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200754098DKV. New. 2007. Paperback. 3422067582 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Mit einem Vorwort von Christoph Tannert und Texten von Henrike Eibelshäuser Rebekah Flake Lisa Hackmann Joris Corin Heyder Silvia Lorenz Fiona McGovern Miriam Pietrusky Silvia Ploner Magnus Schäfer und Maja Wismer64 Seiten mit 81 farbigen Abbildungen 195 x 26 cm Broschur ISBN: 978-3-422-06758-5 -- with a bonus offer-- . DKV paperback
194938393London: The Phaidon Press Ltd. As New. 1949. Hardcover. 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 - 22 page introduction followed by 176 plates and the catalogue of the 1207 works in the collection. Among the artists represented: Michelangelo Gaddi Schiavone Bandinelli and many others. -- with a bonus offer-- . The Phaidon Press Ltd. hardcover
200231377Williston Vermont U.S.A.: Blackwell Publishers. New. 2002. Hardcover. 0631207627 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED - 529 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . Blackwell Publishers hardcover
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199475575Museum; Et Al. New. 1994. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in French and Dutch. 358 pp. With 143 ills. 61 col. . 28 x 21 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Museum; Et Al paperback
198473981Museum. As New. 1984. Paperback. 0932900089 . 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 - - -- 72 pp. With 71 ills. 23 x 23 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Museum paperback
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196328170New York: Viking Press. As New. 1963. Paperback. 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 - .Some creasing to pages and covers especially at corners; some abrading to covers. -- with a bonus offer-- . Viking Press paperback
200684191Harry N. Abrams Inc. New. 2006. Hardcover. 0810930811 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 144 pages 70 color photographs 8vo. -- with a bonus offer-- . Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 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
1921ST12330bWestminster: Beaumont Press 1921-22. FIRST EDITIONS. EACH ONE OF 75 COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM OF THE EDITION DE LUXE SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER AND ARTIST of a total of 475 copies. 222 x 152 mm. 8 3/4 x 6". Two separately issued but companion volumes. <br/> Original vellum-backed decorative paper boards. Reading with vignette on title in orange and green two plates in the same colors one facsimile of writing in text device on final page stylized illustration of a tree on front and rear endpapers; "Berneval" with woodcuts of Naples and Paris printed in blue on the front and rear endpapers two-color title page woodcut one plate a facsimile of a Wilde letter and printer's woodcut device; our special deluxe version WITH THREE ADDITIONAL WOODCUTS at the back of each volume all the woodcuts as well as the cover design by Randolph Schwabe. Ransom p. 211; Tomkinson p. 17. ◆Berneval spine just a bit darkened otherwise FINE UNWORN COPIES that have obviously been little used as they open stiffly and are immaculate inside and out.<br/> <br/> Here "After Berneval" is offered with "After Reading" its earlier companion volume both of them in their deluxe form on Japanese vellum and including an extra suite of the illustrations. "Reading" comprises a set of letters also written to Ross by Wilde during the summer of 1897 after having just been released from two years' imprisonment in Reading Gaol. The preface to its sequel "After Berneval" says that the earlier collection "was unprocurable almost as soon as it was published." The letters in these volumes tell the story of a tragic literary figure who fell from a precipitous height. Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 was born and raised in Ireland studied classics at Trinity College Dublin and at Magdalen College Oxford before settling in London. There he became famous for his unmatched wit and infamous for his personal eccentricities--long hair décor at his lodgings that included peacock feathers and blue china and ultimately sexual behavior that was deemed both intolerable and criminal. During the first half of the 1890s he was enjoying remarkable social prominence and literary success with the staging of "Lady Windermere's Fan" 1892 "A Woman of No Importance" 1893 "An Ideal Husband" 1894 and the incomparable "The Importance of Being Earnest" 1895. But two months after the staging of this last play he brought a defamation suit against the Marquess of Queensbury the father of his intimate friend Lord Alfred Douglas. The suit backfired: in the course of the litigation Wilde was investigated by police and his homosexuality was exposed leaving his reputation destroyed. He was sentenced in May of 1895 to two years of hard labor spending part of his time behind bars at Reading Gaol where he produced his powerful poem "De Profundis." After release he moved to the Continent and died three years later in Paris of meningitis. As Day says "Among English men of letters only Byron and Shaw have surpassed Wilde in the craft of conscious posing and self-publicizing" a fact that has made succeeding generations suspicious of the reality behind the legend that the author helped to establish. But after a period when he was treated as a kind of martyr because of his suffering at the hands of squeamish Victorianism "it is at last possible to evaluate Wilde as the capable literary artist he actually was." In physical terms these are modest but nevertheless pleasing products of the Beaumont Press founded by Cyril W. Beaumont in 1917. A special feature of the Press is its patterned paper bindings each with a design created for one title only. Beaumont Press unknown
1928483Paris. Société d'édition Le Livre Emile Chamontin 1928. Trans. into French by E. Jaloux and F. Frapereau. Large 4to 349 pp. 3/4 maroon moroccan gilt back t.e.g marbled boards and end papers with original wrappers bound in. Illus. With 23 steel engravings by Jean-Emil Laboureur. No. 61 of 230 numbered copies. Godefroy 369 Carteret IV p. 409. ORIGINAL WRAPS BOUND IN INCLUDING SPINE. Corners rubbed end paper slightly split interior fine. Fine example of Laboureur's work at the height of his stylized art deco period. Société d'édition Le Livre, hardcover
19046032<p><strong>Second Russian edition of the poem. First edition of this translation.</strong></p><p>The first translation of Oscar Wilde's '<em>Ballad'</em> by N. Korn presumably a pen name used by Korney Chukovsky appeared in 1903 but it was riddled with errors. The following year another version by <strong>Konstantin Balmont</strong> 1867–1942 a Russian symbolist poet and translator was published. In the summer of 1902 Balmont traveled to England and visited the town of Reading where Wilde had been imprisoned. In November 1903 Balmont delivered a lecture titled '<em>Oscar Wilde's Poetry and The Ballad.'</em> and presented his translation at a meeting of the Literary-Artistic Circle in Moscow. During his lecture he likened Wilde to Nietzsche and hailed him as 'the greatest English writer of the end of the last century'. Balmont also prepared translations of works by Edgar Allan Poe Percy Bysshe Shelley Walt Whitman and Robert Burns. His translations were always infused with his own distinctive style often referred to as 'Balmontic motifs'. <br />The book's cover featuring a portrait of Oscar Wilde was created by <strong>Modest Durnov</strong> 1867–1928 a painter poet architect and a close friend of Balmont. Durnov was known as 'a demon' a 'master of thought' and a 'Moscow Dandy'. According to some accounts he met Wilde during one of his trips to London. <br />This book was once part of the <em>private library of Russian artist <strong>Mikhail Tarkhanov</strong></em> 1888–1962 a renowned master of endpapers and bookbinding. Tarkhanov received his education at the Stroganov School for Technical Drawing which later became VKhUTEMAS under the guidance of Vladimir Favorsky and Wassily Kandinsky.</p><p>OCLC locates two copies of this edition only: in the University Library of Bern and the Rome National Central Library.</p><p><em><strong>Please be advised that certain books in our collection may require an export permit for international shipping. If you are interested in purchasing such books for delivery abroad kindly contact our staff for assistance in obtaining the necessary permit. We appreciate your understanding.</strong></em></p> Skorpion paperback
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
19172222372<p>First edition thus. 10" x 7 1/2". Original tan stiff printed wrappers. Four page introduction by Clement K. Shorter. No dust jacket. Very good. 12 pages.</p><p><br />Number 17 of 25 copies signed by Shorter.</p><p>Four letters from 1897 to Dalhousie Young 1866-1921 English pianist and composer. In 1895 he published "Apologia Pro Oscar Wilde" defending Wilde.</p> Privately Printed
19087381613 volumes of a 14 volume set on handmade paper limited edition of 1000 Published by Methuen & Co hardcover
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
190421798Who knows. : Smithers/Wright and Jones 1904. First Edition softcover of 64 pages stated 'Privately printed'. Place and date of publication unknown. 4to original printed blue-grey wrappers. First edition of this collection unnumbered of 300 numbered copies. The wrappers are soiled and there has been some tissue repair to the spine. Rubbing and wear to the edges A comic ghost story and two further societal studies published by Leonard Smithers or by Wright & Jones after Wilde's death in 1900. Smithers/Wright and Jones paperback
1920191449London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1920. A beautiful and silent Sphinx First Alastair edition one of 1000 copies elaborately decorated with illustrations by Baron Hans-Henning von Voight 1887-1969 who published under the pseudonym Alastair. His illustrations take inspiration from Aubrey Beardsley and "combine decorative elegance with a fascination with the perverse sinister and satanic" Peppin p. 311. Quarto. Frontispiece and 9 plates with captioned tissue guards pictorial initials and illustrations in text all printed in blue and black. Original white cloth spine lettered in gilt front cover with gilt and turquoise illustration top edge gilt others uncut. Housed in custom orange cloth chemise and matching quarter morocco slipcase. Bookplate of Wilde collector Jeremy J. Mason; New York bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown. Spine lightly toned decorations bright occasional light foxing. A very good copy. Brigid Peppin Book Illustrators of the Twentieth Century 1984. hardcover
192875261Paris: Editions Narcisse 1928. Fine. Editions Narcisse Paris 1928 23 x 28.50 cm broché sous chemise L'Anniversaire de l'infante The Birthday of the InfantaÉditions Narcisse Paris 1928 23 x 285 cm original wrappers sous chemise Edition illustrated with paged and unpaged drawings by Alastair with 110 printed copies ours is one of 100 copies printed on Holland Van Gelder Zone the only grand papier deluxe copies after 10 Japan Imperial. Scattered foxing most noticeable at the beginning and end of the volume. Editions Narcisse 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
