WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)Biblio.com
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70162London: 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. Heraldic bookplate to paste-down free endpapers toned covers gently used with expected light sunning and wear. Slight woodworming to rear cloth. Very good indeed. 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. Provenance: Sir Alexander Robert Loftus Tottenham 1873-1946 senior civil servant of India and Diwan of Pudukkottai in Tamil Nadu where he was a champion of the arts. Mason 385. London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899 unknown
22080London: Leonard Smithers and Co. 1899. First edition first printing. First edition first printing. Publisher's original light purple cloth with gilt decoration after designs by Charles Shannon titles in gilt to the spine. All edges untrimmed. A better than very good copy the binding firm with some bumping to the tips of the slightly faded spine and corners. The contents with the bookplate of Farquharson Tweedale to the front pastedown with offseting to the opposite endpaper a Henry Sotheran book label below and a few isolated foxing spots are otherwise clean throughout. Limited to 1000 copies published in July 1899. Mason 385. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. London: Leonard Smithers and Co. 1899 hardcover
1898190120London: Murdoch & Co 1898. An impassioned defence First separate edition first published as a letter in the Daily Chronicle on 28 May 1897 just over a week after Wilde was released from prison. This is Wilde's defence of the warder of Reading Gaol who was dismissed from his job after giving biscuits to a hungry child. This copy belonged to A. J. A. Symons 1900-1941 with his bookplate in the chemise. Symons was friends with Lord Alfred Douglas and was writing a biography of Wilde at the time of his death. He was the founder of both the First Edition Club and the Book Collector's Quarterly. Octavo pp. 16. Original brown wrappers front cover lettered in black. Housed in custom gold patterned chemise. A few creases and marks to wrappers nick to front wrapper light foxing to first and last pages. A very good copy of this fragile work. Millard 26. unknown
1893186770London: 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. Partially removed catalogue note and previous ownership inscription to front endpapers. Extremities bumped faint marks to front cover a few neat pencil marks to contents. A very good copy. Mason 357. hardcover
1878182528Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son 1878. Wilde debuts First edition of Wilde's first independent publication a poetic evocation of the historic Italian city composed while a student at Oxford and awarded the university's prestigious Newdigate Prize; "its laments for the sufferings of Dante and Byron proclaimed admiration and anticipation" ODNB. The inspiration for the poem came on a "vacation ramble" to Italy in 1877. Wilde recited the poem at the Sheldonian Theatre on 26 June where according to the review published the next day in the Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduate's Journal he was "listened to with rapt attention and frequently applauded" Ellman p. 94. Octavo pp. 16. Original grey-green printed wrappers lettered in black. Housed in custom green cloth box. Wrappers partially detached but holding edges of wrappers lightly toned with small chips internally fresh. A very good copy of a fragile publication. Mason 301. Richard Ellmann Oscar Wilde 1987. hardcover
1878149908Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son 1878. Attractively bound copy of Wilde's first independent publication First edition of Wilde's first independent publication an attractively bound copy preserving the original wrappers and with the bookplate to the front pastedown of the eccentric sportsman and artist William Eden 1849-1915 father of future Prime Minister Anthony Eden and who like Wilde had a dispute with the artist James McNeill Whistler. The inspiration for Wilde's prize-winning poem came on a "vacation ramble" to Italy in 1877 with the precentor and junior dean of Trinity College Dublin William Mahaffy. According to the review published the next day in The Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduate's Journal Wilde's recitation of it at Oxford was "listened to with rapt attention and frequently applauded" Ellman p. 94. Eden excelled at a range of sports from boxing and horse riding to shooting "the epitome of the sporting squire" ODNB a member of several clubs and well known in London society. So too was he a keen amateur artist and aesthete building a fine collection of paintings and was a member of the aristocratic group The Souls. The contrast between the sportsman and the aesthete has been noted: "There was little that was harmonious in his nature and the aesthetic side warred with and exacerbated rather than complemented his athleticism making him a bored sportsman and a militant aesthete. As he grew older the world's failure to correspond to his ideals drove him to furious rages and the debased taste of humanity confirmed his atheism - for how could a God have made such a botch of things" ibid. His dispute with Whistler was occasioned when Eden commissioned a portrait of his wife which Whistler executed but then kept the cheque without handing over the painting leading to a legal case which resulted in Whistler's book The Baronet and the Butterfly 1899. Wilde too had a lengthy rivalry with Whistler out of the courts but with very public sparring. Octavo 16 pp. 176 x 119 mm. Early 20th-century pink straight-grain morocco for Hatchards of Piccadilly spine lettered in gilt pink cloth sides marbled endpapers top edge gilt pink silk page marker; bulked with 20 binder's blanks. With the original green printed wrappers bound in. Spine lightly sunned very light rubbing at extremities short split at foot of front wrapper; an excellent copy. Richard Ellmann Oscar Wilde 1987; Mason 301. hardcover
1928191171Paris: The Black Sun Press; Éditions Narcisse. 1928. the sun was shining brightly in the gardens of the palace Limited edition number 5 of 100 copies on Hollande Van Gelder Zonen paper from a total edition of 113 copies. Alastair's illustrations take inspiration from Aubrey Beardsley and "combine decorative elegance with a fascination with the perverse sinister and satanic" Peppin p. 311. Wilde's short story was first published in the 1891 collection House of Pomegranates. Quarto. Frontispiece and 8 plates printed in black and brown with tissue guards illustrations in the text. Title and page numbers printed in red. Original cream wrappers front cover lettered and ruled in black and red rear cover with red central vignette and black rule border edges uncut. With original glassine jacket. Housed in original silver paper-covered chemise and matching slipcase additionally housed in custom black cloth slipcase. Bookplate of Wilde collector Jeremy J. Mason. Minor wear to spine ends couple spots to covers and contents near-fine; glassine with long split at front fold other shorter tears chemise and slipcase with rubbing and wear with partial splits and repairs to chemise inner hinges very good. Minkoff A13a. Brigid Peppin Book Illustrators of the Twentieth Century 1984. hardcover
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
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
ST17553Bayreuth: The Bear Press 1982. No. 4 OF 15 COPIES with hand-colored etchings signed by Benda Klitsch and Lehr from a total edition of 210. 226 x 146 mm. 9 x 5 7/8". 50 pp. 2 leaves.Translated and with an afterword by Wolfram Benda. <br/> Publisher's dark brown calf by Erwin Lehr covers with gilt fillet border upper cover with large gilt rose at center raised bands spine in gilt-ruled compartments gilt lettering. In the original slipcase covers with ivory handmade paper. With four signed and hand-colored etchings by Peter Klitsch all with original tissue guards. Printed on Kochi-Japan paper. ◆In pristine condition.<br/> <br/> This is a lovely special version of a finely crafted private press edition of Wilde's fairy tales "The Nightingale and the Rose" "The Happy Prince" and "The Selfish Giant." It is the third work issued by the Bear Press founded in 1979 by literary scholar Wolfram Benda and still in operation. According to the firm's website "at a time when the craftsmanship and ethos of the artisan in bookmaking have been damaged by ever-increasing industrialization and neglect . . . The Bear Press . . . tries to achieve the highest possible degree of technical and artistic perfection in its printed works." The font used to print the text and the artist chosen to illustrate each work have been carefully selected to express "the individual author's personality and intention." Even the discriminating aesthete Wilde 1854-1900 would be pleased with the choices here: the type is set in refined Walbaum Antiqua; the etchings by Austrian artist Peter Klitsch b. 1934 are meticulous detailed and reminiscent of the work of Wilde's friend Aubrey Beardsley; and the binding is the epitome of tasteful restraint. First appearing in 1888 the three tales here are bittersweet in their themes of love and self-sacrifice. Wilde's stories for children were one of his early successes and DNB says that "their permanent place in child affections refutes the vulgarism that Wilde's literary reputation arose from his legal notoriety. In all cases the fairy tales are on the child's side celebrating the courage and generosity of the poor and vulnerable while their satire mocks the kind of pomposity and hypocrisy children can recognize.". The Bear Press unknown
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
19136026<p><strong>First edition of this translation. First separate Russian edition of Wilde's 'Aphorisms'.</strong></p><p>The first Russian translation of Wilde's aphorisms was published in 1905 the same year as the original edition. It was prepared by Ekaterina Andreeva the second wife of the symbolist poet Konstantin Balmont. In 1908 Wilde's aphorisms were published in the magazine '<em>Novyi zhurnal literatury iskusstva I nauki'</em> 'New Journal of Literature Art and Science'; #1–4. The following year they were included in Wilde's 'Collection of Works' vol. 7. Additionally another translation of the aphorisms was issued in the magazine '<em>Novoe slovo</em>" 'New Word'. <br />This translation was made by a military officer and duke <strong>Dmitriy Viazemskii</strong> 1884–1917 who was also a vowel of the St. Petersburg City Duma. This was likely Viazemskii's only experience with translation. Unfortunately he met a tragic end when he was killed by a stray bullet during the February Revolution.</p><p>Roznatovskaia. # 479 mistakenly dated — 1912; described not de visu.</p><p><strong>Very rare edition.</strong> We couldn't trace any copy of this edition in the USA or European libraries via OCLC.</p> [tip. ‘Sirius’] hardcover
2003BRG-31_5_896Penguin Classics 2003-02-04. paperback. Very Good. 5x0x7. Very Good condition.Crisp pages. Clean cover and pages. Book shows minimal shelf wear. No highlighting/marking. Not Satisfied Contact us to get a refund. Penguin Classics paperback
1913033333<p>London : Duckworth & Co 1913 A very good copy of the limited edition with tipped-in frontispiece and 11 further tipped-in plates by Charles Robinson. This copy is number 244 of 260 copies of which 250 were for sale and is signed by him. It has been rebound in a light tan half leather binding with cream cloth sides. The decorative parchment from the front board of the original binding which includes the gilt titles and decoration has been relaid on the new front board. There is a new title label on the spine. The binding is in fine clean condition. The original decorative endpapers have been retained with an old pencil signature at the top of the front pastedown. Contents: decorative preliminary page; decorative half title with limited edition note and signature to verso; frontispiece with guard; title; dedication; plate listing; text with decorative half titles to each story and 11 further tipped in plates. The contents are very clean with the occasional light mark or spot eg small top edge stain on tissue guard to plate at p 20; some light spotting to top of tissue guard to plate at page 122 with some offsetting to the top margin of p122; 3 small marks across bottom margin of pp 128/129. A couple of plates have light creases to the tissue guards. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images to further assess condition.</p> Duckworth & Co hardcover
1915WILDEOSC010616Methuen London. 1915. First edition with these illustrations. Quarto. pp vi 162. 16 tipped-in colour plates title-page black-and-white uncials endpapers and cover design by Jessie M. King. Blue cloth decorated in orange. Top edge gilt. Wilde's second collection of fairy tales which he said were "intended neither for the British child nor the British public". Free endpapers tanned. Some insect damage to fore-edge of rear free endpaper not affecting any other part of the book. A bit of sporadic foxing. Spine slightly faded. Very good indeed. Methuen, London. 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
1948192336London: William Hodge and Company Limited 1948. The finest speech of an accused man since that of Paul before King Herod Agrippa First edition number 30 of 50 copies signed by Hyde and Humphreys. Hyde co-wrote the screenplay for the 1960 film of the same name directed by Ken Hughes. A barrister and politician as well as an author Hyde was a vocal supporter of the decriminalization of homosexuality. Octavo. Portrait frontispiece after Toulouse-Lautrec. Original red morocco-grained leatherette spine lettered in gilt marbled endpapers red edges orange silk bookmarker. Former ownership inscription in black ink to front pastedown. Spine and lower board edges a little rubbed upper board corners bumped book block cracked at pp. 382-383: a very good copy. hardcover
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
19091507209Lamb 1909. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 20.2cm a handsome quarter-leather set of 14 books number 338 of 1000 numbered sets with the sunflower motif in gilt on the spine of each volume. various paginations c.4800pp. with 62 plates including 14 photogravure frontis plates with captioned tissue guards. A brilliant set of Oscar Wilde's Collected Works. It including: Salome; The Duchess of Padua; VeraLady Windermere's Fan; The Importance of Being Earnest; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H. Intentions;A House of Pomegranates; The Happy Prince; De Profundus; Dorian Gray; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; Poems in Prose; Poems; Epigrams; Essays & Stories by Lady Wilde Speranza; Essays Criticisms and Reviews. Also included is "His Life with a Critical Estimate of HisWriting". Not included is What Never Dies. The illustrations in "Salome" are by Aubrey Beardsley. Lamb hardcover
150150758Guido Bruno 1915-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volume hardcover set in unmatched bindings. Vol 1. contains 13 individual chap books with the cover of one torn. Vol 2. has 9 individual chap books. Works by Oscar Wilde Djuna Barnes and Richard Aldington. Light age tone and shelfwear. Please email for photos. Guido Bruno hardcover
19086020<p><strong>First and only edition of this translation. First Russian edition of '<em>De Profundis</em>' as a separate book.</strong></p><p>The first Russian translation of Wilde's '<em>De Profundis'</em> appeared in 1905 which was the same year as the original text. It was translated by Ekaterina Andreeva who happened to be the second spouse of the symbolist poet Konstantin Balmont. A portion of her translation was published in the symbolist magazine '<em>Vesy'</em> #3 and it was followed by the release of a separate book. The following year an anonymous translation was released as the third volume of Wilde's complete works but it was based on Andreeva's translation which was edited for the publication. <br />In 1908 there were two Russian translations of '<em>De Profundis'</em> that came out: this edition and extracts in the magazine 'Vesy' by Wilde's foremost translator the journalist and secretary of 'Vesy' named Mikhail Likiardopulo who had familiarity with Alfred Douglas and Robert Ross separate edition appeared in 1909. <br />It is possible that this translation was done by <strong>Princess Alexandra Obolenskaia</strong> in girlhood Apraksina; 1852–1943 who was a close friend of Her Imperial Majesty the Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia and her children. Obolenskaia maintained a correspondence with Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia and other members of Romanov's family. After the Russian Revolution Obolenskaia left Russia and eventually passed away in Paris. Given the difficulty of obtaining '<em>De Profundis'</em> during that time and the complexity of the text it is unlikely that the translation was made by someone else. <br />It is also known that Obolenskaia prepared two more translations: '<em>The Garden of Allah'</em> 1914 and '<em>Egypt and Its Monuments'</em> 1909 both written by English journalist and novelist Robert Hichens. <br />What's intriguing about '<em>De Profundis'</em> is that the majority of its translations into Russian were done by female translators. These include Andreeva Obolenskaia Maria Simonovich Odessa 1909 and Rita Rait-Kovaleva who worked with her daughter Margarita 1976; first translation from the complete version issued in 1962.</p><p>Roznatovskaia No 490.</p><p><strong>Rare edition.</strong> OCLC locates only one copy of this edition: in the Stanford University Library.</p> Parovaia skoropechatnia M.M. Gutzatsa hardcover
200854067DKV. New. 2008. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Ca. 960 Seiten mit ca. 100 Plänen und Grundrissen zweifarbigem Kartenteil. Leinen mit Schutzumschlag ISBN: 978-3-422-03120-3 -- with a bonus offer-- . DKV unknown
199468135Edition Cantz. New. 1994. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in German. 160 pp. With 159 ills. 31 x 25 cm. Description: "Prefaced with a biographical text and a critical evaluation of the vision of nature and art informing Blossfeldt's distinctive documentary images this catalogue features fine reproductions of more than 140 works by the noted German photographer 1865-1932 whose oeuvre consists exclusively of striking close-up studies of plant forms intended to illuminate the basic structures he considered fundamental to nature art and architecture." -- with a bonus offer--; 0.75 x 12 x 9.75 Inches . Edition Cantz hardcover
37123New Haven Connecticut U.S.A.: College and University Press. As New. 1956. Paperback. 0808403192 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 97 pages; text in German and English. Corresponds to ISBN: 0808403192 -- with a bonus offer-- . College and University Press paperback
