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189970468Ldn. 1899. Høy 8vo. Originalt shirtingbind. UbeskÃ¥ret. 31 s. VEDLAGT : André Gide : Oscar Wilde. In memoriam Souvenirs. Le “de profundisâ€. Paris. 1947. 8vo. Originalt typografisk omslag. UbeskÃ¥ret og uoppskÃ¥ret. 75 s. Leonard Smithers Engelsk. <br/><br/><em>Hilsen pÃ¥ fribladet. Senere enn 7. utgave men før 1907.Svake indre og ytre falser noe løs. </em> unknown
196832820604<p>11 gelatin silver prints. 9 ¾ x 7 ½ in. Photographer's stamp and descriptive carbon typescript captions on versos. Very good condition.</p><p>This West End revival of Oscar Wilde's <i>The Importance of Being Earnest</i>opened on February 8 1968 and ran for 283 performances at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. The production starred Isabel Jeans Daniel Massey Helen Weir and John Standing among others.</p><p>"Angus McBean's iconic portraits of actors and entertainers are among the most complete visual records of the British stage from the 1930s through the 1960s" Harvard.</p> Angus McBean, photographer
1893371134Oxford: published for the Proprietor by James Thornton High Street 1893. 100 pp. Squarish 8vo. Blue printed paper wrappers. Some chipping and loss to covers; toning to pages. 100 pp. Squarish 8vo. Featuring "The Disciple" by Oscar Wilde and pieces by Lord Alfred Douglas H. M. Beerbohm and John Addington Symonds. published for the Proprietor by James Thornton, High Street unknown
190656412Paris: Privately Printed Charles Carrington 1906. Limited edition. Softcover. Good. # 251 of a limited edition of 500 copies on handmade paper. Royal octavo. 9 1/4 x 6 3/8â€. 134pp. plus 14pp. “List of Privately Issued Historical Artistic…works in English. †Contains two essays by Lord Alfred Douglas regarding Wilde: "His Last Book and His Last Years in Paris" and "De Profundis. a Criticism". Green paper folded wrappers with paper label. Wrappers have split and bump at bottom of spine which is wrinkled and creased. Binding a bit loose. Privately Printed (Charles Carrington) unknown
1902E7173Paris: Privately Printed 1902. First edition thus. vellum. Very Good. One of 500 unnumbered copies "for private circulation only among friends and subscribers". Full vellum line and lettered in black title on spine and large "O.W." on front cover. Top edge stained red and other edges uncut. Title page printed in red and black. Translated into English by Sebastian Melmoth pseudonym of Oscar Wilde. This is now considered to be a spurious Wilde piece; the Paris bookseller who printed it Charles Carrington apparently invented the Wilde connection in order to spur sales. The four page foreword has Wilde who had died two years earlier as its subject. A tight very good or a bit better example spine a bit darkened and some very light soilning to the vellum. Carrington's bookshop label is affixed to the rear free endpaper. Privately Printed unknown
1906264810London: Privately Printed Leonard Smithers 1906. First edition one of 400 copies. 20 2 pp. 8vo. Printed tan wrappers. Fine in custom red morocco-backed slipcase and chemise. First edition one of 400 copies. 20 2 pp. 8vo. The penultimate Smithers publication our copy with the "Shelley" bookplate of H. Buxton Forman. Mason 626; BAL 21346 Whistler; Nelson 1906.3 Privately Printed [Leonard Smithers] unknown
1906515288New 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
1997B13NS1017The Victorian Newsletter Kentucky University No. 91 Spring 1997. 1st Edition. SOFTCOVER. A4 size card covered journal. Noon gives an interesting angle on Wilde's appreciation of social and class distinctions and barriers. Signed by Noon on title page __CONDITION : NEW unread copy. . __To see more of our Literary monographs biographies etc type DbbLBIOG in the Keywords search box __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS The Victorian Newsletter, Kentucky University, No. 91 paperback
190662620London: Privately Printed by Leonard Smithers 1906. Tall 8vo. 6 x 9.25 in. 20 4 pp. Title in red & black. Tan printed softcovers minor chipping to foot of spine darkening to fore-edges minor shelfwear still a VG- unopened & uncut copy. First edition one of “400 copies on small quarto paper.†There was also issued one hundred large paper copies on demy octavo paper. This rather acerbic exchange of ideas and concepts of art between Whistler & Wilde was kicked off by Whistler’s famed “Ten O’Clock Lecture†delivered Feb. 10 1885 in London with biting review by Wilde. Privately Printed [by Leonard Smithers], paperback
19061843Düsseldorf: Schmitz & Olbertz 1906. First German edition. Numbered one of 600 copies. In unique custom made hand-painted vellum binding by Lajos Kozma. Title on spine in gilt lettering. Upper edge gilt. Paste paper endpapers. Kozma’s signet on front flyleaf’s verso and another signet supposedly of the owner: “CHW†on the additional flyleaf drawn by Kozma in black ink. Binding with slight discolorations and light stains. Inside some light and scattered foxing. Overall in fine condition. First German edition. Numbered one of 600 copies. In unique custom made hand-painted vellum binding by Lajos Kozma. Title on spine in gilt lettering. Upper edge gilt. Paste paper endpapers. Kozma’s signet on front flyleaf’s verso and another signet supposedly of the owner: “CHW†on the additional flyleaf drawn by Kozma in black ink. 44 4 p. <p><br /> The first German edition of The Priest and the Acolyte in Lajos Kozma’s Unique Hand-Painted Art Nouveau binding.<br /> <p><p><br /> Lajos Ludwig Kozma 1884–1948 was one of the chief Hungarian architects and interior designers of the first half of the 20th century he is also known for his graphic designs and book illustrations and binding designs. His early works were created in Art Nouveau style but later through Art Deco he found his way to International Modernism.<br /> <p><p><br /> The scandalous story of The Priest and the Acolyte here in A. W. Hiller’s translation is attributed to Oscar Wilde however its real author was John Francis Bloxam 1873–1928 an English Uranian author and churchman. The novel appeared first in The Chameleon Vol. I No. 1 December 1894.<br /> <p>. Schmitz & Olbertz unknown
195773202AB1957. Fifth Impression. London Faber and Faber 1957. 13 cm x 19 cm. 360 Pages. Original clothbound hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following essays: Narrative of the Ghost of a Hand J. Sheridan Le Fanu / The Dream Woman Wilkie Collins / Who Knows Guy de Maupassant / The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde / The Open Window Saki / The Apple Tree Wlizabeth Bowen / etc. hardcover
196829200New York:: Random House 1968. First Printing of the First US Edition. A fine copy in maroon cloth binding in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a closed edge tear to the spine fold. Although known primarily as the irreverent but dazzlingly witty playwright Oscar Wilde was also an able and farsighted critic. He was an early advocate of criticism as an independent branch of literature and stressed its vital role in the creative process. Included in Richard Ellmann's impressive collection of Wilde's criticism The Artist as Critic is a wide selection of Wilde's book reviews as well as such famous longer works as "The Portrait of Mr. W.H." "The Soul Man under Socialism" and the four essays which make up Intentions. The Artist as Critic will satisfy any Wilde fan's yearning for an essential reading of his critical work. Random House, hardcover
19315469Seattle: Dogwood Press 1931. First edition thus. 26x18cm 24pp. Mounted color frontis title and initial in color. Pictorial rainbow paper boards stamped in gilt in original burnished gold paper slipcase. Spine toning some smudging to front cover clean internally. Slipcase rubbed and scuffed as typically seen. <br /> <br /> Beautiful production from preeminent Seattle fine printer Frank McCaffrey being the titular story from Oscar Wilde's 1888 collection of children's stories. McCaffrey notes in his preface "Putting this book into type has been a most satisfying pleasure to me" which is evident in the work being one of the most striking examples of fine Northwest printing. This copy with fragile slipcase prone to wear is better than often seen. Dogwood Press unknown
1882List3658Boston 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<br /> <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> OCLC 500491189 specifying this edition with the large sunflower illustration locating five copies. <br /> <br /> 1 “Freshmen at Oscar Wilde’s Lecture†The Harvard Crimson February 1 1882. W. A. Evans & Bro unknown
104747London The Nonesuch Press 1932. . Number 773 of 800 copies; tall 8vo 26 x 15.5 cm; title with vignette printed in red; original near-white cloth gilt designed by Ricketts top edge gilt others uncut a bright & sharp copy.<br /> A fine copy of Charles Ricketts' recollections of Oscar Wilde for the Nonesuch Press. Charles Ricketts was a well-known artist/illustrator and typographer most famous perhaps for his creation of The Dial co-founded with his partner Charles Shannon and for his work with the Vale Press. His name is often synonymous with that of Oscar Wilde as he was one of the two illustrators primarily associated with Wilde's work the other of course being Aubrey Beardsley. He and Shannon were friends & supporters of Wilde for whom Ricketts painted the hero of Wilde's short story The Portrait of Mr. W.H.<br /><br />'Jean Paul Raymond' was an imaginary author first introduced by Ricketts in his privately issued work Beyond the Threshold 1929. The typography was designed by Francis Meynell and the book was printed at the Dolphin Press six hundred copies being for sale in England and two hundred to Random House for sale in America.<br /> Dreyfus 8A. London, The Nonesuch Press, 1932. hardcover
18849061<p>Scarce chromolithograph of Oscar Wilde published in Vanity Fair magazine on May 24th 1884 accompanied with a page of text. The page measures 10.5 x 15 in 27 x 38 cm.</p> Vanity Fair
39285later Edition of the First Edition 7th printing of June 1899 31 pages original hardcover quarter vellum with mustard boards Leonard Smithers very slight fraying on spine but tight copy in very good condition The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde written in exile either in Berneval-le-Grand or in Dieppe France after his release from Reading Gaol pronounced "redding jail" on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison. During his imprisonment on Tuesday 7 July 1896 a hanging took place. Charles Thomas Wooldridge had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife Laura Ellen earlier that year at Clewer near Windsor. He was aged only 30 when executed. Wilde spent mid-1897 with Robert Ross in Berneval-le-Grand where he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. The poem narrates the execution of Wooldridge. No attempt is made to assess the justice of the laws which convicted them but rather the poem highlights the brutalisation of the punishment that all convicts share. The finished poem was published by Leonard Smithers on February 13 1898 under the name C.3.3. which stood for cell block C landing 3 cell 3. This ensured that Wilde's name by then notorious did not appear on the poem's front cover. It was not commonly known until the 7th printing in June 1899 that C.3.3. was actually Wilde. The first edition of 800 copies sold out within a week and Smithers announced that a second edition would be ready within another week; that was printed on February 24th in 1000 copies which also sold well. A third edition of 99 numbered copies "signed by the author" was printed on March 4th on the same day a fourth edition of 1200 ordinary copies was printed. A fifth edition of a 1000 copies was printed on March 17th and a sixth edition was printed in 1000 copies on May 21st 1898. So far the book's title page had identified the author only as C.3.3. although many reviewers and of course those who bought the numbered and autographed third edition copies knew that Wilde was the author but the seventh edition printed on June 23 1899 actually revealed the author's identity putting the name Oscar Wilde in square brackets below the C.3.3. hardcover
190726709Philadelphia:: The Butterfly Autumn 1907. publisher's printed stiff wrappers. Small chips and light use to wrappers. 4to. The four-page letter is reproduced in facsimile together with transcription. The Butterfly, unknown
1899158271899. Shannon Charles. By the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan. London: Leonard Smithers and Co. 1899. Original mauve cloth decorated in gilt.<br/> <br/> First Edition consisting of 1000 regular copies so stated; there were also 100 signed copies on Van Gelder paper plus twelve signed copies on Japan vellum. This was the fourth and last of Wilde's four great comedies of manners -- following LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN published in 1893 A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE 1894 and THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST 1899 five months earlier. "An Ideal Husband" had opened at the Theatre Royal on 3 January 1895 the actors had been quite annoyed that Wilde required them to rehearse on Christmas Day only to keep them waiting for him to appear. It was an immediate success but it was while "Earnest" and "Husband" were running that Wilde inadvisably filed suit against the Marquess of Queensberry father of Wilde's lover Lord Alfred Douglas for criminal libel; this quickly morphed into a charge of "gross indecency" against Wilde and when he was arrested in April his plays closed. Sentenced to two years' hard labour 1895-1897 upon his release he fled to France -- where he resided when this book was published. The artistic binding design is by Charles Shannon. This is a very good copy of a book that is difficult to find in any better condition: the spine is rather dull and there is moderate cover soil. Mason 385. Provenance: the front endpaper bears the signature "Wilmer C. France 1899". The pioneering female classicist Emily Wilmer Cave France 1868-1951 married name Wright after 1906 was born in Birmingham England and educated first at Girton College Cambridge then at the University of Chicago -- where she was a Fellow in Latin and in Greek while earning her Ph.D.; from 1897 until her retirement in 1933 which span includes the date this book was published she was a Professor in Greek at Bryn Mawr College. In 2022 the Cambridge Philological Society published a monograph by D.N. Greenwood about her "Steely-Eyed Athena: Wilmer Cave Wright and the Advent of Female Classicists. unknown
1899ST19154London: Leonard Smithers and Co 1899. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 1000 COPIES. 215 x 155 mm. 8 3/8 x 6". 8 p.l. 213 1 pp. <br/> Original lavender cloth decorated with gilt flourishes smooth spine with gilt lettering edges untrimmed and ENTIRELY UNOPENED. Mason 385. ◆Spine slightly sunned as virtually always but no wear to joints or hinges and in all A REMARKABLY WELL-PRESERVED OBVIOUSLY UNREAD COPY because unopened and without the soiling this edition is almost always found with.<br/> <br/> This is an exceptionally fine copy of Wilde's second hit play successful like his other witty comedies but with at least slightly more serious social and political content. Opening at the Haymarket Theatre in 1895 and continuing for 124 performances it features as the title character a prominent politician in danger of losing his reputation because of a potentially damaging letter that the play's villain threatens to expose if the husband refuses to support the former's corrupt political agenda. The play moves its characters toward a more ideal moral standard as they struggle with dishonesty hypocrisy double standards materialism and corruption of social and political life. But none of this weighs down Wilde's witty banter as the play suggests after all that even when there is a pretense of the embrace of moral probity nobody is ever that good or is even expected to be. The work is dedicated to the Irish-American writer Frank Harris who is said to have given Wilde the idea to use insider trading which related to Disraeli's financial machinations as part of the plot here. Covering the play for the "Saturday Review" George Bernard Shaw declared Wilde 1854-1900 "our only thorough playwright. He plays with everything: with wit with philosophy with drama with actors and audience with the whole theatre." On nearly all copies of this edition the publisher's binding is now encountered in unappetizing condition; finding our unopened copy--with virtually none of the soiling almost always seen with the four Wilde plays bound in this lavender cloth--is piece of very good fortune. Leonard Smithers and Co unknown
193281512Bloomsbury: 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
198486113Vancouver: 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
1922796Gothenburg: N. J. Gumpert 1922. Very good. Original printed wrappers. Spine extremities chipped and snagged otherwise a very good copy of an increasingly scarce title. <br /> <br /> First edition variant issue in collected form of these five essays two in their original French on Wilde and associates. From an edition of 400 copies this copy is neither numbered nor signed and has a cancel paste-over obscuring the original "Vienna 1921 / Alfred Holder" imprint on the title page; Gumpert's imprint appears on the wrapper instead. "Printed by Alfred Holder Vienna 1922" is printed on the lower wrapper. N. J. Gumpert unknown
19955FSZKH0010TYTown House 1995T. paperback. Good. 0.7000 in x 7.7000 in x 5.0000 in. The cover shows normal wear. Town House paperback
1860590020.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
