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2004Q-0713673516Methuen Drama 2004-10-15. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Methuen Drama paperback
68-1140London: Methuen 1920. 16mo. Green Cloth 182 pp. Very Good. Previous owner's signature on FFEP.Ninth Edition. London: Methuen, 1920. hardcover
1903006235Paris London: Leonard Smithers 1903. Wilde's satire of upper-class life premiered in 1893. This particular publication is a rather deceptive edition LIMITED to 250 copies. No publisher is given but per COPAC it is Wilde's friend Leonard Smithers who published many of the "decadent" writers of his day including Captain Sir Richard Burton. The city of publication is named as Paris but even this is in doubt and is most likely London; citing Paris may have allowed a hint of scandal to attach. Tan cloth binding with titling and the date "1903" in gilt on the spine. Clean text;154 pages. Very Good condition with minor rubbing to the margins and some red stains on the rear cover. There is a signature on the limitation page and a different one on the Title Page. The only real defect to be noted is the presence of many more signatures - as if practicing - on the endpapers and half-title page. One would be tempted to call this "juvenalia" but these appear to be adult handwriting. Some of these are pencil and others ink. Limited. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [Leonard Smithers] Hardcover
1015531202.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1161419667.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1894164122London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head 1894. Epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation First edition one of 500 trade copies. The opening show of this satirical play on English manners was greeted with applause for the actors and boos for the playwright causing Wilde to announce from behind a curtain "Ladies and gentlemen I regret to inform you that Mr Oscar Wilde is not in the house" Ellmann p. 381. Wilde's opulent production used "the market forces of luxury dressmaking to comment upon the worlds of his Haymarket patrons. Audiences in the stalls and boxes continued to be both flattered and vexed by the antics of their on-stage doubles while viewers in the upper galleries enjoyed the additional spectacle of fashionable Society catching its likeness in Wilde's cunningly set mirrors" Kaplan p. 252. The play premiered at Haymarket Theatre on 19 April 1893 and ran until 16 August for 113 performances. An additional 50 large-paper copies were also issued. Small quarto. Publisher's advertisement bookplate on front pastedown and their 16-page catalogue dated March 1894 at end all as called for. Original pink linen with gilt floral decorations by Charles Shannon spine lettered in gilt top edge trimmed others uncut. Welsh-language bookplate of John Evans on front free endpaper. Spine and edges faded light wear to spine ends and corners splits to inner hinges mild toning and spots to contents. A very good copy. Mason 364. Richard Ellmann Oscar Wilde 1988; Joel Kaplan "Wilde on the Stage" The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde ed. by Peter Raby 1997. unknown
1894282902London: John Lane 1894. Limited. hardcover. very good. Tall 8vo lavender cloth faded to tan with gilt designs considerably browned on the spine and edges; pages untrimmed London: John Lane 1894. Limited First Edition.<br/> <br/> Mason 365. One of only 50 copies printed simultaneously with the first trade edition. Internally fine and clean.<br/> <br/> John Lane unknown
1909WILDEOSC003656Methuen London. 1909. Third edition. F'cap octavo. pp xii 182. Green cloth with gilt rules and device to front cover top edge gilt.Lower corner of upper cover slightly creased. Very good indeed. No dustwrapper. Methuen, London. hardcover
1903019042Paris : No Publisher Shown 1903. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. B00K: Very G00D/ $2590.03 a WOMAN of NO IMPORTANCE; Copy No. 60. WILDE 0scar No Publisher Shown Possibly Author Self Published. Paris 19O3 Edition Limited To 25O Copies. This Is Copy No. 6O Written In Pencil. H/c Brown Top And Balance Of Tan Spine With Title And Design In Polished Gold Letters Hard Cover B0K: Very Good/ Slight Shelf Edge And Corner Wear. 154 Numbered Pages Printed On Tan Paper Browning And Spotting From Aging In Very Good/Fine/ Condition Clean And Tight To The Spine Slight Wear. The Exterior Covering Of The Boards Are Not Decorated. D/j: None. Synopsis: 'I Was Always Impressed At The Interpreting Skills Of Mothers With Toddlers. I'Ve Seen It Countless Times: 'Aberdeen Leasing! Aberdeen Leasing!' The Kid Insists And The Mother Replies 'Ok. What Colour Do You Want' 'Rollmop.' 'There Isn'T One. You Can Have A Red One.' And The Child Trots Off Happily Apparently Under The Impression That She'S Just Had A Normal Conversation.' If There'S One Thing That Everyone Has An Opinion About It'S How To Bring Up A Child - Especially Your Child. Kate Konopicky Found Herself An Embattled Mother Knowing That However Hard She Worked Everything Was Wrong. If She Went Back To Full-Time Employment She Was Neglecting Her Child. If She Stayed At Home The Child Would Be Clingy And Shy. So She Became A Combination Of Teacher Nurse Nutritionist Psychologist Entertainer And Mind Reader. She Didn'T Get Weekends Off And Never Phoned In Sick When She Wanted A Lie-In. The Boss Was Illogical Demanding Incapable Of Undertaking The Simplest Task. Yes We'Ve All Had Jobs Like That But At Least We Got Paid For Them. Kate Konopicky Is An Anarchic Voice In The Face Of Regimented Parenting Books. = Description Applies To This B00K Only Which Is A Historically Significant Treasure From The Past Hard To Find Will Be Packaged And Shipped = Carefully To Avoid Shipping Damage And Will Make It An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection Or As A Gift For The Discriminating Reader / Collector/. = WORLD WIDE SHIPPING AVAILABLE. <br/> <br/> No Publisher Shown hardcover
189422263London: John Lane 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Publisher's full mauve cloth stamped in gilt spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Very good. 154 pages. 27.5 x 16 cm. Limited edition one of 500 with 16 pages of advertisements at end dated March 1894 Cover gilt design florets by Charles Shannon considerably influenced by his lifetime partner Charles Ricketts both of whom produced work for the Doves Press. MASON 364. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre satirizing English upper-class society. Spine dulled spine extremities creased binding tight; a sound copy. John Lane hardcover
19087369812 191 pages limited edition of 1000 on handmade paper for the US and UK Published by Methuen & Co hardcover
1894304822London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street. Printed by T. and A. Constable Edinburgh 1894. First edition one of 500 copies. 154 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original mauve cloth decorated in gilt. Spine faded cloth at extremities frayed corners bumped some soiling to cloth front flyelaf and first blank torn at gutter. Good. First edition one of 500 copies. 154 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Mason 365 John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh unknown
1894WE16716London: John Lane 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition one of 500 copies only printed. Octavo in lavender cloth decorated in gilt and with spine lettered in gilt. Fore edges uncut. 154 pp. plus 16 pp. of adverts for List of Books in Belles Lettres. This copy bears the rather scarce small publisher’s bookplate on the front pastedown announcing “This Book Now Published by John Lane at the Bodley Head in Vigo St. London W.†Very good. Scattered foxing to the endpapers. Shallow wear to the spine extremities and spine a bit rubbed. Some rippling to the lower portion of the cloth on the front board. John Lane hardcover
1894256986London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street 1894. First edition one of 50 Large Paper copies. 154 1 pp. Printed by T. and A. Constable Edinburgh. 1 vols. 4to. Original buckram gilt. Spine and extremities darkened endleaves with some paste darkening else fine in a custom purple half-morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition one of 50 Large Paper copies. 154 1 pp. Printed by T. and A. Constable Edinburgh. 1 vols. 4to. An attractive large paper copy. Wilde's witty and urbane satire of the English upper class. This was written and produced in 1893 near the height of Wilde's career between Salome 1891 and his masterpiece The Importance of Being Ernest 1895. Mason 365. Provenance: Arthur Chester Rhodes John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street unknown
189412118London: John Lane 1894. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 1st edition newly rebound in brown leather with a gilt-stamped red leather title piece and Florentine marbled endpapers. New binding fine; the text pages are about good plus. All are toned brown near the edges. The first blank of 2 before the title page bears a gift inscr. in French; that page also chipped at the corners. An owner's name is upside down on the final blank. 154 pp. 16-p. publisher's catalog. <br/> <br/> John Lane hardcover
1922192880London: Beaumont Press 1922. An admirable amateur binding First edition extra limited issue number 15 of 75 copies printed on Japanese vellum; the colophon states that these copies signed by the publisher C. W. Beaumont and the artist Randolph Schwabe but this is unsigned. The binding is ambitiously and unusually designed its many individual uses of the gouge tool executed by an amateur hand. This is the second volume of Wilde's letters to Ross following After Reading 1921. Cyril William Beaumont 1891-1976 established his private press in 1917 which continued into the late 1920s. A further 400 copies were issued on handmade paper. Octavo 216 x 147 mm. Wood-engraved plate title page and vignettes printed in colours. Contemporary brown morocco spine lettered in gilt boards tooled with gouges in blind blind floral tools and two gilt star-shaped tools to create frames and central medallions two gilt star-shaped tools to turn-ins blue endpapers top edge gilt fore and bottom edges uncut. Boards gently bowed endpapers foxed. A near-fine copy. hardcover
1922030902The Beaumont Press 1922. Hardcover. Near Fine. Near fine 1922 hard cover. No. 113 of 400. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall The Beaumont Press hardcover
202617245JNew York: Europa Books 2026. First Edition. Signed by Merlin Holland on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Written by Oscar Wilde’s only grandson After Oscar recounts the gripping story of Wilde and his enduring legacy. Oscar Wilde died in November 1900 exiled in Paris his reputation in tatters exhausted by scandal and prison life. While the details of his life in the limelight are well known often ignored are the reverberations of the Wilde scandal over the decades following his trial and death. With pathos humor and his grandfather’s signature wit Merlin Holland charts the extraordinary afterlife of the legendary writer and thinker tracing the dramatic fluctuations in Wilde’s posthumous reputation.A true feat of storytelling and scholarship After Oscar documents decades of sensationalist conjecture surrounding the Wilde family and exposes a century of bigotry and hypocrisy within the cultural establishment. Here is a book that will amuse infuriate fascinate and shock. Readers beware—you’re in for a Wilde ride.“Fascinating…A magnificent blend of scholarship and memoir and a vital contribution to Wildeana.â€â€”Stephen Fry actor and author “As gripping as a thriller and as full of human drama as one of Wilde's plays.â€â€”The Times Book of the Week. Europa Books unknown
192123766Westminster: Beaumont Press 1921. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Illustrated by Ethelbert White. Thin 8vo. 60pp. Cloth spine gilt. Patterned paper over boards. Finely printed letterpress on handmade paper. Woodcut cover and decorations by Ethelbert White. One of 400 numbered copies from a totla edition of 475 this is number 455. A near fine copy.<br /> <p><br /> "The letters included in this volume were written by Oscar Wilde to his friend Robert Ross during the summer of 1897. Wilde was released on Wednesday May 19th after completing his sentence of two years imprisonment and on that day he crossed with a friend to Dieppe where he was met by Robert Ross to whom he at once handed the manuscript of his prison letter no known as 'De Profundis'.<br /> <p>. Beaumont Press hardcover
116514London Cyril William Beaumont at the Beaumont Press 1921 & 1922. . Limited editions each number 10 of 75 copies on Japanese Vellum signed by the illustrator and printer from total editions of 475; 2 vols 8vo; woodcut illustrations and decorations by Ethelbert White; original vellum-backed patterned boards gilt lettering to spines slight browning to head of covers else very good.<br /> An attractive set collecting together a series of letters from Wilde to Robert Ross. Each one of 75 copies on Japanese vellum signed by the illustrator and printer.<br /> London, Cyril William Beaumont at the Beaumont Press, 1921 & 1922. hardcover
192196099Westminster a central borough in London: Beaumont Press 1921. Hardcover. Very Good. Ethelbert White. a few illustrations by Ethelbert White 59p. Originial cloth backed board. 22 cm. Moderate cover soiling. No jacket. Copy # 355 of 400 numbered 75-450 on handmade paper; 75 copies on Japanese vellum signed by the publisher and artist were also published. The 12th book published by the Beaumont Press. Beaumont Press hardcover
192147943Westminster : Beaumont Press 1921. Limited Edition. Hardcover - as published. 397 of 400. Good decorative boards. Grey cloth spine gilt letters decorative endpapers. 59pp. some water staining to page edges. Boards slightly warped. Beaumont Press hardcover
69959Paris Gallimard 1996. Kl.8° 266 S. zahlr. teilw. farb. Abb. OLdr. m. goldgepr. Rücken Lesebändchen Farbkopfschnitt in Schmuckschuber. Tadell. = Album de la Pléiade No. 35. Mit Index und Bildverzeichnis. Text frz. Vergriffen. 010 Paris, Gallimard, 1996 unknown
1996WILDEOSC004210Gallimard Paris. 1996. First edition. Small octavo. 267 pages. 249 images with extensive commentary in French. Full leather gilt.Fine in fine glossy pictorial card slipcase. Gallimard, Paris. hardcover
65824London: Leonard Smithers and Co. 1899. Literature FIRST EDITION. Small quarto 21 x 16cm pp.xvi; 214; 2 blank. Publisher's pink cloth with nouveau decoration in gilt edges untrimmed. Engraved bookplate of Ernest Thornton-Smith to paste-down. Edges toned deckles are dusty covers with some expected soiling/handling to light coloured cloth spine age-darkened. Very good. One of only 1000 copies published. An Ideal Husband was Wilde's third comedy which appeared at the Haymarket on January 3 1895. This first printing gave no mention of the author. Mason 385. London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899 unknown
