WILDE OscarABAA
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189927574London: Leonard Smithers and Co 1899. First Edition. Limited to 1000 copies of which this is no. 241. Small quarto 21.75cm.; light red-brown gilt-stamped cloth with designs by Charles Shannon; 16151pp. Spine a bit cocked and darkened as are extremities to a lesser extent two small white spots to rear cover; textblock near fine. Very Good overall. MASON 381. Leonard Smithers and Co unknown books
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
1899127644David Nutt 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. 6x0x9. 1899 David Nutt second edition illustrated by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood including tissue guarded frontis. Tight binding ownership ink to front paste down. Illustrated front board shows water spots. Please email for photos. David Nutt hardcover
189026040071890. pirated first. hardcover. very good. Pirated first edition. Book very good foxing throughoutsome soiling to covers former owner's one-line writing to front free end paper. unknown
184081636Dublin: William Curry Jun. And Company. 1840. 2 volumes vol Ipp xvi 464 & vol II pp viii 495 frontis both vols water stained to verso text ills new endpapers both vols signed R. Hoddle Surveyor-General of Victoria top of t.p. both well recased half calf with green cloth maroon title pieces darker stain to front cloth vol I. Sir William Robert Wills Wilde was an Irish surgeon author and also the father of Oscar Wilde. Account of his travels as medical attendant to Robert Meilklam. Half calf. William Curry, Jun. And Company unknown
1886d2793London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co. G : in good condition. Covers rubbed and soiled. Eps darkened. Fold-out repaired with archive tape. 1886. First Edition. Blue hardback boards with cream vellum spines. 320mm x 240mm 13" x 9". vi 160pp; viii 160pp iv; vii 160pp plates. 37 plates 24 b/w 13 sepia 1 fold-out. Published 1886-18878. With Glasgow Arts Club bookplate. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. . Kegan Paul, Trench & Co 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 reasonably sound copy. John Lane hardcover books
1894191028Oxford: J. Vincent; Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co. London 1894. An uncommon parody of Wilde First edition one of 750 copies of this Oxford play satirizing Oscar Wilde. The authors of this anonymous parody an entertaining imitation of the classical Greek comedy of Aristophanes were three Oxford undergraduates. Leopold Amery 1873-1955 later a prominent journalist and conservative politician. Francis Wrigley Hirst 1873-1953 later a successful journalist editor of The Economist and biographer of Thomas Jefferson. Little is known about Henry Alford Antony Cruso besides that he published another drama in 1907. The initialism Y.T.O. comprises the last letter of their surnames. Octavo. Original buff wrappers front cover lettered in green. Housed in a custom green cloth slipcase. Booklabel of Timothy D'Arch Smith b. 1936 the British author and co-founder of Victim Press; illustrated bookplate of Jeremy J. Mason designed by David Ward and dated 1974 on initial leaf. Spine a little chipped wrappers toned and soiled edges nicked sporadic foxing. A good copy. Mason 685. hardcover
1893193515London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane 1893. Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it First edition one of 500 trade copies of Wilde's first comedy play produced at the St James's Theatre on 20 February 1892. An instant success it is considered "revolutionary in its mingling of the vocabulary of comedy the potential of tragedy and the insistence on realism" ODNB. Cigarette in hand Wilde made his legendary curtain call on the opening night: "Your appreciation has been most intelligent. I congratulate you on the great success of your performance which persuades me that you think almost as highly of the play as I do myself." An additional 50 large-paper copies were also issued. Small quarto. With 16 pp. publisher's catalogue dated September 1893 at end. Original pink cloth spine lettered in gilt stylized flower and leaf motifs by Charles Shannon in gilt to spine and covers edges untrimmed. Contemporary black ink ownership inscription of Amy Scorer to front free endpaper a couple of marginal annotations in pencil. Spine toned extremities a little worn scattered marks to covers ring mark to rear: a very good copy. Mason 357. hardcover
1898183481London: Leonard Smithers 1898. For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die First edition one of 800 unnumbered copies printed on handmade paper; a further 30 copies on japon were published simultaneously. The first edition sold out rapidly and a second edition was issued within weeks. Octavo. Original white quarter cloth spine lettered in gilt light brown cloth sides edges untrimmed. Housed in a custom yellow cloth chemise and quarter calf with yellow cloth slipcase. Bookplate and shelf-label of John Sowden; unrelated contemporary ownership inscription to title page. Spine browned soiling to covers ends and corners bumped damp stain and browning to endpapers spots of foxing to contents. A good copy. Mason 371. hardcover
1894123204Small 4to. London: John Lane at the Bodley Head 1894. Small 4to xiv 154 1 pp. Original salmon buckram covers with gilt-stamped decorations gilt top backstrip lettered and stamped in gilt some browning throughout as usual binding a bit soiled but good. § First edition though there were 15 copies printed for the production of the play in New York. This play contains some of Wilde’s best quips - with especially astute comments on the nature of society. A hard book to find in good condition. On the front pastedown are two bookplates: George Ravenscroft Dennis and Lucius Wilmderding. John Lane at the Bodley Head hardcover books
1899WE16717London: Leonard Smithers 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London 1899: Leonard Smithers and Co. First edition one of 1000 copies only. Octavo. Lavender cloth decorated in gilt and with spine lettering gilt. Fore edges uncut. 213 pp. A tight example very good with three very small chips along the rear gutter edge and a approximately ½†square chip to the rear area of the foot of the spine strip. Leonard Smithers hardcover
1891139780London: James R. Osgood 1891. First edition of this collection of Wilde's humorous mystery stories published the same year as the first edition in book form of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Octavo original stiff paper-covered boards. In good condition. Very rare. Wilde’s “theme is not as is often supposed art’s divorce from life but its inescapable arraignment by experience. His creative works almost always end in unmasking. The hand that adjusts the green carnation suddenly shakes an admonitory finger. While the ultimate virtue in Wilde’s essays is in make-believe the denouement of his dramas and narratives is that masks have to go. We must acknowledge what we are. Wilde at least was keen to do so. Though he offered himself as the apostle of pleasure his created world contains much pain†Ellmann xvi. In addition to the title story Wilde's Lord Arthur Savile's Crime & Other Stories contains The Sphinx withoout a Secret The Canterville Ghost and The Model Millionaire. James R. Osgood hardcover
1878CCC-657138. edition leonard smithers january 1898, 1er edition, 3 traches dorees, reliure demi-chagrin creme , dos velin , 2 nerfs titre dore, couverture signee, in-8 (21,5 cm X 13,5 cm), tres bon etat, 31 pages, livre en anglais, photos possibles Edition(Publishing) leonard smithers january 1898, 1st edition, 3 gilded(bronzed) traches, binding half-sorrow cremates, back vellum, 2 nerves(gristle) titles gilds(bronzes), signee cover(blanket), in-8 (21,5 cms X 13,5 cms), very well etat, 31 pages, delivers in English, possible photos no postal charges for metropolitan France, possible of clean(appropriate) discount(delivery) in hands on Paris.
1893140940629London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane 1893. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's mauve cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with soiling and darkening to cloth and corners and spine ends bumped. Previous owner bookplate and gift inscription to front endpaper. Pages toned. One of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde's best-known plays a comedy in four acts. Elkin Mathews and John Lane unknown books
1899291407London: Smithers 1899. First. hardcover. very good. 151 pages. 8vo original lavender cloth; spine faded; cloth lightly bubbled. London: Leonard Smithers 1899. First Edition.<br/><br/> A very good copy of Wilde's "last and greatest play". One of 1000 copies unnumbered as is often the case. Preliminary pages lightly foxed.<br/><br/> Smithers unknown books
18991232028vo. London: Leonard Smithers 1899. 8vo 213 1 imprintpp. Original salmon cloth stamped in gold backstrip dull internally very good. Wilmerding bookpate upside down in back. § First edition one of 1000 copies. “Although Wilde's third play opened in 1895 it was not published until four years later and after Wilde had been released from prison. The success of The Ballad of Reading Gaol persuaded Wilde to publish his last two plays the other being The Importance of Being Ernest. All three were published by Leonard Smithers one of very few remaining publishers prepared to handle Wilde's work†Sotheby’s. Mason 385. "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance". Leonard Smithers hardcover books
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
1888111490David Nutt 1888-01-01. First Edition. hardcover. Good. 9x6x1. 1888 David Nutt first edition in paper covered boards spine is chipped shows age tone and fox binding is tender.Plate of the Happy Prince loose and laid in. Bookplate to front paste down. F34 Please email for photos. David Nutt hardcover
1894186848London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head 1894. Mr Oscar Wilde is not in the house First edition one of 500 trade copies. The opening show of this satirical play on English manners met 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. A further 50 large-paper copies were also issued. Quarto. Publisher's 16-page catalogue dated March 1894 bound at the rear. Original pink cloth spine lettered in gilt stylised flower and leaf motifs by Charles Shannon in gilt to spine and covers edges untrimmed. Cloth lightly marked and bumped small spots of wear to extremities faint vertical crease to rear cover contents generally toned some browning to pp. 42-3. 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. hardcover
1899268506London: Smithers 1899. First. hardcover. very good-. 151 pages. 8vo original lavender cloth; slight lean spine faded. London: Leonard Smithers 1899. First Edition.<br/><br/> A very good copy of Wilde's "last and greatest play". Number 117 of 1000 copies. Early faint ownership signature on flyleaf. End-leaves are browned but he interior is clean & fine.<br/><br/> Smithers unknown books
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
1898003329London: Murdoch & Co. 1898. First Edition. . Wraps. Near Fine. Original printed wrappers soft cover. 16 pages. First edition in booklet form of Wilde's letter about the Warden Martin case- Martin had been dismissed as warden at Reading Prison for having shown kindness and giving food to a hungry child prisoner. Provenance: includes a typed 1932 sales receipt from Richard S. Wormser Rare Books New York. Also includes a typed SIGNED letter from Rupert Hart-Davis to the previous owner requesting original Wilde letters Hart-Davis was the editor of the First Collected Edition of the Letters of Oscar Wilde along with a reply to Hart-Davis' request. An exceptional copy of a fragile and scarce item with an interesting provenance. MASON/MILLARD 26. Size: 12mo <br/> <br/> Murdoch & Co. paperback
1899biblio3<p>This printing of Oscar Wilde's <em>Ballad of Reading Gaol </em>was published on 23 June 1899 under the pseudonym C.3.3. his prison cell number. <em>Mustard boards with white cloth spine. Condition: In very good condition. </em><em>Light soiling to original publisher's two-tone mustard and white cloth boards and spine. Seventh </em>printing of Leonard Smithers 1899 Edition 8°. 31 pages. It was the first to reveal the author's identity putting the name Oscar Wilde in square brackets under his cell number on the title page. Mason Stuart 1914; new ed. 1972 <em>Bibliography of Oscar Wilde</em>. Rota pub; Haskell House pgs. 408–423.</p> Leonard Smithers 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
