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1896019044: the NEW YORK BOOK CO. 1896. Hardcover. Good. B00K: Good/ 1896 . B00K: Good/ $250.90 BALLAD of READING GAOL WILDE Oscar the NEW YORK BOOK CO. 1896 Shown On Book Which Was Printed After 1904. Small H/c This Edition Printed After 1904 Brown Paper Spine With No Title Hard Cover B00K: Good/ 35 Numbered Pages UnNumbered Pages That Are Clean And Tight To The Spine Printed On Tan Paper Browning From Aging In Very Good/ Condition. Spine Broken Inside B00K. Water Stains On Front Cover Not Stuck No Odor No Mold. D/j: None. = No Odors No Other Writing No Names No Rippling Not Stuck Together No Book Plate Not X~Library No Remainder Or Other Marks. Description Applies To This B00K Only. = = This B00K Is 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. = = World Wide Shipping AVAILABLE. = = <br/> <br/> the NEW YORK BOOK CO. 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
19222222703<p>Privately issued 1922 1924 1931. First edition. Quarto. Collated and compiled by Robert Ernest Cowan and William Andrews Clark Jr. Original green cloth over boards; spine labels. Very good spines faded to tan. 6 volumes. A fine set of this monumental collection assembled by William Andrews Clark Jr. Each volume in a grey board slipcase. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p><strong>One of 100 copies.</strong></p><p><strong>Printed by John Henry Nash.</strong></p> Privately Printed hardcover
1907111362London and Paris: Methuen Charles Carrington 1907-22. The works of Oscar Wilde bound in the original cloth one of 1000 sets made on handmade paper. Octavo 14 volumes original cream cloth decorated and lettered in gilt top edges gilt. One of 1000 sets of this edition on handmade paper. In near fine condition. Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright novelist essayist and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray his plays as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Methuen Charles Carrington hardcover
1927019252New York : E. P. Dutton 1927. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. John VASSOS Inventions by Drawings by. B00K: Near Fine/ 1927 . B00K: Near Fine/ $100.80 SALOME WILDE Oscar John VASSOS Inventions by Drawings by. E. P. Dutton New York 1927 UnStated 1sT Edition D/j H/c Sun Bleached To Tan With A Black Colored Dust Jacket: Good/ No Title Shelf EDGE STRETCHING And Chipping And Corner Wear. Possibly Price Clipped. Hard Cover B00K: Near Fine/ 57 Numbered Pages Printed On 0ff~White Paper Light Browning On Edges Clean And Tight To The Spine In Fine/ Condition. This Item Will Be Sent Wrapped In Plastic Taped Shut And In A = Corrugated Mailing B0X. To Prevent Shipping Damage So That It Will Arrive In The Description Described Which Applies To This B00K Only. = No Odors No Writing No Names No Rippling Not Stuck Together No Book Plate Not X~Library No Other Marks. = 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/> E. P. Dutton hardcover
1898882015London: 1898. First Edition. 8vo. One of 800 copies on handmade paper. White lined-backed cinnamon cloth in a later cloth slipcase. Binding lightly soiled. Mason 371. Original White Cloth Gilt. Good. Hardcover
1894182551Oxford: 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. The student-authors were motivated by "an honest dislike for Dorian Gray Salome The Yellow Book and the whole of the erotic lack-a-daisical opium-cigarette literature of the day". The play was published in 1894 just before Wilde's arrest and trial when he was at the height of his fame. Octavo. Original buff wrappers rebacked front cover lettered in green. Wrappers a little marked and soiled spot to prelims leaves unopened. A very good copy. Mason 685. unknown
1899022513LONDON : Leonard SMITHERS and Co. 1899. Not Stated . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Leonard SMITHERS and Co. B00K: Very G00D/ 1899 . B00K: Very G00D/ $3985.O3 Reduced from. the IMP0RTANCE of BEING EARNEST: a TRIVIAL C0MEDY for SERI0US PE0PLE by the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan. WILDE 0scar Leonard SMITHERS and Co. 1899 There is no limited or edition statement. H/c Brown Top And Balance Of Tan Spine With Title And Design In Polished Gold Letters Hard Cover B00K: Very G00D/ Shelf Edge And Corner Wear. 151 Numbered Pages Printed On Tan Paper Browning And Spotting From Aging In Very Good/ Condition Clean And Tight To The Spine Slight Wear. The Exterior Covering Of The Boards Are Not Decorated. D/j: None. = 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/> Leonard SMITHERS and Co. hardcover
1891158131891. Ricketts Charles. London: James R. Osgood McIlvaine and Co. 1891. Original salmon paper-covered flexible boards decorated in dark red.<br/> <br/> First Edition of this collection of four dark semi-comic mystery tales. "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" is an amusing but macabre tale if there can be such a thing about a young man who convinced by Lady Windermere's cheiromantist that he is doomed to commit murder does his best to do so prior to getting married -- out of a sense of duty to his fiancée. As one would expect Lord Arthur bungles his mission. In addition to the title story this book includes "The Sphinx Without a Secret" "The Canterville Ghost" and "The Model Millionaire." The binding of this title with decorations by Charles Ricketts is extremely delicate -- paper-covered flexible boards; although 1500 copies were issued we find this book to be quite uncommon and we have never seen a truly fine copy. In our experience THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY THE HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES and this title are the three Wilde first editions most difficuilt to find in collectible condition. This copy is close to near-fine with a bit of the darkening and mottling of the spine that is typical for this fragile book but with scarcely any actual wear. Mason 345. Housed in a handsome gilt-paneled morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise. unknown
19202091202133204391John Lane 1920. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 John Lane paperback
51-5719London: Petersburg Press 1968. Folio. 31 x 44 cm.Original red velvet binding with silver stamping in a black slipcase. The spine slightly lightened and the slipcase in 2 shades of black One of 200 signed and numbered copies from the A. Edition without the extra six lithographs called for.The 12 original lithographsj include the following from the 1970 Galerie Mikro catalogue: 47a b c d e g plus 5 not in Mikro.Printed by Atelier Desjobert and Atelier Georges Leblanc Paris. London: Petersburg Press, 1968 unknown
1882140655Philadelphia: J. M. Stoddart & Co 1882. First edition of Rodd's first book of verse which was published with the assistance of Oscar Wilde. 12mo original publisher's vellum with gilt inner dentelles silk watered endleaves top edge gilt with others untrimmed illustrated. In near fine condition. Neat ownership inscription. Rare. J. M. Stoddart & Co hardcover
18917941London: James R. Osgood 1891. First edition. Very Good . One of 1000 copies. A Very Good copy fresh and clean throughout. Publisher's pictorial tan cloth stamped in gilt. Cloth a bit faded and foxed. Gilt very bright and attractive. Dent to edge of lower board at bottom corner. Modern bookplate D. Chisholm Simpson and ink ownership stamp Yew Tree Cottage to upper endpapers. A some toning to upper free endpaper otherwise very fresh and clean internally. Complete with the four plates illustrated by Charles Shannon which have faded but are somewhat clearer than is usually seen.<br /> <br /> A collection of fairytales from the famed writer wit and aesthete A House of Pomegranates compiles four stories of mermaids hunchbacks kings and princesses. This was actually Wilde's second collection of fairy tales - he had been writing such stories for years - after The Happy Prince and Other Tales published in 1888. A House of Pomegranates was met with some controversy with many reviewers finding the stories too complex and morally ambiguous for children. Wilde clearly had more wide-ranging ambitions than the standard children's tale however and found it absurd that "the extremely limited vocabulary at the disposal of the British child is the standard by which the prose of an artist is to be judged.in building this House of Pomegranates I had about as much intention of pleasing the British child as I had of pleasing the British public." Very Good . James R. Osgood unknown
1893140949205London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane 1893. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. xiv 132 14 2 pp. with 14 advertising pages at rear. Bound in publisher's mauve cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with soiling and darkening to cloth and bumping to corners and spine ends. Contents lightly toned and thumbed with foxing to endpapers and first and last few pages. One of the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde's best-known plays a comedy in four acts. Elkin Mathews and John Lane 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
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
192356675München Munich: Drei Masken Verlages 1923. Limited Edition. Very good. SIGNED. 57pp. Quarto 28 cm Parchment vellum boards with a hubbed spine gilt spine title and single gilt ruled borders on the spine and boards. Top edge gilt. Patterned endpapers. Bound by Hübel & Denck in Leipzig. The front board is wavy. There is a previous owner's decorative bookplate on the front pastedown. The text is in English. Ritter C a 29. Woodcuts by Frans Masereel. This is one of the copies which have been numbered with Roman Numerals. Number XLVII of LXX the copies numbered in Roman numerals forming part of an overall edition of 340 copies. Signed by Frans Masereel on the limitation page. Masereel has additionally signed the seven full-page woodcut illustrations within. Drei Masken Verlages unknown
1899140938501London: Leonard Smithers 1899. First Edition. Very Good. First Edition first printing. One of 800 copies originally printed which sold out immediately. Very Good. Covers soiled corners and spine ends softened. Endsheets offset from binder's glue. Previous owner name partially effaced from front paste down. Slight odor to pages. Clipping with apparently forged signature of Oscar Wilde tipped in on recto of final blank sheet by no means assumed to be authentic. Leonard Smithers unknown
190851952London: Methuen & Co 1908. vellum. Very good. Octavo Incomplete set. Five of the Fourteen volumes issued in the first collected edition. This is the very scarce vellum edition printed on Japanese vellum and bound in limp vellum gilt titled. Titles are as follows "The Duchess of Padua" "Lady Windermere's Fan" "Miscellanies" "Reviews" "Salome A Florentine Tragedy and Vera". Very good in limp vellum withlight foxing to the exterior. Bookplate in each. One of 80 sets bound in vellum Mason p460. <br/><br/> Methuen & Co hardcover
927Y6DLondon: Routledge; Thoemmes Press 1993. Cloth. Near Fine. 8.5" by 5.5". None. A very attractive collection of works from popular Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde edited by his friend and literary executor Robert Ross. A lovely selection of the plays poetry and additional prose of Oscar Wilde.Complete in fifteen volumes uniformly bound in the original blue cloth.Edited by Robert Ross a British journalist art critic and art dealer best known for his devoted friendship to Wilde and to whom he was literary executor. Ross remained loyal to Wilde during his last years offering emotional and financial support to him during his imprisonment and staying with him when he died in Paris in 1900. This set includes some of Wilde's most identifiable works such as his controversial gothic novel 'Picture of Dorian Gray' and his four-act comedy 'Lady Windermere's Fan' following a woman who suspects of her husband's affair. With other miscellaneous writing such as his literary reviews and a bibliography by Stuart Mason which is illustrated throughout. The entirety of this set contains the following works:Volume I - The Duchess of Padua Volume II - Salome: A Florentine Tragedy and Vera Volume III - Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman Volume IV - A Woman of No Importance Volume V - An Ideal Husband Volume VI - The Importance of Being Earnest Volume VII - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Prose Pieces Volume VIII - Intentions and the Soul of ManVolume IX - The Poems of Oscar Wilde Volume X - A House of PomegranatesVolume XI - De Profundis Volume XII - The Picture of Dorian Gray and For Love of the King Volume XIII - Reviews Volume XIV - Miscellanies Volume XV - Bibliography of Oscar Wilde Uniformly bound in the original blue cloth. Externally excellent with minor shelf wear and the odd mark to the board. Internally firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine Routledge; Thoemmes Press hardcover
1889042502London: David Nutt 1889. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. small quarto. Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood. prior owner inscriptions to flyleaf binding grubby wear to head of spine very slight toning to end papers. David Nutt hardcover
1902022569London : DAVID NUTT 1902. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Good. Walter CRANE and Jacomb HOOD Illustrated by. B00K: G00D/ 1902 . B00K: G00D/ $290.03 the HAPPY PRINCE and 0THER TALES. WILDE Oscar Walter CRANE; Jacomb H00D DAVID NUTT LOND0N 19O2 3rD Edition There is no limited edition statement. Wide H/c Brown Top And Balance Of Tan Spine With Title And Design In Polished Gold Letters Hard Cover B00K: G00D/ Shelf Edge And Corner Wear. 115 Numbered Pages Printed On Tan Paper Browning And Spotting From Aging In Very Good/Near Fine/ Condition Clean And Tight To The Spine Slight Wear. The Exterior Covering Of The Boards Are Not Decorated. Front Board Approximately A 1 ½ Piece Of The Cloth Is Come Loose From The Tan Material. D/j: None. = 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/> DAVID NUTT hardcover
1906962P22London; New York: John Lane the Bodley Head 1906. First edition. Hardback. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 6.5" by 5". Aubrey Beardsley. The first U.K. trade edition of Oscar Wilde's tragic play about Salome and John the Baptist in the original dust wrapper. The first U.K. trade edition.In the original unclipped dust wrapper designed by Aubrey Beardsley.'Salome' is a one-act tragedy by Oscar Wilde depicting Salome's attempted seduction of John the Baptist.Beardsley was a leading illustrator of the late twentieth century beginning a promising career was a Modern Style artist before his early death at the age of 25. He was largely influenced by Japanese woodcuts and depicted scenes of the erotic grotesque and decadent.Two pages of adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's paper covered boards in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally smart. Light age-toning and marks to the boards and spine. Light bumping to the extremities. Bookplate to the front paste down. Dust wrapper is a little edge worn with small chips to the head and tail of the spine and a few small closed tears. Spine is sunned. Handling marks to the wraps. Tidemark to the head of the rear wrap and spine and tail of the front wrap. One tape repair to the reverse of the dust wrapper. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with only a few scattered spots and handling marks. Very Good Indeed John Lane the Bodley Head hardcover
PJH52107Lyra's Books 2022. New Unopened copy. Half Bound in burgundy Nigerian Goatskin in Curved Edge Slipcase with Design by Gregory Manchess. Illustrated throughout and Signed by Manchess. Number 154 of Edition Limited to 250 copies stunning production printed on 150g Zerkall Smooth Mould Paper by Hand and Eye Letterpress. Lyra's Books 2022 unknown
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