to Mason "the first printing June 1881 consisted of 750 copies of which only 250 copies were used for the first edition the remaining 500 being equally divided between the second and third editions." Wilde himself oversaw the layout and design of the book choosing the handmade Dutch paper on which it is printed and the design of prunus blossoms on the vellum binding here bound in at the rear. The only published books by Wilde to appear before the present work were his student poem "Ravenna" which was named the "Newdigate Prize Poem" at Oxford for 1878 issued in wrappers and his drama "Vera; or the Nihilists" printed in 1880 of which Mason had knowledge of only two copies. Our attractive binding is a fine example of the work of the Zaehnsdorf firm long a top-ranked English bindery. Born in Pest Hungary Joseph Zaehnsdorf 1816-86 served his apprenticeship in Stuttgart worked at a number of European locations as a journeyman and then settled in London where he was hired first by Westley and then by Mackenzie before opening his own workshop in 1842. His son and namesake took over the business at age 33 when the senior Joseph died and the firm flourished under the son's leadership becoming a leading West End bindery. Over the years Zaehnsdorf employed a considerable number of distinguished binders including the Frenchman Louis Genth who was chief finisher from 1859-84 and trained a number of others including Roger de Coverly and Sarah Prideaux. A family-run business until 1947 the Zaehnsdorf bindery continued to produce consistently attractive and innovative designs executed with unfailing skill. David Bogue unknown
1961537525New 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
1968305092London: Petersburg Press 1968. Edition C with six loose lithographs signed duplicates of those bound in the book and four signed etchings this copy 100 of 100 lacking two of the prints. Illustrated by Jim Dine. 2 vols. Folio 18.1 x 13 inches. Snakeskin print leather binding near fine on text volume and portfolio volume matching box and heart cover with some fading otherwise near fine. Dine Jim. Edition C with six loose lithographs signed duplicates of those bound in the book and four signed etchings this copy 100 of 100 lacking two of the prints. Illustrated by Jim Dine. 2 vols. Folio 18.1 x 13 inches. Three editions of this work were published with an extra suite of prints:<br /> A Edition of 200 plus 25 artists' proofs bound in red velvet with the title in silver with six signed lithographs duplicates of the plates in the text signed by Dine<br /> B Edition of 200 plus 25 artists' proofs bound in green velvet with the title in silver with four etchings signed by Dine<br /> C Edition of 100 plus 15 artists' proofs in a snakeskin-patterned leather binding stamped in black with a matching box with "heart built up on the cover" also signed by Dine containing all of the prints of the two other editions 10 total signed by Dine. THIS COPY LACKING TWO PRINTS: "Sybil in her Dressing Room" and "Basil in Black Leather Suit"<br /> <br /> Jim Dine worked on a stage version of Wilde's novel with English director Robert Kidd for the Bath Academie of Art at Corsham moving the setting to London during the 1967 Summer of Love. The play was never finished as the scheduled lead actor James Fox objected to Dine's "obscene" costumes derailing the whole production. Petersburg Press stepped in and offered to print Dine's drafts for the adapation. Mikro 47 Petersburg Press unknown
193721585New 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
193048130NY:: 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
199683184Paris: Gallimard Bibliothèque de La Pléiade 1996. Fine. Gallimard Bibliothèque de La Pléiade Paris 1996 10.50 x 17.50 cm reliure de l'éditeur Pléiade library edition printed on Bible paper. Publisher's full brown grained sheep binding smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets. Iconography. Handsome copy complete with its glassine wrapper and slipcase. Gallimard, Bibliothèque de La Pléiade unknown
1907629171907. Etching on paper; paper 11-3/4 x 9 inches plate 5-3/4 x 4 inches. 1 vols. Matted and Framed signed in pencil. Etching on paper; paper 11-3/4 x 9 inches plate 5-3/4 x 4 inches. 1 vols. Hermann Struck 1876-1944is recognized for his extensive landscapes and portraits of noted personalities in early 20th century Europe including Herzl Ibsen Nietzsche Freud Einstein Rutenberg et al. He was born into an Orthodox Berlin family and subsequently studied at the Berlin Academy under Max Koner and Hans Meyer. He joined the Zionist movement at an early age and in 1903 after several study trips throughout Europe he visited Palestine and on his way back to Germany stopped in Vienna where he was introduced to Herzl. It was this meeting that inspired the famous portrait etching of the Zionist leader. During World War I Struck served with the German Army in Lithuania where he came in contact with Eastern European Jews and embraced their way of life. In 1923 he returned to Palestine and settled in Haifa. By now a master of the craft of etching Struck taught graphic techniques to such fellow artists as Chagall Liebermann Israels Corinth Ury and Budko. His book Die Kunst des Radierens 1923 a popular guide book for artists and connoisseurs provides both technical explanations and practical instruction.<br /> Struck excelled as a portraitist. He also recorded landscapes Jewish and Arab types and scenes from the Jewish diaspora. He spent time in England and became a member of the London Society of Painters Etchers and Engravers. unknown
194671001Buenos Aires:: Privately Issued. Very Good. 1946. Paperback. Volume II only. Text is in Spanish. Limited edition: this copy is number 17 of 28 copies. SIGNED by Anibal Bargas Nigoul. Fine unbound folio sized sheets in near fine age toning illustrated wraps with glassine cover. Housed in a very good three inch tear at the top of the front joint moderate shelf wear blue cloth slipcase. ; 97 pages . Privately Issued, paperback
194697<p>Limited edition: this copy is number 19 of 28 copies. SIGNED by Anibal Bargas Nigoul. Fine unbound folio sized sheets in near fine age toning illustrated wraps with glassine cover. Housed in a very good three inch tear at the top of the front joint moderate shelf wear blue cloth slipcase. ; 97 pages.</p> Buenos Aires paperback
1935205563New York: The Foreign Policy Association/Headline Books 1935. First edition. Ink notation to front board; edges rubbed otherwise fine issued without dust jacket. 8vo 38pp; boards. When the graphic artist Georg Salter already a prolific designer of books in Germany was forced to emigrate under Nazi persecution among the earliest jobs he found in the U.S. was designing the series of "Headline Books" published by the Foreign Policy Association. This one was the second in the series an introduction to the issues of foreign trade illustrated throughout with marvelous graphics and isotype charts. The Foreign Policy Association/Headline Books unknown
21259Ipswich: W.S. Cowell 1951. Paper bound small oblong 8vo 53 plates. Minor bump to bottom edge of block else very good. 190 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. Ipswich: W.S. Cowell, 1951 unknown
1927495New York. E.P. Dutton and Co. 1927. 57 pp. of text and 12 Illus. by John Vassos. Quarto. First edition. Bound in boards. Embossed gilt lettering on spine and cover. Gold & black endpapers. . Good. E.P. Dutton and Co
1982ST16482Bayreuth: Printed by Chr. Scheufele Offizin Stuttgart for Bear Press 1982. No. 1 OF 10 COPIES ON VELLUM plus a "special" edition of 25 copies and 185 copies on Kochi Japanese paper. 223 x 148 mm. 8 7/8 x 5 3/4". 50 pp. 2 leaves.Translated and with an afterword by Wolfram Benda. <br/> Publisher's fine burgundy morocco by Erwin Lehr upper cover with gilt rose in recessed square flat spine with gilt titling turn-ins with gilt fillet frame pale yellow silk pastedowns. In the original burgundy suede slipcase. With three large initials in burnished gold and four signed and numbered original etchings by Peter Klitsch. Printed in red and black. Signed in the colophon by the artist the binder and the publisher/translator. In mint condition.<br/> <br/> This is the splendid deluxe version of a finely crafted private press edition of Wilde's fairy tales "The Nightingale and the Rose" "The Happy Prince" and "The Selfish Giant." It is the third work issued by the Bear Press founded in 1979 by literary scholar Wolfram Benda and still in operation. According to the firm's website "at a time when the craftsmanship and ethos of the artisan in bookmaking have been damaged by ever-increasing industrialization and neglect . . . The Bear Press . . . tries to achieve the highest possible degree of technical and artistic perfection in its printed works." The font used to print the text and the artist chosen to illustrate each work are carefully selected to express "the individual author's personality and intention." Even the discriminating aesthete Wilde 1854-1900 would be pleased with the choices here especially for the luxurious vellum printing: the type is set in refined Walbaum Antiqua and shown off with special effect by the creamy leaves; the etchings by Austrian artist Peter Klitsch b. 1934 are meticulous detailed and reminiscent of the work of Wilde's friend Aubrey Beardsley; and the binding is the epitome of tasteful restraint flawlessly executed with premium materials. <br /> <br /> The three tales here first appeared in 1888 and are bittersweet in their themes of love and self-sacrifice. His stories for children were one of Wilde's early successes and DNB notes "Their permanent place in child affections refutes the vulgarism that Wilde's literary reputation arose from his legal notoriety. In all cases the fairy tales are on the child's side celebrating the courage and generosity of the poor and vulnerable while their satire mocks the kind of pomposity and hypocrisy children can recognize." We have been able to trace just two other copies of the vellum printing at auction in ABPC and RBH. [Printed by Chr. Scheufele Offizin, Stuttgart, for] Bear Press unknown
B243967-1N.p. Privately Printed 1923. 16pp. Printed on rectos only. Two color illus. Sm. 4to. Boards 1/4 cloth. Spine label. Dec. paper label on front board. Slipcase back panel loose. A piracy of a manuscript parody of Oscar Wilde originally written for inclusion in The Yellow Book. The unsigned introduction is by Ernest Boyd. Edition limited to 300 copies. N.p. (Privately Printed), 1923. hardcover
2000Q-0340767707New York Hyperion 2000 2000-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! New York (Hyperion), 2000 hardcover
189811084London: Murdoch & Co 1898. First separate edition. String-bound. Near fine. 12mo 16pp. A clean sound copy in the publisher's printed wrappers near fine. This copy with the staple perished replaced by a professional conservator with archival string and a few very small paper repairs to spine. Tiny stain to the front wrap else a handsome copy indeed of this scarce and fragile Wilde volume a plea for mercy in the case of Warder Martin of Reading Gaol a particularly humane and empathetic prison guard who was dismissed Wilde asserts for his humanity towards prisoners. Wilde had grown to know Martin well during his imprisonment. The text was first published in the Daily Chronicle and this pamphlet represents the first separate edition. Mason 26. Murdoch & Co unknown
1920H4312Paris: Eugene Figuière 1920. Paperback. Very Good. Stated troisieme edition no date ca. 1920 large 8vo wraps with color illustration on cover by Kit inscribed to Eugene Silvain or Sylvain doyen of the Comedie-Francaise by Eugene Figuière the publisher who was also a poet and avant-garde collaborator. Light wear tanning to covers tanning to contents pages unopened. Eugene Figuière paperback
1895215072London: Elkin Mathews. Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co. Limited 1895. First edition. xiii 1 140 4 20 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth. Fine. First edition. xiii 1 140 4 20 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With 4 poems by Oscar Wilde and poems by Douglas Hyde Aubrey de Vere John Todhunter William Wilde. Elkin Mathews. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., Limited unknown
192227887Leipzig: Hesse & Becker 1922. First edition of this selection. Portrait frontispiece. 176 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Mustard cloth stamped in brown. Bookplate of Francis Kettaneh. Minor toning of textblock. Fine in glassine dust wrapper. First edition of this selection. Portrait frontispiece. 176 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Poems by the prolific German-born author George Sylvester Viereck 1884-1962 who first gained renown for The House of the Vampire and Nineveh and other Poems both 1907 which showed the strong influence of Oscar Wilde. Viereck became notorious for his pro-German propaganda during the first world war and later for his pro-Nazi propaganda before and during the second world war for which he was imprisoned. <br /> This is a German-language selection of his early verse including Nineveh 1907 with some pieces translated by other hands. Viereck's free German translation "frei verdeutscht" of The Ballad of Reading Gaol appears here at pages 151-175; his English translation of the Deutschlandslied "Deutschland Deutschland Land of All Lands" which appears here on p. 176 remained standard for many years.<br /> <br /> Signed by the author on the front flyleaf. Hesse & Becker unknown
1916264948New 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