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1898635478Leonard Smithers London 1898. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo. - Second Edition though lacks the Printed "Second Edition" to the title page verso - Publication date February 1898 to copyright page - Also includes the numerous amendments made to that edition - Oscar Wilde's last work published pseudonymously using his prisoner designation - Quarter bound in white linen over cinnamon linen boards w/ gilt lettering to spine - Printed on handmade paper w/ deckled edges on one side of the page only - Covers heavily tanned and marked - Lettering to spine faded - Corners and spine ends bumped and crushed - Endpapers toned and stained - Content lightly toned and foxed throughout w/ scratches and marks to some leaves particularly near the rear - Rear hinge very slightly open but still strong - Book ow/ solid and clean - 31 pages No Jacket Leonard Smithers, London hardcover
189320184The Spirit Lamp. Vol. IV No. 2. June 1893 1893. Book. Fair. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. Lettered sewn card wrappers both of which are detached and somewhat nicked and chipped with some edge loss and with portions of the unprinted paper spine absent. Some discolouration to the margins of the first and final leaves where the wrappers are defective yet really a very crisp copy thereafter. This constitutes the first appearance in print of Wilde's prose-poem predating its appearance with the other five examples in July 1894 issue of 'The Fortnightly Review'. Other contributors to this issue include Eric Stenbok his essay 'The Other Side. A Breton Legend' A.R.Bayley his essay 'The Defence of Posey' and his poem 'In Lyonesse' Gleeson White his essay 'In Praise of Idleness' Max Beerbohm his essay 'The Incomparable Beauty of Modern Dress' contributed as 'H.M.Beerbohm' John Addington Symonds his brief poem 'From the Arabic' and the editor his poems 'In Summer' and 'Apologia Pro Classe Sua'. A somewhat distressed example and yet most uncommon. Mason 265. The Spirit Lamp. Vol. IV, No. 2. June 1893 Paperback
1884124354London: Richard Bentley and Son 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Richard Bentley and Son 1884. Octavo iv 297 pages with the title page printed in red and black. Original cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover; cloth a little rubbed mottled and sunned with minimal wear to the head of the front joint; paper lightly tanned; small nameplate on the front pastedown; minimal signs of age and use; a very good copy. A rare and spirited travel book by Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde circa 1821-1896 influential Irish poet translator and feminist and the mother of Oscar Wilde. 'From 1846 she began to contribute prose as "John Fanshawe Ellis" and verse as "Speranza" to the "Nation" where on 23 January 1847 her poem "The stricken land" retitled "The famine year" was the great famine's first major poetic response. It indicted her own Anglo-Irish landlord class in terms used in Longfellow's anti-slavery poems . "Driftwood from Scandinavia" 1884 based on old friendships with Swedes and her voyages to Sweden with her husband Sir William in 1858 included much of value on Scandinavian sociology and German romanticism' 'Dictionary of Irish Biography'. The appendix consists of an essay by Sir William Wilde: 'On the Scandinavian Antiquities lately discovered at Islandbridge near Dublin'. Richard Bentley and Son hardcover
1888024406Cassell 1888. No Binding. Near Fine. Assorted. 1st edition Volume I 4to 12¼ x 9½ ins. Original 3/4 leather and cloth boards. Quite worn with spine missing and both covers loose. First 4 1/2 3/4 pages torn along bottom right-hand edge & Final 2 pages 571/2 torn along center. Pp. iv 572 pages v-viii. All other contents are very good and better Many illustrations and color plates. NOTE: This is NOT a reprint it is the Original Printing from 1888. <br/> <br/> Cassell 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
189823069London: Leonard Smithers 1898. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. Orig. cream cloth and light brown cloth spine darkened. Very good. 31 pages. 23 x 14 cm. One of a 1000 copies on handmade paper. The last edition to identify the author as "C.3.3." -- Wilde was imprisoned in cell block C landing C Cell 3. This narrative a tale of Charles Thomas Woodbridge's 1896 execution at Reading for the murder of his wife. Small owner signature free front endpaper free endpapers toned. Leonard Smithers hardcover
184420765Dublin: William Curry Jun. and Company. 1844. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Slight tanning and very light occasional foxing to first and last few pages. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Lacks one map the Chart of the Coast of Tyre. Spine and hinges professionally repaired. ; This is the observation of a journey taken in 1937. The first edition was published in 1840 in two volumes. The journey includes Corunna Lisbon Madeira Teneriffe Gibraltar Algiers Sicily Egypt Asia Minor Syria Palestine Jerusalem and Greece. Including colored map of Jerusalem frontispiece but lacking the second map the Chart of the Coast of Tyre. Dark blue cloth boards with blindstamped linear design and gilt spine lettering and gilt pictorial design. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xv 648 pages . William Curry, Jun. and Company hardcover
1887012823Milano: Sonzogno 1887 1895 18. Prima edizione italiana delle poesie di Whitman; First Italian Editions. In un volume dimensioni 11x17 cm che contiene anche a seguire: George Eliot: LE TRIBOLAZIONI DEL REVERENDO AMOS BARTON. Prefazione di Gaetano Negri. Oscar Wilde: RACCONTI. Traduzione e prefazione di Francesco Stocchetti. G.B. Shaw: IL DISCEPOLO DEL DIAVOLO. -In tutti i casi prime edizioni italiane di quelle opere edite da Sonzogno nella Biblioteca Universale. - Tutte le opere hanno alla pagina di titolo firma e data di possesso di Davide Casella Napoli. - I due CANTI SCELTI DI WHITMAN pur avendo lo stesso titolo e curatore sono in realtà due diverse serie che si completano come spiega il curatore nell'avvertenza alla seconda raccolta e rappresentano la prima edizione delle poesie pubblicate nel 1887 e otto anni dopo nel 1895. Alla prima raccolta all'ultima pagina 103-04 sono stati tagliati i margini superiore e inferiore dove il possessore aveva scritto alcune note di commento; ma il taglio non tocca la stampa. -Legatura degli anni Venti in tela marrone con una scritta in oro al dorso: AUTORI INGLESI.- Di notevole rarità queste prime edizioni italiane riunite. Sonzogno unknown
1891503897New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1891. Hardcover. Fine. First American edition using the English sheets see Mason 343: "Of the English edition. . 600 copies were printed for America. Octavo. 258pp. Pinkish-red cloth stamped in yellow. Spine is slightly faded else a nice very near fine copy. Scarce. Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover
1890972Boston: Roberts Brothers 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood Very Good condition with water marks and soiling to original gray cloth cover. Interior text as new no markings binding tight Roberts Brothers hardcover
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
189140615New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1891. First American Edition. Octavo pink cloth stamped in yellow. Of a total of 1500 copies printed 900 were for sale in the UK and 600 were bound with the Dodd Mead and Company title page. Very Good condition spine darkened time toned paper. No dust jacket. Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover
1898004339London: Leonard Smithers 1898. Wilde used his prisoner's number as his nom de plume for the early printings. This is a Very Good copy of the "Fourth Edition" Printing. Tan and cream-coloured binding with gilt titling on the spine. Clean text; 31 pages text printed only on the recto. There is a contemporary 22 May 1898 previous-owner signature only three letters on the front free endpaper. There is a tiny bookseller label Brentano's Paris on the rear paste-down. The paste-downs and free endpapers are typically tanned. The corners are bumped; surfaces soiled; and there is a crease on the rear cover. The spine has darkened but the lettering remains readable. Within this rather used-looking exterior the textblock is wonderfully fresh and bright. A solid copy of this rare edition. Fourth Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Leonard Smithers Hardcover
187346830London Taylor and Francis 1873. 8vo. Offprint seperately paginated with author presentation inscription to top of front wrapper "Joseph Sidelbotham / with the Author's best regards". Fine and clean. 8 pp. 1 folded plate. <br/><br/><em>Scarce offprint issue with a most interesting presentation inscription to one of the fathers of photography of Wilde's paper on improvements of his electromagnetic induction machine introduced in 1866. Wilde discovered independently of Werner von Siemens who is usually credited for the invention the dynamo-electric machine. Despite Siemens being the one credited for the invention Wilde was the first to publish a paper describing it; this was communicated to the Royal Society by Michael Faraday in 1866.Joseph Sidebotham 1824-1882 was the first to practice photography in Manchester and of the most important local photographers in general. His interest was however not confined to photography; he was an amateur botanist entomologist and astronomer. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and lectured to the Mechanics Institute on astronomy and electro-magnetism. </em> unknown
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
1891zj73McIlvaine 1891. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. brown binding with gold gilt on spine. 2 signatures from previous owners. the boards are shelf rubbed and knocked and there is fraying at the top of the spine. the book is internally clean and the binding is excellent. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. McIlvaine hardcover
184051206Dublin: William Curry Jun. and Company; London: Longman Orme Browne and Co. 1840. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. xiv 464; viii 495 1 pp. Contemporary black half calf over marbled boards spines with raised bands gilt lettered maroon labels 2 tinted lithographic frontispieces 2 plans Tyre and Jerusalem and 2 plates skulls plus numerous illustrations in the text. Some mostly light wear to the covers slight staining to the frontispieces some leaves proud towards the front of volume II though still firmly attached a decent set overall. Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company; London: Longman, Orme, Browne and Co. unknown
1894023252London: John Lane 1894. First edition. hardcover. Good. Mauve cloth faded and soiled. Gilt on spine very faded. Paper browned. Mason 364. One of 500 copies. Always securely packed. Professional booksellers since 1994. Satisfaction guaranteed. John Lane unknown
1840000202Dublin: William CurryJunand Co Longman OrmeBrowne and Company London 1840. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Not called for>. Two Volumes.Original boards rebacked.New end papers. Boards and spine unevenly sunned. A tight firm set. Light sporadic foxing spots. Frontispiece Vol 1 The Yacht "Crusader" Frontispiece Vol 2 "Telmessus" from a sketch by R.Meiklam.Wilde a medical student was hired to accompany Robert Meiklam on his yacht "Crusader" " In September 1837 my friends Sir Henry Marsh and Professor Graves proposed that I should accompany as medical attendant a gentleman who was about to make a voyage for the benefit of his health. Anxiety to see the World coupled with the fact of my health then being in a precarious state induced me gladly to accept this kind offer" Contact seller regarding postage. <br/> <br/> William Curry,Jun,and Co, Longman, Orme,Browne and Company, London hardcover
1852190906Dublin: J. McGlashan 1852. First edition of this collection of essays on Irish folklore by Oscar Wilde's father William Wilde 1815-76. This book contains chapters on "The May-Day Festival in Ireland" and "Fairy Archaeology and Medico-Religious Ceremonies". Some chapters appeared in the Dublin University Magazine ahead of this collection. The elder Wilde was a respected surgeon who was appointed to treat Queen Victoria. He ran the St Mark's Ophthalmic Hospital for Diseases of the Eye and Ear and published works on medicine archaeology and folklore. Small octavo. Frontispiece. With 2 pp. of publisher's ads. Original yellow wrappers spine and covers lettered in black covers bordered in brown decorations. Housed in custom green cloth slipcase. Bookplate of Jeremy J. Mason; bookseller's address embossed on rear wrapper. Spine ends repaired with paper spine and front wrapper fore edge reinforced with tape wrappers a little chipped and soiled front pages up to p. 21 starting p. 23 loose. A good copy. hardcover
1889111349David Nutt. London. 1889. David Nutt. London. 1889. Second edition. There were only 1000 copies of the first edition published in 1888. Printed cream paper covered boards. soiled and rubbed lacks spine. Endpapers browned inner hinge visible contents slightly shaken a few margins thumbed. Pages toned. All three plates present but two of them - The Selfish Giant and The Remarkable Rocket coloured in. One headpiece also coloured and another headpiece partially coloured in. The frontis. of The Happy Prince remains untouched. Rear endpapers carelessly opened along top edge not affecting any text. Please contact us for more information. hardcover
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
189928234London: Leonard Smithers and Co 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Good overall. A limited printing of the first edition 1000. <br /> <br /> In 1996 critic Bindon Russell wrote in "The Wildean" that "An Ideal Husband" is "the most autobiographical of Wilde's plays mirroring as it does his own situation of a double life and an incipient scandal with the emergence of terrible secrets. Whilst Lord Goring is a character with much of Wilde's own wit insight and compassion Gertrude Chiltern can be seen as a portrait of Constance Wilde." <br /> <br /> 8vo 213pp brown-red linen over boards gilt stamped decoration on front cover and spine; gilt titles on spine. Spine rebacked with the original spine laid down. With bookplates of Herschel V. Jones and Alfred and Sara Bernheim. Internally clean some pages uncut. Leonard Smithers and Co hardcover
189915144JNew York: Benj. R. Tucker 1899. First American Edition. Three pirated editions of Wilde’s classic poem were issued in America in 1899 the Tucker edition. precedes the other two and is the True First American Edition. Issued in paper wrappers and cloth this copy is the rare hardbound state. Gilt-stamped blue cloth with white cloth spine. Hinges cracked. Some minor foxing to the preliminaries at little darkening at spine very good. Rare. Benj. R. Tucker hardcover
1886d2793bLondon: Kegan Paul Trench & Co. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed and soiled. Eps darkened. Fold-out repaired with archive tape. 1886. First Edition. Blue hardback boards with cream vellum spine. 320mm x 240mm 13" x 9". vi 160pp plates. 9 plates 6 b/w 3 sepia 1 fold-out. With Glasgow Arts Club bookplate. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Kegan Paul, Trench & Co hardcover