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1878182528Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son 1878. Wilde debuts First edition of Wilde's first independent publication a poetic evocation of the historic Italian city composed while a student at Oxford and awarded the university's prestigious Newdigate Prize; "its laments for the sufferings of Dante and Byron proclaimed admiration and anticipation" ODNB. The inspiration for the poem came on a "vacation ramble" to Italy in 1877. Wilde recited the poem at the Sheldonian Theatre on 26 June where according to the review published the next day in the Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduate's Journal he was "listened to with rapt attention and frequently applauded" Ellman p. 94. Octavo pp. 16. Original grey-green printed wrappers lettered in black. Housed in custom green cloth box. Wrappers partially detached but holding edges of wrappers lightly toned with small chips internally fresh. A very good copy of a fragile publication. Mason 301. Richard Ellmann Oscar Wilde 1987. hardcover
1878149908Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son 1878. Attractively bound copy of Wilde's first independent publication First edition of Wilde's first independent publication an attractively bound copy preserving the original wrappers and with the bookplate to the front pastedown of the eccentric sportsman and artist William Eden 1849-1915 father of future Prime Minister Anthony Eden and who like Wilde had a dispute with the artist James McNeill Whistler. The inspiration for Wilde's prize-winning poem came on a "vacation ramble" to Italy in 1877 with the precentor and junior dean of Trinity College Dublin William Mahaffy. According to the review published the next day in The Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduate's Journal Wilde's recitation of it at Oxford was "listened to with rapt attention and frequently applauded" Ellman p. 94. Eden excelled at a range of sports from boxing and horse riding to shooting "the epitome of the sporting squire" ODNB a member of several clubs and well known in London society. So too was he a keen amateur artist and aesthete building a fine collection of paintings and was a member of the aristocratic group The Souls. The contrast between the sportsman and the aesthete has been noted: "There was little that was harmonious in his nature and the aesthetic side warred with and exacerbated rather than complemented his athleticism making him a bored sportsman and a militant aesthete. As he grew older the world's failure to correspond to his ideals drove him to furious rages and the debased taste of humanity confirmed his atheism - for how could a God have made such a botch of things" ibid. His dispute with Whistler was occasioned when Eden commissioned a portrait of his wife which Whistler executed but then kept the cheque without handing over the painting leading to a legal case which resulted in Whistler's book The Baronet and the Butterfly 1899. Wilde too had a lengthy rivalry with Whistler out of the courts but with very public sparring. Octavo 16 pp. 176 x 119 mm. Early 20th-century pink straight-grain morocco for Hatchards of Piccadilly spine lettered in gilt pink cloth sides marbled endpapers top edge gilt pink silk page marker; bulked with 20 binder's blanks. With the original green printed wrappers bound in. Spine lightly sunned very light rubbing at extremities short split at foot of front wrapper; an excellent copy. Richard Ellmann Oscar Wilde 1987; Mason 301. hardcover
187811085Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son 1878. First Edition. Sewn binding. Very good . Octavo 16pp. First and only issue with the Oxford crest on the front wrapper and title page there were pirated editions that lacked these. A nice sound copy internally lovely with the original grey-green wrappers expertly backed onto sympathetic archival paper. Overall very good or better. A fragile publication and among the most elusive of Wilde volumes. The Newdigate Prize awarded since 1806 is given to the best composition in English verse by an undergraduate student at Oxford. A strong effort right out of the gate from the short-lived but highly influential Anglo-Irish writer. Mason 301. Thos. Shrimpton and Son unknown
1894304460London: Printed for Private Circulation. 11 pages. Number 69 of 75 copies. Some light foxing to the pages. A piracy actually printed circa 1905. In Stuart Mason's bibliography as item 600. . Near Fine. Soft cover. First Thus. 1894. Printed for Private Circulation paperback
1882001873Boston Massachusetts: Roberts Brothers 1882. 4th Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Covers in brown cloth with black decoration; spine gold stamped with wear at head and foot; top edge gilt; 16mo; with 230 pages. <br/> <br/> Roberts Brothers hardcover
188121118Roberts Brothers. Good with no dust jacket. 1881. Hardcover. Green boards gilt titling to spine gilt embossed globe with child atop on cover. Light scuffing to surface corners and head and tail of spine bumped. Floral endpapers front and back no tears or separations in gutters. Binding stitching has broken with pages 65-88 loose from binding and pages 89-112 hanging by the bottom threads. All other sections appear intact. Penciled name and date on blank fly. Text unmarked. Photos on request. ; 7.0 X 4.75 X 0.80 inches; 230 pages . Roberts Brothers hardcover
1881010736Boston: Roberts Brothers 1881. Mason 310 with all the first issue points: Yellow top-stain green floral endpapers and child-on-a-globe front board design in gilt. Green cloth. Light shelfwear with frayed spine ends. The cloth has a 2" tear along the rear joint. The front hinge is just starting to crack. In an otherwise tight binding. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Roberts Brothers Hardcover
1871190902Glasgow: Cameron & Ferguson 1871. Second edition of this collection of poetry by Jane Francesca Wilde 1821-1896 the mother of Oscar Wilde. Prior to the publication of the first edition in 1864 Lady Wilde contributed pro-Irish independence poetry to The Nation under the nom-de-plume "Speranza". Octavo. Engraved frontispiece of the poet after Bernard Mulrenin. With 10 pp. of publisher's ads at rear. Original green cloth spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt brown coated endpapers. Bookplate of Jeremy J. Mason. Extremities a little worn cockling to rear cover binding shaken foxing to outer leaves. A good copy. hardcover
1878236London: Thos. Shrimpton and Son 1878. Very good in original gray-green printed wrappers which are a bit browned at edges and with a few small chips. Now housed in a custom chemise and green morocco-backed slipcase. First Edition. With crest on wrapper title page and with woodcut on the last page. Wilde's first book.<br /> <br /> Wilde's poem was the Newdigate Prize winner for 1878 presented at Oxford University for best poetry. "During a vacation ramble in 1877 Wilde started from Greece and visiting Ravenna by chance on the way he obtained material for a poem on that ancient city and singularly enough Ravenna was afterwards given out as the topic for the Newdigate competition." Hamilton The Aesthetic Movement in England as quoted by Mason pg. 243.<br /> <br /> 8vo. 16pp. Mason pg. 241. Thos. Shrimpton and Son unknown
1878140943843Oxford: Thomas Shrimpton and Son 1878. First Edition. First edition. Oxford crest present on front wrap and title page; a later pirate edition lacked these. Mason 301. 16 pp. Bound in publisher's gray-green printed wrappers. An unsophisticated copy Very Good with toning and and few small edge chips to fragile wrappers. Contents bright and in great shape. <p>The author's first book. Thomas Shrimpton and Son unknown
1878151231878. the fine Bradley Martin copy Recited in The Theatre Oxford June 26 1878. Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son 1878. Original grey printed wrappers.<br/> <br/> First Edition of Oscar Wilde's first book the Newdigate Prize-winning poem that he wrote while a student at Magdalen College. To quote from Pearson: He Wilde left Oxford in a blaze of glory. The subject for the Newdigate Prize Poem that year was Ravenna and it so happened that he had visited the place on his way to Greece the year before noting it as a theme for poetic treatment. He could therefore put in bits of local colour which the other competitors had to glean from books. He won the prize as John Ruskin and Matthew Arnold had done before him and declaimed the poem in the Sheldonian Theatre on June 26 1878. When the Professor of Poetry J.C. Shairp whose duty it was to suggest textual improvements to the winner of the Newdigate advised certain alterations Wilde listened with due courtesy took careful notes of every suggestion but went away and printed the poem exactly as he had written it. In this copy the slip "PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN" is affixed to the title verso. This is a remarkably fine copy of this very delicate piece light browning as usual around the edges of the wrappers but no wear. Though not really as scarce an item as one might expect for a first effort this is THE copy for condition and for provenance -- see below. Mason pp 241-249. Housed in a morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise. Provenance: bookplate of H. Bradley Martin on the case's chemise. To this day the eight-part Bradley Martin sale of 1989-1990 remains the sale of a generation especially for the remarkable condition of his collection for this item see lot #3320. unknown
1878233047Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son 1878. First edition first printing. Early twentieth-century three-quarter crushed green morocco over green cloth with gilt rules spine titled ruled and decorated in gilt aeg marbled endpapers bulked with 51 binder's blanks. Bound with original pale blue printed wraps. A very fine copy. Octavo. 16pp. 7" x 5" "O lone Ravenna! many a tale is told / Of thy great glories in the days of old." So Wilde reflects upon the great Italian city. This lyrical exploration of Ravenna introduced the world to Wilde. This work won him the prestigious Oxford Newdigate Prize awarded annually to the best student poem. Wilde recited the poem in public on June 26th 1878 launching his notoriety beyond the walls of academia. <br /> <br /> Wilde was inspired by his travels through the faded glory of the streets of Ravenna the year before. According to Ellmann it is in these streets that "the young man.muses elegiacally upon its fallen greatness"––a musing that would be a continued theme throughout his literary career. <br /> <br /> Beautifully rebound in vibrant green morocco with the original wraps preserved and bound within. <br /> <br /> Mason 301; Ellmann 91. Thos. Shrimpton and Son unknown
1894102670New York: R.F. Fenno. c.1894. 1st ed. Original colour illustrated stiff wraps Japanese temple birds colour decorated endpapers pp 23. The yapp edges are bumped lightly at bottom corner with some light creasing two tiny holes backstrip and at rear cover not affecting rear endpaper. In the same format as Renno's printing of Wilde's "The Sphinx" 1894. The title page is "Rosa Mystica" but the poems included are: Requiescat Sonnet on Approaching Italy San Miniato Ava Maria Plena Gratia Italia Sonnet Written in Holy Week at Genoa Rme Unvisited Una Sacra Aeterna Sonnet on Hearing the Dies Irae Sung in the Sistine Chapel Easter Day E Tenebris Vita Nuova Madonna Mia The New Helen. Clean. Very good condition. N.d. c. 1894. Rare Scarce early printing of a collection of Wilde's poetry in Japanese-inspired binding by a small publishing firm. Pictorial Wraps. R.F. Fenno paperback
189421246961894. London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane. 1894. Small 4to. Original blue-green woven cloth gilt designs after Beardsley blocked to boards spine lettered in gilt fore- and tail-edges uncut; pp. x 67 1 14 advertisements 2 10 plates including frontispiece illustrated title-page contents page and tailpiece by Aubrey Beardsley printed on glazed paper from line blocks engraved by Carl Hentschel; a few chips to joints and corners small loss to head of spine affecting 2 letters of gilt text spine sunned; internally very clean; a very good copy; bookplate of William Forbes Morgan 1841-1916 to front pastedown.First English edition of Wilde's one-act tragedy the first with Beardsley's illustrations four of which contain caricatures of Oscar Wilde one of only 500 copies translated by and dedicated to Wilde's lover Lord Alfred Douglas.Salome was written in French in late 1891 while Wilde was staying in Paris and accepted for production by Sarah Bernhardt at the London Opera House in 1892. However the Lord Chamberlain prohibited performances because of a ban on Biblical figures being presented on stage an outcome that understandably incensed Wilde. It was finally published in French in 1893 and then in this translation in 1894. Translating the nuances of Wilde's original text written in an idiosyncratic French has been acknowledged as a Herculean task by all those who have attempted it including Beardsley. Even though Wilde himself assisted Douglas the author and the translator nearly came to blows: 'Wilde immediately complained of Douglas's sloppy schoolboy French and an infuriated Douglas blamed any faults upon the original. He and Wilde nearly split over the disagreements and Robbie Ross - doubtless to his later regret - made peace between them that Fall' Daniel. Though Wilde tried to fix some of the errors Douglas raged when he did and wrote to the publishers that September 'as I cannot consent to have my work altered and edited and thus to become a mere machine for doing the rough work of translation I have decided to relinquish the affair altogether.' Daniel. Nevertheless their relationship recovered and the translation has since become the text most familiar to Anglophone audiences. Steven Berkoff used the Douglas translation for his critically acclaimed Salome at the National Theatre in 1988 with all its archaisms and errors unabridged.Sadly Wilde never saw the play produced. Its only performance during his lifetime was a one-off presentation at the Theatre de la Comedie-Parisienne on 11 February 1896 by which time he was already in prison. It was not performed publicly in Britain until 1931.Mason 350; Ross 'Later Work' 86; Samuels Lasner 59. See Daniel 'Lost In Translation: Oscar Bosie and Salome' Princeton University Library Chronicle 2007. hardcover
189422666ELondon: Elkin Mathews & John Lane 1894. First English Edition. Limited to 500 copies. Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth. Near fine only slightly handled copy with the gilt-stamping to the boards bright. From the library of Harpo Marx the great clown of the Marx Brothers comedy team and his wife actress Susan Fleming Marx former member of the Ziegfeld Follies and star of early talking films like Million Dollar Legs with W.C. Fields. With a charming bookplate illustrated by Susan Marx with a drawing of Harpo in his comic character which reads: “FROM THE LIBRARY OF HARPO & SUSAN MARXâ€. Elkin Mathews & John Lane hardcover
1894140949078London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane 1894. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition in English of Wilde's seminal one-act tragedy and the first to feature Aubrey Beardsley's lavishly unrestrained illustrations. One of 500 copies. xii 67 1 16 ads illustrated with frontispiece 9 full page plates and singular tailpiece. Bound in publisher's blue canvas cloth decoratively stamped in gilt after design by Beardsley. Near Fine with light sunning to spine and edges light foxing to cloth. Offsetting to front endsheets and armorial bookplate to pastedown there contents lightly tanned. <p>A beautiful copy of a definitive work of the Decadent movement. Composed initially in French Wilde allegedly intended for Sarah Bernhardt to play Salome in hopes of bypassing strict British censors although it was inevitably banned by Lord Chamberlain due to the depiction of biblical characters. The play premiered on February 11 1896 at the Theatre de l’Oeuvre in Paris starring Lina Munte and directed by Lugne-Poe. Rave reviews ensued and later adaptions followed most notably Richard Strauss' Dresden production which premiered in 1905. The radical work served as a direct affront to Victorian moral standards and cemented the femme fatale archetype for future avant-garde luminaries. Mason 350. Elkin Mathews & John Lane unknown
1894wld44London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane. G : in good condition. Rebacked. Cover rubbed. Page edges browning. Hinge at title cracked. 1894. Limited Edition 500. Blue hardback cloth cover. 220mm x 160mm 9" x 6". 67pp 15pp plates. 10 plates by Aubrey Beardsley. . Elkin Mathews & John Lane hardcover
1894185053London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane 1894. A sublime production by the enfants terribles of Victorian Britain First edition in English the first to feature Beardsley's elegant art nouveau illustrations. "If Le Morte Darthur made Beardsley known his designs for the first edition in English of Wilde's Salomé made him notorious and it remains the book of which most people think when his name is mentioned" Ray. Salomé was published in French in 1893. This English translation by Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas was published the following year in a run of 500 trade copies as here and 100 on large paper. The premiere took place on 11 February 1896 at the Comédie-Parisienne; the Lord Chamberlain cited Protestant Reformation laws banning religious plays to restrict the public staging in Britain. An opera version was sanctioned for performance in 1910 though the play itself had to be staged privately until the first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in 1931. Small quarto. Frontispiece illustrated title list of illustrations pages 9 plates and tailpiece all by Beardsley; publisher's unopened 16-page advertisements at end. Original blue canvas boards spine lettered in gilt decorations designed by Beardsley to covers in gilt edges untrimmed. Cloth slightly rubbed gutter cracked between a couple of gatherings a couple of plates discreetly reinserted. A very good copy. Mason 350; Ray 315A. hardcover
1894188707London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane 1894. Deluxe issue of this sublime collaboration of enfants terribles First edition in English and first Beardsley edition deluxe issue one of 100 copies printed on Japanese vellum and bound in green silk boards. "If Le Morte Darthur made Beardsley known his designs for the first edition in English of Wilde's Salomé made him notorious and it remains the book of which most people think when his name is mentioned" Ray. Translated by Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas this edition appeared the year after the play's publication in French. The premiere took place on 11 February 1896 at the Comédie-Parisienne. To restrict its public staging in Britain the Lord Chamberlain cited Protestant Reformation laws banning religious plays. An opera version was sanctioned for performance in 1910 though the play itself had to be staged privately until the first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in 1931. A further 500 copies were printed on smaller paper and bound in blue canvas boards. Small quarto. Frontispiece and illustrated title page with tissue guard illustrated border on list of illustrations page 9 plates final tailpiece all by Beardsley. Publisher's 16-page advertisements at end. Original green silk boards spine lettered in gilt decorations designed by Beardsley to covers in gilt edges untrimmed. Binding unevenly discoloured and a little soiled minor wear to edges inner hinge partially split following title page splash mark to a couple lower margins. A very good copy. Mason 351; Ray 315A. hardcover
1894189865London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane 1894. A sublime production by the enfants terribles of Victorian Britain First edition in English the first to feature Beardsley's elegant art nouveau illustrations. "If Le Morte Darthur made Beardsley known his designs for the first edition in English of Wilde's Salomé made him notorious and it remains the book of which most people think when his name is mentioned" Ray. Salomé was published in French in 1893. This English translation by Lord Alfred Douglas was published the following year in a run of 500 trade copies as here and 100 on large paper. The premiere took place on 11 February 1896 at the Comédie-Parisienne; the Lord Chamberlain cited Protestant Reformation laws banning religious plays to restrict the public staging in Britain. An opera version was sanctioned for performance in 1910 though the play itself had to be staged privately until the first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in 1931. Small quarto. Frontispiece illustrated title list of illustrations pages 9 plates and 1 tailpiece all by Beardsley; publisher's unopened 16-page advertisements at end. Original blue canvas boards spine lettered in gilt decorations designed by Beardsley to covers in gilt edges untrimmed. Spine ends and joint repaired with loss to a couple of letters marks to endpapers contents toned but clean short closed tear to rear blank. A very good copy. Mason 350; Ray 315A. hardcover
1893ST20128Paris and London: Librairie de l'Art Indépendant; Elkin Mathews et John Lane 1893. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 600 COPIES 500 of which were for sale. 243 x 150 mm. 8 x 5 5/8". 84 pp. 1 leaf. <br/> Pleasing red very coarse-grained morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe stamp-signed in gilt on rear turn-in covers with gilt coat of arms surrounded by a gilt oval raised bands gilt lettering gilt-ruled turn-ins top edge gilt others untrimmed. With the original purple wrappers bound in. Housed in a deluxe suede-lined modern red morocco case by Antonio Perez-Noriega covers with elaborate twining wood onlays. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM WILDE TO ADOLPHE RETTÉ WITH WILDE'S INSCRIPTION AND SIGNATURE ON THE FRONT FLYLEAF. Mason 348. See also: Mikhail "Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections" pp. 190-91. Spine faintly sunned covers with a few small bumps and dents perhaps original with the skin or intentionally made by the binder one or two negligible finger smudges but a fine clean copy with just insignificant imperfections.<br/> <br/> This is a very special presentation copy of Wilde's most controversial play inscribed to one of three writers the author invited to edit the original French script. In the Gospel of Luke Herodias the haughty wife of Antipas tetrarch of Galilee is so incensed by the preaching of John the Baptist against her sins that she determines to be revenged. She persuades her daughter Salomé to ask Antipas the girl's stepfather for John's head as the reward for her seductive dancing. Wilde's fertile imagination converts this story into a tale of juvenile infatuation scorned and turned into demented hate. Written and first published in French "Salomé" was to have been staged in London with Sarah Bernhardt in the title role but this was prevented by the Lord Chamberlain the theater censor. Thus the play was first performed in 1896 in Paris with Bernhardt in the title role but without Wilde in attendance since he was confined at the time in Reading Gaol. It was not performed in London until 1905 in a private performance and the censor's ban was not lifted until 1932. Adolphe Retté 1863-1930 was a French poet essayist and literary figure who initially was celebrated for his decadent and symbolist poetry but later experienced a profound spiritual awakening that led him to renounce his earlier works and embrace Catholicism. He was one of three French-speaking poets along with Stuart Merrill and Pierre Louÿs Wilde solicited to look over the original script and correct any overt anglicisms. Retté who had met Wilde in Paris wrote about his involvement with "Salomé" in his memoir where he describes his admiration for the work: "Not only were Wilde's ideas subtle and delightful but he knew how to enhance them seeming to caress each word with his irresistible way of speaking." Retté marveled at Wilde's "talent as a conversationalist or rather as a monopolizer of the conversation and the wonderful way he would set forth the philosophy of 'hedonism.'" Wilde presentation copies are not exceptionally rare in general but we could find few such copies of this important first edition and none any more important as this one. Librairie de l'Art Indépendant; Elkin Mathews et John Lane unknown
189469042London: Elkin Matthews and John Lane at the sign of the Bodley Head 1894. RICKETTS Charles. . The Sphinx. With decorations by Charles Ricketts. London: Elkin Matthews and John Lane at the sign of the Bodley Head 1894.<br> <br> Full Description:<br> <br> WILDE Oscar. The Sphinx. With decorations by Charles Ricketts. London: Elkin Matthews and John Lane at the sign of the Bodley Head 1894.<br> <br> First edition. One of 200 copies for Great Britain printed on handmade paper. Small quarto 8 5/8 x 6 3/4 inches; 218 x 172 mm. 4 blank 6 27 1 blank 1 imprint 5 blank pp. Title-page printed in black red and green. Ten illustrations by Ricketts in the text including title-page of which eight are full-page all printed in red. Initial letters one large and twelve medium and guide words printed in green.<br> <br> Original vellum decoratively paneled and pictorially stamped in gilt after designs by Ricketts whose monogram appears in the lower left-hand corners. Gilt is bright and vellum generally clean. Vellum very slightly bowed as usual. Some foxing throughout as usual. Overall about fine.<br> <br> "The Sphinx is his Rickett's best book. The result is a perfect whole as harmonious as it is dazzling." Ray.<br> <br> Mason 361. Ray Illustrator and the Book 262.<br> <br> HBS 69042.<br> <br> $8500. Elkin Matthews and John Lane, at the sign of the Bodley Head unknown
1899WILDEOSC015579Leonard Smithers London. 1899. Seventh and last authorised edition; also the first to have the author's name on the title-page. Octavo. 31 leaves printed on rectos only. Two-tone buckram covers.Some light foxing to prelims. Small bump to top edge of rear cover. Covers a little marked. Very good. Leonard Smithers, London. hardcover
1898180349London: Leonard Smithers 1898. Unusual in a fine contemporary binding First edition one of 800 copies printed on handmade paper. This copy is beautifully presented and includes the well-preserved wrappers at the rear. At the insistence of his publishers Wilde employed a pseudonym for fear of the negative effect his name would have on the poem's sales. "C.3.3." derives from Wilde's cell in Reading Gaol - the third cell on the third landing of Gallery C. The first edition of which another 30 copies on japon were also issued sold out rapidly. A second edition was printed within weeks. Octavo 220 x 135 mm. Contemporary brown crushed morocco by Rivière spine lettered in gilt with raised bands compartments tooled with floral design French fillet to boards gilt inner dentelles dark green coated endpapers top edge gilt fore and bottom edges uncut original wrappers bound in. Label sometime removed from front pastedown rear blanks lightly toned from wrappers. A fine copy. Mason 371. hardcover
189917881The Ballad of Reading Gaol Leonard Smithers 1899 the 7th edition with several important changes to previous editions 1 the name Oscar Wilde appears on the title page 2 The copyright date is changed from January 1898 to February 1898 and 3 a line of the poem on page 4 third stanza has been changed. A very good copy void of foxing or staining with a tanned and dust-soiled spine. Leonard Smithers unknown
